'The Good Fight' Season 2 Spoilers: Maia's Dad Resurfaces

By Rachel Cruz, Christian Post Contributor Friday, October 20, 2017

A familiar face will be back on "The Good Fight," the spinoff to "The Good Wife," in the second season. Paul Guilfoyle, who plays the disgraced billionaire Henry Rindell, will still be in multi-episodes when the show returns on CBS All Access in 2018.

Rindell fleed the country following the crumbling of his Ponzi scheme in the first season of "The Good Fight." His actions affected billions of other people's money, including his good friend Diane Flockhart's (Christine Baranski) retirement savings.

Rindell was supposed to take a deal with the FBI so that the agency won't run after his family. The money man's action, however, placed his daughter Maia (Rose Leslie) in a legal bind and she couldn't believe her father would betray a lot of people, including herself.

"The Good Fight" season 1 ended with Maia's arrest. Rindell's return in season 2 is for an undisclosed number of episodes. He might have chosen to come out of hiding because of his guilt over his daughter's situation.

CBS All Access renewed the series in March for 10 episodes. The streaming platform then ordered three more season 2 episodes of "The Good Fight" last May.

A new cast member will also join "The Good Fight" season 2. Audra McDonald signed onto the show last August to reprise her role from "The Good Wife" as the lawyer Liz Lawrence. Her character, while familiar to fans of the mother series, will be revealed as the ex-wife of Adrian Boseman (Delroy Lindo), the head of Reddick, Boseman & Kolstad.

It remains to be seen whether other alums from "The Good Wife" will also be in "The Good Fight" season 2. Showrunners Robert and Michelle King told E! News that they want Alan Cumming back as Eli Gold or Martha Plimpton as Patti Nylon.

CBS All Access premiered the show's first season last February but season 2's exact launch date in 2018 has not yet been confirmed as of press time.