Charlie (The Company You Keep) #2 ~ Because we wish the show hadn’t been cancelled
The Company You Keep
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Here’s the setup: Charlie Nicoletti and his family — mom Fran (Polly Draper), dad Leo (William Fichtner) and big sister Birdie (Sarah Wayne Callies) — own a bar in Baltimore and lead double-lives as criminals pulling off high-end heists (one of which landed Charlie in the slammer). They work together with guile, high-tech equipment, disguises, alter-egos — the works — but their latest scam, stealing $10 million from an Irish crime syndicate, goes awry when Charlie’s ostensible fiancee grabs the cash for herself and vanishes without a trace. Call it the Big Kiss-off.
Charlie goes to a bar to drown his sorrows and meets Emma Hill (Catherine Haena Kim), an undercover CIA agent posing as a data analyst at a “logistics firm.” She, too, is in the throes of a romance gone sour after dumping her cheating boyfriend. Charlie tells Emma he’s a yoga instructor; she tells him she’s an ex-beauty pageant contestant-turned-NASA rocket scientist. Like that. They get drunk, spend the night together (chastely) and discover they have feelings for each other despite that one small glitch about their real identities.
Enter Daphne Finch (Felisha Terrell), the Irish syndicate’s Ivy League-educated “consultant” who shows up at the Nicolettis’ bar demanding they fork over $15 million to free her boss from prison … or else. The icing on the cake? Emma is working with the FBI to bring down that same syndicate (which brokers in fentanyl) — setting up an unwitting cat-and-mouse game between she and Charlie as their alter-egos romance takes a turn for the hot-and-heavier.
