Zap2It Highlights
--The first big bad guy of the season -- i.e. the first of the dirty 30 rogue agents Division is out to shut down during Season 3 -- will be played by "Alcatraz" inmate Jeffrey Pierce. "He's a badass," Silverstein says.
-- The theme for Season 3 is family. "Nikita's a lone wolf, and she's built up this family around her that she didn't intend to," says Silverstein. But things won't be rosy forever - expect the relationships to fracture at some point.
-- "I think it's now this one big slightly happy dysfunctional family that has to get along in running Division again. ... No one's going to agree on anything," Shane West says with a laugh.
-- Alex's love life will be in full bloom during Season 3 as Alex dates Sean (Dillon Casey). It's a good thing, considering, as star Lyndsy Fonseca puts it, "He looks really good naked."
--Birkhoff, on the other hand, won't have such great luck in the romance department. Although he finally kissed Sonya at the end of Season 2, there's some tension between them when we return a month later. Still, "He's doing well by Birkhoff standards," says Aaron Stanford, who plays the Division IT guy.
-- Now, completely out of context, the following exchange: Maggie Q: "Aaron smells like a little baby. You know when you go to kiss a baby and you're like 'Yummy?!' That's what Aaron smells like." Stanford: "Don't let her infantilize me. I'm a man, goddammit!"
-- Nikita and Michael will have some happiness for a while, says Silverstein, but Michael will struggle. West says, "You're going to have the light Michael and the dark Michael. I think people are going to be pleasantly surprised and maybe shocked by what's going to happen to Michael this season."
-- A couple of little details will be different in Season 3. Amanda (Melinda Clarke), who won't be back until episode four, will have a brand new hairdo. The Division set will change, adding a new briefing room so as to have fewer scenes crowded with 10 people.
-- Two words: Shower scene. It's happening, says Silverstein, even though creating a shower on screen is way harder than you'd think. Better give the actors a heads up though. "You've got to get me into yoga soon," jokes West.
-- The actors' Russian teacher is so pretty that Maggie Q says the writers will put Russian in their episodes just so she'll come on set.
-- "Every week we've got some really bad people, and we hope to cast them well," Silverstein says. Next year, expect a female Roan.
-- Although Xander Berkeley's Percy is dead, we might not have seen the last. Silverstein says that the reason they decided to kill off the character is because of Berkeley's great skill as an actor. "We wanted to have Percy go out on top." But it's okay, we will probably see him again. "He can still come back in a flashback," Berkley promises.
Entertainment Weekly Highlights
+ Owen’s ‘agenda’: Devon Sawa, who was recently promoted to series regular, will return in the fourth episode of the new season and all of the audience’s burning questions — like why he didn’t participate in the raid on Division — will be answered. “He’s going to come back with a mystery and an agenda,” said Silverstein.
+ Casting scoop: The bad guy in the first episode, which is set a month after the finale, will be played by Alcatraz alum Jeff Pierce, who played Jack Sylvane on the dearly departed show.
+ Nikita vs. Ryan? CIA agent Ryan Fletcher (Noah Bean) is another new regular on the show, and his dynamic with Nikita will be conflicted. “I think Nikita being behind a desk all day would have been less interesting for [fans], so as partners, there’s a [new] dynamic,” said Maggie Q. “As you know, Nikita has a huge problem with authority, and she has a new boss now…So she’s gotta make — this is not sexual — Ryan happy…They’re two characters with strong convictions. So we’ll see what happens there.”
+ Amanda’s tough time “She’s in the position Nikita was in the first season,” said Clarke, who will be sporting a new look this season. But though she’s feeling a little alone and in exile, that’s not likely to last a while. Rest assured, she’ll be back with a vengeance. “Amanda’s return is something we’re building up to,” said Silverstein.
+ Mikita: “We’re going to start off in a good place,” teases Maggie Q. But that won’t last. Silverstein teases, though, that the element that puts a new conflict into the relationship won’t come before fans get to see the pair hot and heavy in a big way. “You’re going to have a shower scene at some point,” he said to cheers.
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