‘I Will Discover You’ Star Britt Decrease on Rachel’s ‘Spidey Sense’ and Why [SPOILER] because the Murderous Villain Was ‘Good Casting’

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains key storylines and particulars about “I Will Discover You,” now streaming on Netflix.

Harlan Coben’s newest Netflix homicide thriller collection, “I Will Discover You,” seems to have captured most everybody’s consideration. Simply take a look at the numbers.

As Selection’s Jennifer Maas reported on Tuesday, “I Will Discover You” had the streamer’s highest second week of viewers for an English-language scripted collection launch in 2026, to this point. That milestone got here after it captured 24 million views (making it Netflix’s high TV present launch of the 12 months) within the first week after its June 18 debut.

I’m on a Zoom with star Britt Decrease once I inform her that I not solely binged the collection over one weekend, however I might struggle sleep late at night time simply so I may maintain watching.

“That’s what’s so enjoyable about this present. It’s summer time and it’s like if you’re a child and also you’re combating sleep,” Decrease says. “When else do you get to have that have of I’m not drained, I’m gonna keep up and I’m gonna maintain consuming snacks? I’m actually thrilled for everybody. I maintain getting textual content messages that individuals can’t fall asleep, and I’m like, ‘Properly, college is out for the summer time.’”

Decrease stars within the eight-episode collection – an adaptation of Coben’s novel of the identical identify — as Rachel, a Boston Globe journalist who units out to show that her ex-brother-in-law David (Sam Worthington) was wrongly convicted and despatched to jail for the ugly homicide of his younger son Matthew. What unfolds is a jail break, run-ins with Boston mobsters and entanglements with medical doctors and a seemingly sinister, rich household. There’s additionally the father-daughter FBI group (Chi McBride and Logan Browning) who’re on the hunt for fugitive David.

The whodunit leads as much as one among Coben’s signature last twists. On this case, Rachel’s ex-boyfriend, a scion of a rich household performed by Milo Ventimiglia, is revealed to have kidnapped Matthew as a result of he believes he’s the boy’s father.

“I learn the e-book earlier than I had learn the scripts,” Decrease says. “I feel we solely had perhaps three or 4 of the scripts going into filming, after which we do block taking pictures, so that you do a pair at a time, after which by the point it’s the top, you’ve gotten all of the scripts.”

It’s Rachel who jumpstarts the story when she visits David in jail after noticing a boy who eerily appears to be like like Matthew within the background of a photograph {that a} good friend had posted to Fb.

“The [Hayden] twist actually is related to why Rachel has this intuition within the first place and all the things simply makes extra sense,” Decrease says. “Oh, she had this Spidey sense, and it was related to this one who was speculated to be like her finest good friend.”

Hayden not solely violently kills a detective who accuses him of being related to Matthew’s disappearance, however he additionally fatally shoots his personal mom (Madeleine Stowe). “That’s actually good casting as a result of Milo is the overall reverse,” Decrease says. “He’s the loveliest, most light human.”

However one other finale twist to contemplate is when Rachel and David are seen holding palms, main many viewers – together with myself – to marvel if a romance had developed between the 2.

“I beloved how quiet that final second was,” Decrease says. “I feel it feels so earned based mostly on all the things we’ve been by means of collectively, and there’s a way that it’s open-ended the place the story takes them.”

She continues, “They’ve this unstated understanding of what the opposite particular person has been by means of, and that connection felt stronger than any sort of romance could possibly be. They’ve a shared loneliness and a perception of their household system and a drive to save lots of this boy. There’s actually no room for a lot romance when you consider all that’s occurring. However that sort of light gesture of help with the hand-hold, I believed that felt acceptable.”