Ryan O’Rourke

Published Oct 5, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT

Ryan O’Rourke is a Senior News Writer at Collider with a specific interest in all things adult animation, video game adaptations, and the work of Mike Flanagan. He is also an experienced baseball writer with over six years of articles between multiple outlets, most notably FanSided’s CubbiesCrib. Whether it’s taking in a baseball game, a new season of Futurama or Castlevania: Nocturne, or playing the latest From Software title, he is always finding ways to show his fandom. When it comes to gaming and anything that takes inspiration from it, he is deeply opinionated on what’s going on. Outside of entertainment, he’s a graduate of Eureka College with a Bachelor’s in Communication where he honed his craft as a writer. Between The IV Leader at Illinois Valley Community College and The Pegasus at Eureka, he spent the majority of his college career publishing articles on everything from politics to campus happenings and, of course, entertainment for the student body. Those principles he learned covering the 2020 election, Palestine, and so much more are brought here to Collider, where he has gleefully written on everything from the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes to Nathan Lane baby-birding sewer boys.

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Peter Krause is wasting no time getting settled back into NBC. Before spending 123 episodes across eight seasons as the 118’s captain, Bobby Nash, in 9-1-1 on ABC until his death, the star once called the network home while playing the oldest of four Braverman siblings in the acclaimed drama Parenthood. In fact, his television roots are directly tied to NBC, as he kicked off his small-screen career as one of the key players aboard Carol Burnett’s sketch comedy series Carol & Company in 1990. Last month finally marked his return, and now he’s the patriarch of a new family upholding the law at every level.

Line of Fire introduces Krause as Mike Hollingsworth, a Deputy Special Agent in Charge in the U.S. Secret Service, and just one piece of a legendary, yet messy family handling cases across the FBI, U.S. Marshals, and the Department of Justice. Although they work in similar fields, their personalities clash both at home and on the job as they cross professional boundaries to do what they do best. However, circumstances force them to combine their expertise to save each other when one seemingly simple case spiders out into a conspiracy that endangers all of them. That doesn’t mean they don’t still have time to get on each other’s cases and spark a bit of family drama.

Collider can share an exclusive sneak peek at Episode 3, titled “There Are Two Wolves,” which finds Mike’s son Micah (Tommy O’Brien) responding to a security breach. Break time with his fellow Secret Service agents comes to an end when sirens go off, and a call comes in about an infiltration at Eisenhower. The security detail moves quickly but professionally, shutting off elevator operations and checking doors on the way to the stairwell where the intruder has supposedly been located. Upon opening the door, however, he just finds Mike sitting on the stairs with a stopwatch. They were fast, but not nearly fast enough to meet his lofty standards. The once soon-to-retire agent isn’t satisfied with the seeming lapse in instinct and training of Micah’s team in their reliance on technology, and vows a return to basics, especially fitness training, in a dig at everyone present. It’s another reminder of exactly why Micah is so eager for dear old dad to call it a career.

The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.

You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.

You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.

You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.

You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.

Mike cracking down on Micah’s team is only one of several storylines unfolding in Episode 3. While the father is busy whipping the other Secret Service agents into shape, Clare (Kat Cunning) and Russ (Taylor Bloom) are in a race against time to get to the bottom of a grand jury tampering case, while Jane (Hope Davis) works on the bigger mystery at hand. She’s seeking any files related to the murdered agents, but keeping ahead of Department of Homeland Security detective Nia Wallace’s (Antoinette Crowe-Legacy) investigation puts even more strain on her relationships than ever. Charlie Barnett rounds out the main cast as veteran Jack Hollingsworth.

So far, Line of Fire is off to a hot start under series creator Joshua Safran on NBC. The premiere drew in a very strong 8.6 million viewers, representing a 48% increase in viewership from the network’s Monday night slot last season. Critics have also powered it to a strong 85% on Rotten Tomatoes. Among those singing its praises is Collider’s Therese Lacson, who hailed it as “a twist on par with The Blacklist that makes the show worth tuning back into” in a 7/10 review.

Line of Fire Episode 3 premieres on NBC tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Check out our exclusive sneak peek in the player above.

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