Season 2 of Watson reintroduced Ingrid as someone putting in the work to better themselves, so how worried should viewers be after NCIS: Hawai’i‘s Noah Mills was introduced as a possible pot stirrer?
During the Monday, October 27, episode of the CBS series, Ingrid (Eve Harlow) returned to the Holmes Clinic to a lackluster reaction from the rest of the team. The neurologist, however, was determined to make amends and even made progress with Stephens (Peter Mark Kendall) and Sasha (Inga Schlingmann) but trouble was clearly on the horizon with the introduction of Beck Wythe (Mills).
“The biggest obstacle was introduced with Beck. Ingrid is stepping into this therapy group — trying to be better — and all of a sudden the thing that she’s trying to reject is put right in front of her,” Harlow exclusively told Us Weekly. “This is someone who is very similar to her and someone who is saying, ‘Actually, you should embrace your nature and stop trying to push it away. That is who you are so why would you want to throw it away?’”
Ingrid will try to fight the temptation to return to her enigmatic ways.
“She wants to be good and to listen to the angel on her shoulder, which is her therapist. But all of a sudden the little devil pops up,” Harlow teased. “Ingrid knows that it’s fun and it’s also easier for her because that’s her nature. So I think that Beck is the biggest obstacle at this point.”
Watson, which premiered in January, revolves around Dr. John Watson (Morris Chestnut) at his medical practice, where he treats patients with strange and unidentifiable issues. He receives help from his team, which now once again includes Ingrid. Her return in season 2 came after Ingrid previously revealed she kept crucial details about her past from them and inadvertently worked with Watson’s nemesis Professor James Moriarty (Randall Park).
“The thing that makes humans interesting is the ambiguity and the gray area. Very rarely do people make choices that are completely black or completely. That exploration is the most interesting and also the most relatable,” Harlow noted to Us about where Ingrid is destined to end up. “We’re all trying to be good people [but we make mistakes].”
Harlow still went into season 2 not trying to make Ingrid come off as inauthentic, adding, “For me it would have made it far less interesting if I went into it thinking that this is all for show and [her therapy] isn’t real. I am going into it from a space of very much good faith that Ingrid would like to change.”
Despite the hope Harlow has for Ingrid, she pointed out that “people relapse” while trying to put in the work to change.
“It takes a lot of time and a lot of effort. We all fall prey to our old habits,” the actress added. “As much as she is truly trying, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the old Ingrid is completely gone. There’s always going to be a kernel of that in her — it’s her nature.”
Harlow continued: “Last season, she was very closed off. It was only as the season progressed that there were little cracks with Sasha trying to get in and Watson trying to make it a safe space for Ingrid to express herself. There was a lot of resistance to all of it. Whereas with this season, she’s actively open to change and wanting to change in a way that she almost doesn’t really know how to, which is why she starts in with this therapy group because she knows that she needs help.”
Watson airs on CBS Mondays at 10 p.m. ET. New episodes stream the next day on Paramount+.
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