[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for FBI Season 7 Episode 10 “Redoubt.”]
The case hit — and got here — house for Jubal (Jeremy Sisto) within the newest FBI episode, however there does appear to be a vivid spot in his future.
“Redoubt” begins with Jubal heading out to satisfy a confidential informant, Faheem (Omid Abtahi), just for him to not present. He does, nonetheless, present up at Jubal’s house — one thing that the FBI agent later thinks will imply his ex-wife will need him to cease sleeping on the sofa and transfer out. However as a substitute, to his shock, Sam (Mara Davi) tells him that whereas that had been her first thought, after he’d entered the home together with his gun out, she realized that since he’s moved in, he’s been completely different. He’s been extra current and exhibits up for the children and for her. With that, she kisses him. So what does that imply for them?
“They’re feeling it out,” Sisto tells TV Insider. “I’m very to see the place it goes.”
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What he does know is that Jubal “loves her and feels responsible about how their relationship ended. He’s very cautious to not carry her any extra pointless ache, so it’s a nice second when she lets him again in, however the stakes are excessive, as a result of it might open the door for extra heartbreak.”
In the course of the course of the investigation, as Jubal questions whether or not or not Faheem is telling him the reality (he wasn’t), his confidential informant says he’s completed issues no CI would do, reminding him of an incident in 2012 and a goal the agent had been after. Jubal hadn’t been his greatest then, he is aware of, however what Faheem informs him is he confirmed up for a purchase barely in a position to stand and slurring his speech. He would’ve gotten them killed. Jubal argues that whereas he bottomed out, he acquired assist and the bureau is aware of. However then Faheem tells him that he needed to name off the meet (whereas Jubal thinks the man didn’t present up). Faheem reveals he took Jubal to a unique location to sober up, drove him house, and the FBI agent, in tears, stated he needed to change.
That’s one thing that Jubal has “handled from so many angles, however it is going to by no means be simple,” says Sisto. “Residing with that form of previous you’re by no means going to have the ability to erase it. However he has the instruments to maintain heading in the right direction.”
The episode ends with the case nonetheless open— an extremist group (anti-government) continues to be on the market with assist from inside legislation enforcement (together with one soiled US Marshal) — nevertheless it’s handed over to a home terror department inside 26 Fed. That sounds prefer it might be organising the potential new FBI: CIA spinoff about “a devoted, strait-laced FBI agent and a street-smart CIA agent [who] are a part of a brand new, clandestine taskforce charged with fixing and stopping home terrorism in and round New York Metropolis,” doesn’t it?
“That’s extra of a query for the writers,” admits Sisto. “I’m excited to see how they introduce these new characters within the FBI universe.”
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