‘Watson’ Is Bringing the Doctor & Mary Closer Together After Secret Reveal

Ahead of Watson‘s series premiere, we knew that the titular doctor’s (Morris Chestnut) ex-wife, Mary (Rochelle Aytes), had a secret. It took until Episode 7 for that to be revealed, and it was that she had a miscarriage and lost their baby when he went off with Sherlock Holmes, which led to the end of their marriage. Aytes tells TV Insider she knew about that before beginning work on the season.

“I had a conversation with [executive producer] Craig Sweeny before we started filming, and that was one of the things he told me and made me aware of because it played a very important role in why she is the way she is. Why is she so walled off?” she explains. “It was just something that I thought was important to know. Now I, Rochelle, can internalize that as we go about these episodes and remember that, yeah, she’s got a lot of resentment towards him and she’s holding this secret. And so that kind of informs her story and the way she communicates with him.”