Heartbreaking Update! McDermott shocks fans with devastating news!
For Dylan McDermott, the latest FBI: Most Wanted is fun (Remy goes undercover as a priest and really gets into the character) but also heartbreaking.
Alongside the case — a priest and his brother try to mutilate and turn a teen into the antichrist — Remy is dealing with the fact that the man who murdered his brother is up for parole to spend his last days (he was diagnosed with stage 3 liver cancer) at home. But Remy speaks at the hearing and details how losing his brother devastated his family and set him on the path that led to him heading the Fugitive Task Force. That job gives him insight into the man who is asking for compassion but refuses to admit what he did 25 years ago, so as he sees it, he doesn’t deserve mercy.
Davis’ request for compassionate release is turned down. But then, as the episode ends, a documentary filmmaker visits Remy at home and reveals that Davis is seeking a new trial, claiming the prosecutor withheld exculpatory evidence, among other things. The lawyer may also be corrupt. She wants to make Davis’ appeal the center of her film and wants Remy to be involved. He refuses because, as he sees it, “he did do it. and he’s not getting out. That’s your story.” He kicks her out, then hits his door.
McDermott takes us inside Remy’s head at the end of the episode.
The episode ends with the documentary filmmaker shocking Remy with the news that Davis is asking for a new trial and that the prosecutor is possibly corrupt. How is he feeling?
Dylan McDermott: I think he’s distraught. He had just been through this case with the kids being kidnapped by the priest. I think that he’s raw, and he just wants a minute for himself. You see him putting on the Miles Davis kind of blues album, and he just wants to relax, frankly. And then suddenly, she drops by and lays this bomb on him that this could all be reopened again after he thought he put it to bed, that it was all good news, that this killer wasn’t gonna get out of prison, and now suddenly it’s gonna be a new case. This is stress he does not need.
Then there’s the matter of this documentary that may be made about this entire case too. What would it take for Remy to be at all involved like the filmmaker wants?
In my estimation — I may be wrong — I don’t think there is anything. I think he wants no part of this. He wants to put this to bed. He doesn’t want to deal with it. He can’t believe it. He’s in denial about it. He’s furious. I don’t think he wants to participate.
Get ready for what may be the event of the season, with all three FBI shows teaming up for a global crossover event on Tuesday, April 4.
Details about the high-stakes bicontinental case, which will see FBI and FBI: International swap time slots, have yet to be announced, but franchise stars Missy Peregrym (FBI‘s Maggie Bell), Luke Kleintank (International‘s Scott Forrester), and Dylan McDermott (Most Wanted‘s Remy Scott) featured in character in the video revealing it’s to come. So of course when TV Insider recently spoke with McDermott, we had to ask about it.
“I don’t know much about it, but that I’m going over there to FBI. Beyond that, I don’t have a script yet, so I don’t know exactly what the case is,” he shared. “But I’m sure it’s gonna be certainly the event of the season because to have all three shows [coming together] and me coming on for the first time and meeting everyone and working with them, I think it’s really gonna be a lot of fun.”
And if he had a choice about what he could do in the crossover, are there any characters he’d want to work, get a drink, or go hatchet-throwing with? “I would love to do all of it. I think there’s a real opportunity for people to watch all three shows, all our avid viewers. And I think it’s a real crowd-pleaser to have all the different characters travel to each episode in each show,” he said. “I think that’s just so much fun for the audience and it’s become more and more popular. And I think Dick Wolf really has kind of spearheaded that movement to have all these shows mix.”
McDermott was part of a crossover when he played Richard Wheatley on Law & Order: Organized Crime (with SVU), but unfortunately, he and The Practice costar Camryn Manheim (Lieutenant Kate Dixon on Law & Order) didn’t cross paths. But given that all the FBI, Law & Order, and One Chicago shows are part of the same universe, it could happen. “Absolutely, 100 percent,” McDermott agreed. “I hope it does. That would be amazing.”
The only downside? Now we can’t see Manheim possibly interrogate McDermott became they’re on the same side of the law. “I would have loved that,” he laughed. But, hey, who knows what could happen, especially if McDermott gets his wish and Remy keeps going undercover!
