Warning: spoilers forward for the three-part crossover between FBI, FBI: Most Wished, and FBI: Worldwide on CBS!
The three reveals of CBS’ FBI franchise got here collectively on April 4 for a worldwide crossover occasion involving a risk so imminent that the brokers throughout FBI, FBI: Most Wished, and FBI: Worldwide all needed to pitch in to stop catastrophe. Even with all arms on deck, it was a particularly shut name earlier than they had been in a position to cease terrorists from destroying JFK airport. FBI’s Agent Scola was key to closing the case, however he didn’t make it to the tip with out a betrayal that hit very near residence. Actor John Boyd spoke with CinemaBlend concerning the crossover, together with that betrayal by Jubal and Isobel!
The crossover switched the order of the three reveals, with Worldwide beginning the evening by sending Jubal (Jeremy Sisto) and Nina (Shantel VanSanten) to Rome to hitch the Fly Group whereas Scola was undercover again in New York Metropolis. The mission in Rome went sideways when the visibly pregnant Nina was shot, and Jubal needed to return to NYC, leaving Forrester to stay by her facet within the Italian hospital. With quite a bit using on Scola getting solutions whereas undercover, Isobel (Alana de la Garza) determined that they wouldn’t inform him about what occurred to the mom of his unborn little one.
Jubal was clearly uncomfortable with conserving Nina’s life-threatening harm from Scola, however he didn’t go towards Isobel’s orders, and Scola finally came upon from a prison whereas undercover. He understandably didn’t react effectively, and spent the remainder of the crossover kind of spiraling whereas making an attempt to do what he may in New York whereas Nina was battling for her life throughout the ocean. When John Boyd spoke with CinemaBlend, he weighed in on whether or not Scola can recover from Isobel and Jubal conserving that secret from him:
The wanting it’s no. That is an unforgivable breach. It is a betrayal [from] agent to agent. I do not care for those who’re an Assistant Particular Agent in Cost [like Jubal] or a discipline agent undercover. You don’t try this. Due to the case, it was one thing that they only completely needed to do, and it is what makes it so attention-grabbing in these three hours.
On the one hand, conserving Scola at the hours of darkness about Nina being shot was a “betrayal” from Isobel and Jubal, notably in mild of what Jeremy Sisto mentioned about Jubal’s issues for having Nina within the discipline within the first place. However, they wanted Scola’s head within the sport in the event that they had been going to cease mass lack of life. As Remy (Dylan McDermott) mentioned on the finish of the three-parter, generally the one high-stakes selections are between incorrect and incorrect. John Boyd went on to clarify that the crossover drew upon a real-life useful resource for this storyline, saying:
We spoke to an FBI agent about that and he simply confirmed that you don’t try this. Completely it’s not okay, which is precisely what we like to discover on this present. It is like, ‘Oh, that is not okay? Let’s go down that street.’ It was simply fantastic to play with them, and Jeremy and Alana had been fabulous. It was a extremely attention-grabbing twist.
The performances made it clear that Isobel wasn’t blissful about having to make this name and Jubal was much more uncomfortable, and Scola blowing up at them was all however inevitable. Would the brokers have stopped the terrorist risk in time if Isobel and Jubal had advised Scola? There’s no technique to know for positive, and it needs to be attention-grabbing to see if there’s fallout.
However would Scola have accomplished something otherwise, if he’d been in Jubal’s place and obtained Isobel’s order to maintain quiet about one thing vital to the ASAC? John Boyd shared his ideas:
No, completely not. That is what’s so attention-grabbing about Isobel’s character. Somebody must be the final word decision-maker and maintain the road. For Jubal, although it was so extremely troublesome for him to withhold that, and at one level he even tries to inform Scola, he has to carry up what must be accomplished for the case, and that comes straight down from Isobel. I hope that Scola would do the identical factor in [Jubal’s] sneakers.
There was no black-and-white proper and incorrect on this state of affairs, so it’s only a good factor that the phobia risk was thwarted and Nina appears to be on the mend. It’s additionally factor that Remy was available to speak Scola down when he began to cross strains towards the tip of the third hour, and the FBI: Most Wished chief may most likely perceive Isobel’s choice to make the least dangerous of two terrible selections (and not for the primary time this season) higher than anyone else.
After all, the crossover established a fully large risk to ensure that the choices had been comprehensible, even when not perfect. The brokers didn’t even know till the third hour that the goal was JFK airport, and tens of hundreds of lives would have been misplaced if not for some very arduous work… and Remy finally simply choosing a wire to tug and try to defuse the bomb. John Boyd shared his response to the dimensions of the disaster, saying:
I really like our writers, and I completely simply thought it was actually attention-grabbing, the risk stage that they selected. It was nice. It is cool to learn a script and be pulled in that means. Simply if you type of suppose you have learn all of it, then you definitely get one thing like this and suppose ‘Okay, wow, this actually is the one.’ It is a never-before-seen three hours of tv with the most important stakes they may presumably consider.
The FBIs positively didn’t maintain again in going above and past on the risk stage to deliver the three reveals along with sky-high stakes. This was solely the second three-part crossover on this franchise (and the primary that wasn’t in service of launching Worldwide). John Boyd confirmed that engaged on the occasion didn’t really feel like filming three separate episodes, and shared:
It felt like one large film. It is so seamless. It was superb. Working with Luke [Kleintank], I’ve watched Luke’s work. He is fantastic on the present. It is such a cool factor to be working with the actors on these reveals, and also you simply take a look at your scene associate and you are feeling such as you’re standing of their present. Unexpectedly, you are like, ‘Whoa, I am watching their present proper now, however I am truly performing of their present.’ It is actually particular to get to work with the opposite actors on these reveals. I imply, they’re so good. I simply felt so fortunate to get to bounce round like that.
The characters of FBI and Most Wished don’t even function on the identical continent because the Fly Group of Worldwide, so it takes a particular form of case to deliver the actors collectively. Scola and Forrester solely had a quick scene collectively within the flesh earlier than the tip of the crossover, to comply with up on a telephone name wherein Forrester joined Isobel and Jubal in mendacity to him about Nina’s standing. Scola was grateful for the lie this time, although!
Solely time will inform if FBI, FBI: Most Wished, and FBI: Worldwide will come collectively for one more three-parter within the foreseeable future. Jeremy Sisto beforehand shared with CinemaBlend that it was “extraordinarily difficult” with the schedule, however the excellent news is that every one three reveals have already been renewed for the 2023-2024 TV season, so there’s no less than another full season for one more potential three-parter.
For now, hold tuning in to CBS (opens in new tab) on Tuesday nights beginning at 8 p.m. ET for all of the FBI franchise motion you could possibly hope for, and revisit previous episodes streaming with a Paramount+ subscription.
