Ryan Michelle Bathe, Morena Baccarin square off in ‘The Endgame’

“It would be really difficult if we were both starting the same journey at the same time on different shows,” she says. “All of America is weeping for the end of ‘This Is Us.’ It’s nice to have that dovetail.”

Bathe’s series, however, takes a different emotional path. She plays an FBI agent who’s determined to stop an international arms dealer (played by Morena Baccarin) who has orchestrated a series of bank heists throughout New York.

The cat-and-mouse game is extremely concentrated, largely because Bathe’s character, Val Turner, has been through a series of crises, including turning in her husband for a bribe. “It’s very much tunnel vision for Val in this area of her life,” she says. “It’s like if you dropped into the worst five days of someone’s life, you would think that five days was it.”

Instead, the drama continues.

“It starts off looking like one thing…and then you see this sort of gray area and this gradual shift over a 10-day period of time,” says Executive Producer Nick Wootton.

The “Robin Hood” aspect of the story, he adds, is key to the series. “I think we see some institutions as being ‘ivory tower,’ kind of unbreakable. But, then, you look a little closer and there are flaws. We’ve seen a lot of that displayed to us pretty badly over the last couple of years. You don’t run out of material. We are not sitting there going, ‘Oh, god, what are we going to do next?’ It’s really more like, ‘Oh, god, we have to lose that because it’s just too much.’”