Aldis Hodge in ‘Cross’ Trailer Hunts a Twisted Serial Killer

Aldis Hodge as detective Alex Cross pursues a ruthless serial killer in the official trailer for Cross, the crime series for Prime Video debuting Nov. 14.

Hodge plays Metro PD’s star detective who uses forensic psychology to get into the minds of killers and their victims to identify and ultimately capture murderers. But the latest teaser has Cross forced into a deadly game as he pursues a psychotic genius who uses a menacing mask, and possibly more than one killer, to stay ahead of Cross.

“I’m not a monster. I don’t kill for fun… And when I’m done, the world will know the truth,” a man seemingly out for revenge says at one point in the trailer. Cross is stumped because the serial killer he hunts appears to change the appearance of his victims and stage their murders as a suicide or an accidental drug overdose.

“Whoever killed him had to change him into something else first,” Cross tells skeptical colleagues. But he’s better in the interrogation room than in his private life, as Cross grieves after the murder of his wife a year earlier and is too fragile to accept the love he’s desperate for.

“You’re not managing very well,” Cross’ police partner, played by Isaiah Mustafa, says at one point. But his home life turns bizarre when Cross discovers a family photo of his wife and two kids, with her face and his eyes obscured by pen marks.

“He was in my house,” Cross says in shock as the trailer from Paramount Television Studios, Amazon MGM Studios and Skydance Television becomes a pulse-pounding thriller. The Cross series is based on characters originally written by popular novelist James Patterson and created by showrunner and writer Ben Watkins.

Before the first-season debut, Cross was renewed for a second season, with the first eight episodes to launch on Prime Video worldwide. Cross also stars Juanita Jennings, Alona Tal, Samantha Walkes, Caleb Elijah, Melody Hurd, Jennifer Wigmore, Eloise Mumford and Ryan Eggold.

Watkins executive produces the series along with Sam Ernst, Jim Dunn, Craig Siebels, James Patterson, Bill Robinson, Patrick Santa, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Bill Bost.