‘SIX’ Sneak Peek: Rip’s Not Ready for Redemption ... Yet
History Channel’s new drama series SIX continues tonight with its second hour, which finds former Navy SEAL Team Six leader turned gun for hire Rip (Walton Goggins) still held captive — with Nigerian schoolgirls and their teacher, Na’omi (Nondumiso Tembe) — by Boko Haram.
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In the episode, written by co-creator David Broyles and directed by Lesli Linka Glatter, Rip’s former team attempts to detain a courier for Boko Haram who could help them uncover his whereabouts. Meanwhile, Na’omi tries to convince Rip to do something — anything — to save the girls from the horrifying fate that awaits them if they are sold into slavery, raped by their so-called husbands, and shunned by their families.
“Like I said, s*** happens. Nothing that anybody can do about it,” Rip tells her.
It’s difficult to watch Rip, who’s now a lost soul after years of service and sacrifice for his country, hesitate to help. But it’ll take him time to find his purpose again — he gets closer in the Feb. 1 episode, which delves deeper into Rip’s backstory and loss of identity — and that’s realistic, Goggins says. “When people say that’s not heroic, I think that’s the most heroic thing that you can do — to be honest in that moment and say, ‘What the f*** do you want from me? I’ve given you everything that I have. I have nothing else to give,’ and you still give it,” he says. “To say that he would just give it is a lie, man. There’s a bridge you have to cross. That doesn’t make you a non-hero; it makes you a human being, and Lord knows that’s what we all are at the end of the day. Whatever face you put on when you walk out of your house in the morning, at the end of the day when nobody’s looking, we are all the same.”
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SIX airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on History Channel.
