Bell Joins Threshold Cast
Brannon Braga, co-creator and executive producer of CBS' SF drama
Threshold, said that Catherine Bell will soon join the show's cast in
a recurring role. Bell, who will also star in SCI FI Channel's
upcoming original miniseries The Triangle, will play a genetic
engineer who joins the Red Team of Molley Caffrey (Carla Gugino),
which is trying to stop an alien threat. Bell is perhaps best known
for playing Lt. Col. Sarah "Mac" MacKenzie on CBS' long-running series
JAG.
Braga, speaking in a conference call with the press on Nov. 17, added
that another recurring character will also join the cast: the
heretofore unseen fiancee of engineer Lucas Pegg (Rob Benedict).
"She's going to become a recurring character," Braga said. "[She's]
cool and pretty. She's actually a research physician at the National
Institutes of Health in Bethesda, [Md.,] ... and Lucas is going to go
through a very traumatic experience where, having watched that alien
videotape in the pilot, he starts to unravel. ... And she's gong to
come into the story. ... They can't tell her what's going on, and
she's not allowed to see her [future] husband. And she's going to
become a source of conflict for Molly."
Threshold returns after a couple of weeks' absence on Nov. 22 in a new
10 p.m. ET/PT Tuesday timeslot. To catch up viewers who are new to the
show, Braga said, "we cut together a really cool trailer, ... like a
minute-long ... 'saga sell,' ... to bring people in and get them
familiar with the show immediately. [It's] almost like a
music-video-type montage saying 'Here's Threshold.' ... That will
actually premiere Tuesday night right before the episode begins."
Braga said future episodes will contain a few surprises and offered
some spoilers. Gunneson (William Mapother), the alien infectee from
the pilot episode, will come back "in a very, very unexpected way when
he appears in Molly's nightmare," Braga said.
The Nov. 29 episode, "The Crossing," will deal with an attempted
prison break by the alien infectees jailed at Threshold headquarters.
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