Vargas & Shane/News Archive

Season 1 News:

• Will consist of 21 episodes.
• Will premiere alongside The Sullivans in early December.
• Episode 10 will be a Christmas episode.
• This season will sees Vargas tries to find out about her father's personal life and attempts to track down some long-lost family members.
  • Episode 12 will be a 60 minutes special which sees Vargas travel to meet and track down her family members or somebody who knew her father. Angela will join her half-sister's quest to keep her company throughout the journey.
  • Isabelle Huppert, David Boreanaz, Charisma Carpenter, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Summer Glau and Luke Bracey to plays a characters who has a secret connected to Vargas' late father.
    • Huppert to play a rich and powerful lawyer. She has a daughter who is a detective.
    • Boreanaz to play a town sheriff. He is married to his childhood sweetheart for 24 years, has 3 adult children and a granddaughter. He has two younger sisters; one of them is a reporter and other is a sergeant.
    • Carpenter to play a local reporter and the sister of Boreanaz's character. She is a single woman who struggles to finds her own fame. She has a son from previous relationship when she was 22 years old.
    • Chriqui to play a sergeant and the youngest sister of Boreanaz and Carpenter's character. She is a divorced woman with 2 teenager sons.
    • Glau to plays a detective and the daughter of Huppert's character. She is married with a 14 years old twin daughters and a 8 years old son.
    • Bracey to plays a businessman and the son of Carpenter's character.
  • Kerris Dorsey, Jonathan Majors, Dylan Baker, Taylor Schilling, Randall Park, Jaeden Martell, Amy Acker and Antony Starr will guest-star in the episode.
  • Cary Elwes will portray an undisclosed role. He will play a huge part in the story.
• Raquel Welch will plays Ariel Vargas' long-absent paternal grandmother. Vargas tracks her down to find out more about her late father's bloodline.
• David Zayas will play Diego Vargas, Vargas' late father in flashback scenes for five episodes.
• Two bombshells and a secret will be revealed.
• Ebonee Noel, Lucy Hale, Jeff Ward, Scott Grimes and Yara Martinez have been cast in recurring roles:
  • Noel, Hale and Ward will play federal analysts assigned to the task force.
  • Grimes will play a forensic technician with the San Diego PD assigned to the task force.
  • Martinez will play an FBI coroner who works with the task force in cases involving death.
• Bella Thorne return for two episodes as Alison Hamilton, a recurring character from the ninth and twelfth seasons of Hartman. She will confront Vargas about her brother Evan killing their abuser Gordon Fontana in the final episode of Hartman.
  • Last ever episode of Hartman hints that Vargas was involved in Gordon's death following her "suspicious" final call to Gordon before his death. The rumors wasn't confirmed on the episode.
• Troy Winbush will recur as a CHP Sergeant and close friend of Cisnero's who helps the task force with several cases.
• Joel Courtney, Brenda Song and Taraji P. Henson will reprise their roles from Hartman in four episodes each, in which the MCS and JACTF are made to work together on several cases.
• Bryan Cranston will recur as a fellow US attorney and colleague of Crown for the back half of the season.
• LaKeith Stanfield to guest stars Chapel's troubled younger brother, Ronnie for 2 episodes.
• Mike Vogel will guest star as an NCIS agent who asks the JACTF for help in a case involving stolen weapons and a murdered Marine.
• Caterina Scorsone will reprise her role as former team member, Det. Jillian Rudd for two episodes.
• Nicole Maines to plays Shane's transgender younger sister, Emily (born as Ben). Shane will attempts to support her sister over her decision but the past and decision could threaten their relationship between siblings.
• Julianne Moore return to play Edith Shane, Morgan and Ben/Emily's mother which she previously plays in eleventh season of Hartman along with Willem Dafoe to plays Glenn Shane, Morgan and Emily's father for two episodes. Morgan invite her parents to meet Emily in person for first time.
• Olga Kurylenko will appear in an undisclosed role in the last two episodes.
• Season 1 finale will end on a cliffhanger, leaving three main characters' lives in the balance as a personal vengeance against one of JACTF member leads a deadly consequences.

Season 2 News:

• Season 2 has been confirmed before season 1 finale and the season will consist of 23 episodes.
• Will premiere alongside alongside the season 3 premiere of The Sullivans in early/mid April.
• The series will kick off from season 1 finale's cliffhanger, which see one regular character die as a result.
  • A recurring character will be upgraded to regular status to replace them.
  • Shane will be put in danger in the season premiere.
  • Vargas will face the fury of a grieving family member which results her getting shot as a revenge at the end of episode 8. In the aftermath, the JACTF will struggle to investigate the shooting and also the team will be divide over to charge the person of attempts murder.
    • Lexi Rabe, Isabelle Franca and Rowan Blanchard to plays young visions of Vargas (age 5, 13 and 20) on episode 9. In aftermath of the shooting, Vargas will relived her life (from child to young adult) while being in limbo between life and death.
    • Ben Mendelsohn return to play Gordon Fontana for one episode. He will appear as a hallucination to Vargas. He attempts to manipulate her into joining him in afterlife.
    • Miriam Spumpkin to plays 5 years old Angela in one of the flashback scene.
• The show producer reveals a big twist will occur at the end of season premiere, which will leave the audience stunned and one character and their loved ones demand answers.
• Joan Allen will portray an undisclosed role in season premiere. Her character gets caught in the situation involving Vargas and her family.
• Richard Schiff will leave the cast after the first six episodes; Bryan Cranston will then join as a regular, reprising his role of Norman Devlin, who takes over as the task force's new head of Oversight.
• Sophia Bush will join the cast as a new regular, a CBI Agent who joins the JACTF's Oversight. She will make her first appearance in episode 4.
• Jessica Chastain will reprise her role as Captain Chloe Hartman for ten episodes (including first two episodes) as she and the MCS help the JACTF to deal the situation after tragedy strikes. Chastain originally refused to appear in the first season due to wanting the spin-off to find it's own footing, but following a meeting with the producers, she agreed to appear in the second season.
• Mike Vogel and Alan Powell will return for several more guest appearances.
• Chapel's brother Ronnie will return as recur where he will struggle to move on from his divorce and maintain his bar, which will lead to him making an uneasy deal that has major consequences for several characters.
• The relationship between Vargas and Delgado will hit a new milestone.
• Jonathan and Angela will be involved in the scandal this season when they are accused of distributing revenge p*rn after a video they film mysteriously ends up online.
  • Jason Bateman will play Patrick Morris, Etheridge's estranged ex-husband and the father of Chelsea. He also has a history with somebody close to the JACTF. He will start a feud with Chelsea's friend Jonathan, which triggers a revenge attempt which goes horribly wrong for him and Angela.
  • The true culprit will be revealed in season finale.
• Krysten Ritter to plays a DDA from Las Vegas for eight episodes. She will clash with Shane and Norman Devlin over their difficulties on a case. She will make her first appearance in episode 7.
• There will be a mid-season crossover with the spin-off series, The Sullivans.
• Jackson Robert Scott will portray an undisclosed role in near-half of the season. He will make his first appearance in episode 10.
• There will be a global trip for some of JACTF members who travel to Berlin and volunteers to help Captain Hartman out on a case in two-part episode.
  • Matthias Schweighöfer, Diane Kruger, Christoph Waltz, Samara Weaving, Letitia Wright, Alexandra Maria Lara, Helena Zengel, David Harbour, Ali Larter, David Thewlis and Kirsten Dunst to guest stars in the episodes.
    • Schweighöfer, Kruger, Waltz, Weaving, Wright and Lara to plays characters who works in a police agency.
    • Zengel to plays a young girl who is a person of interest of the main case. Her character will play the huge part when she is accused of murdering a couple in hotel room during a trip to Berlin with parents.
    • Harbour and Larter to play the American parents of Zengel's character. They has a history with Hartman since they was teenager.
    • Thewlis to play a school professor who gets involved in the case.
    • Dunst to play a American reporter who will grows deeply obsessed of exploring the murder case.
    • Tom Hopper and Ashleigh Cummings to play a undisclosed role in second part of the episode.
• A male character will be a victim of a brutal assault.
  • Stark Sands to plays a detective and Vargas' old partner for eight episodes. He will teams up with JACTF to investigate a random attacks of men around Los Angeles. He will plays a huge part of another investigation when male character assaulted by a unknown person. Also, he will share a tough reunion with his father, Norman Devlin.
    • The character will strikes a connection with main character which could cause a some tensions at our workplace.
  • Timothy Dalton and Glenn Close will portray an undisclosed role in the storyline. They will make their first appearance in episode 15.
• Willa Fitzgerald and T.R. Knight will reprise their role from Hartman, Nancy Moreland and Taylor Lucas for one episode. They will drops a unexpected bombshell to Ramsay and Hartman.
• A female character will discover that she is pregnant at near-end of the season.
• The back half of the season will contain a storyline that shows Camille confronting her cousin who sexually abused her as a child and his parents (her maternal uncle and aunt) who helped cover up the abuse.
• Sadie Sink will recur as a trouble teenager girl who was sexually abused by her father. She was originally plan to be appear for one episode but the show producers decided to have the role to be recurring after Sink' performance was strongly praised.
• Julianne Moore to return to play Edith Shane for last 4 episodes. She will turn up at Los Angeles at a bad time as Shane is dealing a crisis involving her son.
  • Michelle Monaghan will plays Charlotte, Shane and Emily's older sister for 4 episodes. She will get caught in Shane's situation after arriving in Los Angeles with their mother unannounced. There will be sibling tension between Shane and Charlotte as they argue over Jonathan and their past.
• Gabrielle Union to plays Hobbs' ex-wife for one episode. She will make her first appearance in episode 19.
• A character will unexpectedly be killed off in episode 22. The show producer warns the outcome will shocked everyone in the JACTF and viewers, excluded a big twist.

Season 3 News:

• The producers has confirmed Vargas & Shane and sister series The Sullivans have each been renewed for another season.
• The season will consist of 24 episodes and premiere in late October.
• Season premiere will see the JACTF and MCS will travel to New Orleans to track down Dennis Quaid's character who sets out to find his son.
  • Some of the cast of the ended Law & Order: New Orleans will return along with some new cast members five years of the series end.
    • Brendan Fraser, Isaiah Washington, Rebecca Romijn, Zac Efron, Marco Sanchez, Jazz Raycole and Aya Sumika will reprise their roles. Also, Jimmy Smits will cameo in his old role as well.
    • New cast are Mireille Enos, Lucas Black, Brandon Jay McLaren, Úrsula Corberó and James Marsters.
      • Black will play Christian LeBeau, a new detective and native resident to the Big Easy with an classic country attitude.
      • Corbero will play Paloma Santiago, a newly-promoted detective and immigrant from Mexico with a hidden past.
      • McLaren will play Oscar Russell, a new sergeant brought in as an undercover expert.
      • Marsters will play Jason Darby, a new A.D.A. filling in for McCorrea while he's on vacation.
      • Enos plays Julie Peterson, a new D.A. investigator and ex-state trooper.
  • Jessica Chastain has confirmed that the third season premiere will be her last appearance for the foreseeable future but she later confirmed that she will make a cameo appearance in episode 15.
  • Willa Fitzgerald and T.R. Knight will return for two episodes (including season premiere) which will see Nancy giving birth to her and Taylor's child while getting involved in a dangerous situation during a trip to New Orleans with two characters becoming unexpected helpers.
  • Claire Danes will guest-star in the episode to play the mother of Quaid's character's son.
  • Michael Kelly will play a Deputy U.S. Marshal who will appear near the end of the season premiere and will recur throughout five subsequent episodes.
  • The episode will be 60 minutes special.
• Michelle Monaghan's role will become recurring when the show explores the character's relationship with her sisters following the events of last season.
  • The show also confirmed a bipolar disorder storyline for Charlotte, who will develop paranoia and hallucinations after getting rid of her medication.
  • Charlotte, Shane and Emily's parents Glenn and Edith will plays a huge role in the storyline as they and Shane become worried for Charlotte's wellbeing and safety.
  • Florence Pugh to plays Charlotte's hallucinated "friend" for six episodes. Flashback scenes will reveals the truth behind Charlotte's connection with Pugh's character
    • Esme Creed-Miles to plays a younger version of Charlotte (age 18-19) in flashback scenes for four episodes. It will explore Charlotte's early days when she was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
    • Asher Angel and Mckenna Grace plays young versions of Keanu (age 15) and Morgan (age 12) during flashback scenes. A baby Ben/Emily will also appear in the scene.
• In episode 10, Shane and her family travel to Alaska for Keanu's birthday but a bombshell from the birthday man could cause tension between his family.
  • Adam Brody will guest star as Shane's brother Keanu.
  • Kat Dennings will guest star as Keanu's wife and the mother of his three children.
  • Luke Evans to plays Charlotte's ex-husband for five episodes (including episode 10). Charlotte will share a tense reunion with her ex during Keanu's birthday party.
  • Lin Shaye to plays as Edith's mother and Charlotte, Keanu, Morgan and Emily's grandmother for three episodes (including episode 10). She will make a unannounced arrival to Keanu's birthday party.
  • Episode 20 will be a flashback episode which will reveals the truth about the disappearance of Kate Maguire, Charlotte's ex-lover.
• A season-long arc will involved a defense contractor suspected in selling arms to the black market.
  • Mike Vogel will recur as NCIS Special Agent Danny Burnett during this season to help in the investigation due to the contractor having ties to the military including the Navy and Marine Corps.
  • William Forsythe and Jennifer Love Hewitt will recur as a pair of FBI Agents assigned to assist in the case; Forsythe will portray Etheridge's old mentor, while Love Hewitt will portray his newest protegé.
• Diego Vargas' past will be visited as his loved ones plan to fight for appeal of his sentence⁷.
  • Charisma Carpenter will return for four episodes as Rebecca attempts to cause more troubles for her family while currently in prison.
  • Pierce Brosnan will play a vengeful man who targets the family over Diego for eight episodes. He will plays a huge part in one other storyline.
• Shane and Finn will make plans to foster Gabrielle throughout the season.
• A main character will goes down a dark path after losing their loved one the previous season.
• Domhnall Gleeson will returns as Gabrielle's abusive father Felix McConnell which sees Felix attempts to get in contact with his daughter and will makes an enemy with a inmate, Diego Vargas.
• Mandy Patinkin and Kathleen Turner will play Jamie Delgado's parents and Theo Rossi and Leighton Messter will play Delgado's siblings. They will turn up in Los Angeles to meet Delgado's fiancée Vargas. They will appear in episode 10.
• In a two-parter, the JACTF find themselves in a "tight situation" while investigating a crime during a huge thunderstorm.
  • A main character's life will hangs in balance when being struck by lightning. Their colleagues will makes a risky move as they fight to save them.
  • Beth will give birth in the second part of a two-parter episode.
• Jennifer Grey to plays Henderson's younger sister and Vargas and Angela's aunt, Diane for six episodes. She gets involved in Vargas and Delgado's wedding plan.
• Patrick Wilson to plays Scalieri's older brother Thomas, an LAPD detective for eight episodes. His controversial actions will cause some conflict within the JACTF. Also, he has a complicated relationship with his sister because he is jealous of her, believing that she is "dark sheep" in his family.
• Jason Bateman will return for one episode which sees Emily and Lowry visit him in prison.
• Alex Kingston, David Oyelowo and Richard Armitage will have guest star in one episode as British police officers who assist JACTF at California for one case. They will appear in episode 11.
• David Thewlis will return to play Professor James Griffin for one episode where he teams up with JACTF to investigate the murder of goth couple. This will occur in episode 18.
• Andie MacDowell to plays Devlin's wife Sherri for five episodes where the character will clash with her soon to be ex-husband over their divorce process.
• Chapel and Hobbs will experience racial profiling in one episode when LAPD officers roust them while they are undercover and nearly ruin an operation to capture a long-time federal fugitive. This will occur in episode 12.
• Ed Harris to guest star as Finn's father and a retired police lieutenant for one episode (episode 15) when JACTF investigate his old case.
• Anson Mount to guest star as a killer who terrorised the women of Chicago 15 years ago until his death in the hand of Scalieri who shot him in self-defense after he brutally stabbed her brother and kills his partner during a call in. In aftermath, his eventful actions was results many career destroyed (including Finn's father retired as lieutenant) and Scalieri's relationship with her brother torns apart. Despite his death, his ghost haunts Thomas in his life. Episode 15 will sees his crime revisited after a incident at subway which was witnessed by Thomas' daughter, Summer.
• Freya Allan to guest star as Hunsacker's troubled niece Susie for three episodes. Hunsacker and Shane will finds themselves getting caught up in Susie's criminal world.
• Edward Norton, Pom Klementieff, Michael Cudlitz, Billy Magnussen and Melissa Roxburgh to guest stars in one episode where Vargas teams up with Aldridge, their uncle and aunt as they travel to New York to finds out about Diego's CIA background. This will occur in episode 17.
  • Norton and Klementieff to plays NYPD detectives who gets involved with Vargas' investigation
  • Cudlitz to plays Diego's old CIA colleague.
  • Magnussen to plays a hitman.
  • Roxburgh to plays a mysterious woman who has a secret connection with a past character.
• Rose McGowan has announced that this season will be her last as a regular.

Season 4 News:

• The producers has confirmed Vargas & Shane and sister series The Sullivans have each been renewed for another seasons.
• The season will consist of 22 episodes and will premiere in early/mid July.
  • NBC has confirmed that the show will move to a new time slot, with new show Denver Memorial airing along with The Sullivans (another show sets in Denver).
• Jennifer Love Hewitt will be promoted to the main cast as her character takes Etheridge's place.
• The season premiere will feature Shane and Finn getting married.
  • Ed Harris, Adam Brody and Kat Dennings to return for this episode.
  • Ellen Barkin to plays Finn's mother and Joseph's ex-husband.
  • Marley Shelton, Anna Chlumsky and Betty Gilpin to plays Finn's sisters.
  • William Fichtner to plays Shane's uncle and Glenn's brother.
  • Melanie Griffith to plays Shane's aunt and Glenn's sister.
  • Dakota Johnson, Caitríona Balfe, Kaley Cuoco, Bill Skarsgård and Dane DeHaan to plays Shane's cousins.
  • Michael Ealy will reprise his role as Jesse Temple, a role in Hartman.
• Season 4's seasonal case will be the JACTF working to deal with a violent gang war between a Mexican drug cartel and a Colombian drug cartel.
  • The storyline will begin in season premiere when the people of Los Angeles get caught up in a violent shootout between gang members.
  • Diego will get involved with the case, having infiltrated one of the cartels years ago as part of the CIA, which he'll do in exchange for a possible pardon from prison.
    • • NCIS Agent Burnett and U.S. Marshal Jennings will have some involvement in the case.
      • RZA will recur as a Deputy U.S. Marshal and Jennings' right-hand man.
      • Tamberla Perry and Jack Kesy will recur as Lee's friends at the DEA assigned to help in the case.
      • Reggie Lee will recur as Scott's friend at ICE assigned to help in the case.
      • Jaci Twiss returns as bounty hunter Lisa Geiger who is pursuing one of the Colombian drug dealers who has a prize on his head.
      • Joaquim de Almeida, Mark Consuelos, Richard Cabral, Alice Braga, Yancey Arias, and Hemky Madera will play key members of the Raigosa Cartel from Mexico. They will make their first appearance in episode 11.
      • Jesse Borrego, Zoe Saldana, Judy Reyes, Jacob Scipio, Paola Núñez, and Adam Irigoyen will play key members of the Genarro Cartel from Columbia. They will make their first appearance in episode 11.
      • Felix Mallard and Jenna Ortega will portray an undisclosed role for last 3 episodes. They will make their first appearance in episode 20 where a dark secret is revealed.
    • Gabrielle Union to return as Hobbs's ex-wife Grace on recurring basis.
    • Holt Mccallany to recur as Dr. Paul Dalton, Vargas's long-time doctor who vows to help Vargas' quest to get pregnant but he has darkest secrets from his past.
    • Lee will make a shocking discovery about her late sister Dawn's death which will leads to unwanted answers.
    • Delgado and Finn will learns that they have been both eligible for promotion; Delgado as detective and Finn as sergeant. It will takes place in episode 12.
    • Episode 6 will be a Halloween episode where the team will investigate the disappearance of a young Caucasian girl from the suburbs and find that it's linked to the similar disappearances of African-American girls from inner city areas over the past year.
      • The episode will be 60 minutes special.
      • Some JACTF members will be targeted by a group of teenagers with masks from horror films while on-duty. Show producers hints a devastating consequences that nobody will see it coming.
        • Nicholas Hamilton, Myles Truitt, Gaten Matarazzo, Levi Miller, Emilia Jones and Gabriel Bateman to guest stars as the teenagers who terrorized the JACTF.
    • Gillian Alexy and Chris Vance will reprise their roles as Linda Young and James Greico, from Hartman for two episodes where they will ask JACTF for help to finds the missing daughter of a former San Francisco mayor who could involved in drug cartels. They will appear at episode 15 and 16.
    • Tony Todd to recur as a US attorney who attempts to rebuild the JACTF as he volunteer to takes over (from episode 7) as Devlin takes a break after following the backlash of recent events and his leadership being harshly criticized. He will make his first appearance in episode 2 when his character gets involved in the argument between Devlin and Chief Stern over the shooting between two rival cartel-connected gangs.
    • Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn to plays Thomas and Scalieri's parents. They will make their appearance in episode 3.
      • Jennifer Holland and Sebastian Stan to plays young version of the characters at episode 8 and 9.
    • Glen Powell, Victoria Pedretti and Teyonah Parris will play three rookies whom Ramsay, Reese and Shane take under their wings. They will make their first appearance in episode 5.
      • Powell will portray a rookie detective who will be partner with Ramsay.
      • Pedretti will portray a rookie FBI agent who will be partner with Reese.
      • Parris will portray a rookie D.A. who will be partnered with Shane.
    • Vargas' new friendship with Thomas Scalieri will continue to be explored from last season, which will result in some divided results.
      • Thomas' past will be revisited in one episode after he is shot during a night out. The JACTF will discover a huge list of suspects. It will be on episode 3.
      • Vargas gets herself into a dangerous situation in episode 8 when she gets involved in Thomas' secret investigation. The next episode, a mystery character will become Vargas' unexpected helper as they assist Vargas in cleaning up the aftermath.
        • Campbell Scott to guest stars as a "dangerous" crime lord who is subject of Thomas' secret investigation. He is described as a very dangerous and branded as LAPD's "worst nightmare" because his family's complicated past.
        • Callie Haverda to plays a young hacker who gets involved in the criminal's plan. The character's background will be explored as she attempts to cause trouble for Vargas. She will make her first appearance in episode 8.
    • Jordan Elsass, Kingston Foster and Audie Rick to plays young versions of Tommy (age 19-20), Faith (age 12) and Edwin Scalieri (age 5) during flashback scenes at episode 8 and 9. It explores Tommy's choice to become a cop despite his family's refusal.
    • Terry Kinney is promoted as a series recurring. The show will explore Chief Stern's personal and work life as the LAPD faces some new changes and reforms.
    • In episode 13, some of JACTF members will travel to Paris for important mission. Details haven't been revealed but the producers described the trip to Paris as "quest of justice" as they hints the events from Halloween will be the main subject.
      • Update: Chapel, Hobbs, Lowry and Lee will travel to Paris to tracks Nicholas Hamilton's character after he nearly murdered Scott during house fire at Halloween. Vargas and Ramsay will also travel to Paris to look for their colleagues.
    • Shane will team up with Vargas' cousin Mac and Victoria in one episode as she gets involved of Mac's custody fight for his brother Ivan and his newborn sister. It will takes place in episode 18.
    • Devlin will battle a painkiller addiction as he struggles with his life in a wheelchair and struggles to walk again from the previous season finale.
      • Andie MacDowell to returns as Devlin's wife Sherri on recurring basis as she tries to help her husband over his struggle.
      • Caleb Landry Jones and Katherine McNamara to guest star as Devlin and Sherri's son and daughter; John Paul and Marcy for two episodes.
    • One main character and their family will be the victim of a "swatting" call in episode 14.
      • Idara Victor and Jacob Artist will reprise their roles as MCS detectives Street and Boscorelli in the episode.
    • Rita Wilson to guest stars as Joanna, Dineen's younger sister, Felix's mother and Gabrielle's grandmother for four episodes. She will appear in episode 14.
    • Annette O'Toole to guest star as Amanda's biological mother for one episode when Amanda reunites with her on her birthday after Thomas tracks her down, but their reunion turns sour. She will make her appearance in episode 7.
    • Rose McGowan will return for one episode which sees Etheridge return to Los Angeles and visits her former colleagues after hearing the news of a tragic events at Halloween. She will appear in episode 7.
    • Emily VanCamp will appear in one episode as a FBI agent in a Chicago Office who was previously one of Gordon Fontana's victims and will work with JACTF on one case. She appears in episode 12.
    • Madison De La Garza will recur as a single mother with an unfortunate tie to Damien Raigosa, and who will end up changing Vargas and Delgado's life forever. Her first appearance will be in episode 17.
    • Shane will receive unexpected news in episode 20. The news will shake up her own family.

Season 5 News:

• The season will have 22 episodes and will premiere in early/mid September.
• Michael Kelly (Deputy US Marshal John Jennings) will be upgraded to a series regular.
• Wentworth Miller will leave the cast this season. Having previously opted not to play straight characters anymore, Miller stayed on to fulfill his contract for the fans. He initially intended to leave at the end of previous season, but came to an agreement with the producers to appear in 13 episodes this season to properly wrap his character's storyline.
  • Michael Ealy, Willa Fitzgerald, Chris Vance and Courtney Cox will return for one episode (episode 11) but their involvement in Ramsay's storyline is kept secret.
• The season premiere will be a two-part episode which sees Stanley Fowler goes on trial for his various crimes the prior Halloween.
  • James Marsters to play an amoral attorney who will represent Fowler during his trial. Also, his character has history with Reese when she was a rookie FBI agent.
• Following earlier hints in the previous season about another future long-running case, this season will see the JACTF gets caught in the dangerous world of police corruption as they investigate a unit of dirty LAPD officers, but the producers hints the case will lead to catastrophic consequences.
  • Chief Stern will play a huge role as he gets involved in some of the JACTF's case. However, his loyalty is tested when it revealed that Stern has his own secrets from his time in the LAPD.
    • Esai Morales will plays a mystery man from Stern's past who threatens to cause trouble for the Chief. He will make his first appearance in episode 5.
    • Stern's family life will also explore as Stern makes some risky decisions to protect his family from harm.
  • The corruption case will be partly based off of the LAPD Rampart scandal of the 90s, and the Baltimore PD's recent Gun Trace Task Force scandal.
    • The unit will be shown both committing crimes by abusing their police powers in the line of duty, and by covertly making deals with certain criminal gangs and organizations.
    • Jason Pitts and Xzibit will recur as IA investigators who work with the task force in the case.
    • The characters of Thomas Scalieri and Ross Corvo will have transferred to the LAPD's Force Investigation Unit and will also work the case.
    • Brent Sexton, William Smillie, Leisha Hailey, Annie Ilonzeh, Gino Anthony Pesi, Steven R. McQueen, and Kirk Fox will recur as the corrupt members of the Anti-Crime Unit. Their corruption levels will vary from person to person.
    • Tristan Wilds and Dora Madison Burge will recur as new clean members of the unit. One will eventally be revealed as an IA plant.
    • Michael Chiklis will recur as a retired LAPD sergeant with ties to the corrupt unit.
• Episode 10 will be 100th episode.
  • The episode will be 60 minutes.
  • Shane and Vargas's gestational carrier will both give birth in the episode.
  • One character will plan to propose to their partner.
    • Their wedding will takes place at the end of season finale.
  • There will be several character deaths in the episode.
• Vargas and Delgado will deal with big looming changes in their relationship. As they adopt Hector as their own and prepare for the arrival of their own child, they both make risky decisions that may impact their relationship.
  • Sophie Thatcher will plays a rookie police officer who will sets her eyes on Delgado with unknown intentions. She will develop a crush on a married detective which will spiral out of control. She will make her first appearance in episode 3.
    • The character has a secret connection to one main character who is unaware of their link. Her secret will be revealed at 100th episode.
      • Tandi Wright to guest star for one episode in undisclosed role. She appears in episode 12 when she will reveals answers about Neve' true identity.
• Rose McGowan will returns for two episodes (including 100th episode). It later confirmed that Etheridge will returns for three more episodes including two-part finale.
• Monica Potter will plays a police lieutenant who teams up with the JACTF on a case in the first-half of the season. She will make her first appearance in episode 4.
  • The fourth episode will involve in a desperate search for an abducted girl who makes a 911 call, leading the JACTF and the LAPD to a massive search.
• Dermot Mulroney to play as a Mayor of Los Angeles. He will make his first appearance at episode 5.
• One episode will mainly focus on a news reporter's investigation of possible conspiracy involving the police. His quest for answers may leads serious consequences for the character. It will takes place in episode 7.
  • The episode will be tell from a character (not main or recurring)'s point of view but some of main show's characters will still appear.
  • David Corenswet, Sasha Calle, Liana Liberato, Rami Malek, Lily-Rose Depp, Marlon Wayans, Annie Murphy and Laurence Fishburne to appear in this episode.
    • Corenswet to plays the reporter who will finds himself wrong side of the law.
    • Calle to plays the fiancée of Corenswet's character.
    • Liberato to plays the colleague of Corenswet's character
    • Malek to plays a cameraman and best friend of Corenswet's character.
    • Depp to plays a young woman who paid Corenswet's character to expose the truth about her father's death whose she believes that he was murdered by the police.
    • Wayans to plays a loan shark who puts pressure on Corenswet's character to pay off his debts.
    • Murphy to plays the sister of Corenswet's character.
    • Fishburne to plays the boss of Corenswet's character and head of a news studio.
• Forbes' past will be explored as he re-investigates his father's death.
  • Alfonso Ribeiro and Joseph Marcell portray an undisclosed but important role later in the season.
• Shane will battle post-partum depression after giving birth midway through the season.
• Jackson Holmes and Kim Quincy-Holmes (characters from The Sullivans and Denver Memorial) will appear in one episode when they arrive at Los Angeles to search for Kim's runaway patient who has a life-threatening condition. They will both appear in episode 14.
• Campbell Scott will returns as Sawyer Bailey in midway of the season. He appears in episode 15 where he will become unlikely ally of one main character on a important case but he will be up to his old tricks when he finds out a secret which could spell trouble for another main character.
• Episode 19 will takes place in Chicago which sees some of JACTF's members goes on a important quest.
• Burnett will return for three episodes, including the two-part finale.
• Bryan Cranston will depart the cast at the end of the season.

Season 6 News:

• The season will have 20 episodes and will premiere in mid/late July.
• Mike Vogel (NCIS Special Agent Danny Burnett) and Tony Todd (U.S. Attorney Clyde Forbes) are upgraded to series regular.
• The season-long storyline will be a investigation into multiple opioid-related deaths involving members of the US Navy and Marines Corp, which will eventually uncover an massive narcotics smuggling ring involving people in all five branches of the US military, and might even involve the CIA.
  • Nathan Parsons, Sahr Ngaujah, and Lauren Cohen will recur as members of Army CID, Air Force OSI, and CGIS who will help the task force in the main investigation.
• Impact of last season's events will play major role throughout this season as the LAPD and the city are still recovering from corruption scandal while some JACTF members struggle to deal with the aftermath.
• Isaiah Mustafa will recur as new LAPD Chief Bryson Simmons who succeeds Stern after his retirement following the huge corruption scandal.
• A main male character will risk his career after incident which he knocked a suspect out with one punch, leaving them fighting for their life. The storyline will begin at episode 4.
  • The storyline will have connection from season-long season when the suspect is revealed to be a family relative of US Navy who JACTF is investigate this season. The discovery of the identity may have serious repercussion for main character and their family.
• In the early part of the season, Reese and her family are attending a Los Angeles Kings hockey game when she discovers a terrorist operation going on inside the Crypto.com Arena. The two-part storyline will take place in episodes 7-8.
  • Garrett Hedlund will portray the terrorist leader.
  • Kaya Scodelario will portray Hedlund's character's right-hand woman and lover.
  • Boyd Holbrook, Josh Pence, Robbie Amell and Giles Matthey will portray the top enforcers of Hedlund's character.
  • Peter Gallagher will portray the governor taken hostage.
  • Billy Brown will portray the Special Agent-in-Charge.
• Wilson Cruz to return as Louis Acosta, a businessman who Lowry meet at Dirga Manor in recurring billing where sees his character become unexpected helper to one of the JACTF's case. Later in the season, he and Lowry will declares feelings for each other. He starts reappearing in episode 10.
• In the mid to later part of the season, the JACTF is investigating an unthinkable crime that involves the family member of the rich and powerful owner of the winery vineyard. It will occur at episode 11.
  • Aidan Quinn will portray the powerful, but shady and vindictive owner of the winery vineyard.
• James Marsters will return as Rupert Borden in recurring billing where the show will explore his character's past and revisited his history with Reese.
• In the later part of the season, the JACTF will investigate a series of high-profile murders that involves a fictional action-drama television series. It will occur in episode 15.
  • Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene, Halston Sage, Enver Gjokaj, Melina Kanakaredes, Deji LaRay and Malcolm-Jamal Warner will portray actors who are series regulars in the show.
  • Maury Sterling, Steven Culp and Aisha Tyler will portray crew members of the show.
  • Harry Lennix will portray a criminal psychologist who helps the JACTF on the killer's profile.
• LaKeith Stanfield to return to play Chapel's brother Ronnie for five episodes.
• Following his departure from last season, Bryan Cranston will return for two episodes (episode 11 & 12) as Devlin gets involved in a disagreement between Forbes, Mayor Burke, and Chief Simmons over new plans for LAPD protocol reforms.
• Jason Bateman will return to play Patrick Morris for three episodes.
• Clyde Forbes will temporarily depart in episode 13 following his actor's passing. Tony Todd filmed four episodes before his death. Also, the show's producers confirm they won't kill off Forbes's character.
  • From episode 14, Jennings will fills in and takes over the task force during Forbes' absence.
  • Update (after episode 13): Show producers confirmed that they are planned to include Forbes in more episodes despite the actor's death with an active and unused footages of the character.
• Jennings will have a case that hits close to home that reveals his past.
• Will Patton will reprise his role as disgraced former Army Colonel Wesley Drummond, who as it turns out, has a past connection to the season's overarching case. He will not, however, be the man behind everything. He will appear in three episodes, the first one being episode 14.
• Alisha Weir will portray an undisclosed role in midway of the season. Harris Dickinson will play the brother of Weir's character who had a history with one character in the show.
• Tom Burke will recur as as CIA operative named "Cooley", who will be an asset to the task force in the back-half of the season and will have a connection to Diego.
• Wallace Langham will have a "mysterious yet huge role" in the back half of the season.

Season 7 News:

• The season will have 15 episodes and will premiere in early to mid July.
• The season premiere will be a two-parter and take place immediately after the season 6 finale.
  • Diego Vargas will play a huge role in the premiere and throughout the season.
  • A former antagonist who appeared in past seasons will return and had a major role in both episodes and throughout the season.
  • During their captivity in the premiere, Vargas and Shane would recall key moments seen in flashbacks from Hartman and Vargas & Shane on how much their friendship means to them.
• The season's overarching plot will be the first half of the show's final arc, with the JACTF tracking a highly skilled and elusive black hat hacker running a vast network of criminals throughout not only California, but the country as well.
• Troy Winbush will return as a guest star for the season premiere.
• Kearran Giovanni, Dania Ramirez, and Damon Gupton will join the main cast this season.
  • Giovanni will portray a CHP Corporal whom Hobbs personally recommends as his replacement; she will debut in the premiere episode.
  • Ramirez will portray a DHS agent assigned to the JACTF for the main case of the season; she will debut in the third episode.
  • Gupton will portray Forbes' successor as the lead overseer of the JACTF.
• Johanna Braddy, Titus Makin Jr., and Lucas Till will join the recurring cast as additional members assigned to the task force.
• In episode 8, Chelsea will go into early labor during a Thanksgiving celebration, but her labor will results life-threatening complications, which could put her and the baby's health at risk.
• Tom Payne will guest star as a character with deep connections to the main storyline.
• In the season finale, two recurring characters will be killed off; both deaths will be connected to one of the show's main plots.
  • Jacob Artist and Idara Victor will reprise their roles from Hartman as Major Cases Squad Detectives Jonas Boscorelli and Olivia Street in the season finale.