Niecy Nash and Nathan Fillion Preview Potential 'Rookie' Spinoff (Exclusive)

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The Rookie world is expanding.Niecy Nash joins the fray as Simone Clark, the oldest rookie in the FBI Academy, for a two-hour backdoor pilot setting the table for a potential spinoff.

In Nash's debut episode, which airs Sunday, Officer John Nolan (Nathan Fillion) and the Los Angeles division of the FBI enlist the help of FBI trainee Clark when one of her former students is suspected of terrorism following an explosion at a local power station.«Simone is so fun to play,» Nash tells ET's Rachel Smith of her character. «It's very very different from the shows I'm coming off of, so coming there and knowing that part of this woman's journey — not specifically of her wanting to be in the FBI -- but about her course-correcting or making a pivot at a stage that most would consider later in life, that's what's delicious to me.

For people to come with her on her journey the same way they did with Nathan.»Nash has played a cop before, during her time on But she likened this character and the role to be drastically different, thanks to its dramatic undertones.«When I used to play a cop on, it was like Keystone Cops [a group of incompetent officers featured in a series of comedies in the early 1900s],» Nash recalled. «And the more mistakes you made, the better it was.

So for this particular job, I love that I actually had to get training on exactly how you're supposed to hold the gun because in I could just sit it on top of my head and nobody would care.