Donnie (Wes Chatham) and Rebecca Luz (Jeanine Mason) make a delivery at the home of a wealthy businessman named Richard Helvig, and disrupt an orgy-filled party with older men and younger women.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n In season one, homicide detective and forensic psychologist Cross had to chase down a serial killer making threats to his family. Cross\u2019 <\/em>creator, writer, showrunner and actor Ben Watkins says the three-episode season premiere highlights what\u2019s different this time around. \u201cThere\u2019s this question about, what\u2019s the difference between the law and justice? And, what do you do when it doesn\u2019t seem like the law is serving justice?\u201d he tells The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. \u201cThe second season is about vigilantism and when it slips into vengeance, how far is too far? You might be rooting for somebody because you agree with why they are doing something, but eventually they might cross a line and you find yourself rooting for a monster.\u201d<\/p>\n \n There are also sub-storylines in season two, with one touching on a theme carried over from season one. One of the most intense moments toward the middle of the season two premiere, \u201cHarrow,\u201d is about a lady named LaDonna DuVernay, who was brought into the precinct and charged with murder. She\u00a0professes her innocence but claims she can\u2019t give details unless she can speak with John Sampson. When Sampson finally agrees to meet with DuVernay and hear her side, she quickly reveals her true motive: she is Sampson\u2019s mother, who left him without a trace as a little boy, and who the police officer believed was dead after becoming an orphan and being raised by Cross\u2019 grandmother.<\/p>\n \n For Mustafa, this storyline hit close to home. \u201cI grew up without a father in the house for a majority of the time. So that was an easy place to go to,\u201d he tells The Hollywood Reporter.<\/em> \u201cBut there is something about the connection between a son and his mother that is a little bit deeper, and the connection seems to have more resonance. That is something I had to find. And it was, honestly, something where I had to dig deep and put myself in that situation. Where would I be if this was happening and I had to put some trust into somebody who abandoned me at one point in time?<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n Matthew Lillard joined the season two cast as billionaire Lance Durand.<\/span><\/p>\n Ian Watson\/Prime Video<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n Another B-plot continues from season one in exploring the relationship of two Black cops who come from the community they are policing. This could be precarious territory, given the negative history many Black communities have reported having with police departments. But Hodge says real-life Black police officers like Cross and Sampson may have a better relationship with the communities they come from than what\u2019s generally perceived.<\/p>\n \n \u201cThe thing that I love about the show is that we get to expose the other facets of who we are in the best iteration,\u201d Hodge tells THR<\/em>. \u201cOftentimes, we do hear about the separation of law enforcement and community. But where you find yourself in that homogenous space is when law enforcement is of<\/em> the community, when they become community.\u201d<\/p>\n \n He continues, \u201cI grew up having some not-so-great interactions with police, and not a great image of police due to those interactions and prejudices lobbied against me. But I also grew up knowing police officers within the community who simply gave people respect, gave them a chance, who weren\u2019t trying to hem people up 24-7. That\u2019s what we highlight here through Cross and Sampson understanding and being aware, even though they are police, that they are community first. They are Black men first. They understand that they have the power to stand between the lines of oppression that may come from somebody on the side of law, and protect people in the community who may not be full-on criminals, who may have had a couple of bad days and had to resort to the lowest common denominator trying to survive, and say, \u2018I\u2019m going to try to understand you. I\u2019m going to try to give you a chance.\u2019 It\u2019s powerful to see it because it\u2019s important that people know that\u2019s what we need.\u201d<\/p>\n \n Mustafa recounted a ride-along that he did with Hodge and D.C. police officers while preparing for the series. \u201cWhen we did that ride along, we felt that was real,\u201d Mustafa says, as Hodge nods in agreement. \u201cThe real cops were up in the community, and everybody respected them when they were walking us around. Nobody treated us any differently. We\u2019ve also spoken to cops who, through the years, have been in that rock and a hard place position. They were like, \u2018Look, I\u2019m a Black detective, I have been on the force for 10 years. I know my community doesn\u2019t trust me. I know I work in a racist environment at a precinct, and I understand when I go talk to my people that I know how to talk to them, because I know what they\u2019re afraid of. I know what they fear, and I cannot be that. I can\u2019t represent that.\u2019 For those that do it, we appreciate it.\u201d<\/p>\n \n The Alex Cross character first appeared in a book by bestselling author Patterson more than 30 years ago. Patterson recently told THR<\/em> that he has been delighted with the Prime series\u2019 interpretation of his most beloved character.<\/p>\n \n \u201cThe novels started a long time ago,\u201c\u2029Patterson said. \u201cWhat I like about this series is that it\u2019s more realistic about what happens with a cop in Washington these days. I love how Alex and Ben have made the character more complex, more conflicted.\u201d<\/p>\n \n With more than 30 publications that reference\u00a0Alex Cross\u00a0and his surrounding core characters, including the recently released Cross <\/em>& Sampson, Patterson said fans should not assume that the Cross<\/em> streaming series is just an extension of his novels.<\/p>\n \n Watkins added that he and Patterson agreed about this from the beginning.<\/p>\n \n \u201cWe considered it our responsibility to create a show where, if you\u2019re a fan of the book series and you tune into the show, you\u2019re going to see the world and the characters that you love, and it\u2019s going to honor that book series that\u2019s so beloved. But the stories are going to be original. I even had a conversation with James Patterson ahead of time because I wanted to let him know, \u2018hey, I\u2019m looking to do original stories. I hope you\u2019re okay with that.\u2019 He was open to that and encouraged it because [he understood] If I can do original stories, I can actually tap into how we feel today and what is happening today.\u201d<\/p>\n \n Then he added, \u201cAnd if you are a fan of the books, then we\u2019re just giving you an extra gift. It\u2019s building onto the pantheon.\u201d<\/p>\n \n Cross is now streaming the first three episodes of season two on Prime Video.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The opening scenes of Cross make it clear that detective Alex Cross (played by Aldis Hodge) and his\u00a0childhood best friend and fellow detective John Sampson (Isaiah Mustafa) are facing a new kind of villain in season two of the Prime Video series based on the bestselling novels by author James Patterson. 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