The Hunting Party Bosses on Dulles’ Death & Bex & Shane’s Connection
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- Bex (Melissa Roxburgh) must make a creative call in the field - and then finds out somthing major about Lazarus (Kari Matchett) - in the latest Hunting Party...
- In order to bring Amanda (Elizabeth Gillies) in and rescue the woman she's kidnapped almost as a replacement sister, Bex takes on the persona of an inmate that...
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- The latest episode of The hunting Party sees Bex having to get creative to bring in a serial killer.
- Melissa Roxburgh and executive producers JJ Bailey and Jake Coburn discuss that, a shocking death, Bex and Shane’s relationship, and much more with TV Insider.
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Bex (Melissa Roxburgh) must make a creative call in the field – and then finds out somthing major about Lazarus (Kari Matchett) – in the latest Hunting Party episode.
In order to bring Amanda (Elizabeth Gillies) in and rescue the woman she’s kidnapped almost as a replacement sister, Bex takes on the persona of an inmate that Amanda’s psychiatrist created as part of her Pit therapy. She’s ultimately triumphant. Then,Bex realizes,after Shane (Josh McKenzie) reveals the voice he had Morales (Sara garcia) analyze is his mom’s, realize lazarus is his mom but doesn’t tell him -as Lazarus is busy herself, killing one of the Pit’s former scientists, Dulles (Matt Frewer).
Below, in separate interviews, Melissa Roxburgh and executive producers JJ Bailey and Jake Coburn break down Bex’s approach to Amanda, that Bex and Shane conversation, and more.
I can see why you told me that Bex tried something a bit different with Amanda and left it at that when we talked about this before because that twist of her playing Alice was fun. So how was switching gears a bit to do that and working with Elizabeth on those scenes?
Melissa Roxburgh: It was hard actually because me as Melissa, I’m an actress, I could pretend to be whoever. But bex is not an actress. She’s an FBI agent. So I was trying to figure out how to play a role without acting so different that it would be bizarre for a normal person to play pretend, but it was fun. I got to just step outside of FBI girl for a second and Liz Gillies is just so down to earth and awesome that scenes with her were fun and we had great conversations when the cameras weren’t rolling. And so it was just like there was this ease. But yeah, honestly, I felt like that was probably the most challenging episode for me because I’m playing with catching her, trying to get her to trust me, trying to play a role. Yeah, it was a very confusing one.
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Then we get that scene at the end and now Bex knows Shane’s mom is Lazarus, but he doesn’t, just as they’re toasting to new beginnings and he’s saying he’ll never lie to her again.And here she is keeping something from him. So how does she feel about keeping that from him? And does she fully trust him as he did open up or is there part of her wondering, he kept this for a bit of time, he did lie earlier…
Roxburgh: No, I think the Shane-Bex storyline is engaging because by all means she shouldn’t trust anyone because everyone is capable of bad and good. And I think that’s why she has her walls up as she knows it could go one way or the other. But with Shane, I think because he does become her safe place, so to speak, she does trust him and especially given the amount of time that they’ve worked together now. So when she finds out about Lazarus being his mom, I think it’s more fear.I think it’s more fear that there is something in him that even he doesn’t know, or that there’s a person now in his life that’s capable of manipulation and horrible things that she’s not sure how that plays out. she’s not sure what happens when he finds out, if he finds out that she’s his mom, as does that ruin everything he’s worked on? Does that destroy him? Does that send him into a spiral? So I think she almost becomes protective. And I think in regards to her lying to him, that’s the thing that she’s wrestling with. Do I tell him and open the can of worms that who knows what happens or do I let this play out a little longer to see what the right move is?
Coburn: She doesn’t feel great about keeping it from him, but it’s not as simple as just like, oh, I should just tell somebody something. And you’ll see in [Episodes] 5 and 6 and 7, this is something that they really wrestle with.
Bailey: Yeah. I mean, I think in that moment in the bar, it sort of dropped on her and it’s like she has this realization and when you learn that massive of a thing about somebody you care for, you don’t just want to dump it on them. I think you want to [think], how am I supposed to tell them this? Should I tell them this? And all those types of questions. And I think we’ll see in the subsequent episodes, as Jake said, it’s not just Bex. I mean, the team wrestles wit