As an executive producer, Fassbender had the authority to tease the upcoming second season.

It just doesnt let up in Season 2, he said.

The walls just keep coming in, and the vice grip keeps getting tightened.

Sterling K. Brown, Richard Gere, Kaitlin Olson, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Jack Quaid at the Deadline Contenders Television 2025

That tension and that jeopardy just heightens all the way through without any let up in the second season.

Gere plays Bosko, the superior to the agency characters, and Wright plays Henry Ogletree.

Fassbender said the show rewards viewers for following along the complex characters and their relationships.

Theyre always the things I find most rewarding.

His co-stars have had a hand in developing their characters, too.

Gere recalled vetoing some backstory about Bosko revealed in one episode script.

One episode I was going to discuss my wife, Gere said.

I talked to the writers: He doesnt have a wife.

If he does, hes not going to talk about it, and hes not going to name her.

This is unknowable stuff to him.

I hope we keep it that way over the seasons.

His mother was a U.S. customs lawyer and aunt retired as Assistant Director of Nurses at D.C. General Hospital.

He wants Ogletree to pay tribute to such government civil servants.

Thats what I witnessed among those people.

Again, not to generalize, but thats how I was raised to understand it.

Sami is the wild card outside the agency.

For a lot of people, what motivates them is love, she said.

So even when shes not necessarily on screen, shes still there.

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