[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for NCIS: Los Angeles Season 14 Episode 13, “A Farewell to Arms.”]
If you’re trying ahead to Retired Admiral Hollace Kilbride (Gerald McRaney) reuniting together with his estranged son Alex (Christopher Gorham, visitor starring this season), the newest NCIS: Los Angeles episode exhibits that it’s best to thank his ex-wife Elizabeth (Marilu Henner).
When she’s on the town — after the exes spend the evening collectively — the 2 reminisce about when Alex was born, and she or he recollects Kilbride preventing to remain awake whereas holding him. At the time, Elizabeth thought he’d at all times be there for his or her son. But now, “you let me down, Hollace, but more importantly, you let Alex down, too,” she tells him. She waited to convey it up till she knew he’d modified. “Alex is an adult. He made choices — choices that left no room for me and I tried to help, many times, but he just cut me out of his life,” Kilbride argues.
But as Elizabeth sees it, now he has an opportunity to combat his manner again into his life. “The last few years have been very hard on Alex, but he’s clean now, and I worry every damn day that that’s going to change. I’m tired of worrying alone,” she admits. Alex is in an outpatient therapy program; she’s going to household teams and desires her ex-husband to indicate up for his or her son. “He doesn’t want me there,” Kilbride says. “But he needs you there. Look, I’m not even saying you have to jump on a plane tonight. You don’t even have to give me an answer now. Just promise me you will think about it,” she urges … after which, to her shock, Kilbride agrees!
“He becomes very stoic at first when talking about our son, and then you could see his features change as he and gives in to me, and I’m surprised by it, too, so I know that I’ve really touched a nerve,” Henner tells TV Insider of that scene. “We shot that first and I was really glad they shot that first because we could take more time with it. We just thought, ‘let’s really get into the nitty-gritty of the important scene.’”
And sure, Elizabeth “totally” anticipated a combat from Kilbride there. “She thought, ‘man, the sex and the wine really helped. And the flowers,’” Henner says. “And I think it’s not just her victory and, of course, Alex’s victory, it’s also Hollace’s victory because she could tell that he’s changed, too, and that he’s more open to having a relationship with his son.”
That, in flip, makes it quite a bit simpler for Elizabeth to have the ability to really feel like she has a associate in it together with her. “We made this child together, and we both have to take responsibility for what’s going on now, and the only way the whole family’s going to heal is if all three of us are involved,” Henner factors out.
But how concerned precisely would possibly Kilbride and Elizabeth be going ahead? Spending the evening collectively whereas she’s on the town doesn’t essentially imply they’ll get again collectively. But would possibly they’ve a future? “I don’t know,” Henner shares. “I’d like to think that maybe he’s a little more open to seeing where it goes, spending more time as a family and with each other. Sometimes you catch up with people that you knew at a different time in both of your lives, and it’s a whole different relationship, so there’s definitely a possibility.”
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Earlier within the episode, we study extra about their historical past, together with when she stabbed him within the thigh with a king crab lab in Atlantic City. And so when he comes house on the finish of the episode, she’s nonetheless there — and had groceries delivered — and has dinner ready for him: crab legs.
“How great?” Henner laughs. “It’s funny because we have that conversation [earlier] while I’m unpacking groceries, right? And I thought she ran out again for crab legs once he brought that up. It was great.”
She sees that as simply one other instance of their bond. “When you trust somebody, you have a shorthand. You could tell these two have a real history. I loved that they played into that, and it was great that you could see him, and he’s got that little smirk, and he almost feels like he’s at work and feels a little nervous about it,” she shares. “And I loved that he comes in and he can’t believe that I’m still here.”
If this episode proved something, it’s that we are able to’t wait to see extra with Kilbride’s household. But we all know the subsequent reunion — together with his son — might be going to harm.
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