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High Potential Season 2 Episode 17 Recap: Heists, Heartbreak, and a Shocking Kiss

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Rebecca Murray
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High Potential Season 2 Episode 17 Recap
Kaitlin Olson in ‘High Potential’ season 2 (Disney/Christine Bartolucci)

ABC’s High Potential season two, episode 17 serves up robbers breaking into vaults, Morgan’s kids preparing for Mother’s Day, and Lucia and Karadec getting all hot and steamy. And that’s just in the episode’s first minute! If that’s not enough, next up is a shirtless Captain Nick Wagner finishing up jogging by kissing his adorable dog’s face.

(The following is a recap of season two, episode 17 – “Second Sunday” – and there are spoilers.)

The case of the week involves robberies at Canyon Gate Private Vaults. Wagner (Steve Howey) inserts himself in the case, for some unknown reason, and Morgan (Kaitlin Olson) describes the facility as a “storage closet for rich hoarders.” The robbers wiped the cameras so they’re useless. And the facility’s equipped with biometric access and redundant systems, but they were all bypassed.

The sole guard on duty was ex-SEAL Dean O’Connell and his ID was found, but he’s gone missing. There are assorted items from different vaults in the hallway, and lots of expensive items can be seen inside the open vaults. Morgan wonders why they left so much stuff behind and then shushes Karadec (Daniel Sunjata) and Wagner when she hears banging. It turns out the missing guard was beaten and locked inside a locker.

Dean reveals four robbers approached him from behind, hit him with a gun, and placed him into the locker. Dean didn’t see any of the robbers and doesn’t want to guess their heights or weights. However, one might have been chewing peppermint gum.

The business’s owner arrives and Morgan can’t help herself when he says not to touch a client’s box. She opens it and finds a hard drive, which the owner confirms was all that was inside vault 312 before the robbery. The owner describes the sensors inside the vault as being able to monitor the air temperature, air quality, and humidity. According to the sensors, vault 312 was the last one broken into.

Back at the station, Oz (Deniz Akdeniz) confirms a neighbor’s security cameras caught the robbers at 9:55pm. (They were wearing wolf, pig, mouse, and goat masks.) Vault 312 was rented by Alpheus Hodges, and Morgan’s the only one who recognizes the name of LA’s first mayor. Hodges has been dead 150 years.

Daphne (Javicia Leslie) reports the crew only stole a bottle of wine worth $90,000. Morgan walks the team through the timeline and points out vault 312’s temperature spiked and remained high until the time the robbers left. But it wasn’t the bodies that kept it warm; it was technology. They copied the hard drive and then left it behind.

A print on the hard drive belongs to Mitchell Huston and Karadec and Wagner head out to speak with him. Before they leave, Morgan asks Wagner why this case has him so worked up. He doesn’t reply.

Karadec and Wagner find Mitchell’s front door broken in and Mitchell dead from a bullet to the chest. He was an LA City Clerk and Morgan points out his apartment is a shrine to the City of Angels. But Morgan can’t figure out why he lives in a place like this yet can afford a private vault.

Daphne texts Karadec with an update that Morgan didn’t pay for the vault. He signed the contract, but the city of LA was paying for it. Wagner volunteers to speak with people at City Hall, which makes Morgan’s spidey senses tingle. After he leaves, Morgan tells Karadec that Wagner specifically asked dispatch to notify him if there were any major robberies. (She has a friend in dispatch.)

The team learns Mitchell was a top-level clerk and it’s likely he made enemies, including employees he had to fire.

Morgan sneaks a look around Wagner’s office. She finds files that reveal Wagner’s dealt with this crew before and nearly caught them in Oakland. His fiancée, Taylor Lawson (also an officer), was killed by the crew, so this is personal. Wagner doesn’t want to tell the team, but Morgan assures him letting them know everything he knows is how they’ll catch these guys.

LA’s mayor arrives and shuts down the team’s IT guy’s attempts to access the hard drive. He won’t say what’s on it but reveals they trusted Mitchell to keep City Hall safe from terrorist threats. Two threats in 2025 came from inside City Hall and that’s why they kept the hard drive in an outside vault. Morgan reminds the mayor that someone already made a copy of it, and wonders if there’s compromising material about him on the hard drive.

Wagner threatens to make this investigation public and the mayor reluctantly offers to allow him to look at the hard drive. Wagner agrees but only if Morgan looks at it too. The mayor calls the hard drive the city’s last resort brain and admits he doesn’t even know everything that’s on it. It’s how the city comes back online if LA goes dark. Whoever stole it can cripple the city and create panic.

Morgan is given the chance to look through all the data and confirms the thieves can shut down the power grid, poison the water, and scramble air traffic. Wagner thinks they’re going to rob the city, not destroy it. Oz rushes in with a list of 32 employees Mitchell fired, and Wagner orders them to start digging into each of them immediately.

Lt. Selena Soto (Judy Reyes) informs Karadec that Willa got to the chief and they’ve been told to stop tailing her. Selena confirms they’re not the ones tailing her and suggests it’s the FBI.

Morgan realizes Lyle couldn’t get into the hard drive, which means the crew needed a hacker on the inside. The fired list includes Colton Palmisano, a good hacker who was fired for speaking out against city hall.

Wagner, Karadec, and Morgan visit Colton and he claims he got fired from IT at city hall for “caring too loudly.” He liked Mitchell and seems genuinely surprised he was murdered. Colton confesses he worked with the robbers because they assured him the hard drive would be used to force change. Morgan thinks he’s too smart not to have insurance against going to prison, and Colton confesses he put a tracker on the burner phone the robbers used.

He pulls up the location and SWAT rushes there, along with Karadec, Oz, and Wagner. An officer steps on an IED and it explodes, giving the robbers a chance to escape. One points directly at Wagner and mimics shooting him.

Morgan joins the team in the warehouse and wonders what the robbers were doing there. It looks like they set up a maze, and Wagner thinks that they were rehearsing.

Back at the station, Morgan looks at a La Bodega Market receipt collected at the warehouse. Why did they stop to shop six miles from their hide-out? Morgan thinks there’s something she’s missing, and it bothers her. Karadec suggests they leave it until tomorrow, but of course Morgan’s going to take some of the evidence home.

Wagner’s still at the scene and Morgan heads there too before going home. He’s upstairs looking down at the robbers’ practice maze, drinking the evidence. Wagner’s upset he was so close to the man who killed his fiancée and he takes it out on Morgan. She says she’s sorry his fiancée died and confesses sometimes she wishes Roman died too.

Morgan grabs the bottle and orders Wagner to get in her car. Morgan drives him home and he immediately greets his bulldog, Ingrid. Morgan gives Ingrid some attention too, and then Wagner stares at framed photos of his fiancée, Taylor. He reveals he was shot three times during the robbery but they all missed vital organs. Taylor was shot in her femoral artery and bled out in his arms.

Morgan helps him up and Wagner is ready to kiss her, but she turns and leaves.

Morgan lays in bed and goes over the evidence in her head. She visualizes the warehouse and suddenly figures it out. The following morning, she tells the team it’s not a maze; the robbers created a map that resembles what she saw on the hard drive. The map is of outdated tunnels under the city. Some of the tunnels are still accessible, and whatever the robbers are after they can get via the tunnels without anyone knowing.

Suddenly, alarms go off and the city is under a cyberattack. Soto sends officers to the port, the department of water and power, and the reservoir. Wagner arrives with news that the mayor pulled them from the case because he wants his own task force. He’s going to ignore the order and keep the team on the investigation.

Morgan takes a minute to answer a call from Lido and the kids, and they’re excited to tell her they’re going indoor camping for Mother’s Day. Lido mentions the credit card machines were down in the flower district and Morgan ties together the clues. The robbers are after a lot of cash that they’ll get in three locations: the flower, diamond, and fashion districts downtown. Together they’ll do $18+ million in business because of Mother’s Day.

If they take down the credit card machines, people will have to pay in cash. The stores will be sending excess cash into pneumatic tubes that go underground and into collection sites where they remain until an armored car picks them up. One of the collection sites is directly under the Mexican market on the receipt Morgan was confused about earlier.

Every other alert is just a distraction from this heist.

The robbers are emptying each tube as it lands just as the team enters the market. The team heads into the basement and Morgan convinces Karadec to let her go too, since she’s the only one who knows the tunnels.

They’re close when a sensor the robbers set up alerts the robbers they have company. A shootout ensues before the robbers make a run for it. Karadec’s able to knock one out, and Oz and Daphne disarm and cuff another. A robber finds Morgan attempting to hide and is about to shoot her when Wagner saves her life and shoots him. Wagner calls in for backup and EMTs as Karadec confirms two others are in custody. That leaves one, and Morgan thinks he’s making his way to the south exit. She knows that exit’s closed and thinks they can cut him off.

Wagner lets Morgan show him the way, and they spot the robber with a bag of cash. He opens fire and bullets fly until the robber needs to reload. Wagner orders him to kick over his weapon and is distracted when he notices the handle matches the gun that killed his fiancée. The robber attacks Wagner but Wagner’s got rage and adrenaline on his side. He keeps punching the robber longer than he needs to and doesn’t stop until Morgan says it’s not what Taylor would want. Karadec takes over the arrest.

Later, Morgan’s getting ready to leave work when Karadec tells her she did amazing and he’s glad she’s all right. Lucia rushes in and breaks up their private moment, pulling Karadec in for a hug, relieved that he’s okay.

Morgan makes it to the restroom before allowing herself to break down.

Soto grabs Karadec for a minute and informs him Hayworth is dead. They’re saying it was a suicide but neither believes it. Soto also received photos from their surveillance of Willa that show her meeting with Nick Wagner Sr. Now they need to try and figure out if Captain Wagner is involved with the Roman case for the right reasons.

Morgan steps into the elevator and Nick’s already there. She asks if he’s okay and they kiss. After they pull away, Nick assures her he’s okay. He says goodnight and leaves.

Morgan celebrates Mother’s Day with Lido and the kids in the campsite set up in her living room. They cook smores, take photos, and make memories.

 

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Review: A Visually Bright, Soulless Sequel

By
Kevin Finnerty
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Review
Luigi, Yoshi, Mario, and Toad in Nintendo and Illumination’s THE SUPER MARIO GALAXY MOVIE (Photo © Nintendo and Universal Studios)

Mamma mia! The Super Mario Brothers are back on the big screen in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, a sequel to the 2023 film that has them traveling across the galaxy on a rescue mission.

When Princess Rosalina (Brie Larson) is taken prisoner by Bowser Jr. (Benny Safdie) in an effort to free his father and create the ultimate weapon, it falls upon the Mario Brothers –  (Chris Pratt) and Luigi (Charlie Day) – to travel the galaxy and save her.

Joining the famous plumber brothers on this zany space adventure are Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy) and their new dinosaur friend, Yoshi (Donald Glover).

While the Mario brothers are kept hopping, Bowser (Jack Black), who was once the most dangerous enemy of the Super Mario Brothers, is dealing with some life-changing ideas that might not go along well with his son’s plans. 

Directed once again by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is a visually bright, colorful sequel that has bigger, more action-packed scenes but lacks heart and an interesting script. It’s a loud, colorful, chaotic mess of jumbled action scenes that would work much better in a video game. In fact, the video game that inspired the film is more creative and entertaining.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has a hugely talented voice cast bringing the video game characters to life. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be much enthusiasm behind the voices. Chris Pratt and Anya Taylor-Joy are almost phoning it in with their practically unemotional delivery of lines. The same can be said of Brie Larson, who voices the new character, Princess Rosalina.

Only Jack Black and Benny Safdie shine as the voices of Bowser and Bowser Jr.  Black gives Bowser a real emotional range, wanting to be a “good dad” but not sure if conquering everyone in the galaxy is the right thing to do anymore. Safdie delivers the best vocal performance as Bowser Jr., who idolizes his dad and is determined to rule the galaxy with him. The father and son duo are by far the most entertaining characters in the film.

Glen Powell delivers a spot-on vocal performance as the new character Fox McCloud, the cocky space pilot helping Mario, Luigi, and Peach travel across the galaxy on their quest. Powell would rank up there with Black and Safdie’s performances, but sadly doesn’t get enough screen time to make a real impact.

Visually bright but soulless, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is sure to entertain children and diehard fans of the video games while the adults and the rest of the audience count the minutes until the credits roll.

GRADE: C-

Release Date: April 1, 2026
Runtime: 1 hour 38 minutes
Rating: PG for rude humor, mild violence, and action
Production Companies: Universal Pictures, Nintendo, Illumination Entertainment

Javier Bardem Terrorizes Amy Adams in ‘Cape Fear’ Teaser

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Rebecca Murray
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Oscar winner Javier Bardem’s evil laugh will send chills up your spine in Apple TV’s official teaser for Cape Fear. The 10-episode limited series is based on John D. MacDonald’s 1957 novel The Executioners and Martin Scorsese’s 1991 remake of the 1962 Cape Fear film, which starred Gregory Peck.

The limited series is set to premiere on June 5, 2026 with the release of the first two episodes. New episodes stream on Fridays.

Oscar nominee Amy Adams, Patrick Wilson, Joe Anders, Lily Collias, Malia Pyles, and CCH Pounder also star. Nick Antosca created the series and serves as showrunner and executive producer.

Cape Fear Star Javier Bardem
Javier Bardem in ‘Cape Fear’ (Photo Credit: Apple TV)

“Inspired by the 1991 remake directed by Martin Scorsese and produced by Steven Spielberg, a storm is coming for happily married attorneys Anna (Adams) and Tom Bowden (Wilson) when Max Cady (Bardem), the notorious killer they are responsible for putting behind bars, is let out of prison—and he wants vengeance,” reads Apple TV’s synopsis.

Oscar winners Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg (who produced Scorsese’s 1991 film) are executive producers along with series stars Adams and Bardem. Additional executive producers include Alex Hedlund, Darryl Frank, and Justin Falvey. Oscar nominee directed the pilot episode and also executive produces.

Super Bowl Champ Seahawks Set for Hard Knocks Debut

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Rebecca Murray
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Hard Knocks Training Camp with the Seattle Seahawks Poster
Poster for ‘Hard Knocks Training Camp with the Seattle Seahawks’ (Photo Credit: HBO)

The Seattle Seahawks have been tapped to become the first team to win the Super Bowl and then immediately be featured on a season of Hard Knocks. HBO and NFL Films announced the Super Bowl champs are opening up their locker room for Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Seattle Seahawks. The upcoming Hard Knocks season also marks the first time the Seahawks will take part in the Emmy-winning series.  

The five-episode season will premiere on Tuesday, August 11, 2026 at 9pm ET/PT. Liev Schreiber continues his role as narrator. 

Per HBO: “Its signature all-access coverage will unfold this summer at the Seahawks training camp in Renton, Washington, and will feature head coach Mike Macdonald, quarterback Sam Darnold, 2025 Associated Press (AP) NFL Offensive Player of the Year Jaxon Smith-Njigba, and defensive standouts Devon Witherspoon and Byron Murphy II.”

HBO and NFL Films’ popular inside look at the NFL confirmed the New England Patriots, Super Bowl LX runner-up and six-time champions, will be featured in August 2027’s edition of Training Camp.

Previous Hard Knocks: Training Camp seasons have spotlighted the Baltimore Ravens, Dallas Cowboys, Kansas City Chiefs, Cincinnati Bengals, New York Jets, Miami Dolphins, Atlanta Falcons, and Houston Texans. The Los Angeles Rams, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Cleveland Browns, Oakland Raiders, Los Angeles Chargers, Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears, and Buffalo Bills have also been featured.

 

New on Max in April 2026: Euphoria Season 3, Hacks Finale, and The Dark Wizard

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Rebecca Murray
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Hacks season 5 Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder HBO Max
Hannah Einbinder and Jean Smart in ‘Hacks’ season 5 (Photo Credit: HBO Max)

HBO Max’s April 2026 schedule includes the fifth and final season of Hacks starring Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder, as well as the much anticipated, long-awaited third season of Euphoria, starring Zendaya. Richard Gadd follows up his award-winning limited series Baby Reindeer with the six-episode limited series Half Man, premiering on April 23. And the streamer’s set an April 14 debut of The Dark Wizard, a four-part documentary series on Dean Potter, who was considered to be one of the world’s most influential and controversial climbers.

Films coming to HBO Max this April include Alien: Romulus starring Cailee Spaeny, Christy with Sydney Sweeney, Dust Bunny with Mads Mikkelsen, and Marty Supreme starring Timothée Chalamet.

NEW ON HBO MAX IN APRIL

April 1
A Big Hand for a Little Lady
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
Alien vs. Predator: Extended Cut
Alien
Alien 3
Alien 3: The Assembly Cut
Alien Resurrection
Alien Resurrection: Special Edition
Alien vs. Predator: Requiem: Extended Cut
Alien: Director’s Cut
Aliens
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
Aliens: Director’s Cut
Abbott and Costello In Hollywood
AVP: Alien vs. Predator
Blood on the Moon
Cabin in the Sky
Captain Horatio Hornblower
Carson City
Dallas
Deeply, Season 1
Deeply, Season 2
Deeply, Season 3
Evil Lives Here: My Child the Killer, Season 1 (ID)
Fort Dobbs
Fort Worth
Gunsmoke in Tucson
Inu-Oh
Man From the Black Hills
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms
Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge
Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind
On Moonlight Bay
Out of the Past
Practical Magic
Rachel and the Stranger
Rancho Notorious
Renovation Aloha, Season 3 (HGTV)
Riding Shotgun
Rocky Mountain
Roughshod
San Antonio
Santa Fe Trail
Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend
Springfield Rifle
Tall in the Saddle
Tall Man Riding
The Bounty Hunter
The Boy and the Beast
The Devil Wears Prada
The Family
The Flame and the Arrow
The Hole in the Ground
The Left-Handed Gun
The Man
The Man Behind the Gun
The Man with a Cloak
The Mummy (1999)
The Mummy Returns
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
The Naked Spur
The Oklahoman
The St. Louis Kid
They Died with Their Boots On
Thunder Over the Plains
Twister
Wagons West
Welcome to Plathville, Season 8 (TLC)
Westward the Women
Wichita

April 2
Body Bizarre, Season 8 (TLC)
Expedition Files, Season 4 (Discovery)

April 3
Dream Stage, Season 1

Alien: Romulus: Logline: This truly terrifying sci-fi horror-thriller takes the legendary ‘Alien’ franchise back to its iconic roots. While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young colonizers come face-to-face with the deadliest life form in the universe.

April 4
Game Night

April 5
Teen Titans Go!, Season 9G (Cartoon Network)

April 7
Tropic Like It’s Hot, Season 1 (HGTV)

April 9
The World’s Tallest Man, Season 1 (HGTV)

Hacks Season 5: In the aftermath of mistaken and unflattering news reports that she passed away, Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and Ava (Hannah Einbinder) return to Las Vegas more determined than ever to secure Deborah’s legacy as a comedian.

April 10
Artemis II: To the Moon and Back (Discovery)
House Hunters International: Volume 9, Season 208 (HGTV)

Christy: Christy Martin (Sydney Sweeney) never imagined life beyond her small-town roots in West Virginia—until she discovered a knack for punching people. Fueled by grit, raw determination, and an unshakable desire to win, she charges into the world of boxing under the guidance of her trainer and manager-turned-husband, Jim (Ben Foster). But while Christy flaunts a fiery persona in the ring, her toughest battles unfold outside it—confronting family, identity, and a relationship that just might become life-or-death. Based on remarkable true events, Christy Martin’s story is one of resilience, courage, and the fight to reclaim one’s life.

Euphoria Season 3 Zendaya on HBO Max
Zendaya in ‘Euphoria’ season 3 (Photo by Eddy Chen/HBO)

April 12
Be My Guest with Ina Garten, Season 7 (Food Network)
Building Back America’s Trades, Season 1 (Magnolia Network)

Euphoria, Season 3: A group of childhood friends wrestle with the virtue of faith, the possibility of redemption, and the problem of evil. 

April 13
Boy Band Confidential: A Hollywood Demons Event, Season 1 (ID)
Smiling Friends, Season 3B (Adult Swim)

April 14
Rock The Block, Season 7 (HGTV)

The Dark Wizard: An unflinching portrait of Dean Potter, one of the world’s most influential and controversial climbers, BASE jumpers, and highline walkers. The series traces the jaw-dropping feats that made him a legend, as well as the personal turmoil that defined his life.

April 15
Nanny McPhee Returns
World’s Bargain Dream Homes, Season 1 (HGTV)

April 16
One Day In My Body, Season 1 (TLC)

April 17
House Hunters: Volume 11, Season 253 (HGTV)

Dust Bunny: An orphaned 10-year-old hires her hit man neighbor (Mads Mikkelsen) to protect her from the monster under her bed. With Sigourney Weaver.

April 18
Belle Collective, Season 7 (OWN Network)
Krypto Saves the Day: Coastal Catastrophe

April 20
Impractical Jokers, Season 12B

April 21
Hollywood Demons, Season 2 (ID)
No Hard Feelings

April 22
Jeff Dunham’s The Cars That Drove Us, Season 1 (Discovery)

Half Man Jamie Bell and Richard Gadd on HBO Max
Jamie Bell and Richard Gadd in ‘Half Man’ (Photo Credit: Anne Binckebanck/HBO)

April 23
Half Man: Niall and Ruben are brothers. Not related in blood but the closest you can get. One, fierce and loyal. The other, meek and mild-mannered. Inseparable youth. Brought into each other’s lives through death and circumstance, all they have is each other… But when Ruben turns up at Niall’s wedding three decades later, everything seems different. He is on edge. Shifty. Not acting like himself.

And soon, an explosion of violence takes place, which catapults us back through their lives, from the eighties to the present day. Capturing 30 years in the lives of these broken men, HALF MAN is a six-part limited series exploring brotherhood, violence, and the intense fragility of male relationships. After all, when things fall apart… It is sometimes the closest relationships that break the hardest.

April 24
48 Hrs: Escape From Chernobyl (Discovery)
HGTV Smart Home 2026 (HGTV)
House Hunters International: Volume 9, Season 209 (HGTV)

Marty Supreme: In the Academy Award-nominated film, Marty Mauser (Chalamet), a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.

April 25
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
The Mouthpiece
Stranger on the Third Floor

April 27
24 in 24: Last Chef Standing, Season 3 (Food Network)

April 28
Standoff: The FBI, Power and Paranoia, Season 1 (CNN)

Will Trent Season 4 Episode 13 Preview: Amanda Under Fire

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Rebecca Murray
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ABC’s Will Trent season four, episode 13 finds Amanda heavily involved in a case that’s either murder or self-defense. (Hopefully for Amanda’s sake it ends up being the latter.) Episode 13, “Did I Screw This Up?,” will air on Tuesday, March 31, 2026 at 8pm ET/PT.

“Did I Screw This Up?” Plot: Amanda seeks help from Will and Faith after her gun is used in a self-defense shooting, and suspicion begins to mount around her. Meanwhile, at a college job fair, Angie and Ormewood encounter a grad student claiming to have psychic visions.

Will Trent Season 4 Episode 13
Ramon Rodriguez and Iantha Richardson in ‘Will Trent’ season 4 episode 13 (Disney/Matt Miller)

Will Trent Series Description, Courtesy of ABC:

Based on Karin Slaughter’s New York Times bestselling ‘Will Trent’ series, Special Agent Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta’s overwhelmed foster care system. Now, Will uses his unique point of view in the pursuit of justice and has the highest clearance rate in the GBI.

Jake McLaughlin
Jake McLaughlin in season 4 episode 13 (Disney/Matt Miller)
Ilfenesh Hadera
Ilfenesh Hadera in season 4 episode 13 (Disney/Matt Miller)
Sonja Sohn and Ramon Rodriguez
Sonja Sohn and Ramon Rodriguez in season 4 episode 13 (Disney/Matt Miller)
Ramon Rodriguez
Ramon Rodriguez in season 4 episode 13 (Disney/Matt Miller)

Sheriff Country Episode 13: Fire Country Crossover & Plot Reveal

By
Rebecca Murray
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Sheriff Country Episode 13
Diane Farr as Sharon Leone, Morena Baccarin as Sheriff Mickey Fox and Matt Lauria as Boone in ‘Sheriff Country’ episode 13 (Photo: Eric Milner © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)

CBS’s Sheriff Country returns from a three-week break with part one of a two-part Fire Country crossover event. Fire Country‘s Max Thieriot, Diane Farr, and Jules Latimer guest star on episode 13, airing on Friday, April 3, 2026 at 8pm ET/PT.

“The Finest” Plot: After a mysterious school bus explosion leaves nine students missing, Sheriff Mickey Fox and Cal Fire Division Chief Sharon Leone must set aside their personal conflicts and unite their departments to try and crack the case.

Morena Baccarin leads the cast as Mickey Fox, Matt Lauria plays Nathan Boone, W. Earl Brown is Wes Fox, Michele Weaver plays Cassidy Campbell, and Christopher Gorham stars as Travis Fraley. Executive producers include Fire Country star Max Thieriot, Tony Phelan, Joan Rater, Matt Lopez, Jerry Bruckheimer, and KristieAnne Reed.

Matt Lauria and Max Thieriot
Matt Lauria as Boone and Max Thieriot as Bode Leone in episode 13 (Photo: Eric Milner © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)

Sheriff Country Details, Courtesy of CBS:

Morena Baccarin stars as straight-shooting sheriff Mickey Fox, the stepsister of Cal Fire’s division chief Sharon Leone (Diane Farr of Fire Country). She investigates criminal activity while she patrols the streets of small-town Edgewater, contending with her ex-con father, Wes (W. Earl Brown), who is an off-the-grid marijuana grower, and a mysterious incident involving her wayward daughter. 

Ed Ornelas and Morena Baccarin
Director Ed Ornelas and Morena Baccarin on the set of episode 13 (Photo: Eric Milner © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc.)
Jules Latimer and Ian Quinlan
Jules Latimer as Eve and Ian Quinlan as Hank in episode 13 (Photo: Eric Milner © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc.)
Max Thieriot and Matt Lauria
Max Thieriot as Bode Leone and Matt Lauria as Boone in episode 13 (Photo: Sergei Bachlakov © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)

 

Tracker Season 3 Episode 14 Recap: Who Took Alex?

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Rebecca Murray
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Tracker Season 3 Episode 14 Recap
Jon Beavers as James and Justin Hartley as Colter Shaw in ‘Tracker’ season 3 episode 14 (Photo: Colin Bentley © 2026 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)

A classroom’s field trip to a Milwaukee museum is interrupted by a siren as CBS’s Tracker season three, episode 14 begins. A teacher, Mr. Brooks, rushes back inside to try and find one of the students. Apparently, he doesn’t find the child since this is Colter’s missing person’s case of the week.

(The following is a recap of season three, episode 14 – “The Field Trip” – and there are spoilers.)

Sara (Elyse Levesque) and James Clark (Jon Beavers) desperately need Colter’s help finding their eight-year-old son Alex, who’s been missing for five hours. There’s a huge police presence at the museum, and Alex’s mom confirms the police initially assumed Alex wandered off. Sara and James believe Alex was taken, and James is angry at the cops for not appearing to be doing enough to help.

Colter (Justin Hartley) introduces himself to Detective Monroe (Luvia Petersen) and she’s willing to accept his help. They’re working on interviewing anyone who might have seen anything, and there aren’t any security cameras in the area where Alex was last seen. Plus, they don’t know who pulled the alarm.

James and Colter retrace Alex’s steps, and the exhibit manager lets Colter and James into a staff area that leads to the loading dock. The door was locked to the area, but if Alex was with a staff person, they would have had access.

Colter scans the loading dock and learns the police didn’t search this area. He spots a cleaning cart, and underneath is a sticker with the school mascot that kids are given during field trips. Colter believes the person who took Alex might be an employee who knows the camera locations and learns Sylvia Sloane was the custodian working that morning. Sylvia left right after the fire alarm, and Randy (Chris Lee) learns she has a few drug charges. More importantly, Sylvia had a psychotic break, and her husband divorced her and got custody of their two boys.

Colter reluctantly agrees to let James tag along on his visit to Sylvia’s place. James is a talker and confesses he’s worried he’s not doing a good enough job raising Alex. They arrive at Sylvia’s place and Colter orders James to stay in the truck. Colter heads around back of the house and, of course, James gets out of the truck just as Sylvia (Brittany Willacy) and a man jog up. James demands to know where Alex is and she has no idea what he’s talking about.

James gets into it with Sylvia’s friend, Mike (Keon Lyn), and punches him in the face. Mike’s a much better fighter and Sylvia tries to pull him off James. Colter helps and gets Mike to back off, and Sylvia orders him to go inside while they clear things up. Colter shows her a photo of Alex, and Sylvia seems stunned that they think she could have taken James’ son. Sylvia claims she was a stay-at-home mom when her husband divorced her and tried to take their kids. She got angry, threw a brick through his window, and lost in court. Now, she’s working hard to make money to fight her ex for their boys.

After everyone calms down, Sylvia says she thinks she saw Alex with his teacher and describes Mr. Brooks perfectly. Mr. Brooks told her they were lost and asked to use the employee exit. She opened the exit and they left.

Tracker Season 3 Episode 14 Recap
Justin Hartley as Colter Shaw in ‘Tracker’ season 3 episode 14 (Photo: Colin Bentley © 2026 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)

James apologizes profusely, confused about why Mr. Brooks would have taken Alex. He used to tutor him after school, and James has his address, which isn’t far away. Colter has James hang out there while he heads to Brooks’ place. This time James agrees.

It’s nighttime when Colter arrives at Brooks’ apartment and lets himself in. Lights are on inside and Colter looks around and spots Brooks’ computer. Alex’s mom’s Facebook page is on it, and next to the laptop are drawings Alex made. One is of Alex and Brooks titled My Special Friend.

Colter takes a photo of Alex’s drawing of a house with a yellow door.

Detective Monroe arrives and Colter fills her in on what he’s learned. She interviewed Brooks this morning, and now she has an alert out for his car. Colter believes the alarm went off and since Alex is sensitive to sounds, Brooks told him he could take him somewhere safe. After taking him somewhere, Brooks went back inside and pretended he couldn’t find Alex.

Randy discovers Brooks’ car is parked on Alex’s street. Colter heads there and sees Sara getting ready to leave to pick up James from the hospital. She’s confused about why Brooks’ car would be out front, and Colter asks about another neighbor. Sara describes her neighbor, Noah, as having similar looks to Brooks. He’s been teaching Alex to play chess.

Colter thinks it wasn’t Brooks but Noah who took Alex. The house Alex drew had a yellow door, like Noah’s, and Brooks must have looked through Alex’s art after he disappeared and found the house with the yellow door.

Colter approaches Noah’s place, gun drawn, and notices there’s been a struggle inside. He breaks the glass door and enters, with Sara close behind him. The chess board is turned over, and Brooks’ phone is on the floor. Colter believes Brooks confronted Noah and was injured. Ice cream on the counter and a game indicate Noah was taking care of Alex, so he probably hasn’t hurt him.

Colter and Sara look around upstairs and find a telescope set up looking directly into Alex’s room. Noah got Alex and his parents to trust him and then took Alex. Colter promises he will find him.

Randy checks out Noah and finds he has a sketchy record and was reported for hanging out outside of a preschool. His phone’s off so that doesn’t help, but Colter spots a digital photo frame and Randy hacks into it. There’s a photo of Noah at a cabin and the metadata shows it’s in a local marsh where there’s only one cabin. And that cabin is owned by Noah’s father.

Meanwhile, Noah’s watching cartoons at the cabin with Noah. He wants to call his mom, but Noah claims she’s still at work. Noah warns Alex to stay inside and keep watching cartoons while he steps outside and pulls Brooks from the trunk of his car. Brooks briefly manages to fight him off before Noah hits him with an axe in the stomach.

Alex watches the fight from the porch and runs off into the woods. Noah chases after him with the bloody axe.

Tracker Season 3 Episode 14 Recap
Justin Hartley as Colter Shaw in ‘Tracker’ season 3 episode 14 (Photo: Sergei Bachlakov © 2026 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)

Colter finds Brooks still alive but injured. He gives Brooks his phone and has him call 9-1-1 while he chases after Alex and Noah. Colter hears Noah screaming Alex’s name and follows his voice.

Noah spots Alex hiding behind a tree, and Colter hears whimpering as he approaches. Colter leaps out and knocks down Noah, holding him at gunpoint as he orders Alex to turn away. Colter’s on the verge of shooting him but instead kicks him hard enough to break a few ribs.

Colter assures Noah he’s safe and that his parents are on their way. Detective Monroe and backup arrive along with an ambulance. Colter holds Alex until his parents arrive and the family is finally reunited.

Catching up on Reenie (Fiona Rene), and she’s visiting Kurtis Lauper, a possible witness in Miranda’s case. He refuses to help and seems scared and frustrated about the lawsuit against the huge property group. Reenie won’t take no for an answer, and he finally agrees to talk. Lauper, the former project manager at a housing development, confesses that his breath started getting short when he was moving dirt there. Then he noticed they were using contaminated products instead of approved insulation. He hands over a stack of evidence he’s compiled and confirms he never agreed to take their money, so they made him look crazy. He was even committed by his ex-wife.

Lauper refuses to allow Reenie to take the files. She assures him she’s on his side, he doesn’t need to fight alone anymore, and she will make the company pay.

Reenie meets with Maxine (Kathleen Robertson), who brought her on to the case, and confirms Lauper provided important information that goes beyond just a company cutting corners. There’s a case to be made for wrongful death, witness intimidation, and obstruction of justice. Reenie believes Lauper is telling the truth, and Maxine agrees to trust her gut.

Episode 14 ends with Colter visiting Brooks at the hospital and he’s upset with himself for not calling the police sooner. He went to see Alex’s parents to talk about Alex’s drawings in class and that’s when he saw the yellow door. Colter compliments his instincts and assures him he’s very brave.

James runs into Colter in the hospital hallway and hands over the reward. The family’s doing well, and it’s all thanks to Colter. James apologizes for his behavior and reveals he’s going to spend more time with his son. Colter reminds him he has a second chance with his son, something not many parents get.

Marshals Episode 5 Recap: The Search for Lost Rez Girls

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Rebecca Murray
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Marshals Episode 5 Recap Tate and Kayce
Brecken Merrill as Tate Dutton and Luke Grimes as Kayce Dutton in ‘Marshals’ episode 5 (Photo: Christopher Saunders © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)

Kayce rescues Tate from Monica’s wild Mustang as CBS’s Marshals episode five opens. Tate’s arm and pride are hurt, and Kayce warns him to stay away from the wild horse. Tate insists he just wanted to connect with his mom. Kayce comes to the decision that the horse needs to find a new home, and Tate accuses him of erasing Monica’s memory.

(The following is a recap of episode five, “Lost Girls,” and there are spoilers.)

Maddie (Morgan Lindholm) gives her dad a hard time while he eats at the bar. She brings up that he was skinny in her baby pictures, and Cal (Logan Marshall-Green) recalls he was just 19 when she was born. Maddie won’t let him forget that he took off when she was five and that they were never close.

Tate (Brecken Merrill) and Kayce (Luke Grimes) take Monica’s horse to Wyoming to sell, but no one wants it after it bit a buyer. Tate spots an old classmate from the rez in the parking lot and she seems antsy. The girl, Hailey, claims her boyfriend likes road trips and that’s why they’re in Wyoming. But Tate thinks something’s up.

Cal shows up at work and Belle (Arielle Kebbel) insists he needs to let Maddie have time to heal. It’s not going to be easy, but he needs to be patient. Andrea (Ash Santos) and Miles (Tatanka Means) play foosball while discussing rent, and Miles admits they’re kicking him off the rez. Kayce arrives and Hailey’s on his mind. He wonders if Miles thinks it’s weird that she would have been in a truck stop parking lot in Wyoming, and Miles remembers she was reported missing four months ago. Tate thought she was acting strange, and Miles suspects she’s a victim of sex trafficking. Miles thinks looking into it would be a great way to help the tribal police.

They ask Cal if the team can investigate, and unfortunately, they can’t right now because they’ve just been given a new assignment. They need to protect Sam LaChance, a homicide suspect, who’s a key witness in a federal case. Kayce volunteers to go with Miles to talk to Hailey’s mom, while Cal, Belle, and Andrea babysit LaChance. Cal agrees but warns them to “tread lightly.”

In addition to three murder cases, LaChance has a record of domestic abuse, loan sharking, and aggravated assault. The fed’s case LaChance needs to testify in involves a construction company that defrauded the government. Neither Belle nor Andrea is happy about using their time and resources on this, and Cal agrees Belle can check out the truck stop.

Kayce and Miles speak with Hailey’s mom, Ellie, and she’s relieved her daughter’s alive. The boyfriend might be someone she was texting. Hailey stole her car, which was recovered, and the cops have been useless. Miles thinks someone online groomed her and took her away from Broken Rock. Hailey’s friend Ava went missing a year ago. Miles was working that case until his last day on Broken Rock’s force.

Ellie asks them to promise they’ll remain on the case until Hailey’s brought home.

Andrea, Belle, and Cal babysit LaChance at a luxury hotel, and Belle doesn’t think the public would be happy about how they’re spending their taxes. Belle gets an update from the Wyoming State Troopers and there haven’t been any sightings of Hailey. Andrea issued an AMBER alert, and it’s obvious everyone would rather be working that case than watching over LaChance.

Marshals Episode 5 Recap
Luke Grimes as Kayce Dutton and Tatanka Means as Miles in ‘Marshals’ episode 5 (Photo: Sonja Flemming © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)

Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham) and Mo (Mo Brings Plenty) arrive just as Kayce and Miles are leaving, and Thomas warns them they’ve given Ellie hope. And since they haven’t reached out to the Tribal Police, Thomas knows they’re there in an unofficial capacity. Miles suggests maybe the marshals can lend a hand if the tribal police ask, but Thomas doesn’t think the authorities are willing to do anything. They always declare missing rez girls and women runaways.

Miles thinks it’s possible this time will be different, but Thomas doesn’t see the point of requesting help again. Their superiors would never allow it.

Belle and Andrea ignore Cal’s orders to stop working on Hailey’s case. Since Miles learned that Hailey and Ava were targeted online, Andrea volunteers to investigate the girls’ social media and discovers they were both talking to greeneyes44. His first name’s Noah but he’s wearing a hat and sunglasses online, so his face isn’t visible. But as they’re investigating, Noah posts a new update.

Andrea texts Miles with news about Noah and it looks like he’s hunting for another girl to traffic right now. Kayce recognizes the area in Noah’s photo, which went up half an hour ago. They decide to head to the spot, even though they’re not officially on the case.

A motorcade arrives to pick up LaChance to take him to court, and Cal, Belle, and Andrea are more than happy to turn him over.

Miles is not sure how they’ll get Noah to talk, and Kayce assures him it’s okay to break the rules for the right reasons. Kayce puts his badge in his glove compartment; he’s just a dad looking for Tate’s friend right now. He offers Miles a chance to leave, and Miles put his badge in the glove compartment too.

Thomas Rainwater’s in Cal’s office when the team returns, and he apologizes for showing up unannounced. Thomas thanks Cal for giving Kayce a “new beginning” before addressing the elephant in the room. The tribal police’s resources are limited, and outside help has never been offered. Missing girls are an epidemic on the rez, and Cal says he understands the pain parents must feel as a father himself. Thomas is worried that Kayce and Miles offered false hope and asks again for help from the marshals. He doesn’t like seeking help from the government but can’t let his pride get in the way of finding these missing girls.

Kayce and Miles find Noah fishing and Kayce hits him in the head with a metal tackle box. He and Miles demand to know where Hailey and Ava are, and after a little torture involving fishing lures, Noah admits he had fun with them and then tossed them aside. Miles accuses him of using photos and videos to blackmail the girls into sex work. His phone reveals he’s talking to dozens of girls, but it’s not until Kayce threatens to gut him that Noah agrees to talk.

Gifford agrees to let the team assist the tribal police. Cal’s only mildly surprised that Belle and Andrea have already been working on the case and that Kayce and Miles have got a name to check out. Kurt Bledsoe has a lengthy rap sheet for pimping and pandering, and now they believe he’s a sex trafficker. Cal has them send out an alert to other agencies to be on the alert for Bledsoe. Belle’s going to start looking up Bledsoe’s relatives and other possible contacts where he could be hiding.

Miles and Kayce deliver Noah to Mo. “You preyed on the rez, now the rez is going to prey on you,” growls Mo. Noah begs to be let go as he’s loaded into Mo’s SUV.

The following morning Tate’s looking through Monica’s stuff for something to read during her remembrance ceremony. Kayce’s not sure if he’s going since tracking down Hailey is priority number one. Tate’s surprised Hailey is actually missing but knew there was something weird about how she was acting. Kayce promises they’ll bring her home, and Tate believes Monica’s trying to save Hailey by making them cross paths with her while trying to sell her horse.

“If you won’t make it to the ceremony, bringing Hailey back is the best way to honor her,” says Tate.

Marshals Episode 5 Recap
Ash Santos as Andrea and Arielle Kebbel as Belle in ‘Marshals’ episode 5 (Photo: Christopher Saunders © 2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)

Andrea and Belle haven’t had any luck locating Bledsoe, and Andrea suggests that they catfish him as men looking for girls. Cal likes the idea but wonders what Kayce and Miles are up to. Andrea reveals they’re getting ready to kick some doors. Cal joins them and warns them not to cross any lines; they need solid evidence collected the right way to secure wins in court.

Andrea discovers Kurt Bledsoe’s got a new name and a credit card with it just bought gas half an hour ago. Fortunately, Kayce and Miles are already heading that way. They split up at the truck stop to search for Bledsoe and Kayce spots Hailey, but she’s terrified. Kayce swears he can protect her, but Hailey is scared Bledsoe will hurt the other girls if she leaves. He already killed Ava to teach the girls a lesson. Hailey says she’s being held with nine other girls, but they aren’t all there.

Kayce swears he’ll come back for the others, but Hailey refuses to put the girls in jeopardy. She tells Kayce to find them at the next stop with all the trees; they should all be there together.

Kayce fills the team in on what he learned, and Miles is furious he didn’t pick up Hailey. Cal reminds him the other girls would have been in danger if Hailey left them. Andrea thinks they’re using a large vehicle and tries to figure out the place with all the trees clue.

Thomas calls Kayce and thanks him for leading the charge on finding the girls. Kayce doesn’t tell him what he’s learned about Ava and promises to do his best.

Andrea’s discovered the place with the trees is the Ponderosa Truck Stops. (Its logo has trees.) Security footage from one 15 miles from where they spotted Hailey shows an RV pulling up with the girls. They stopped at another one 40 minutes ago. The team can track the camper if it sticks to public highways, but Miles is still upset that Kayce let Hailey go.

An alert pops up on the RV’s location, and the team heads out in two vehicles to intercept it. They spot the RV and Cal orders them to hold back but Miles won’t listen and speeds up. Bledsoe’s men spot their tail and also speed up, and Cal changes the plan and orders Miles to get ahead of them to lay a spike strip.

One of Bledsoe’s men aims at them from a window as they attempt to pass and Miles has to drop back. They can’t shoot back because of the girls, and Kayce makes a move, telling Andrea to force the gunman to put his head back inside. They pull up along one side while Miles pulls past the RV and Belle lays a spike strip.

It explodes the tires and the RV’s forced to stop. The team kills all three men in the RV and then discovers the girls aren’t inside. Miles glares at Kayce as the episode ends with a “to be continued” banner.

Netflix’s Kennedy: Full Cast & First Look at Michael Fassbender

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Rebecca Murray
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Kennedy star Michael Fassbender
Michael Fassbender as Joe Kennedy, Sr. in ‘Kennedy’ (Photo Cr. Rob Youngson/Netflix © 2026)

Production is officially underway on Netflix’s Kennedy series starring Michael Fassbender as the family patriarch Joe Sr. The streamer announced the start of production in London and released the first photo of Fassbender in character.

The series, based on Fredrik Logevall’s book, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956, also confirmed more than a dozen new recurring cast members.

In addition to Fassbender, the eight-episode season stars Laura Donnelly as Rose Kennedy, Nick Robinson as Joe Kennedy Jr., and Joshuah Melnick as Jack Kennedy. The previously announced recurring cast includes Ben Miles as Eddie Moore, Lydia Peckham as Rosemary Kennedy, Saura Lightfoot-Leon as Kick Kennedy, Cole Doman as Lem Billings, and Imogen Poots as Gloria Swanson.

“Kennedy reveals the intimate lives, loves, rivalries, and tragedies that shaped the most iconic dynasty in modern history and helped create the world we live in today,” reads Netflix’s synopsis. “Beginning in the 1930s, the first season charts the improbable ascent of Joe and Rose Kennedy and their nine children, including rebellious second son Jack, who struggles to escape the shadow of his golden boy older brother.”

The New Kennedy Recurring Cast:

  • Georgina Bitmead (The Assassin) plays Eunice Kennedy. The fifth child of Joe Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy.
  • Miley Locke (Amandaland) plays younger Kick Kennedy. The fourth child of Joe and Rose.
  • Tipper Seifert-Cleveland (Crookhaven) plays younger Rosemary Kennedy. The third child of Joe and Rose.
  • Hera Hilmar (See) plays Inga Arvad. A Danish journalist and former motion picture star who was a close associate of Jack during the early 1940s.
  • Wyatt Russell (Monarch) plays Charles Lindbergh. The American aviator who achieved international fame for the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in 1927.
  • Patrick Fischler (Paradise) plays Arthur Krock. An influential American journalist who served as the Washington Bureau Chief for The New York Times from 1932 to 1953.
  • Caitlin FitzGerald (Succession) plays Clare Boothe Luce. A prominent American writer and socialite in the Kennedy circle during the late 1930s, who went on to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1943 to 1947.
  • Louis Landau (Rivals) plays Billy Cavendish. The Marquess of Hartington and a member of the British aristocracy.
  • Robin Soans (Victoria & Abdul) plays Neville Chamberlain. The British Prime Minister from 1937 to 1940, known for his leadership during the years leading up to World War II.
  • Denis O’Hare (American Horror Story) plays Raymond Furness. A career official within the U.S. State Department who served at the U.S. Embassy in London during the late 1930s.
  • Albert Welling (Succession) plays Winston Churchill. The British statesman and First Lord of the Admiralty, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.
  • Toby Huss (Weapons) plays Franklin D. Roosevelt. The 32nd President of the United States who served from 1933 until his death in 1945.
  • Eddie Marsan (No Ordinary Heist) plays J. Edgar Hoover. The first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), who led the agency from its inception in 1935 until 1972.

Sam Shaw serves as the showrunner and executive produces along with Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Kaitlin Dahill, Eric Roth, Fredrik Logevall, Lila Byock, Anya Epstein, Dustin Thomason, Thomas Vinterberg, and Anna O’Malley. Vinterberg is the director.

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