Melissa Roxburgh Sizes up Bex's Romantic Options on The Hunting Party
With two eligible bachelors working next to her, The Hunting Party's Bex Henderson could have a tough decision to make.
In NBC's newest drama The Hunting Party, FBI officer Rebecca "Bex” Henderson (Melissa Roxburgh) is put to the ultimate test when she’s given a new assignment: Finding serial killers who have escaped the world’s most secretive prison, known as The Pit.
With this new task, she’s reunited with her former partner-in-crime-catching Oliver Odell (Nick Wechsler).
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It doesn’t take long for reemerging romantic tension to brew between them, as these feelings seem to have been festering for years, but this rekindled relationship may lead to nothing but trouble.
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Roxburgh recently spoke about Bex and Odell’s relationship, and even though the two characters hadn’t seen each other in two years, their complex history could be the key to taking their connection to the next level.
“As far as the characters go, I am always cheering for the history and the relationships where it’s like they’ve been through so much together,” she told US Weekly.
Odell works as a prison warden at The Pit after leaving the FBI, and his exit from the agency didn’t end on the best note. It was revealed that he killed a man in order to save a young girl named Samantha, who is now Bex’s adopted daughter. And as a murderer who's now working at a prison, there’s been some suspicions about whether or not he's someone the team can trust.
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“Bex, she’s a gifted profiler and she works for the FBI and all, but still chooses a guy who’s maybe a bad guy,” Weschler told NBC Insider. "[She] has dedicated her life to helping other people not deal with this [bad] stuff …It’s sad to me to think that, like, ‘Oh, man, they had this whole thing and they’ve been kind of pining for each other throughout the years a little bit.’ And, it feels to me, we don’t say this, but it almost feels like they are for each other the one that got away kind of… but the one that got away [is] like maybe a f---ing bad guy.”
Roxburgh additionally threw Shane Florence (Josh McKenzie) into the mix as a potential love interest. After all, with Bex's interactions with The Pit security guard thus far, there could be something there.
“If they do build this love story and love triangle, Shane is safe and he’s very calm and cool waters,” Roxburgh told US Weekly. “We have the bad boy who murdered someone and he had a reason. We have the person who didn’t murder someone. We’ll see.”
Catch new episodes of The Hunting Party when they premiere on Monday on NBC at 10/9c. Episodes are available to stream on Peacock the next day.
