Aquarius: Episode 1x04 'Home is Where You're Happy'

Written by: John McNamara, Sera Gamble
Directed by: Michael Zinberg
Air date: June 11, 2015
Summary:
Hodiak looks deeper into the murder investigation of crooked coffee hut owner Art Gladner. Hodiak (David Duchovny) investigates Art Gladner's (Shaun Duke) murder through his late wife Lucille (Clare Carey, "Crash," "Coach"), who runs a burlesque club. Manson (Gethin Anthony) hides Emma (Emma Dumont) but Hodiak, under pressure from Grace (Michaela McManus), ultimately finds her and brings her home. Grey Damon and Claire Holt also star. Brían F. O'Byrne, Chance Kelly, Ambyr Childers and Jason Ralph guest star.

YH: David Duchovny on the Appeal of "Aquarius" & Revisiting "The X Files"

Young Hollywood is in the Big Apple to sit down with native New Yorker, the one and only David Duchovny, to get the scoop on his newest television project, NBC's "Aquarius", and find out what it was that drew him to this thriller, set during the Charles Manson murders in the late-'60s. He also talks about how it feels to get into Mulder Mode again for the much-anticipated reboot of "The X Files", plus he discusses his other many creative endeavors and his craziest fan encounter!

Details Mag: David Duchovny on Aquarius, the Sixties, and Returning to The X-Files

Fox Mulder has been keeping busy.

David Duchovny has a decades-spanning IMDB page, so, quite naturally, he's many things to many people. Still, chances are most know the gruff actor in one of two ways: either as Fox Mulder, the incorrigible conspiracy theorist on Fox's nineties sci-fi behemoth The X-Files, or as the womanizing, forever-haphazard-living novelist Hank Moody on Showtime's long-running comedy Californication. Prepare to add another role to the list: Beginning tonight, Duchovny stars as Sergeant Sam Hodiac, a no-nonsense, flattop-sporting, Charles Manson-hunting detective on NBC's new sixties-era drama Aquarius. For the 54-year-old actor, Hodiac was the perfect character to inhabit at this point in his career. "He really encompasses all the things that made both Mulder and Moody and other characters I've done interesting," Duchovny says. "He's a man out of time." Duchovny was affable and forthcoming when Details spoke with him about Aquarius, revisiting The X-Files next month, and his surprise debut as a singer-songwriter.

Listen: David Duchovny radio interview on 'Star 102.5' - June 4, 2015

He talks about new The X-Files which begings shooting on Monday (June 8), new show Aquarius, and album Hell or Highwater.  

Exclusive: 'Aquarius' Unrated Cut to Debut on iTunes

Creator John McNamara confirmed rumors of an unrated version via Twitter Monday afternoon.

If you thought you'd seen all of "Aquarius," think again. Despite releasing the full season a day after its premiere, NBC and production companies Tomorrow Studios and King Baby have more Manson, murder and David Duchovny in store for fans. As discussed in Indiewire interviews with the cast and creator, an uncensored version of the first season will be available soon on iTunes.

WATCH: David Duchovny sings "Stars" on Good Day New York - May 26, 2015

David Duchovny was on Good Day New York. Watch his interview and live performance of his song "Stars" from album "Hell or Highwater" 

THR: 'Aquarius' Star David Duchovny: "Hodiak Is a Very Compromised Figure"

"This is not a show about the Manson murders. This is a show about the '60s," the star tells THR about his new NBC period drama.

[Warning: Spoilers ahead for the two-hour Aquarius series premiere.]

'The truth' is something David Duchvony has been searching for for most of his career. On the beloved sci-fi hit The X-Files, his character FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder always believed "the truth is out there." Although he's now playing a different authority figure in a different decade investigating a wildly different subject (goodbye aliens! Hello Charles Manson!), the quest is still the same.

Australia on busy Duchovny schedule 'Aquarius' - June 1, 2015

The Washington Post’s TV critic Hank Stuever calls it the “Duchovnaissance”.

All of a sudden David Duchovny is everywhere; writing his first book, releasing his debut album, starring in the 60s crime thriller Aquarius and later this month, reprising the role of Fox Mulder when filming starts on the reboot of The X Files.

If Duchovny has his way, he’ll also fit in a visit to Australia into his busy schedule so fans can hear him perform Hell or Highwater live, an album already earning comparisons to Wilco and Tom Petty.

“I want to tour too, I want to come to Australia,” he toldAAA by phone from New York on Friday night, WA time.

Watch: David Duchovny on 'Today' with Kathie Lee & Hoda - May 28, 2015

David Duchovny says 'Aquarius' is an epic drama. Duchovny, who many know from the successful TV show "X-Files" is returning to the small screen in the show "Aquarius." He says he enjoyed taking baths so much as a little boy that he told people he wanted to be a bathtub when he grew up.

Newsweek: David Duchovny 'Aquarius' Interview! - May 30, 2015

Excerpts From Our David Duchovny 'Aquarius' Interview

Actor David Duchovny has either sleuthed out the answer to ’round-the-clock productivity or has found a way to clone himself. How else could one human lead the reboot of one of the most successful cult television shows of all time (The X-Files), write a satirical novel about pop-culture-spurting cows, record a rock album, and produce/star in a new drama, NBC’s Aquarius, all in the same year?

David Duchovny on an NC-17 'Aquarius' Cut and Why Mulder is a 'Very Bad Cop' on 'The X-Files'

"There's the cut, and there's the fucking cut."

With "Aquarius," NBC is doing two things never done before on broadcast TV: releasing an entire season of television simultaneously and making David Duchovny play a real cop. Much has been made about the Peacock's decision to distribute the full first season of John McNamara's period cop drama the day after its traditional broadcast debut, but some may be surprised to hear Duchovny doesn't think of his past characters as cops. Yes, even thatcharacter.

"Aquarius" marks the actor's first role on broadcast television since playing FBI Agent Fox Mulder on "The X-Files" — a role he'll be reprising for a new season in 2016 — but he's not straying far from cable. "Aquarius" is a hard-edged network drama, and Duchovny (as well as series creator John McNamara) said there's more than what you'll see on NBC. An "NC-17" cut has been created, even if it may not be available domestically.

IGN interview: David Duchovny on Facing Off with Charles Manson in Aquarius

David Duchovny is returning to TV this week in the new NBC series, Aquarius. Duchovny stars as LAPD detective Sam Hodiak, an old school cop having trouble adjusting to the changing times in 1967.

The fictionalized story follows what happens when Hodiak begins an off the books investigation into the disappearance of the teenage daughter (Emma Dumont) of an old girlfriend – and discovers she’s joined a group of drifters who’ve fallen under the leadership of Charles Manson (Game of Thrones’ Gethin Anthony), who’s a couple of years away from the 1969 murders that would make him infamous.

At the NBC Upfronts earlier this month, I had a quick chat with Duchovny about Aquarius and his character – along with the show’s notable release strategy, as NBC will be posting the entire 13-episode season online this Friday, a la Netflix, after the show’s two-hour premiere airs Thursday night.