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It was the ‘70s when people hitchhiked, so Franks tried his luck at sticking out his thumb, but to no avail. That is until Tish (Tonantzin Carmelo) has a flat tire, which Franks offers to change for her. She offered him money, but what he really wanted was a ride, and before the end of the episode, she was cutting his hair and shaving his beard. But Tish is a hairdresser, so she decided the best thing to do is not to cut off all the facial hair, but to leave the mustache. So, it’s the love of his life that gave Franks his signature look.
“That was awesome,” Schmid tells Parade exclusively. “That was so much fun. Tish trims me up, and she cuts it. And so, we slowly see the hair fall away, and you see this younger version of Mike slowly appear on camera. The fact that Tish gives him this signature, iconic mustache is the best way to end this episode. Because in one way or another, she will always be with him. And he will always be reminded of her every time he looks in the mirror.”
Kyle SchmidPhoto: Sonja Flemming/CBS
“He is given every opportunity through the last few episodes to do exactly that [walk away],” Schmid explains. “And so, there’s such a deep-rooted sense of violation, but Mike has this need to protect the people that he holds close. We see it with Gibbs (Austin Stowell). We see it with Lala (Mariel Molino). We see it with the cases that he takes on. They all become very, very personal to him.”
But, especially with Tish, the love of his life, the angel who saved him from going down the darkest of roads when they first met, he is trying his best to right the wrong. But he's unable to save the person that he felt he was supposed to save.
Austin Stowell, Kyle Schmid, Mariel Molino, Caleb FootePhoto: Erik Voake/CBS
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The episode opened with a vet in trouble with the police, and Franks hears the commotion. He goes out to see what’s up, and that’s when Lance Corporal Tom Molina (Nick Gomez) tells him that his fellow vet, Lance Corporal Peter Rice, had been murdered. Franks and Tom go out to the homeless vet encampment, where they find the body. The discovery of how Tom is living causes Franks to reflect on his own struggles following the war. But the result of that is he takes Tom seriously and gets the NIS team involved in the investigation of Peter's murder.
Kyle Schmid, Austin StowellPhoto: Greg Gayne/CBS
“Anything that we can do to try and shed light on mental illness is a wonderful byproduct of making this show,” says Schmid, who put his character's mustache to good use last November for a good cause–mental health–as part of Movember, the men’s health movement.
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