Nick Goldforth on 《 The CIA 》: Bill is doubting himself

 The search for his father's secret has taken Bill Goodman to places that even his partner didn't know existed.《CIA》(CIA) After the sixth episode of Season 2 aired, Nick Goldforth, who plays Bill, was interviewed by TVLine and talked about the character's identity crisis and the price he might pay for the truth.The following relates to the plot of this episode.

The episode opens with Bill's work and family colliding when Felix Vincent detonates a targeted bomb on New York's Upper East Side, killing an international arms dealer.He went to the house again to look for his father's former partner Carl Shannon, and asked about Vincent's whereabouts, but he was shot at by the other party.Bill shot first and Carl died on the spot.

With Toni's help, the team finally locked onto Vincent.Bill chased into the factory and controlled the man, but failed to hand over the suspect to the FBI as promised to Colin.He moved Vincent to a secret location that even Colin didn't know about, and threatened that he wouldn't be able to leave alive if he didn't tell the answer.

Goldforth considers Episode 6 one of his favorite chapters in the ten-episode father-son storyline.Before the start of this season, Bill had just lost his father and returned to work after taking bereavement leave. Later, he discovered that his father had a secret life.When an actor enters every scene, he has to consider what the character has just experienced, and the starting point for him this season is itself full of grief and shock.At the time of the interview, he was filming the 10th episode, and he specifically expressed his gratitude to the screenwriter: The clues that were thrown out earlier will eventually come together to his satisfaction.

But by episode 6, Bill is still in the darkest part of the road.The FBI agent who was neatly dressed, obeyed the rules, and followed procedures was being pushed away from his original self step by step.

Shooting also consumes the actors' physical strength and emotions at the same time.Goldforth mentioned a subway action scene that had a New York feel, and he was willing to complete as many actions as safety allowed.He did not carry it alone, the stunt director was always assisting him; his childhood sports experience also came in handy at this time.There are only eight working days for one episode, but it requires big scenes, emotional scenes and a lot of technical coordination.Being able to live and work in New York makes him feel very rare.

At the moment when the gun was raised in the factory, would Bill really kill Vincent?Goldforth did not dismiss the issue as pure anger.Vincent tried to kill Bill several times before, including the cemetery attack in the second season premiere; he later escaped by jumping off a bridge.As a law enforcer, Bill already had reason to pursue him, and now he suspected that he had killed his father, and even suspected that this man was more like the son his father expected than himself.The adrenaline of the pursuit, the shake of identity, and the eagerness for proof were mixed together. If Colin had not rushed to stop him, that moment might have left irreparable regrets.

Goldforth believed that Bill was willing to move anyone and anything out of his way for answers.Karl, his old partner in Operation Palomar, once advised him not to pursue him, and Vincent also gave a similar warning; Colin even reminded that in order to defeat someone like Vincent, he might first have to go to a situation that he did not want to reach.Bill couldn't hear it.He was lying to someone who was good at spotting lies, and he was actively cutting off contact with his partner.For Colin, it was one thing to shield his partner from external dangers, but another to prevent his partner from harming himself, which required Bill's permission to get close.

In the eyes of Goldforth, Bill and Colin were already best friends.At the end of the first season, even though there was a chance for promotion, Bill still chose to continue to participate in the work of the CIA. A large part of the reason was this partnership.The two have saved each other and expressed their concerns to each other. The dangers they have experienced together make trust real; the problem at hand is that Bill's confusion makes him temporarily unable to see the consequences and unwilling to accept this support.He thinks he is fighting for himself, but is actually losing judgment.

His father's past events also affect his family.Unwilling to repeat his father's practice of hiding things from his family, Bill confesses to his fiancée in the second episode; he believes he is making an honest choice, but then begins to doubt it.Their relationship deteriorated, and he slept on the couch while juggling CIA missions, FBI duties, and private investigations.Goldforth said that such a third-tier burden could not be maintained forever, and Bill began to question whether he had chosen the wrong job, or whether he was destined to be here because of his father's underlying dark side.That kind of fear even made him doubt whether he had psychopathic tendencies.

The new resident chief, Olivia Markinson, has ordered a background check on Bill because she doesn't trust him.As the investigation began, the time left for him became less and less.Nikki demanded to know the full extent of Vincent's investigation at the end of Episode 5, reminding them that it was deeper than they thought; now, Bill is hiding it from both her and Colin.Goldforth did not reveal how the two would deal with the situation after discovering the truth, only saying that Bill would not stop until he got the answer, and in the end, he might look back and ask himself whether he should have embarked on this path in the first place.