Reading that scene, “I was like, ‘This dude is cool as hell,’” Hodge reports. The first season of the show finds Cross, a popular cop in his Washington, D.C., community, investigating the ...

Reading that scene, “I was like, ‘This dude is cool as hell,’” Hodge says. The first season of the show finds Cross, a popular cop in his community in Washington, D.C., investigating the ...

Cross is also the smartest man in any interrogation room: The premiere features him verbally eviscerating a racist murder suspect with measured, gleeful swagger. Reading that scene, “I was like, ‘This ...