Sheriff Country has already teased a steamy scene with Morena Baccarin‘s character Mickey Fox — but who is the mystery man?
After the official trailer showed Mickey in the shower with a possible love interest, showrunner Matt Lopez exclusively told Us Weekly about the scene, saying, “It’s a character who shall remain nameless at this point. But I’ll say this is a character who will surprise us the moment he walks on screen.”
Lopez noted that “there will be multiple surprises” headed our way.
“It’s a relationship that is really compelling. Because what we will unpack about Mickey is that since her divorce from Travis, her relationships have been few and fleeting,” he explained. “This character, this mystery a.k.a the man in the shower and their relationship very much starts off being one thing and then holds the promise of being something much, much deeper — if Mickey will let it.”
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Mickey’s love life won’t come without its obstacles, with Lopez adding, “She is a character who has some armor. She is a character who has placed her trust in people and had that trust betrayed. She does not wear her heart on her sleeve and she does not leap in both feet first.”
Lopez concluded: “She is cautious and can she leave her heart unguarded long enough to possibly have a chance at something? At something deeply meaningful. That’s a question that will very much play out on screen.”
After being introduced on Fire Country, Baccarin, 46, stars as Sheriff Mickey Fox in Sheriff Country. The spinoff, which premiered earlier this month, centers around Mickey as she investigates criminal activity and patrols the streets of her small town while dealing with her ex-con father and getting caught up in a murder where her daughter is the prime suspect.
“The mystery will not last the entire season. It will seemingly resolve but there will be ripple effects and continuing twists spinning out of it that will go deep into season,” Lopez told Us while promising “delicious plot twists” moving forward. “Just when you thought something was put to bed or understood in a certain way, we will ask the audience to possibly reconsider if what you saw the first time is actually what you saw. So we love that kind of storytelling.”
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Despite the stakes being so high, Lopez hinted that viewers shouldn’t be too worried about their favorite characters being in serious danger.
“In the context of Fire Country, it would in a way dishonor the danger that these characters put themselves into in the literal line of fire — and in the case of Sheriff Country in the metaphorical line of fire,” he said. “To tell one story after another in which they emerge from these death defying situations completely unscathed is not true to the storytelling.”
Lopez added: “There need to be real stakes to these episodes. We have some plans to subject some of these folks to some really stressful situations but I’m not unzipping body bags just yet. It’s early for that.”
Sheriff Country airs on CBS Fridays at 8 p.m. ET.
