Following the surprisingly high amount of drama that plagued Fox’s Lethal Weapon in the spring — lethal drama, if you will, which ultimately resulted in co-star Clayne Crawford fired for toxic on-set behavior — we’re finally privy to what to expect with the show’s third season. Per intel from Deadline, Crawford’s replacement Seann William Scott will not be playing a new Riggs family member alongside Damon Wayans’ Roger Murtaugh, but will rather be a “war veteran and a father†named Wesley Cole who returns to Los Angeles after a decade in the hope of reconnecting with his family. His ex-girlfriend (Psych’s Maggie Lawson) is an emergency room surgeon in the city — the two met “in an active war zone years earlier, where Natalie served as a medic, and had a brief romance that resulted in a child.†How Cole and Murtaugh meet up and become partners, well, we’ll just have to wait and see.
Upon the announcement in May that Lethal Weapon was renewed for a third season with Scott attached as his replacement, Crawford, very diplomatically, sent his congratulations to the show’s cast and crew. “Riggs was a dream role and the experience will live with me forever. My heart is full,†he wrote on Instagram. “Good luck next season!†Crawford previously admitted that reports of his bad on-set behavior were true, with many of those instances involving Wayans.