On Leverage, Beth Riesgraf stars as master thief Parker. In an interview with The Boston Herald, the actress dished on her character, explaining to fans what they can look forward to on the second season of the TNT hit.

“The throughline for Parker this season is that now that she’s comfortable around this group and she’s decided that she needs them in her life, the next step for her is acclimating herself and having a group of friends and people she can trust and how she deals with that,” she said.

Viewers, of course, wanna know if Parker and her partner-in-crime Alec Hardison will follow through on the mutual attraction that played out during the show’s initial season.

“People really want them to get together,” she said. “But if they did, people would be really disappointed. If it happens too fast, it doesn’t work. I think that the writers are being really smart about it. There’s enough there to play with and they definitely have chemistry, but you have to ride this one out, I think.”

As we inch closer and closer to the season two premiere of Leverage – airing on July 15 – viewers are curious about the show’s two key characters. What’s the deal with Nate and Sophie?

For the answers, E! News turned to star Timothy Hutton. He replied: “Season two starts out with Nate and Sophie running into each other in kind of an interesting way that’s been orchestrated by one of the five. And Nate learned something about Sophie’s current life that he wasn’t expecting, as it certainly impacts whether or not they’re going to get together or not. By the seventh show of the second season, a lot gets determined about Sophie and Nate. It tracks in a rather interesting way.”

As for Maggie, Hutton confirms that actress Kari Matchett “is definitely going to be back.”

So will we. Leverage was a solid, surprise hit on TNT last season.

Jeri Ryan is set to recur on TNT’s “Leverage.”

On the sophomore drama about a group of vigilaties in pursuit of bringing down bigwigs, she will play Tara, a smart-ass, street-wise con woman whom Sophie (Gina Bellman) calls on for help and who gets sucked into the Leverage family.

Ryan most recently co-starred on CBS’ “Shark.”

Her series credits also include “Boston Public,” “The O.C.” and “Star Trek: Voyager.”

She is repped by ICM and Kyle Fritz Management.

[GLORIA PAN] Female; 38-Mid 40s. (Chinese)Wealthy Chinese-American entrepreneur Cut throat and dispassionate owner of Golden Panda Clothing Company. She is the Alpha female of the company, managing the sweatshop and making the retail sales…..She always wanted to be a famous clothing designer and she is ‘conned’ by the team after she mistreats her employees…Should speak a bit of CHINESE…GUEST STAR Billing-possible top of show-otherwise weekly rate

[RUSSELL PAN] Male; 42-50. (Chinese)Wealthy Chinese-American entrepreneur. Owner of Golden Panda Clothing Company. He is married to Gloria and mostly crunches the numbers for the company. He ends up selling out his own wife…..He also has some shady dealings with the Chinese Triad. .Should speak a bit of CHINESE…GUEST STAR Billing-possible top of show, otherwise weekly rate.



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[JIM VERRITY] Late 30s, Caucasian male. Slick businessman/playboy. Took over Verrity Diamonds and has gotten into some debt through his high profile lifestyle of booze, women and drugs. He hires some Russian thugs to rob his diamond transport in order to get the insurance payout. GUEST STAR

[DMITRI] 45-52, male. Russian mob boss. Verrity hires him to stage a diamond robbery but Dmitri turns on him plans to steal the diamonds for real. GUEST STAR