Jordan finale captures
star
Jordan finale captures
star
Hennessy at work on
album also
Mitch Haaseth/NBC Universal Photo
Crossing Jordan star Jill Hennessy has been influenced
musically by Canadian singer/songwriters Sarah McLachlan
and Gordon Lightfoot.
Imagine waking up with
a gun in your hand and an old flame lying dead in your
bed.
That’s how the most
twisted and suspenseful 100th episode and season finale
of NBC’s Crossing Jordan begins Sunday night.
Jordan (Jill Hennessy)
finds her world being turned upside down, both
professionally and personally.
After celebrating
Lily’s (Kathryn Hahn) engagement, Jordan wakes up the
next day to the dead body of her ex-boyfriend J.D.
Pollack (Charles Mesure). Since she barely remembers
what happened the night before, she has no explanation
and becomes the prime suspect.
Determined to clear her
name and find out what really happened, Macy and the
rest of the team begin investigating what led up to
Pollack’s death.
When Hennessy, who kick
started her career on the criminal drama series Law &
Order, got the script for the finale in her hands, she
says she was dying to find out what was going to happen
next.
“It was a total page
turner,” says Hennessy. “From the get go, with the
opening scene of this episode you can go so many
different places … what happens to Jordan, what happens
to her emotional state.”
Hennessy says the
writers left the show wide open for the possibility of
what she hopes will lead to more of the political type
of storylines, especially since her character ends up in
Washington by the end of the episode.
“And the audience has
no idea what she’s up to, but we’re all left with this
feeling she’s going to try and figure out who’s after
her and who murdered Pollack,” she says. “I’ve already
heard some possibilities about future plotlines, and we
really have no boundaries left.”
While the show is on
hiatus until the next season comes back mid-fall, fans
can look forward to the release of Hennessy’s upcoming
album that she’ll be in the studio recording within the
next month.
“I’ve been writing for,
I guess, the last couple of years, whenever I could,
which was a little difficult with the filming schedule,”
says Hennessy, who describes the style of her music
based on the influences of Canadian singer/songwriters
Sarah McLachlan and Gordon Lightfoot, as well as singers
Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.
Catch Crossing Jordan
Sunday on Global at 10 p.m.
