Logan Browning had just moved from Los Angeles to Atlanta when she was offered the role of FBI agent Sarah Greer in Harlan Coben’s latest Netflix hit series “I Will Find You.”
“Maybe there’s something special in the water in Atlanta, because it all worked out,” Browning tells me over Zoom.
Sarah is not just any FBI agent. Her partner at the Boston bureau happens to be – get this! – her father, Max Williams, played by Chi McBride.
A father-daughter FBI team is a prime example of what Coben does so binge-worthy well – making the viewer believe the unbelievable is rooted in reality.
“In doing all my research, I was like, ‘This is a big no-go, like, this would never happen,’” Browning says, laughing. “They [the producers] were like, ‘They got special privileges because of his tenure.’ So I’m paving the way for father-daughter FBI teams. You’re welcome.”
Chi McBride and Logan Browning in “I Will Find You.”
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The eight-episode series sees Sarah and Max on the hunt for David Burroughs (Sam Worthington), a prison escapee who is on the run to prove that he was wrongly accused and sentenced to life for the brutal killing of his young son Matthew. Britt Lower co-stars as David’s former sister-in-law, a journalist who believes David is innocent. Milo Ventimiglia is Rachel’s wildly wealthy ex-boyfriend, Hayden, and Madeline Stowe plays his seemingly sinister mother.
The cat-and-mouse action thriller features David and Sarah making death-defying leaps from the roof of one Boston building to another. “I can hop buildings, didn’t you know that?” Browning quips.
In the end, Sarah ends up coming to David’s defense and helps clear his name.
“When we did do that roof scene, Sam brought this up. He’s like, ‘They need to lock eyes a couple of times because they are going to team up so fast in the end,’” Browning recalls. “I do think for me there’s a moment when David is about to jump off of the building where it almost seems like a compassionate moment between them.”
While Browning has had experience using firearms, she says Worthington proved to be an invaluable teacher. “Even though Sam’s character doesn’t use guns much, Sam has obviously used guns a lot,” Browning says. “There was one scene where one of our directors Maggie Kiley wanted me to reload. Sam taught me on the spot how to do that, and oh my god, he’s so cool. He really knows what he is doing. That was so cool to watch him do it.”
All eight episodes of “I Will Find You” are now streaming on Netflix.
