LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME Post-Mortem: Tamara Taylor and Robin Lord Taylor Break Down Angela and McClane’s New Connection

[Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Thursday, January 13 episode of LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME’s “As Nottingham Was To Robin Hood.”]

The twisted dynamic between Richard (Dylan McDermott), Angela (Tamara Taylor), and McClane (Robin Lord Taylor) got even more murky on the Thursday, January 13 episode of LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME.

After Richard pitches his plans to McClane, the hacker turns him down. “You owe me,” Richard reminds him, given he’s why McClane is even out of prison. McClane is less certain of that and leaves, determined to make his own amends.

For McClane, his sole priority while out of jail is to make good with the family of the guard who indirectly died as a result of one of McClane’s hacks. He’s ready to surrender, as soon as he sets up a savings account for the guard’s young daughter, Kesha.

“He has just insane guilt,” Robin Lord Taylor explains in the video below. “And so now that Wheatley has got him out of prison, he’s on a mission to atone for those sins…to try and right some of the wrongs, to try and make it so that this family has a chance. That’s part of what he’s doing when he’s on the outside—just trying to absolve himself of just this crushing guilt and pain that he feels. He lives in hell because of his actions; someone died. Like, he served in the military because he wanted to save people. So now that he’s out, going forward, he just wants to make sure…he can help anyone that he can.”

But after giving the money to Kesha’s mother, McClane’s surrender goes awry when he is taken to Angela instead. She convinces McClane to meet with Richard again, appealing to his sense of the greater good.

“McClane isn’t an idiot, so he’s always looking at everyone with suspicion, to a certain extent,” Robin Lord Taylor explains. “Wheatley is so powerful and has so much control over McClane…he is searching for anyone, any sort of in, any sort of connection that could help him get one over on Wheatley. And I think Angela feels the same way. Because they’re both in such a desperate situation, whether they trust each other or not, completely, they have no other option than to maybe work together, to foster some sort of connection, so hopefully they both can survive Wheatley’s grasp. He’s a psychopath. He has no moral compass at all.”

And though Angela told McClane the idea of helping him is “the first time in a long time I haven’t felt hopeless and helpless,” how genuine is the connection on her end?

“My take on Angela is that there is a moral compass in there,” Tamara Taylor explains. “She’s had to do some pretty interesting things, I think. Her deeds may be a little questionable, because she will protect herself and her children by any means necessary. But I do think, in her heart, there’s a good person. I think her connection to Robin’s character is genuine. He is genuinely a good human being. I think she’s still clear enough to recognize a good human being when she sees one. She may be too far away from it, herself, to be able to do what Robin’s character is doing, but she can certainly at least benefit from genuinely encouraging him.”

“That really is one of my favorite connections that McClane has, his connection with Angela Wheatley,” Robin Lord Taylor adds. “I will tease [Angela]’s an amazing character because…you don’t really know where she is. Is she complicit or is she not? And that continues, that dual sided-ness.”

For Angela, who has decades of experience with Richard, deciding whether she should actually risk alienating her ex-husband—who killed her son and has tried to kill her—and trust McClane will be successful in, somehow, taking him down is more of a question mark.

“When she meets McClane for the first time, I think she is most definitely sussing out that very option,” Tamara Taylor says. “Could this be my one opportunity, my one chance to exit to get away from Richard?”

LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME, Thursdays, 10/9c, NBC

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