A “missing” particular person has been discovered, as Scott Caan returns to TV this weekend along with his first position since Hawaii Five-0 wrapped its run in April 2020.
In Fox’s Alert: Missing Persons Unit — premiering this Sunday at 9/8c, earlier than transferring to its Mondays-at-9 time slot — Caan performs Jason Grant, a former cop turned personal navy contractor who, whereas on the job in Afghanistan, will get phrase from his spouse Nikki (Devious Maids‘ Dania Ramirez) that their son Keith has gone lacking.
Jason races house, albeit to what proves to be a wedding doomed by Keith’s devastating, unsolved disappearance. With the motion leaping ahead six years, Nikki is heading up the Philadelphia Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit (MPU), whereas Jason’s world continues to be a bit asunder.
“Nikki has a much better head on her shoulders than I do [as Jason],” Caan tells TVLine. “I’m kind of a mess at the beginning of the show. I don’t know what I’m doing with my life….”
Losing Keith “drove Nikki to continue to help people, but with my character, it drove me to check out and fall apart,” Caan provides. “The difference is it got her focused, and it messed me up.”
Jason regains a few of his focus when the separated couple receives a proof-of-life picture that implies Keith is alive and nonetheless on the market someplace — although Jason and Nikki, together with their teen daughter Sidney (Fivel Stewart), have hassle arriving at a consensus.
Upon chasing this primary lead on Keith, Jason winds up becoming a member of Nikki’s group on the MPU, alongside Nikki’s present love curiosity Mike (Only Murders within the Building‘s Ryan Broussard) and forensics whizzes Kemi (Adeola Role) and C (Petey Gibson). But whereas Five-0‘s Detective Danny Williams was fairly spot-on along with his instincts and execution, Jason is… not.
“In a lot of procedural shows, everybody does the right thing all the time — they have no flaws and they’re perfect,” Caan observes. “But when I read this, I was like, ‘This is a flawed, screwed-up dude who does not always do the right thing.’ To me as an actor, that’s my favorite part of the character, but that’s also probably his weak point. He’s a hothead and doesn’t always take other people’s feelings into consideration.”
Speaking with Caan for the primary time since Five-0 ended its 10-season run, we needed to invite this technology’s erstwhile “Danno” to replicate on his time on the sequence, and the ohana that shaped. (Keep in thoughts, Caan aggravated an previous knee harm whereas filming Season 1 and required ACL surgical procedure, and some seasons in, he started “missing” a handful of episodes every year.)
“Look, obviously some of it was difficult, some it was easy, but at the end of the day, man, I look back at with with nothing but appreciation,” Caan shared. “I made some shut mates — Alex O’Loughlin and Meaghan Rath, they’re like my brother and my sister — and the crew in Hawaii is like household. In truth, one in every of my buddies I labored with for 10 years, a man from the artwork division, simply stayed at my home for every week.
“Hawaii will always be a special place to me for the rest of my life,” he attested.
We additionally invited Caan to weigh in on how some H50 followers appeared to take concern along with his aforementioned occasional absences, even framing him as some form of “reluctant” solid member.
“To clarify that, I could’ve [been in all episodes] and made a lot more money,” he responded, “however I selected to not, so I may spend extra time with my household. That’s all that was about.
“If you notice, the first three years when I didn’t have a wife and kid, I wasn’t out of any episodes; that only happened as I started to make family.”
And as for his ideas on how Five-0 ultimately ended, with a deliberate sequence finale? Um….
“Honestly, I could not even tell you what it was. That’s how long ago it was, how many episodes of it we did,” he admitted. “The only thing that would shock me is if you told me I died.”
When we shortly recapped that, no, Danny merely took a bullet from a baddie, Caan rightly quipped, “Do you know how many items I got shot on that series??”
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