Tonight’s episode of “Covert Affairs” showcases backstory of Christopher Gorham’s Auggie

Tonight is an Auggie-centric episode of Covert Affairs and you won’t want to miss it!

The actor talked with TV/Line about the episode. Here are some highlights:

TVLINE | This week’s episode finally delves into Auggie’s backstory. Was it what you imagined?
Essentially, yeah. The specifics – I wasn’t sure what it was going to be. I had lots of different ideas. And we dropped hints. Auggie has revealed pieces of the story before, but he’s never revealed the whole story. What I was most happy about was that the thing that haunts him from what happens is not the fact that he lost his sight. What haunts him is something different, and something that real disabled vets feel after going through an experience like that. The emotional price is something I was hoping would be there and is. [That’s] what I’m most happy about.

TVLINE | What kind of things are we going to learn and explore about Auggie in this episode?
We actually learn a lot of things, some expected and some not expected. On the unexpected side, there’s lots of little things for real fans of the show, people who’ve been following Auggie closely. For instance, you find out that before he lost his sight, he wasn’t into jazz at all. In the episode, you find out why he loves that music so much. On the expected side, we finally get the full story of how he lost his sight. And then back on the unexpected side, you get the reason that he doesn’t share that story with many people. There’s a lot of both. And in that, you get a great action scene, and there’s some romance for Auggie…. You still get enough of the charming and funny side of him. And at the very end, I think you see a deepening of the relationship between Annie (played by Piper Perabo) and Auggie, which is nice.

TVLINE | How are things progressing between Annie and Auggie? There’s a big contingent of fans who think they belong together.
I think it’s a potential long-term arc for the show. What Piper and I are enjoying right now is playing that sizzle, that simmering chemistry that certainly can turn into something at any moment. But you’re never quite sure when or if it’s going to happen. That’s an exciting place to live and an exciting thing to watch. For now, that’s where we’re keeping things.