The second season of the Facebook Watch's drama series Sacred Lies, The Singing Bones, takes a unique approach to the traditional detective story. A crime from more than a decade ago returns to the spotlight when the bones of a murdered woman are discovered.

Stars Juliette Lewis plays Harper, the strange but dedicated amateur detective committed to solving cold cases like this one. Along the way, she finds a friend in the police lab technician, Lily, played by Kimiko Glenn.

"I loved the script," Glenn told. "I loved the writing. It was so smart. You can get all the little pieces of the puzzle and other information that makes you question what comes next. You have to keep watching. That and Juliette was involved, and I was like, 'I gotta meet this girl!' She's amazing."

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Lewis said she was drawn to the project by the writing. "This script was so alive. I think the characters are really vivid off the page. They're weird, which is what [actors] look for. It's different. When people pull off this genre, suspense and mystery, when it's done well, there's nothing like it. It hooks you. I think [series creator Raelle Tucker] has such a way with characters, doing the unexpected but also following the drama.... We all think we're amateur detectives. 'That's what I would have done! They missed that whole clue!' That's Harper's whole drive. She cares about the human being, they're not just Jane Does to her. And you learn why that is."

Harper isn't like most detective characters on television. An emotionally-wounded and prickly shut-in, Harper is motivated to do her part to solve unsolved mysteries, even if the police are reluctant to accept her help. But she's also driven by a very pained and human core. "That's the twist," Lewis said. "On the surface, she seems very masculine and idiosyncratic and weird... but she's all hurt. She's driven by this deep humanity and trauma. I love everything, how it plays out, even when we don't know what's real or not or what's flashback or not, that's fuel for the story."

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Trauma fuels many of the characters in Sacred Lies. That core of trauma in Harper's character is what draws Lily's attention to her in the first place. "[Lily] usually deals with people after something has happened," Glenn observed, "and now she's actually trying to understand what drove people. That is an element she hasn't seen in the people who are supposed to. It's a different perspective she's seeing, and it intrigues her. She's getting a wider vision of these things and not just tunnel vision for her own job...  [the show] gives perspective to different points of view. It's not just, you get a broader sense of each character and depth to them that most shows I think would just skim the surface... you gain empathy for every character, and understand the good and bad sides of each of them."

A small attribute of Harper is that no matter what she's doing or where she's going, she's always eating snacks. It's a minor character trait, but a memorable one from the strange detective. According to Lewis, it was an element that was present in the original scripts for the show. "How great was that? I read the script, and they knew me so well. I just loved different snacks. How about that, a constant snacker. That was beautiful. I didn't make that up. Just eating shit... how many people do we know just eating crap all the live-long... those specific little things are exactly what you're looking for while creating a character."

Starring Jordan Alexander, Juliette Lewis, Ryan Kwanten, Kristen Bauer and Kimiko Glenn, Sacred Lies: The Singing Bones arrives today on Facebook Watch.

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