[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Transplant Season 4 Episode 1 “Crete” and Episode 2 “Sinkhole.”]
Transplant provides one other complication to the connection between exes Bash (Hamza Haq) and Mags (Laurence Leboeuf) in its fourth and closing season: rivals for one residency spot at York Memorial. Nevertheless it’s a storyline that Haq enjoys.
“I believe the factor that has been evident from the second that Bash met Mags is that he has met his match. I received goosebumps saying that. I’ve by no means mentioned that earlier than. That’s so good,” he tells TV Insider with amusing. “I believe Joe [creator Joseph Kay] made a really concerted effort to be like, she is his mirror and his associate all through all of it. And to be like, alright, now they’re going head-to-head, too?”
He factors to the tip of Episode 2 as one in every of his favourite moments, with Mags letting Bash know she’s glad he’s okay, she needs the job, and he or she’s going to do the whole lot she will be able to to get it, and he tells her she’ll must. “I’m identical to, ‘Oh, that’s such good banter,’” Hamza Haq says.
“I believe there’s a stage of pleasure. They’re not collectively, too, so even competing for a similar job is this type of attractive flirtation that they’ve received occurring, but it surely’s additionally very intimate to be bold about the identical factor,” he provides. “I believe competing with each other is a good way to have maintained that intimacy all through them having gone their separate methods so far as their relationship is worried. I believe he likes it, I believe he hates it, and I believe he can’t management it. And that just about explains the connection.”
The second episode additionally ends with Bash monitoring down Elliot (Mark Rendall), who was the one to direct him to Canada. It has been six years since they’ve seen one another. “I wasn’t positive in the event you wished to see me once more,” Bash admits. Elliot asks what he needs.
“I believe as Bash is maturing and as he’s discovering alternative ways to precise himself and in addition handle himself — it’s evident, and we see it on a regular basis, that in the event you’re not caring for your self and in the event you’re misplaced inside your self, you find yourself taking it out on the individuals closest to you,” explains Haq. “And I believe to appreciate that he was simply in such turmoil that he couldn’t handle any person that was being actually sort to him and mistreated him…. I believe for him it was the best approach he may say, ‘I’m actually sorry.’ And there’s this nonetheless type of self-flagellation factor that Bashir has to undergo to punish himself for being human. So as a substitute of simply saying, ‘I’m sorry,’ he’s identical to, ‘I don’t know in the event you wished to see me once more,’ as a result of he can’t face himself both for a way he couldn’t preserve that relationship, too.”
Transplant, Thursdays, 8/7c, NBC