At the daily news meeting, Eileen quickly makes a reporter bristle by attacking the paper’s ineffectual legal team. The newsroom is cramped and bathed in fluorescent lights, and they do have real-time click stats… but theirs barely top a thousand readers. The next day, he takes her to the Daily Alaskan‘s office, which has been downsized to a humble spot in a strip mall. She’s greeted in Anchorage by a chipper assistant named Gabriel (Pablo Castelblanco), who hands her an eye mask, since the sun doesn’t set until 11:30 pm around here. It’s not a smooth ride, though: She faints in the aisle mid-flight and doesn’t realize she had a panic attack until a kindly village health aide named Melinda explains it to her. Eileen is intrigued and does a little digging on her own - and before she knows it, she’s on a plane to Alaska. Eileen thinks it’s just a small-potatoes crime story, but then Stanley hands her a pile of more missing women, all Indigenous. When her body was found, the cops ruled out foul play, but her mom disagrees. He’s now running a local newspaper in Anchorage, the Daily Alaskan, and he offers her a job up there, but she waves it off as “the minor leagues.” She’s clearly still hurting about how things went at The Vanguard, though, and at dinner, Stanley shows her a photo of Gloria Nanmac, a young Indigenous woman who went missing two years ago. Private Practice Revival Floated by Shonda Rhimes: 'We Had So Much More to Say With Those Characters'Įileen is holed up in her apartment working on a book about the general - who’s now the defense secretary - when she gets a visit from a former boss named Stanley, played by Scandal‘s Jeff Perry. Grey's Recap: Abra-Cadavers - Plus, a Big Hint About Mer's Imminent Exit And when we jump forward four months, it looks like she did. Eileen gets defensive (“You’re trying to cancel me now?”), and when the editor suggests they walk back her story, she threatens to quit. She shrugs off the general’s threats of a lawsuit - but her editor also brings up allegations from the staff about Eileen’s abusive behavior. Plus, her source isn’t answering her calls. Eileen works for a Buzzfeed-esque news outfit called The Vanguard - one of those places that has screens up all over the office telling them which stories are getting the most clicks in real time - and when another employee warns her about going to press with only one source, Eileen curtly dismisses her: “I’ve been doing this since you were finger-painting with baby food.” She goes ahead and publishes the story, but the next day, the general claims the documents Eileen used as proof of his wrongdoing were forged. Swank plays Eileen Fitzgerald, who we meet as she’s hounding a source to hand over dirt on a five-star general who is in line to be the next Secretary of Defense. Oscar winner Hilary Swank stars in ABC’s Alaska Daily as an investigative journalist who moves to Alaska to start over - but did this week’s premiere move you to add the new drama to your season pass list?
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