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What seems like a hate crime turns out to be a young man’s cry for help in this week’s thrilling episode of Life, screening Monday, February 3rd at 8:30pm on 3.

When two Persian Americans are killed and a third is kidnapped, Detective Charlie Crews (Damian Lewis) and Dani Reese (Sarah Shahi) believe they have a hate crime on their hands.

The detectives race to meet the kidnappers’ demands before it’s too late. What follows is a complicated scheme involving drugs, money and ultimately a young man’s desperate attempt to win his mother’s affection.

Meanwhile, Charlie’s dream about solar panels prompts him to want to buy a solar farm. Charlie’s roommate and financial advisor, Ted Early (Adam Arkin), questions his impulsive nature, however with the settlement that Charlie received from being wrongly imprisoned money issues are the least of his worries.

It is this wealth as well as Charlie’s good looks that make the detective so hard for women to resist. However, there are two ladies in the his life who have managed to keep themselves from falling for Charlie, and they are none other than his partner, Dani, and their tough lieutenant Karen Davis (Robin Weigert).

Dani and Karen, two of the female central characters of the hit series have not succumbed to Charlie's charisma for two very different reasons.

Dani knows Charlie’s different and simply wants to understand him, Karen, on the other hand, dislikes and distrusts Charlie, and does not appreciate the fact that he is back on the job.

For Weigert, the idea of playing an unpleasant character like Karen initially made her uneasy, but after filming several episodes of Life's first season, the 38-year-old actress feels she is gaining a better sense of Karen.

"I have trouble engaging someone without some element of supplication," Robin told US Magazine. "I'm always hoping I will be liked, and she is not this way at all. I am finding how to sit comfortably in that authority and not be a martinet, finding a way to own it. Who I have looked to as a wonderful example is the Helen Mirren character in Prime Suspect".

While Robin Weigert turned to other media to help toughen up her character on Life, Lewis prepared for his role by reading Joseph Wambaugh's cop novels and going to the decommissioned prison Kilmainham, where inmates were beaten, starved and shot.

He visited other prisons as well, noting that many of the convicts had haunted looks.
"So many of them have a look in their eye like something has died inside," Crews told US.

Is it this feeling of something dying inside Charlie that tempts him to buy a solar farm, or is it all part of a greater plan? Find out in the thrilling action-drama Life, screening Monday, February 3rd at 8:30pm on 3.

Monday, March 3rd at 8:30pm