Warning: Some SPOILERS lie forward for CIA season 1!After a season of testing one another’s persistence, the CIA season 1 finale has given Colin and Invoice a brand new path ahead.
Hailing from the inventive crew of Dick Wolf, David Hudgins, Warren Leight, Nicole Perlman, David Chasteen and showrunner Mike Weiss, the CBS sequence marks the most recent spinoff of the long-running FBI franchise. Led by Lucifer alum Tom Ellis and One Chicago vet Nick Gehlfuss, the present has adopted by-the-book FBI Particular Agent Invoice Goodman and secretive CIA Agent Colin Glass as they discover themselves inadvertently partnered in a brand new joint-agency activity pressure, all whereas the previous investigates a possible mole amongst them.
This has all constructed as much as CIA season 1’s finale, “Damaged Glass,” during which Colin learns that his former work and romantic associate, Toni, is definitely alive, regardless of her perceived dying throughout a mission within the Philippines, and has killed the crew’s mole, Jake Matthews’ Kevin Turner. The pair race throughout town within the hopes to search out her and uncover why she killed Kevin, and the place she’s been within the years since her obvious dying.
In honor of the episode’s premiere, ScreenRant‘s Grant Hermanns interviewed Tom Ellis and Nick Gehlfuss to debate the CIA season 1 finale. The pair opened up in regards to the natural nature of their chemistry constructing over the course of the primary season, as nicely how Invoice and Colin’s dynamic has modified by the ending and what it’s going to imply going into season 2.
It Was “Love At First Audition” For Ellis & Gehlfuss
Reflecting on their time with the sequence to this point, and the suggestions from each critics and followers, Ellis and Gehlfuss identified the constant reward for his or her chemistry, with the previous denoting that he was “very conscious that if this present was going to have any diploma of success, it will actually hinge on this relationship.” Recalling their first chemistry learn collectively, Ellis discovered he was realizing “we had this nice type of affection for one another” past their characters, as a lot as “labored very well” collectively:
Tom Ellis: We had been searching for this sort of odd couple dynamic, and what we realized via the method is you possibly can’t actually pressure that scenario. It simply must be that these two characters are diametrically opposed in all areas, however you possibly can’t say, “Due to this and due to that,” it’s only a pure factor. And Nick and I, we began working collectively. It was like, “Oh, that is it. That is the connection that we knew we had been seeking to discover, and that is the dynamic.” We’re not performing it, if what I imply.
Ellis went on to have fun that “individuals [are] actually get[ting] on the Colin and Invoice prepare” and having fun with each characters spending time with one another and the remainder of the CIA forged, in addition to “what they conceal from one another, their moments of discovery collectively” and “their moments of humor collectively.” Gehlfuss went on to chuckle as he known as it “love at first audition,” whereas additionally being excited that audiences “need us to maintain telling tales.”
The One Chicago alum went on to acknowledge that the frequent point out of his and Ellis’ chemistry within the sequence is a fragile steadiness, as “we do not play that as actors,” however as a substitute should “come to set prepared along with your a part of the puzzle,” in addition to “the kind of individual you’re blended with that” and “hear and technically do what we’re speculated to do” in an effort to “painting three-dimensional, truthful human beings.” And whereas he admits he does not know “the way to say we now have good chemistry,” Gehlfuss himself even noticed the chemistry when going again and rewatching the episodes:
Nick Gehlfuss: I see what individuals are responding to. I believe it is simply the magic of what can occur when you might have all the best elements. I am actually pleased to be part of that, personally. However yeah, the style, I believe, can be one thing that is slightly model new to broadcast tv. We have seen it in movie and premium cable, however espionage, it is juicy.
Invoice & Colin Lastly Have A Actual Belief In One One other After CIA Season 1’s Ending
Whereas they might have began off on a observe of mistrust and differing worldviews, Invoice and Colin’s dynamic has modified drastically by the CIA season 1 finale, with the previous performing as a grounding anchor for the latter in his hunt for Toni all through the episode. This even comes with an emotional second between the pair within the ending, as Invoice calls Colin his associate and gives phrases of consolation, even whereas revealing that Angela Sarafyan’s character goes to be put again into the sphere as an operative.
When requested about what the dynamic is like going into the already-greenlit CIA season 2, Ellis started by explaining the beginning of the present options “surety and belief in different areas of their life,” however feels that “Invoice is now the one person who Colin most likely actually trusts, much more so than Nikki.” He additionally feels there’s most likely an identical feeling for Invoice by the tip of the season, as “he finds himself trusting Colin greater than anybody else in his life“:
Tom Ellis: I believe that was the journey of the primary season, was in regards to the constructing of belief in a world the place belief does not actually exist. They bought there, however sadly, the wheels got here off all over the place else of their life. [Laughs] So, like they’ll have to actually depend on one another now to get themselves out, and Colin out of this existential disaster that he is now in, as a result of all the things he thought of himself and his life and the individuals in it has simply been thrown into the air. It’s fascinating that they bought there ultimately, however sadly, the issues that fell aside round them, now they’ll have to make use of that belief to get out of it.
Gehlfuss humorously identified that the CIA season 1 ending is “appropriately titled ‘Damaged Glass’,” feeling that Invoice is de facto having to maintain his cohort collectively via the episode. Ellis retorted with a chuckle as he shared that “we did sing Annie Lennox day by day on set,” referring to the Scottish singer’s 1992 hit “Strolling on Damaged Glass,” which Gehlfuss confirmed and expressed his “hope that is the credit score music,” saying “we have actually missed a chance” if it wasn’t.
The star went on to share that Invoice is “completely supporting and serving to Colin via this emotional journey that’s the Toni and Sarah love triangle” within the CIA season 1 finale, as Sarah Diamond’s character returns to unknowingly assist the pair get into the Pyramid occasion the climax is ready at. Gehlfuss additionally discovered that Invoice and Colin have “come to new ranges of their relationship” throughout the FBI spinoff that has helped present “why having a associate is essential and useful” in an effort to “lean on somebody once you’re so out of it“:
Nick Gehlfuss: You are undecided the place to level, the place your true north is. It was incredible to see Invoice assist him in that approach. And given the journey that Invoice’s gone on, and the place he is at, he is simply type of mirroring all the things Colin already is aware of, however he is reminding him of issues that he is realized on the identical time. So in that, he is serving to Colin, but additionally I believe Colin’s seeing in Invoice that, “Wow, he is taken to this entire world.”
The whole thing of CIA season 1 is now streaming on Paramount+!
- Launch Date
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February 23, 2026
- Showrunner
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Mike Weiss, Warren Leight, David Hudgins
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Nick Gehlfuss
Invoice Goodman
