‘CIA’ Boss Explains Bill’s Real Assignment — What It Means for Partnership With Colin

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the CIA series premiere, “Directed Energy.”] CIA, the newest entry in Dick Wolf‘s ever-expanding universe kicks off with an FBI crossover, new partners Colin Glass (Tom Ellis) and Bill Goodman (Nick Gehlfuss) getting off on the wrong foot, and the major reveal that there’s much more to the FBI agent’s assignment than he originally thinks when he is put on the fusion cell. Ostensibly, Bill is brought in because the CIA needs an FBI agent to operate on U.S. soil. “I need someone, anyone, as long as they have a badge and a pulse,” Colin tells his boss, Deputy Chief of Station Nikki Reynard (Necar Zadegan). The last one,…