‘Alert: Missing Persons Unit’ Adds Alisha-Marie Ahamed As Series Regular, Gil Bellows As Recurring In Season 2

Denise Petski
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Fox is expanding the Season 2 cast for Alert: Missing Persons Unit, from John Eisendrath and Jamie Foxx. Alisha-Marie Ahamed (Family Law) is joining as a new series regular and Gil Bellows (Ally McBeal) has been tapped to heavily recur opposite Scott Caan and Dania Ramirez in the procedural drama.

Written by Eisendrath, Alert is set in the Philadelphia Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit (MPU). Each episode features a heart-pounding, life-or-death search for a missing person headed by detectives Jason Grant (Caan) and Nikki Batista (Ramirez). Together with the MPU team, their job is to find the missing or abducted and reunite them with their loved ones. Jason and Nikki, once married, have a very personal connection to these cases as their own young son went missing and was never found. The emotional toll of their son’s disappearance blew up their marriage, but even though they’ve moved on, their bond remains. Nikki now runs MPU, where she and the team do for others what she wasn’t able to do for herself: bring a loved one back home. At MPU, she leads a highly skilled team, including her fiancé Mike Sherman (Ryan Broussard), whom Nikki met when he was assigned to oversee the search for her son; Kemi Adebayo (Adeola Role), a spiritually savvy detective with an astonishing knowledge base, and forensic anthropologist C (recurring guest star Petey Gibson).

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In Season 2, Ahamed will portray Wayne Pascal. In spite of her name, Wayne is very much female, and a master hacker serving her house arrest sentence in a dingy motel. A spitfire techie, Wayne has a heart of gold beneath an edgy exterior.

Bellows is Inspector Hollis Braun. An iron hand under a pleasant demeanor, Inspector Braun is Nikki and Jason’s new boss, and as the head of the division, has every intention of keeping their antics in line.

As the second season begins, the MPU team step into their new office in headquarters, where Jason and Nikki meet their new boss Inspector Hollis Braun (Bellows), who wants to keep a close eye on the team, particularly the unpredictable Jason Grant. Jason brings his old friend in to help with the case: master hacker Wayne Pascal (Ahamed), who he worked with in Afghanistan. Jason conveniently never told Nikki that Wayne was a woman (and a hot one!), which raises issues even as Nikki and Mike plan their wedding. Together, the team works to find the missing or abducted and help reunite them with their loved ones before it’s too late.

Alert: Missing Persons Unit is a co-production of Sony Pictures Television and Fox Entertainment. Carla Kettner serves as showrunner for Season 2, replacing Eisendrath who showran Season 1. The series is executive produced by Jamie Foxx and Eisendrath, as well as Kettner.

Ahamed recently completed production on the upcoming CBC series Wild Cards. Previous credits include Family Law, The Good Doctor and The Haunting of Bly Manor. She is repped by Principals Talent Management and Authentic Talent and Literary Management.

Bellows is best-known for his roles as Tommy in The Shawshank Redemption and Billy Thomas on Ally McBeal, and his recent work includes The Handmaid’s Tale and Women of the Movement. Bellows also produced the Emmy-winning Temple Grandin and the Amazon series Patriot. He is represented by The Characters Talent Agency, Red Management and Mainstay Entertainment.

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