[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for City on a Hill Season 3 Episode 6 “Tenderness.”]
Might we see a little bit of a brand new Jackie Rohr (Kevin Bacon) after the occasions of the most recent Metropolis on a Hill?
The episode “Tenderness” begins with Jackie being introduced into the ER, after he was shot within the leg proper after attempting to trace down one of many younger girls his employer, Sinclair Dryden (Corbin Bernsen), drugged and assaulted. (Who’s accountable continues to be a query; he doesn’t assume that Sinclair may learn about him investigating him behind his again.) Earlier than his surgical procedure, Jackie worries, “I’ve by no means been afraid to die as a result of I all the time thought that I might see loss of life coming, but when I’m underneath anesthesia, how am I gonna know?”
Sinclair’s spouse, Letitia (Joanne Kelly), with whom Jackie’s been having an affair, stops by — and his spouse Jenny (Jill Hennessy) walks in on them collectively. He tries to cowl, solely calling Letitia “Mrs. Dryden” whereas Jenny’s there, but it surely’s too late, and Jenny walks out on the person she calls, and not using a badge to provide him objective, “simply good for nothing.”
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That affair is “a horrible, horrible selection that he makes — in any form of scenario however to have a job, lastly be getting what it’s that he needed, and to only proper out of the gate screw it up by sleeping along with her, it’s not only a lack of morality, it’s additionally an absence of self-control,” Bacon informed TV Insider. “Jackie’s an addict in some methods. He’s nonetheless doing blow, he can’t quit smoking cigarettes, and he can’t cease pondering under the waist.”
The opposite affected person within the hospital room, Xavier (Adam Jepsen), witnesses Jackie’s life imploding and calls him out later. “Somebody shot you from what I hear and also you’re surrounded by hate on all sides. I spy by way of my crystal ball one Jackie Rohr within the not so distant future …[an] previous man in a flannel bathrobe with no spouse, no daughter, no buddies. Not even a stray canine.” And as a lot as Jackie won’t wish to hear that, he does appear to be rethinking some issues on the finish of the episode.
When he can’t attain Jenny — she’s out with Father Doyle (Mark Ryder) — Jackie calls their daughter, Benedetta (Lucia Ryan). Being underneath anesthesia, you don’t know if it’s been 5 minutes or 5 years, “it’s such as you’re lifeless,” he says. “Then you definately get up, you’re blurry and then you definately’re clear. And it simply makes you recognize what you bought, you recognize?”
However has Jackie modified? “Getting shot is actually one thing that makes you form of query your life selections,” Bacon stated. “We talked early within the first season about issues that might occur with Jackie and having some form of a bodily scare — on this case truly having a bullet undergo my leg — I feel there’s a form of vulnerability that begins to come back in from that, you recognize what I imply? And you’ll kind of query what you’ve carried out together with your life, for certain.”
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