The Hunting Party puts Josh Dallas‘ serial killer character through the wringer by nearly killing him again and again through lethal injection.
In Us Weekly‘s exclusive clip from the Thursday, April 2, episode of the hit NBC series, Elliot Carr (Dallas) is taken in to get executed on multiple occasions — only for his death to be halted at the very last second.
“Just kill me already,” Carr told the doctor at the secret prison. The footage was seen by Bex (Melissa Roxburgh), Jacob (Patrick Sabongui) and Shane (Josh McKenzie) before they were sent to track down Carr after his escape.
“He would be abruptly taken for his execution — at random times — and then in the final moments, they would call it off,” Bex explained to the duo, with Shane referring to it as “psychological torture.”
According to the episode’s official synopsis, Carr is known as the “Connecticut Cobbler,” who is “a twisted, high-end shoemaker who skins his victims alive to make exotic leather footwear, forcing the team to stop him before he kills again.”
The Hunting Party is a crime procedural about investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers in the country. The twist? The criminals escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.
Roxburgh’s character is an ex-FBI agent recruited to the task force due to her reputation as a profiler who caught the world’s most dangerous serial killers. Each episode introduces a new criminal with star-studded appearances from Eric McCormack, Niecy Nash-Betts, Kelsey Grammer and more.
Dallas, 47, spoke exclusively to Us Weekly about joining The Hunting Party after previously working with Roxburgh, 33, on Manifest.
“I couldn’t have been more thrilled with this character. He’s diabolical, of course. But it was just so juicy and delicious to be able to play somebody whose moral code was so, so different from anything that I’ve ever played before,” Dallas recalled. “But putting that aside, just to be back on the screen and back on set with Melissa was the real high point for me.”
Roxburgh “tried to get Josh on the show” several times before the right role came along.
“I’ve been trying to get him on the show for a long time and then finally he was free,” she shared with Us. “We have been talking back and forth about when that might happen. There was one other episode — I won’t say which one — that we had tried to get him for.”
She concluded: “This was a perfect match for him because his killer is a shoemaker. I know that Josh Dallas likes nice clothes, so we got him for the good stuff.”
The Hunting Party airs on NBC Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET and new episodes are available to stream on Peacock the next day.
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