The Cleaning Lady Season 2 - Episode 7

Editor's Note: The following interview contains major spoilers for Season 2, Episode 7 of The Cleaning Lady.With a second season well underway, Collider sat down with the showrunners of The Cleaning Lady, Melissa Carter and Miranda Kwok, to discuss some of the biggest twists so far. The Cleaning Lady centers around Thony De La Rosa (Élodie Yung), a former surgeon from Manila who is trapped in Las Vegas as an undocumented immigrant after her visa expires. She becomes embroiled in a conflict with both the local mob and federal agents after meeting Arman Morales (Adan Canto), a gangster who agrees to protect Thony and her son in exchange for her cleaning up his crime scenes. On the other side, she is in a cautionary alliance with FBI agent Garrett Miller (Oliver Hudson), who is chasing after the mob and using Thony as an informant along the way.

The Cleaning Lady Season 2 - Episode 7

CARTER: No, we always intended to have them be this couple. I mean, right from the pilot, there's this attraction just by the very fact that he allows her to live in this situation when she observes this mob hit. She should have been killed, but he has this soft spot for her not only because his mother was a cleaning lady, but there's just that moment of connection when he defends her when Tarik (Deniz Akdeniz) throws a can that almost hits her head. He just instantly comes to her defense and there's a moment of connection, of gratitude, that she shows him that he cannot kill her even when he should. So that one little decision that he makes to save her allows him to feel like a hero in her eyes like he does something good. He's in a world where he makes lots of bad decisions, but by doing this one good turn for another person, he likes that feeling, and it becomes something that we play with as we arced out his character, that that one good deed really changes the course of his life. 041b061a72