Watson's Morris Chestnut Teases the Good Doctor's Growing Suspicions as Season 1 Returns: ‘He's Going to Question Shinwell Quite a Bit' — Watch
Traumatic brain injury or no, Dr. John Watson wasn't born yesterday.
So when the CBS series named after Sherlock Holmes' companion returns Sunday (9/8c) after a few weeks off, Morris Chestnut tells me in the video above, he'll start to have an inkling that maybe things aren't exactly as they seem among the clinic at his staff.
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'When Watson wakes up from the brain injury, he's in a coma and wakes up from the coma, there's very few people that he feels he can trust. Because of the traumatic brain injury, because of where he is in his life, he may be more trusting of others around him than he should be,' Chestnut says. 'Even though he suspects, he dismisses it a few times because he just can't fathom it being true, that someone around him could be betraying him.'
As those who watched the series' premiere know, Watson's closest 'someone' — Shinwell Johnson, played by Ritchie Coster — is clandestinely working for Watson's biggest enemy: James Moriarty (played by Randall Park), whom Watson believes died in the same waterfall where he acquired that life-changing bump on his head. (Read a full recap of the episode here.)
While Watson may not know exactly what's going on, or the detrimental way that Shinwell's Moriarty partnership may affect him, Chesnut says, he will eventually sense that something is afoot.
Watson and the Brit 'both had close bonds and ties with Sherlock. What comes to play throughout the season is, as with any friendship, you spend a lot of time around each other, you're going to have disagreements,' he previews. 'And he is going to question Shinwell quite a bit. But I think, deep down, he's always believed Shinwell was in his corner. And we'll just have to see if Shinwell really is in his corner.'
And that doesn't even take into consideration the secrets that other members of Watson's clinic may be keeping, at least one of which will come into play in Episode 2. We talk about all of this — as well as Watson's creative way of hiding his meds (and whether we'll see him, er, it again this season) — during our chat.
Press PLAY on the video above to hear everything Morris has to say, then hit the comments with your predictions about the rest of 's first season.
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