Fans of The Nine have been a little frustrated by how little of the bank robbery is revealed on each episode’s flashbacks. That frustration may end as actor Chi McBride believes the entire bank robbery arc will be wrapped up by the end of season one.
Chi McBride Talks The Nine
“It’s going to get to that because nobody ever intended that, I don’t even know where it came from,” said McBride. “I don't think anyone ever intended for this to be a drawn out life of the series kind of thing where you get five minutes of what happened. I’m not watching that. That bank robbery and everything that happened in it, over the course of a season, yeah, it’s fair to say that all the questions are going to be answered about that because it’s just a backdrop for what’s going on in their lives at the present time.”
So we won’t be seeing hour 12 in Season three. As for the subtlety of the reveals so far, McBride assures fans that after this coming episode, we’re going to see big things in the flashbacks.
“By the seventh episode which is the episode after next, there’s something huge that’s going to happen. And something huge is going to happen in the next episode also. You’re going to find out what happened, why Jeremy and Lizzy are no longer together. It’s pretty interesting but you’ll be able to soon understand why he did what he did the following week. Unlike what a lot of people have been led to believe or what they foresee, the show is really not about the bank robbery. It’s about their lives in the aftermath but about the bank robbery, that’s going to be done by probably the 12th episode I would think. It’s not going to be drawn out over the entire length of the series. I think that the stuff that you’re going to see from next week on is really going to answer a lot of questions.”
The last episode ended with guys in a van listening in on bank manager Malcolm Jones’s phone calls. The actor suggested who they might be. “The guys in the van, it’s probably a government agency. I don't think that anybody would be realistic in thinking that everybody’s just going to walk away from this thing. There is a reason. There’s more to it than meets the eye. Nobody thinks that these two guys could just put this plan together, even though it did all go to hell, to be able to just even get a bank robbery down where it would be over in five minutes, and it would have been if there wasn’t a 911 call. So it’s going to go a lot further and whenever there’s something like a bank robbery, a bank robbery’s a felony so you can expect the federal authorities to get involved and there to be some political ramifications between the local police and the federal police and that’s where it’s headed.”
And Malcolm won’t be the only suspect. “Actually, everybody is a suspect. And as you saw with the bank teller Eva, it was very reasonable to think that she could be involved. It’s pretty reasonable to think any number of those people could be involved, even the cop. You never know who he might owe money to. There’s a couple people I would think would not be suspects. I don't know, it’s over with Eva. It could be her sister. She also works at a bank and she doesn’t want to be there. So it could be anything.”
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