[CLIP] [Tessa Thompson as Anna] Detective Harper! Is it true you knew her?

[tense music playing] 

[Alice Feeney] HIS & HERS is a story about a journalist called Anna Andrews and a detective called Jack Harper who end up working on the same murder investigation. They both seem to know a little bit more about it than they should. In this story, we hear from both points of view, his and hers. 

[Tessa Thompson] There are always at least two sides to every story, and the exciting thing for an audience is to figure out which side is correct. It's also a show about family, about familial ties. 

[Sunita Mani] It's about dealing with your past and persevering. 

[Tessa Thompson] And then, of course, there's sort of the deliciousness of the murder mystery, which I know people love to follow. 

[Alice Feeney] But most of all, for me, it's a story about the things we are willing to do to protect the people we love the most. I remember arriving on set for the first time, and it was as though my character has come to life.

[dramatic string music playing] 

[CLIP] [Tessa Thompson as Anna] She was murdered Jack, I know it. So, who was it? 

[CLIP] [Jon Bernthal as Jack]  You cannot cover this story. You cannot. 

[CLIP] [Tessa Thompson as Anna] Why not?

[CLIP] [Jon Bernthal as Jack] Just don't. 

[CLIP] [Tessa Thompson as Anna] You're gonna have to give me more than that. 

[Tessa Thompson] Anna Andrews is, I think, a fiercely ambitious, sharp, sometimes biting woman who, when we meet at the top of our show, has sort of lost her way. 

[Alice Feeney] She has this incredible armor, but beneath the armor of hair and makeup and her fabulous outfits for presenting the news is a very fragile and vulnerable woman. 

[Tessa Thompson] Anna returns home after a murder has happened in the small town that she grew up in, and it becomes an opportunity for her, A, to investigate what's happened there and also to reunite with people from her past. 

[CLIP] [Jon Bernthal as Jack] Was I supposed to wait for you? 

[CLIP] [Tessa Thompson as Anna] Yeah, that's exactly what the fuck you were supposed to do. 

[Jon Bernthal] He's taken a year of his life trying to track down his wife who's cut off all communication with him after they lost their child. He had a promising career as an Atlanta homicide detective. Now he's back in his small town working for the Lumpkin County Sheriff's Department. And I think you sort of find him in a place that's aimless, somewhat depressed. That's sort of Jack when this whole thing starts. 

[Alice Feeney] He is fundamentally a good guy who's made some bad decisions.

[CLIP] [Tessa Thompson as Anna] I'll be back soon.

[CLIP] [Crystal Fox as Alice] When? 

[CLIP] [Tessa Thompson as Anna] Mama, it's work, so I don't know. 

[CLIP] [Crystal Fox as Alice] Okay, you promise? It's been real nice having you here.

[CLIP] [Tessa Thompson as Anna] I gotta go.

[CLIP] [Crystal Fox as Alice] Okay. 

[Crystal Fox] Alice is a mom, a grandmother. 

[Alice Feeney] Alice is the kind of mother whose entire world revolves around her daughter. Alice is someone who has been judged all her life, and she didn't want that life for her daughter. She wanted to give her daughter every opportunity to be someone more, to have a better life. 

[CLIP] [Tessa Thompson as Anna]  Richard Jones married to rising star Lexy Jones. What's that like? Exciting? Lonely? People recognize her in the grocery store, asking to take their photo. Next to her, you're invisible. 

[Pablo Schreiber] Richard is a cameraman at WSK, the news station, where his wife Lexy is the head anchor of the afternoon news. We meet Richard at the very beginning at the crime scene when Anna shows up to report on this murder that's just happened. He becomes her cameraman, and they develop a rapport. We're not entirely sure if her intentions are pure, and then we start to see sides of him that are slightly darker and start bubbling to the surface.

[CLIP] [Jon Bernthal as Jack] Thank you, Priya.

[CLIP] [Sunita Mani as Priya] All right, let's go.

[CLIP] [Jon Bernthal as Jack]  Where are we going?

[CLIP] [Sunita Mani as Priya] I texted you like 20 times. You didn't get my texts?

[CLIP] [Jon Bernthal as Jack] Ah… Phone's fucked. What's goin' on? 

[CLIP] [Sunita Mani as Priya] We've got a dead body. 

[Sunita Mani] Detective Patel. She is like an outsider kind of coming into this new setting of, like, small town. Who are these people?  She's really obsessed with her job. I really appreciate her, like, commitment to this case. 

[CLIP] [Tessa Thompson as Anna] Excuse me, just on the way to see Jim. 

[CLIP] [Rebecca Rittenhouse as Lexy] You're coming back? 

[CLIP] [Tessa Thompson as Anna] Of course. 

[Rebecca Rittenhouse] Lexy is a bit of an enigmatic character. When we meet her, we meet her as Anna's professional rival. Anna's coming back in and taking her position back that Lexy feels that she's worked really hard for and that she now deserves to have. They're definitely very, very different from each other, and there's a sense of underlying tension and competitiveness with them.

[CLIP] [Tessa Thompson as Anna] Morning, Jack. 

[Alice Feeney] Seeing the book come to life on screen has been one of the most surreal and best moments of my life. I love what they've done to the story. I love how true they have been to the book. But in order to make a story fit for TV, it has to bend a little bit. It has to change shape. And they have done that in the most sensitive and brilliant and clever way. And it's the kind of story that I hope viewers won't forget.