Gabriel Luna's "Terminal List" CIA private contractor Freddy Strain acts as a liaison for former Navy SEALs using their skills for profit or revenge.

Chris Pratt (L) and Gabriel Luna star in "Terminal List" Season 2. Photo courtesy of Prime Video UPI Chris Pratt arrives for the Amazon MGM Studios red carpet during CinemaCon 2025 in Las Vegas. File Photo by James Atoa/UPI UPI Gabriel Luna attends the Netflix "FUBAR" Season 2 Los Angeles premiere in 2025. File Photo by Greg Grudt/UPI UPI Tom Hopper poses for photos prior to Oz Comic-Con in Sydney in 2017. File Photo by Dan Himbrechts/EPA-EFE UPI

NEW YORK, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- The Last of Us and FUBAR actor Gabriel Luna says his Terminal List CIA private contractor Freddy Strain acts as a liaison for former Navy SEALs using their deadly skills for profit or revenge.

"We all exist on the spectrum of light and dark and the grey in between and James Reece [Chris Pratt] and Mo Farook [Dar Salim] have delved into the darker kind of corners of that," Luna told UPI in a Zoom interview this week.

"I get to represent the other side of that spectrum and be a bit of a light and a beacon for them to return to, should they be able to claw their way out of that dark place," he explained.

"I'm more of a 'system' guy than any of them at this point. I'm a green badger in the CIA and I'm the one that helps navigate that world for these guys who are operating deep, deep, deep in the muck."

Based on Jack Carr's book, True Believer, Season 2 of Terminal List is now streaming on Prime Video.

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It picks up a year after Reece killed numerous people involved in the cover-up of a botched mission in Syria that left several of his SEALs dead and him with a brain tumor as a result of experimental drugs designed to alleviate PTSD that were given to him without his knowledge or permission.

Powerful people who want to stop Reece's investigation into the matter also murder his wife and little girl as a warning.

The new episodes find Reece starving and on the run before landing in an African wildlife preserve run by Rich Hastings (Arnold Vosloo), the father of former SEAL-turned-arms-dealer Raife Hastings (Tom Hopper).

Just as he is settling in and protecting the preserve from poachers, Reece is spotted on security cameras taking an injured man to the hospital.

Freddy soon scoops him up and brings him back to the United States where he tells Reece his various crimes will be pardoned if he captures Mo, who is supposedly helping terrorists using weapons stolen from Raife's shipments.

Mo and Raife were introduced in last year's Terminal List prequel, Dark Wolf.

"Mo Farook is the same guy, obviously, that you saw in Dark Wolf seven years earlier on the timeline," Salim said.

"He is actually kind of a mirror of James Reece's character. They've both lost everything. They've lost the most precious thing -- their families. So, they're both in some kind of survival mode and they're both surviving by still keeping up the fight for what's right and what's good."

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Season 2 kicks off with people talking about Mo having moved to the dark side, but his actual motivations remain unclear until Reece gets involved and tries to figure out what is going on with his old friend.

"There's a big anticipation and build-up to the first meeting between those two men, who mirror each other and, only because they are so capable, can they see and hear each other through all the political noise that's going on around them," Salim said.

"It's a very interesting and intriguing character and arc that he goes through with this season," he added. "I enjoyed playing him with these guys and with Chris."

"Raife is still dealing with a lot of the moral-compass issues he had in Terminal List: Dark Wolf," Hopper chimed in.

"He accidentally or purposefully killed a friendly in Dark Wolf, which he still carries guilt for and still has a lot of blame towards Ben, but, also, guilt, because he left Ben, which is why, ultimately, he left the [special forces]," he added.

"Raife is an operator through and through and he's also a brother to James Reece and these other boys. So, when he's drawn back in, he can't help but get involved. But the thing is with Raife, he's a relentless truth seeker. If there's corruption at hand, he's going to try and expose it. Even if he doesn't want to, he's going to do it because it's just who he is."

The cast said having access to Carr, military consultants and veterans made their jobs easier in getting into these characters' heads and hearts.

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"One thing that's always said about this show and what [show-runner] David DiGilio always says is we have 90 percent authenticity and 10 percent Hollywood glitz," Hopper said.

"So, one thing that always excites me about this is telling the truth behind Navy SEALs, who they are as people and what they have to go through," he added.

"There's been many times in this show, previously, that we've seen the depth of those friendships, that brotherhood. It's great that we get to tell those stories, but a big thing for all of us is grounding it in authenticity and making sure that we're honoring those men that have been through this."