{"id":2310164,"date":"2026-03-03T12:09:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2310164"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:09:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:09:52","slug":"cia-reveals-colins-backstory-or-does-it-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/cia-reveals-colins-backstory-or-does-it-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018CIA\u2019 Reveals Colin\u2019s Backstory \u2014 Or Does It? | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ahead of the\u00a0CIA<\/a><\/em> series premiere, showrunner Mike Weiss<\/a> told TV Insider that Tom Ellis<\/a> and Nick Gehlfuss<\/a> are great at playing the CIA intelligence officer who keeps his secrets close and the FBI agent who\u2019s \u201creally\u00a0good at chipping away and getting him to reveal himself inch by inch.\u201d We\u2019re starting to see that already, especially in the second episode on Monday, March 3 \u2026 or are we?<\/p>\n

As the new partners<\/a> head upstate for an op, they must work with a foreign intelligence officer who claims she wants to defect, Mona (Melinda Michael). And it\u2019s through conversations with each other and her<\/a> that viewers start to learn more about these new partners. Maybe. After all, Weiss also shared, \u201cColin has a fascinating personal life, but when you meet people that Colin seems to know or that Colin might be involved with, it\u2019s not exactly clear if he\u2019s working an angle or if he\u2019s genuinely a friend, a romantic partner, or what. We\u2019re going to be setting up a couple of incendiary devices over the course of the first few episodes, and they will go off by the end of the first season, I promise.\u201d It seems that the end of \u201cFatal Defect\u201d may have just set up one of them. Warning: Spoilers for CIA<\/em><\/strong> Season 1 Episode 2 ahead!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As the episode begins, Colin joins Bill at the elevator up to the CIA SCIF as the FBI agent is talking to his fianc\u00e9e, Katie, on the phone about meeting with a realtor. Later, as he ignores a call from her, Bill shares that they\u2019re supposed to go condo hunting this week, and it\u2019s the third time he\u2019s canceled. Colin can\u2019t believe he\u2019s only just learning his partner is engaged. \u201cMaybe if you ever asked me a single personal question,\u201d Bill points out, then asks if Colin\u2019s ever been married. Colin says he hasn\u2019t, adding, \u201cIf you have someone you care about, then you have a weakness and weakness gets you killed. But congratulations.\u201d<\/p>\n

While they\u2019re lying low at a vacation house belonging to Nikki\u2019s (Necar Zadegan<\/a>) ex-husband, Colin shares that he grew up in England, his mother died when he was 10, and his dad left \u201cus\u201d three months later. When they get a moment after that, Bill tells him he\u2019s sorry for everything he\u2019s been through. \u201cYou have to be a machine in this job,\u201d the CIA case officer says. And so while Bill sees Katie has a reason to make it home or dinner, Colin argues she\u2019s a pressure point, someone who can be used against him. For Bill, that\u2019s \u201ca lonely way to live,\u201d but Colin would rather that than be compromised.<\/p>\n

Colin then opens up a bit more to Mona\u2019s son as he\u2019s threatening to blow up a building. He knows that those who recruited him told him his mother abandoned him, picked at that wound because his people did the same to him when he was recruited. He says his mom died when he was 12, and his dad walked out three months later without leaving a note. They pushed on that bruise and told him he didn\u2019t need a family, that they were his family.<\/p>\n

But how true was that? As Bill notes, he gave two different ages to Mona and her son for his mother\u2019s death. When he asks if any of it was true, Colin asks if it matters.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, Bill heads home only to find Katie\u2019s not there. She did leave a note, however: \u201cSaw some good places today XO.\u201d<\/p>\n

We also see Colin go home \u2026 to a house in the suburbs! Furthermore, there\u2019s a woman and a child, Max, inside, both happy to see him as he joins them for dinner. He kisses the top of Max\u2019s head, kisses the woman \u2014 she\u2019s not wearing a ring, so their exact relationship status is unknown \u2014 and tells them he missed them. Who are they to him? Is Max Colin\u2019s son? Is this real or part of an assignment? With a kid involved, we\u2019d hope it\u2019s not the latter\u2026<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your theory about that last scene? How truthful do you think Colin is about his backstory in this episode? Let us know in the comments section below.<\/p>\n

CIA<\/em>, Mondays, 10\/9c, CBS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.fairfieldsuntimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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