Watson’s Eve Harlow Breaks Down Ingrid’s Shocking Identity — Including That Killer Reveal (Exclusive)

Watson hinted at Eve Harlow‘s mysterious past, but where does the show go now that her real identity has been revealed?

During the Sunday, April 6, episode of the hit CBS series, Ingrid was forced to bring her sister, Gigi, to the Holmes Clinic after a health decline. The race to save Gigi caused Watson (Morris Chestnut) to figure out that Ingrid was lying about her connection to their patient. With the help of flashback scenes, viewers learned that Ingrid crossed paths with Watson’s estranged wife, Mary (Rochelle Aytes), when her sister originally injured her spine.

Mary advocated for Gigi — who got hurt due to her and Ingrid’s abusive father — but ultimately couldn’t perform a surgery that could have prevented Gigi from becoming paraplegic. In addition to holding a grudge against Mary, Ingrid got revenge on her and Gigi’s father by killing him days after her sister was brought into the hospital when they were still teenagers.

“I was told from the beginning that Ingrid killed her dad,” Harlow, 35, recalled during an exclusive interview with Us Weekly. “[The executive producers] gave me what they thought was going to be the outline for the season. It did change quite a bit, but the baseline of me killing my dad because I was protecting my sister has stayed the same.”

The revelation about Ingrid’s connection to Mary caused Mary to exile her from the clinic. Harlow, however, isn’t too worried about Ingrid’s next steps.

“She has a very difficult time hearing no and having things taken away that she does not want taken away,” the actress quipped. “So what you will see is a way of manipulating situations for her own benefit. It’s shocking, I know. You would never expect that from Ingrid.”

Harlow also weighed in on whether she thinks the Ingrid-focused episode will offer more clarity to viewers, saying, “I always come to my characters without any judgment. Even when I have played a villain, I don’t think that a villain sees themselves as such. I never thought that Ingrid killing her dad was a bad thing. It was completely justified. And whether somebody watching it thinks that it is justified or not justified, that is a conversation to be had. Whether audiences are now more understanding or less understanding, I am glad that it’s there as a conversation topic.”

Based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‘s Sherlock Holmes stories, Watson takes place six months after Moriarty (Randall Park) kills the legendary detective. Watson must come to terms with the loss of his best friend and partner by resuming his medical career as the head of a clinic dedicated to treating rare disorders.

Watson’s road to recovery hasn’t been smooth this season as Moriarty’s minions mess with his pills. The intrusion will seemingly get even more complicated now that Moriarty has started to threaten Ingrid about her involvement in her father’s murder.

“This is the first time that Ingrid has such an intense desperation. She’s somebody who is always several steps ahead of literally everybody in her life,” Harlow noted to Us. “She is in control of every situation. She knows what to do, how to do it, when to do it and she’s pretty levelheaded. I think that Moriarty steps in and, for the first time, there’s a real sense of danger.”

She continued: “There’s unpredictability, and usually Ingrid is the unpredictable one. She is the callous and cutthroat one — but now suddenly somebody else has stepped in and taken that part. So it’s a real desperate grasp to get the power back and what that desperation will push her to do.”

Off screen, however, Harlow has loved getting to share the screen with Park, 51.

“He’s such a sweetie. I cannot say enough nice things about him. And I was saying I’ve mostly done drama and I was telling him this on set. He then told me, ‘That’s really shocking to hear that you’ve never done comedy. I think you could totally do comedy.’ That’s one of the nicest things that anyone has ever said,” she gushed to Us. “I can walk around being like, ‘Randall Park thinks I’m funny.’ He is a very supportive actor to work with and he’s just very humble.”

As things get messier ahead of the finale, Harlow teased how the ending will set the show up for season 2, saying, “It definitely answers some questions and leaves other things open as any good finale. You’re just kind of like, ‘I want to know what’s going on, but also don’t tell me everything.’”

Watson airs Sundays on CBS at 9 p.m. ET. and new episodes stream the next day on Paramount+.