We’re already loving the dynamic between Dr. John Watson (Morris Chestnut) and the CBS drama’s model of Detective Lestrade (Rachel Hayward, as TV Insider revealed). The latter isn’t with Scotland Yard on Watson, however moderately a Philadelphia detective, and she or he makes her debut within the Sunday, April 20, episode. TV Insider has an unique sneak peek at their first interplay.
“The suspect has an alien hand?” Lestrade asks in disbelief within the clip, and Watson explains alien hand syndrome (sure, it’s spelled prefer it sounds). She has two dozen witnesses who noticed the suspect (David Thompson) shove his brother in entrance of a shifting bus, she argues, “however this Alien Hand Syndrome means he’s by some means not accountable?”
Watson can’t say that, simply clarify the uncommon medical situation, and Lestrade can’t assist however word that the suspect, Cameron, “took out the one different direct inheritor to the household fortune with this little transfer, made himself, taking a stab right here, $100 million.” She even means that he might be “in cahoots” with Watson, resulting in the physician protesting, “No, no, no, no, no, I remedy crimes. I don’t commit them.” Watch the total sneak peek as he explains and the remainder of his dialog with Lestrade.
On this subsequent episode, titled “The Man with the Alien Hand,” Watson is thrown right into a detective case when he’s not sure whether or not the affected person he’s treating for one of the crucial uncommon illnesses on the earth, Alien Hand Syndrome, is responsible of pushing his brother in entrance of a bus to his loss of life.
“When Watson involves consider that one in all his sufferers is responsible of a criminal offense in our tenth episode, it introduced a pure alternative to introduce Watson’s model of the long-lasting Detective Lestrade,” government producer and showrunner Craig Sweeny informed us. “Though Lestrade has spent 20 years investigating murders with the Pittsburgh Police, Watson presents her with essentially the most outlandish idea she’s ever heard. Lestrade (performed with deadpan brilliance by Rachel Hayward) is initially cautious of Watson, however she comes to understand his distinctive thoughts and the 2 of them wind up desperate to collaborate once more.”
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Watson, Sundays, 9/8c, CBS