The sequence also keeps the Will-Angie storyline going, when he says “I love you” to her. Do you think she’s really chalking that up to sacred water, or does she know there’s more there?
I think she knows that deep down, the connection that they have won’t go away. So it’s there, but it was just the sacred water talking.
All season long, there’s been this recurring arc with Rafael Wexler [Antwayn Hopper] and Will. Considering Angie also goes back that far, is there something between them, too? Will we see them cross paths at some point?
Not that I know of so far. And I mean, I do know the rest of the season, so no. It’s interesting to see that they may have had little parts of their lives away from each other — just little chapters away from each other in the whole process of growing up. Rafael and Will had such an interesting, intense chapter together that it makes sense that they are fairly bonded, even though they hadn’t seen each other in 20 years. But yeah, I don’t know what specific overlap Angie and Rafael might have had, but I like that it’s there to be found at some later point also.
This season starts out with Angie being reinstated, but she seems to really be leaning into taking more risks again. She took a risk with Jon the maintenance worker and then in this episode, she gets right into it. Does she feel confident at this point that she’s in the good graces of the department?
I don’t know that she will ever fully know because there isn’t an official, “We all trust you now!” But I think she’s getting back toward trusting herself, which is sort of that biggest hurdle: being aware of the problem, being aware of the fact that she 100% thought she was on the right track with Crystal and was blinded by essentially their similarities and her empathy for this person and that she had to be sharper and be even more self-aware than she normally is in order to do her job and stay safe and keep other people safe. I think that’s kind of what she was putting on Will when he wanted to go undercover. Her thing was, “Don’t you understand that you fit exactly their target type? You are at risk.” Like, “Yes, you want to do it for your work, but also don’t do that.”
Angie’s partnership with Michael is really strong this season. Are they doing a little bit of trauma bonding by having gone through breakups that were terrible for each of them?
Yeah, I’m sure. It’s really special, their relationship. I feel like Jake and I saw something early on in shooting. And then, of course, it can only grow from there, both through the personal experiences and the characters’ experiences. And both going through the bad breakups or he having to choose to help Angie when she asked for help in kind of doctoring evidence in the Crystal-Lenny [murder] situation. Thank goodness he didn’t get implicated in it later. But yeah, I think they’re getting to that point where they’re fairly inextricably linked. It would be difficult for each of them to function without each other, even though they’ve been working on that, too.
And it’s great to see Ormewood and Faith being roomies, and it’s great to see Angie having a romance and all these things. But in a way, I feel like, I mean, my joke has been that Angie and Ormewood are fraternal twins, separated at birth — somehow he got the good family life, but she didn’t. I feel a deep similarity, a frequency, between those two.
