1676892090 The Company You Keep Recap Season 1 Episode 1 Premieres

The Company You Keep Recap: Season 1 Episode 1 Premieres on ABC

Perhaps the greatest con of all is love in ABC’s new drama The Company You Keep.

Sunday’s series premiere introduces us to Charlie Nicoletti (played by This Is Us’ Milo Ventimiglia), an exceptionally skilled con man who sells a warehouse he doesn’t even own to a drug dealer… just as the FBI arrives. But the FBI are actually his accomplices: his father Leo (Mom and Prison Break vet William Fichtner), mother Fran (Thirtysomething’s Polly Draper), sister Birdie (The Walking Dead’s Sarah Wayne Callies), and financée Tina (ubiquitous guest star Bridget Regan). ). But as good as Charlie is at what he does, he doesn’t see it coming when Tina steals $10 million from him and disappears.

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Meanwhile, CIA agent Emma Hill (Catherine Haena Kim of Good Trouble) – whose cover identity is a logistics company’s data analyst – discovers her boyfriend is cheating on her. Even though she can’t say she loves him, she still goes to a hotel bar to drown her sorrows, where she skillfully attracts a married man who’s trying to hit on her. Charlie witnesses the moment and starts whining about the love and relationship with Emma. The two hit it off, sharing obviously false stories about what they do for a living, then revealing the truth about their jobs, though neither seems to know the other is being honest.

After Charlie goes to his hotel room, Emma shows up at his door just moments later, and you know what happens next: they kiss, then… decide they’re starving and spend the night just eating , drinking and laughing. But the next day they get to work, spending a happy 36 hours in bed, frolicking in the pool and raiding the hotel bar. “Maybe we’ll just stay here, do that. Indefinitely,” Charlie suggests, but Emma knows it’s a fantasy.

The Company You Keep RecapCharlie returns to his family with a new job that aims to recoup some of their lost money: they will scam a rich mega-pastor who is laundering money for someone. They all go undercover into his church and eventually work their way into a swanky DC gala where the pastor and his shady contact will meet.

At the event, Charlie spots Emma, ​​who is there with her dynastic family, including her former governor’s father (Eli Stones James Saito), senator brother (SEAL-Teams Tim Chiou), and her mother (Freda Foh Shen). Charlie invites her to a dance, but after Birdie accuses him of being distracted at work, he declines Emma’s invitation to dinner.

When Charlies poses as the pastor’s contact and takes his bag of money, Emma gets a call from her CIA colleague about the drug trafficking ring she’s tracking. You got a photo of the leader during his meeting with Charlie with his back to the camera. The FBI captures the drug lord, but his henchman Daphne (Felisha Terrell of Dynasty), also known as the real mastermind behind the operation, escapes while Emma gives chase.

The Company You Keep RecapBack at the family bar, Charlie confronts his father about his early memory loss. His parents don’t approve of the idea of ​​walking away and leaving Charlie with the bag, although they were hoping to retire somewhere sunny after one last big score. After Birdie mentions there was a girl, Charlie’s mother tells him this can’t be his whole world. So Charlie visits Emma’s house to tell her the truth: he hasn’t stopped thinking about her and he wants to go out with her. He knows she can read people but doesn’t trust them easily, knows she wants something else and so does he. In response, she kisses him.

But when Charlie returns to the bar, he gets an ugly surprise: Daphne is there, playing with Birdie’s daughter and wants her $15 million.

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