Married couple Carrie Preston and Michael Emerson on teaming up for a third time on-screen as he joins her CBS show "Elsbeth" in a recurring role.

Married TV stars Carrie Preston and Michael Emerson open up to PEOPLE about Emerson's guest-starring role on 'Elsbeth,' which sees the two going from spouses at home to adversaries on the set of the CBS series.

“Elsbeth is very good at getting people to let their guards down,” notes Carrie Preston, whose lawyer-turned-NYPD consultant is stuck in jury duty in the latest episode—bringing her face-to-face with Judge Milton Crawford (played by Preston’s husband, Michael Emerson ). And this Elsbeth sets the stage for quite an arc.

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Elsbeth's latest episode in the 2024 TV schedule delivered the long-awaited arrival of Michael Emerson as a guest star, but he's not a one-and-done like other guests who have worked opposite his real-life wife on the hit CBS drama.

W hen Michael Emerson made his debut in this week's Elsbeth, it first seemed like a bit of a bummer. Typically, the famous guest star commits a murder at the top of the episode, a