Kristin Kreuk as Catherine and Jay Ryan as Vincent in ‘Beauty and The Beast’ (The CW)
The wait is over. “Beauty and The Beast” roars back to The CW on Thursday night, bringing good things for Jay Ryan’s Vincent Keller.
“We pick up in the best sort of headspace that Vincent’s been in for a long time really, since the atrocities of him taking his turn as a medical experiment,” Jay told Access Hollywood over the phone from the set of “BATB” in Toronto. “He has been exonerated and he’s also been reinstated in his original profession – as a doctor. He really is in his happy place. All the loose ties of his darker past have been tied up in a nice little bow, he’s fully in love and he’s part of society now.”
With a little normalcy under his belt, the man who was previously poked, prodded, experimented on and forced to hunt down his own kind is ready for some conventional romance with his love, Catherine Chandler (Kristin Kreuk).
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“He’s at that point where he’s ready to take that next step of commitment in his relationship with Catherine,” Jay said.
VinCat cuddled up and smooching on a park bench in New York City was the romantic final portrait “BATB” painted when it closed out Season 2 in July 2014, and in Thursday’s “The Beast of Wall Street” episode, the next step involves a sparkler.
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“I think Vincent feels that [all the] loose ends of being exposed and being chased down by Muirfield and Catherine’s other evil lovers — a la Gabe — have all been taken out of the equation and he is in a safe little bubble and he sort of returns to his former glory before he became this creature. So, he thinks that he’s got everything under control now and now is a good time to take it to the next level and pop the question,” Jay told Access.
Beasties can also expect Vincent to share a little love advice with his best friend, JT Forbes (Austin Basis), who is moving toward the next step in his relationship with Tess (Nina Lisandrello).
“I think Vincent is much more aware of his buddy also needing love in his life, just as much as Vincent needs it to heal the darker sides of himself, so he definitely tries to lend a hand in the way that guys do, I guess, giving him some tips on how to treat the ladies, to keep them coming back,” Jay laughed. “But obviously, Vincent’s not that great at that kind of thing either and he still has a lot to learn himself, so he could send his buddy in the wrong direction.”
It wouldn’t be “Beauty and The Beast” without a heavy dose of danger and outside of the romance, Season 3 introduces new threats. Expect those FBI agents who helped Vincent out at the end of Season 2 to start demanding some payback.
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“Yeah, [the FBI guys are] the people that Catherine and Vincent made this deal with… to create Vincent’s new identity and sweep everything under the carpet, so they can start afresh. Now they kind of withdraw on that offer, as these people usually do in society, and they are at a point where these new occurrences of kind of the supernatural variety have started to [flare] up in New York City again, and it’s just at the moment where Vincent is in a safe bubble,” Jay said.
Getting back in the supernatural tracking game isn’t exactly where Vincent wants to go now that things on the beast front have simmered down. For Catherine though, it’s her calling.
“This kind of excites Catherine,” Jay said. “And she tries to, I guess, convince Vincent that this is part of their bigger journey, of their purpose in this world.”
“Beauty and The Beast” returns Thursday, June 11 at 8/7c on The CW.
— Jolie Lash
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