Judd Hirsch adds to that as Alan Eppes, their widowed father who tries to figure out the middle ground between his two sons. But instead of merely being the Father Knows Best character that you would expect, Alan ends up learning as much as his sons do about life and relationships.
Again, “Hardball” comes immediately to mind as he counsels Don and Charlie about their relationship with each other. “Spree” winds up the tension between Alan and Charlie over the house they live in. Alan’s expertise as a city planner helps solve the cases in “Traffic,” “Blackout,” “Waste Not,” and “Under Pressure.” Alan has problems of his own in “End of Watch.”
The FBI team has changed a little over the four years that it’s been on television, but it has boiled down to three main characters. Megan Reeves (Diane Farr) is a behavioral specialist. David Sinclair (Alimi Ballard) and Colby Granger (Dylan Bruno) are special agents. Sinclair was always law enforcement, but Granger was military – and something else which plays a big part in this season of escalating personal tension.
Megan’s kidnapping in the season’s two-part opener, “Spree” and “Two Daughters,” really pushes the team to the wall as they struggle to figure out what’s going on and to get her back alive. Her psychological profiling skills are prevalent in “Traffic,” “Brutus,” “Killer Chat,” and “Nine Wives.”
Sinclair’s background is featured in “Contenders.” Granger’s past explodes onto the team in “The Janus List.”
But Charlie’s college comrades bring a lot to the party as well. In this season, Charlie and Amita (Navi Rawat) get closer and she becomes a full-time professor at the college. Their relationship gets exposed more through the season. Larry Fleinhardt (Peter MacNichol) hooks up with Megan, which has everyone dumbstruck – and, truthfully, maybe the fans as well, but Larry is such a nice guy and so nerdy you have to love him. Unfortunately, we only get him half the season this year. According to the episodes, he’s on the space station, but we know he was starring in 24 this year as well.
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