Gary Cole about Parker's father, Carla relationship, more (exclusive)

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the NCIS Season 22 finale “Nexus.”]

UH-OH, Carla Marino (Rebecca de Mornay) has just made Alden Parker (Gary Cole) very angry. Sure, it is not definitely shown that it is the one who is at the end of the shocking death NCIS Season 22 Finale, but it is obvious who did it.

Parker was forced to cross paths with his longstanding Nemesis when the mob manager claimed to help them defeat the Nexus cartel, only for a “meeting” with the supposed new leader to show that she was now responsible and her husband, as a FBI agent, was on the places for the FBI agent, where her son was killed in a car accident in a car accident. He was where he was because he had run away after Parker unveiled that she was a criminal for him, so she accuses him. But while she has a weapon for him, it would be too easy to kill him. Instead, she strikes him … and when he comes home later, he finds his father (Francis X. McCarthy), dead in his apartment.

In the following, Gary Cole reacts to the shocking final end, speculates how Parker works in season 23 and much more. (Also read Here.))

How did she react to Parker's father killed as he is?

Gary Cole: Nobody got the script until I think maybe a few weeks before we shot it. I thought it was certainly a dynamic end. As an actor, I was a bit sad because I really like the actor who plays my father and I like to play these scenes, but I thought it was certainly a surprise that I think is good for us, and hopefully in the next season it will lead to some very likely dark places, which I don't think is a bad thing either.

Talk about filming this last scene and Parker's anger and grief and sadness and everything he feels.

I was a little intimidated when I saw the scene because I realized that many things had to happen in a very short time. First, obviously the discovery that is not shocking because it is one thing to discover someone dead, it is another thing to discover someone who has been murdered. Then there was quickly a realization that he knew who was responsible for it, and so there had to be a transition, and I think we found that it was as great as Jose and Jose was great [Clemente Hernandez] Anyone who directed it staged it that it and the way it was actually created in the script quickly ran from shocking grief to probably only vengeful anger in a few minutes, which was intimidating for me, but I didn't see it. I won't see it, but hopefully we've arrived there.

You definitely did it. Do you think Parker is in the state of mind in which he can think of his badge and what he wants to do as a grieving son?

Well, I think that's an answer that is solved in the author's room. I think it is possible that it is by no means personally not personal as much as he wants to be too professional. And the other thing that is not a slam dark is everything we think, who did it, but we don't know. But I think Parker was quite positive at the moment, certainly at that moment, about how he felt that was responsible for the death of his father. I was not connected to the authors. I do not know in which phase they are in relation to planning stories or whether something has been written. But I think it would be interesting to examine the fact that it will be personal, and it could be personal that he may go over the line and does not behave as a police officer, but rather behave more as a son. But we will see. That will be in your stadium, but whatever you come up with, I will try to deliver the mail.

I only spoke to Steven D. Binder and he said that Parker will be a man on fire. Based on what you know about Parker that has been playing for years, what do you think that looks like?

I think he is at least a bit in flames, as Steve suggests, but that has to make it more open in it. I hope, and I think the authors were always good to have the consequences of what they write, about the point at which they appear, like finals. It will be difficult for him to be so easy to be so easy and – it will be difficult for him to exploit pastries with boxes that talk about what his favorite donut is afterwards. But I don't know. If you are in an environment like the show, it is a lot of material and there is a lot of time and there are many episodes, so things have to play in a natural way and nobody can be completely dark all the time, and yet it cannot be ignored at the same time if it makes sense.

Previously, Palmer (Brian Dietzen) found something in Parkers Mama's original death certificate that did not add up. Parker doesn't know that yet, but do you have a theory?

Well, the only theory that may make sense for me, but I didn't speak to the authors or the like. [is] I wonder if his father is involved in this discrepancy because he doesn't really want to talk about the mother in a certain way. But I don't know. I really don't know. But it's funny because someone said I don't know who mentioned that, but I think it could have been Rebecca. In addition, he is getting news now – but that's why I'm not a writer, so I just have to react to everything they can think of.

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Yes, because then there is also the lily of it, because Parker went through it this season.

With all of these characters it closes the circle and that is what I mean when they are in this area and bring a season to the end and leave people on the side because this is a kind of format, they are extreme through the extremes and they have to try, and it is just a different situation for writers because they are not with one. And try to assemble the parts again. It is another process, so sometimes you don't know it and you only know it in the last minute that things will lead.

Before this tragic end, there was so great to watch, not so much for Parker, a dinner with Carla, which only remained with invitation and with him and his father. How was the film?

That was great. I loved working with Rebecca and Francis. It was obviously a situation in which Parker felt uncomfortable. I mean, it was strangely only dangerous and hurtful and all kinds of things, and yet his father is of course enchanted by this beautiful woman, who appears at the door, literally enchants that he has to take the couch and try to turn the evening and then hopefully finish soon. It was a lot of fun. It was a well -written scene, well staged and these two actors, I love to work with both.

Has Parker thought that Carla would really kill him if she had him on the knee monkey?

Secure. Whatever between them or whatever is going between them – and that is another thing, we don't really know – one thing he is safe is how fatal it is or can. I do not think that he questions this in this sense. As a law enforcement officer, he is not naive at all. They do not show what other personal connection they had. We don't really know and I don't know that we will ever know. It is simply interesting to play that you have a kind of connection, even though you are in relation to the right and wrong on both sides of the spectrum or whatever you want to set it up there.

He has back to the lily because Parker says that at that time he still has an idea what this whole thing was about, why he saw her?

I don't think he knows why. It was interesting information that was discovered that this person seems to have seen what happened to his mother, but he didn't know. He was not aware of this at the time. So I don't really know, and that's another question that I think that the authors – on one level, is fun because they don't have to give an answer immediately. You can have events and let things happen, which even you cannot know at the time what the payment can look like. I mean you have to pay for it at some point. I would assume that you will do it. However, this depends on the gods of television and their schedule.

What do you hope for the Fallout of Parker's father of the father's father next season with Parker?

I've always been an actor who is basically only instinctive. I don't really think about things before you are in front of me because it is really the space of the writer who drives it and I react to it. Sometimes the authors talk to me, I think about it and think about it, and I'll say that is great and what if? But for the most part I am certainly not a writer and I definitely don't make myself any kind of stories or anything. Knowing what I will research has nothing to do with me until I have material. The way we work will do this material a few weeks before you run it. I do not spend my time for predicting what that will be because it will be for me to play a character for me to be specific with moments. For me, I literally take it as a line by line, scene after a scene, show after show, and that becomes an arc, but that's more out of my hands than the hands of the authors, I feel. That's how I look at it.

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