[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers about the series premiere of Murder in a Small Town , “The Suspect.”] Murder in a Small Town ‘s series premiere might be focused on solving the mystery of who committed a horrible homicide, but the real centerpiece of the story is the budding relationship between Cassandra Lee ( Kristin Kreuk ) and Karl Alberg ( Rossif Sutherland ). At the beginning of the episode, the two meet for a blind date, and, after a somewhat awkward start, they hit it off.
Karl, the new chief of police in the tiny town of Gibsons, British Columbia, is newly divorced, while Cassandra is the local librarian who’s been very unlucky in love. It doesn’t take long, though, for their newfound romantic bond to be put to the test; when Cassandra’s acquaintance George Wilcox (James Cromwell) becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his ex-brother-in-law, Karl faces a moral dilemma about whether to lock the otherwise docile old man up for life or let him live out his days elsewhere and let the case go cold. Ultimately, he opts for the latter, but still, there are some major question marks about what this means for the couple at the center of the story, who each lied to one another along the way to that decision.
TV Insider spoke with the two leads to find out how they established that complicated dynamic so quickly and what’s ahead as the inaugural season unfolds. The premiere starts with you two having a pretty awkward first date. How fun was.
