The PRODIGAL SON Bosses, Bellamy Young, and Lou Diamond Phillips on the Shifting Gil and Jessica Dynamic

As PRODIGAL SON’s Jessica (Bellamy Young) sets out to pen her memoir, she debates leaning on Gil (Lou Diamond Phillips) as a resource.

The duo’s relationship has been strained this season, as they seemed to be taking a step forward in their relationship—only for Jessica to overhear Dani (Aurora Perrineau) warning Gil to be careful.

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PRODIGAL SON Post-Mortem: Lou Diamond Phillips Breaks Down Directing ‘Face Value’

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PRODIGAL SON: ‘Face Value’ Photos

Lou Diamond Phillips steps behind the camera for the Tuesday, March 2 episode of PRODIGAL SON, which introduces new series regular Catherine Zeta-Jones and recurring guest star Alan Cumming.

Check out photos from “Face Value”…

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The PRODIGAL SON Team Previews Catherine Zeta-Jones’ Debut, Lou Diamond Phillips’ Time Behind the Camera

After a brief hiatus—following one heck of a bloody cliffhanger—PRODIGAL SON returns on Tuesday, March 2 with a special episode, “Face Value,” directed by series star Lou Diamond Phillips.

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PRODIGAL SON: Lou Diamond Phillips on Gil’s Paternal Relationship with the Team, ‘Complex’ History with Jessica

As PRODIGAL SON’s Bright (Tom Payne) embraces his calling as criminal profiler, his new team is still trying to get a handle on him and his unconventional methods.

Luckily for him, he has his boss, Gil (Lou Diamond Phillips), in his corner—at least most of the time. “He’s just like a dad with a bunch of kids,” Phillips jokes. “And you can’t say that any one of them is his favorite; he’s trying to be supportive of all of them.”

Phillips, whose recent television credits includes LONGMIRE and BLUE BLOODS, had previously turned down a number of cop boss roles in the past. “I don’t want to be that guy who’s always saying, ‘You’re a loose cannon, mister!'” he says of why he passed on similar title roles prior to this. “All of this stuff is so typical. [But] they perform a function in procedurals.”

Instead, in Gil, he found a man who is “paternal and protective, and yet is comfortable in his own skin”…and with a sense of humor.

But, of course, he may also have some secrets up his sleeve.

Phillips dives into the team’s at-times complicated dynamic, Gil’s “loaded” history with Jessica (Bellamy Young), whether fans might see a Gil-focused episode in the near future, and more…

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LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT: Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters Look Back at ‘Fault’

LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT has had its fair share of truly evil characters, but in the show’s first decade, few caused as much damage to the squad as Victor Paul Gitano (portrayed by Lou Diamond Phillips).

Though Gitano didn’t have a whole lot of screen time in 2006’s “Fault,” his presence was brutal: he killed three members of a family and kidnapped the two youngest children. Because he had been following the kids for a bit, it was fairly easy for the 1-6 to figure out who their guy was…and he was a pathological liar and killer, with a history of sexual assault.

Detectives Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Elliot Stabler (Chris Meloni) and their colleagues thought they had him in their sights, but when Gitano sliced Benson’s throat, Stabler opted to try to save her instead of rescuing one of the children. The decision had a domino effect: the boy died, Stabler took his complicated emotions out on Benson, and when the situation was flipped, she was unable to kill Gitano (who had taken Elliot hostage). Though the duo was able to stall Gitano long enough for a sniper to take him out (and rescue the young girl he had stowed away), the experience of choosing each other over the job fractured the long-standing Benson/Stabler partnership and the hour ended with her asking Cragen (Dann Florek) for a new partner.

The gripping episode was penned by Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters, their final installment for the series they spent five seasons on. (They’ve since gone on to create REAPER, AGENT CARTER, and the upcoming ABC drama EMERGENCE.) In honor of the show’s 20th anniversary, they looked back at the hour, and what their time on the series taught them… Read more

PRODIGAL SON Cast Teases the New Fox Drama

Fox is launching its latest procedural with a twist on Monday, September 23, and it’s one heck of a doozy: in PRODIGAL SON, a criminal psychologist, Bright (Tom Payne), is very good at his job, but his serial killer father complicates basically everything.

On one hand, his family is attempting to live a normal life. But his mentor, Detective Arroyo (Lou Diamond Phillips), sees the potential in him and Bright finds he works well with the NYPD.

Series stars Lou Diamond Phillips, Frank Harts, Aurora Perrineau, and Halston Sage tease what viewers can expect from the show… Read more