Yahoo Lifestyle Alert: MPU Season 3: The Resident’s Malcolm-Jamal Warner Among Cast Additions
It’s a Fox alum reunion for Alert: Missing Persons Unit Season 3.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner (The Resident) and Megalyn Echikunwoke (Almost Family) will appear in recurring roles opposite Scott Caan (who stars as Jason Grant) and Dania Ramirez (Nikki Batista) in the third season of the procedural series, per our sister site Deadline. (Alert: Missing Persons Unit Season 3 begins March 25 at 9 pm following The Cleaning Lady at 8/7c.)
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Warner will play the role of Chief Inspector Bill Houston who steps into an interim role with oversight of the MPU. Despite being a stickler for rules and regulations, as well as his past dislike for Jason’s cowboy antics, he begins to realize the MPU gets results when the rules are slightly broken.
Meanwhile, Echikunwoke will portray Lt. Gabrielle Bennett, a former trainee of Jason’s at the Philly PD. She’s tough, ambitious and focused on getting results, as long as it doesn’t put her at risk.
Reads the season’s official logline: “MPU is tasked with cases ranging from a missing female collegiate rowing team who disappeared while on the water, to a missing street artist due to donate his rare bone marrow to save his dying brother, to Nikki’s ongoing and dangerous association with Irish mob boss Charlie McGannon. But the most harrowing case to date is when MPU must band together in a race to find one of their own.”
On The Resident, Warner played Dr. AJ Austin, initially appearing as a recurring character in Season 1 before becoming a series regular through the sixth and final season. Echikunwoke starred in Almost Family in the leading role as Edie Palmer until the series’ end after one season.
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