[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the FBI: Most Wanted series finale “The Circle Game.”]
If FBI: Most Needed was renewed for a seventh season, the Tuesday, Could 20, finale would have seemed very totally different — and ended on a cliffhanger!
“Remy [Dylan McDermott] would have re-upped for an additional yr as Activity Pressure chief and the cliffhanger within the season finale would have been a giant ‘white whale’ fugitive who will get away — solely to be captured within the following season,” showrunner David Hudgins tells TV Insider.
The CBS drama was canceled in March, which means it was too early for the producers to start out trying forward, and so there are few particulars about what we might have seen, ought to the sequence have continued.
“We by no means obtained to the purpose of exploring tales for Season 7 as a result of the cancellation information got here so early, which gave us time to craft the sequence finale,” Hudgins says. There’s no phrase on the potential of perhaps in the future seeing what might have come subsequent.
With that heads up, Hudgins and the remainder of the writers and producers had been capable of finish the sequence as they needed to. Remy retired, as he introduced on the delicate opening of his and Abby’s (Susan Misner) restaurant. Quite than take that job in D.C., which might have taken her nearer to her children, Barnes (Roxy Sternberg) is now taking up as group chief.
“After her divorce, the query for Barnes in Season 6 was, who am I? Ultimately, she determined that she might by no means do a desk job; she is happiest when being a ‘cop’ and taking unhealthy guys off the road. Typically one of the best factor a dad or mum can do for the youngsters is to like themselves first,” explains the showrunner.
Different reveals within the finale concerning the group embody Hana (Keisha Fort-Hughes) and Ethan (Michael Raymond-James) are making it work and transferring in collectively after he’s out of rehab — “Hana loves him, and he saved his promise to get clear,” notes Hudgins — and Ray (Edwin Hodge) and Cora (Caroline Harris) are having a child. If the present had been renewed, that may nonetheless have occurred, giving them the prospect to discover Ray balancing that with work.
“It’s a blended household, with Caleb as his stepson, however as Remy says within the finale, Ray is such a stable man of fine character that the world wants extra Cannons in it,” in line with Hudgins.
One thing which may have modified was Nina (Shantel VanSanten) making up together with her father in Texas — after they helped her sister transfer out, now that she’s left her husband — firstly of the episode.
“I cherished the concept Nina had already forgiven him — as a survival mechanism — so it was positively a transfer on her father’s facet. Maybe we’d have performed out the stress extra had the sequence not ended,” admitted Hudgins.
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That dinner at Remy’s restaurant included him giving a candy toast to every member of the group. He referred to as Nina “robust … fierce and completely essentially the most terrifying driver I’ve ever ridden with” and praised his personal resolution to poach her from Jubal (FBI‘s Jeremy Sisto) “since you are a completely beautiful agent, and within the immortal phrases of George Strait, god bless Texas.” Ray is “an absolute badass,” along with his worry of rats his solely drawback. “However once I consider you, Ray, I consider honesty, loyalty, integrity,” Remy continued. “You might be an instance to everybody, and congratulations on child #2. We want extra Cannons on this world.”
He then turned to the OG process power duo; Hana and Barnes had been with the Fugitive Activity Pressure again through the backdoor pilot on FBI. To Hana, he mentioned, “I by no means had kids, but when I ever did, I’d need them to be similar to you: genius-level good, sort, loyal, nice humorousness. I’d in all probability pass over the brief half although. … However thanks for the whole lot. I’m going to overlook you.” It was throughout his phrases to Barnes that he revealed she was taking up as boss: “It’s no secret we’ve had our ups and downs; I feel the rationale for that’s you’re actually bossy. In all seriousness,I might say a lot about you, however I feel everybody is aware of precisely how I really feel once I say, women and gents, the brand new group chief of the New York Fugitive Activity Pressure, Sheryll J. Barnes!”
With that, as a part of the custom of the FBI, he handed alongside handcuffs — first mini ones, then his from Quantico — to “preserve catching these unhealthy guys.” Barnes had one thing for him as properly: his badge framed.
That ending “was a method for the viewers to say goodbye to every of the characters — with Remy as their voice. Dylan nailed it as typical,” says Hudgins.
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