“It’s a dance,” Maggie Q says of her character Lieutenant
Beth Davis’ work on CBS’ new crime thriller Stalker. Stocked with the nail-biting suspense for
which its creator Kevin Williamson (Scream,
The Vampire Diaries) is famous, Stalker
depicts the duties of the LAPD’s Threat Assessment Unit, as they work to save the
targets of obsessive criminals before the worst might happen.
But the job is tricky, the former Nikita star explains, because as no-nonsense unit commander Davis
has learned first-hand as a victim, “stalking is one of those subject areas we
don’t know a lot about. We know there’s a high correlation with mental illness,
but it’s hard to predict which lines get crossed, and when, and why.”
Her co-star, Hostages’
Dylan McDermott, reveals that years ago he himself used to get threatening
letters from prisoners. “But the problem
is, the threat has to become real. Someone can follow you all day long. But the
law can’t really prosecute until he or she does something that physically harms
you.”
That’s an ironic loophole for McDermott’s character,
Detective Jack Larsen, who has transferred from New York partly to pursue his
estranged wife. As he settles in among
fellow detectives Ben Caldwell (Victor Rasuk) and Janice Lawrence (Mariana
Klaveno), the usually confident Larsen will have to demonstrate dedication to
the cause, all while keeping his own personal passions at bay. As McDermott explains, “that’s a twist I
found really interesting.”
Stalker
CBS
Wednesdays at 10PM
beginning October 1
