FX premieres tonight its new 13-episode crime series “The Bridge,” starring Diane Kruger as a U.S. detective suffering from Asperger’s (take that “Homeland”) who teams up with a Mexican detective, played by Demian Bichir (“Weeds”), to catch a serial killer terrorizing the border of El Paso and Juarez.

Kruger tells Collider:

The setting between Mexico and America is unique, and I don’t think it’s been done on television before. And I think the backdrop of the unsolved crimes, with the missing girls from Juarez, and the relationship between America and Mexico, is very interesting to see and shine a light on.

I think that the two characters, Marco Ruiz and Sonya Cross, are an unusual combination of detectives. The show’s not your usual cop show. It’s a very character-driven show. And you think the show’s about one thing, but then it goes in directions that will be quite unexpected.

Kruger is coming of Andrew Niccol’s adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s tween sci-fi novel “The Host.” She is best known for her portrayal of Dr. Abigail Chase in Walt Disney Pictures’ National Treasure franchise and as actress/spy Bridget von Hammersmark in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.

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