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word of advice : Major spoiler for Cross season 1 below!Prime Video’sCrossadaptation give away the deed character ’s parent are dead , but what happened to them?Amazon’sCrosscastAldis Hodge as Detective Alex Cross , who inherit the role from Morgan Freeman and Tyler Perry . The big vacillation of the show is that it does n’t adaptanyof theAlex Crossnovels by James Patterson , and rather takes the characters and places them in an original tale . That means the events of the first bookAlong Came a Spiderhave already happened offscreen , and the series is free to remix the backstory for Hodge ’s Cross .
Plenty of element from Patterson ’s book of account remain the same though , include Alex ’s go friendship with partner Sampson ( Isaiah Mustafa).Cross ' finale episode"You Had Me at Motherf * * * * * " render a flashback to Alex as a boy , where his " Nana Mama " comforts him over losing both his female parent and father in flying succession . The serial does n’t go into any detail about what happened to Cross ' parents , though this view is key to understanding his human relationship with both Nana Mama ( Juanita Jennings ) and Sampson .
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How Alex’s Mother & Father Died Before Cross
James Patterson’s novels reveal what happened to Alex Cross' parents
Patterson ’s Koran have die into detail about what come about to Alex ’s parent over the class . Growing up , Alex believed his mother drop dead of cancer while his sire Jason pledge himself to dying the surveil year ; from there , Alex was raised by his grannie Regina ( AKA " Nana Mama ) . Of course , being the James Patterson universe , the true tale is far more complex . In the 2015 novelCross Justice , Alex memorize that his father was make bold numb after a shot - but is in fact aliveand living in Florida .
Jason outlive being photograph and afterward shine from a bridge and has been living under an assumed individuality in the 10 since . Not only that , butAlex also discovers his former mother was a drug addict who was kill by her dealer , with Jason then being accused of her execution . TheCrossseries at least sticks rightful to the ordering of Alex ’s losses from the books , with Regina discover he lost his beginner curtly after his female parent ’s loss .
Crossseason 2 has already been greenlitby Amazon .
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How Old Alex Was When His Parents Died
Cross knew loss from a tragically young age
In the Patterson series , Cross was only nine when his female parent passed . He was belike ten when Jason " break " a year later , with Nana Mama advance him from that point on . Maybe a next series ofCrosswill search what happened to Alex ’s parent in more detail . With season 1 already see the titular police detective deal with the sorrow of his married woman ’s murder , it may have been decided it was effective not to layer on more disaster in his backstory .
crossbreed season 1 ends with Alex finally going to see a therapist to start unpacking his feelings , so maybe that ’s where viewers will learn of his parent in the next series .
Crossseason 1 end with Alex finally exit to see a therapist to start unpack his tactual sensation , so maybe that ’s where watcher will learn of his parent in the next series . Considering she raised him for most of his living - and still lives with him and his children - Alex probably considers Nana Mama his true mother by this head .
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Cross follow the animation of Alex Cross , a skilled yet troubled homicide tec balancing his role as a devoted father and relentless crime investigator . Haunted by his wife ’s execution , he navigates personal turmoil while persistently pursuing judge in the face of dangerous resister .
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