Prime Video‘s hit Bosch spin-off, Ballard, is headed back on the case for a second season. Now, we know that Maggie Q‘s Renée Ballard will be encountering a Law & Order legend in the upcoming season, fresh off his guest appearance on Andor‘s final season.

According to reports, Benjamin Bratt will be joining the second season of Ballard in a recurring role. He’ll play Ryan Ainsley, a onetime hot-shot DEA agent who’s left law enforcement behind for a quiet retirement at his Idaho ranch. Bratt is best-known for his four seasons on NBC‘s Law & Order as Detective Rey Curtis; he’s subsequently appeared on Modern Family, Private Practice, and Poker Face. Recently, he played Rebel Alliance senator Bail Organa on the second season of Andor, replacing an unavailable Jimmy Smits. He’ll next star with Mark Wahlberg, Paul Walter Hauser, and Molly Shannon in the Peter Farrelly action comedy Balls Up.

What Is ‘Ballard’ About?

Q stars as Renée Ballard, a Los Angeles Police Department detective who crossed paths with Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) in the final season of Bosch: Legacy; like Bosch, Ballard is also the creation of novelist Michael Connelly. As the series opens, she’s put in command of the new cold case unit of the department’s Robbery-Homicide Division. She’s assisted by ex-officer Zamira Parker (Courtney Taylor), reserve officer Ted Rawls (Michael Mosley), volunteer Colleen Hatteras (Rebecca Field), legal intern Martina Castro (Victoria Moroles), and Ballard’s one-time partner Thomas Laffont (John Carroll Lynch). Over the course of the first season, the team doggedly solves the decades-old murder of Sarah Pearlman, the sister of an ambitious LA politician. The team eventually finds the true culprit was Gary Pearlman (Kevin Dunn), Sarah’s father and a secret serial killer; they bring him to justice, but not before he kills Rawls. Meanwhile, Ballard has a number of interactions with Robert Olivas (Ricardo Chavira), a crooked cop who assaulted her years ago; in the season’s cliffhanger finale, she’s arrested for his murder.

Bratt has also been cast in a recurring role on the new Dan Fogelman NFL drama The Land, which centers around the front office drama of a fictionalized Cleveland Browns. Fellow Law & Order alumnus Chris Meloni stars on the Hulu series as the team’s head coach.

A second season of Ballard is in development at Prime Video; no release date has yet been announced.

via Collider