‘Cross’ Creator Ben Watkins Breaks Down the Season 2 Finale and That Last-Second Twist With Jeanine Mason’s Character: “That Wasn’t Initially In There”

Cross creator Ben Watkins knew the audience would fall in love with Luz (Jeanine Mason) in Season 2 and that’s why they couldn’t kill her off.

**Spoiler alert for the Season 2 finale of Cross, now streaming on Prime Video**

In the second season of Prime Video’s hit series, Alex Cross (Aldis Hodge) is on a mission to find and stop Luz before she can execute — literally and figuratively — her kill list full of names, all complicit in the death of her mother and the trafficking of children. Her crimes may be brutal, but her intentions are always clear: hurt those who hurt others.

For that reason, when it came time to have Luz face the music at the end of Season 2, Watkins and his team of writers said they could not bear the possibility of never seeing her again. Which is why, after seemingly

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