Where's "Faisal"?... Who played Faisal"... Why isn't his character or the incredibly handsome actor,(who ever he is?), named in the cast list?
He was (sorta) Hector's lover, who the CIA allowed to be sent home to Saudi Arabia to be tried for "sodomy", and most likely murdered, in episode 1, and we find out his backstory in episode 9. Why the hell isn't this actor named here?
It's difficult to say why he was not listed.
However, I've seen characters omitted previously in this and other shows simply because they were at the center of a big mystery in a plot and the producers did not want them listed--nor their number of episodes listed--in order to maintain secrecy about their storyline.
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It's possible this was the case with Faisal, since they used his rescue by Hector as a very important series of surprising scenes in the Series 1 finale.
Kerem Can. He's listed as "Bonneville / Faisal" here.
shareInteresting! I checked yesterday and could not find a listing. Must have missed it.
Speaking of Faisal, his late reappearance made me wonder if there might be more Faisal in series 2?
I was watching the first eppie again and realized Faisal was the one who told Hector to look into Iosava and therefore got Iosava activated as a live investigation by the B.S.
It was mentioned when Hector brought it to the station's attention that Langley had mentioned Iosava before, but apparently nothing came of it until Hector's asset told him to follow it.
Accident? Or might we learn next series that Faisal had more connections than Hector...to the agency?
It just seemed interesting that Faisal was the one who put Hector and therefore the B.S. directly on to Iosava, when Iosava was a kind of smoke screen in the end? That tip got the whole plot rolling and took it to its conclusion. It was important.
Why Iosava by Faisal? Why him? He could have told Hector about anybody, but Iosva was the tip the writers wrote.
Was Faisal a knowing part of the big picture Iosava set up? Was Hector played? Having served his purpose to tip Iosava to Hector, was Faisal whisked away with Saudi/Langley cooperation to keep him from telling anybody like Hector what he was up to?
Whether that tip meant something or was just an inadvertent tip by Faisal to serve the plot, it would be great to see him back next year.