Tex pulled out all the stops to charm Dr. Rachel Scott last season on "The Last Ship," but after she continually turned down his advances, he'll focus his attention on a lost love in season two.
"Tex had just planted that big smacker on Dr. Scott, kind of saying, 'This is what you've been missing baby. Too bad.' So the ball is in her court," John Pyper Ferguson, who plays the military contractor, tells Headlines & Global News in an exclusive interview. "The second season for Tex is really about the girl in the locket."
Dr. Scott (Rhona Mitra) found the keepsake on the military contractor when he volunteered to test the potential cure for the pandemic that has killed millions around the world in the post-apocalyptic TNT series that returns on Sunday.
"I think his intentions are shifting and he has to take care of some personal business this time around," the 51-year-old actor says. "He's really a different guy in season two. He gives a window into his heart and where he's been and what he's done in his life."
Choppy currents will be the least of his worries as he enters the shark-infested waters of Pearson Specter Litt on the USA Network's "Suits." Pyper-Ferguson will join the law drama as Jack Soloff, the new head of the firm's Compensation Committee, who will stir the pot between Harvey (Gabriel Macht) and Louis (Rick Hoffman).
"Unlike 'The Last Ship,' where it's everybody gets along or we die, this is actually swimming with sharks," he says. "Everyone's out to get something from somebody else and kill somebody and get above them."
Pyper-Ferguson describes Soloff as a "man with a plan," always looking to move up and stopping at nothing to reach the top. "He's busted his ass every step along the way, and every time he's moved up the staircase there's someone trying to knock him down," he says.
Soloff will first appear in the fifth season premiere, which airs on Wednesday, June 24 at 9 p.m. on USA.
"It's a different world [than 'The Last Ship'], but getting my feet into those dress shoes instead of the combat boots has been a blast," Pyper-Ferguson says.
"The Last Ship" will premiere its second season on Sunday, June 21 at 9 p.m.
