‘The Endgame’ Stars Morena Baccarin, Ryan Michelle Bathé on Elena and Val’s Dark Pasts and Isaac Bigby Bond

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Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “Fairytale Wedding,” the Feb.

28 episode of NBC’s “The Endgame.”NBC’s new high-octane crime drama “The Endgame” aired its second episode Monday, revealing many more compelling details about its leading ladies — Morena Baccarin’s international arms dealer/crime boss Elena Federova and Ryan Michelle Bathé’s FBI agent Val Turner — than it did in its week-ago series premiere.In the episode, “Fairytale Wedding,” we saw the titular nuptials go up in flames when the church where Elena and her now-husband Sergey Vodianov (Costa Ronin) were to be wed was blown up with everyone they loved inside.

This was our first peek into Elena’s life with Sergey, who is currently presumed dead by Val and the rest of the world — but is actually in an upstate New York prison with Val’s husband, Owen (Kamal Bolden). “What the wedding represents to Elena and to Sergey is this idea that, no matter how strong their love is for each other, they will never truly be safe in this world,” “The Endgame” executive producer Julie Plec told Variety. “They have too many enemies, good and bad, who are not ever going to let them have peace.

So really, Elena’s endgame is about needing to find a way for them to be able to kind of get all of the pressure off of them and get everyone off their backs so that the happily ever after that they found with each other, amidst really terrible circumstances in their childhood, can be attainable for them.”The premiere revealed that, as a child, Elena’s father was killed, and she then had to kill the young girl who had done it in self-defense.