[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for FBI: Most Wanted Season 4 Episode 8 “Appeal.”]
FBI: Most Wanted delved into the latest member of the Fugitive Task Force, Special Agent Ray Cannon (Edwin Hodge) in its fall finale, “Appeal.”
On the best way to work with Hana Gibson (Keisha Castle-Hughes), Ray seen a girl, Cora (Caroline Harris), arguing along with her landlord after he’d raised her lease by $2,000, regardless of her and her son Caleb (Ja’Siah Young) being mannequin tenants for 4 years. She didn’t have the cash, however whereas she had 5 days left on her lease, he was already displaying her house to potential tenants. It caught with him, even because the Fugitive Task Force labored a case, although he wasn’t positive about letting Hana do some digging into the owner. But armed with the data that the owner could be dealing with time in jail if he known as mates on the IRS, Ray was capable of negotiate a brand new lease for Cora.
And we couldn’t assist however discover doable sparks between Ray and Cora as she thanked him and he threw round a soccer along with her son. So may one thing occur? “Anything is possible and yes, we will see Cora and Caleb again later in the season as well,” Hodge tells TV Insider. “Everyone enjoys a good love story, right?”
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After wrapping the case, Ray opened as much as Hana a bit about his previous, sharing about bigots like his highschool counselor, crooked cops his father tried to place away however have been let loose as a result of inconsistencies within the investigation (which was code for a Black FBI agent investigating a white sergeant), and individuals who refused to consider he earned his spot on advantage. He couldn’t overlook about what was occurring to Cora as a result of he knew that it could be her son who would put on the scar from the expertise. Ray was 15 when Katrina hit, and the more durable pot was the gentrification of the neighborhood that brought about his uncle to lose his house and new residents to treat his neighbors as interlopers.
“I’m looking forward to diving deeper into Ray’s past. We’re going to bring his family in at some point to help the audience understand even more who Ray is and why he makes the choices that he does,” Hodge reveals.
We’ve seen Ray and Hana attending to know one another off the clock as roommates, so it’s no shock that she’s the one he spoke with about his previous. “I think their relationship opened a little more when they were talking about taking the medication after she went through the trauma of being kidnapped. She tore down just enough of her wall that Ray could see the real Hana and not FBI Hana,” Hodge explains.
“They have a mutual respect for where each other is in their lives as they continue to learn from each other. Ray’s been the most open with her and at the same time, Ray gets to experience a side of Hana that maybe the team doesn’t get to see. It’s fun when we get to dive into the agents’ personal lives,” he provides.
FBI: Most Wanted, Winter Premiere, Tuesday, January 3, 10/9c, CBS