FBI: Worldwide Season 4 finishes its run within the 2024 TV schedule with the midseason finale on December 17, shortly after including a brand new agent to the Fly Group within the type of Agent Tyler Sales space, performed by Station 19‘s Jay Hayden. With the actor anticipated to stay round for some time into the 2025 TV schedule (and his first episode out there streaming with a Paramount+ subscription), I am considering again to what Hayden instructed me in our interview concerning the crew member who wasn’t too keen on Tyler… and why opposites may entice within the new 12 months. Signal me up for extra of Tyler and Smitty!
Full disclosure – I am not taking Jay Hayden’s phrases about his determination to come back to FBI: Worldwide so quickly after Station 19 to imply {that a} romance is within the works, for the reason that FBI spinoff has averted romantic sparks inside the crew for the reason that days of Forrester and Kellett. However his feedback definitely have me fascinated by altering dynamics in 2025. After Hayden recommended that Smitty (Eva-Jane Willis) is “extra of the angel on [Wes’] shoulder” whereas Tyler was extra of “the satan,” I famous – as a little bit of an understatement – that Smitty didn’t appear to be Tyler’s largest fan. The actor laughed and responded:
She would not! She would not appear to be in love with him, that is for certain.
If Smitty thought Wes Mitchell was a headache when he first joined the Fly Group, she undoubtedly wasn’t ready for Tyler Sales space losing no time in not solely breaking the foundations himself, however leaning on Wes to cross traces. Whereas the Fly Group managed to shut the case with out beginning a global incident in Jay Hayden’s first episode, it may have gone sideways very simply, and the credit rolled with out exhibiting the reactions of the remainder of the crew to Wes welcoming Tyler to stay round.
I went on to ask Hayden who he thinks Tyler has the perfect reference to on the crew apart from Wes, their “baggage” – to cite Jesse Lee Soffer – apart, and was fairly intrigued by his response:
I believe there is a reference to Vo and him. There is probably not, they may not have quite a lot of scenes collectively, however I believe he appreciates what she does on the crew very a lot. After which, to be sincere, I do not know – it is just like the opposites entice scenario with him and Smitty there. These waves are going to crash into one another. It is only a matter of when.
Tyler and Vo (Vinessa Vidotto) shared a fast second of bonding early in his first episode, once they in contrast their heritages, however most of his scenes have been with Jesse Lee Soffer as Wes. Probably the most friction, nonetheless, got here from Tyler and Smitty, and understandably so. He was round for a day at most, and was already suggesting that they infiltrate a rustic with out alerting native authorities and successfully kidnap a person, which clearly was not what the Fly Group’s Europol liaison works in the direction of.
I recommended to Jay Hayden that – a lot with Wes after his first case in Budapest – Smitty appeared like she had a headache after working with Tyler, and he responded:
It seems to be like she’s like, ‘I am not completed with you.’ It’ll be quite a lot of enjoyable.
All in all, whereas I am anticipating extra of Wes and Tyler and I used to be intrigued by the second of bonding between Vo and Tyler, the present appears poised to focus extra on Wes with Vo and no matter their dynamic seems to be as former mentor/mentee. It might be attention-grabbing to see extra of Tyler and Smitty. FBI: Worldwide is a present that is not afraid to strive new issues and reinvent itself; greater than half of the unique forged has been changed by the midway level of Season 4, and the sequence continues to be going sturdy.
I am on board to see extra of how Tyler and Smitty get used to working collectively in 2025. The autumn finale of FBI: Worldwide airs on Tuesday, December 17 at 9 p.m. ET on CBS, between FBI with a doable betrayal for OA at 8 p.m. ET and FBI: Most Needed at 10 p.m. ET. All three exhibits shall be again of their standard time slots on Monday, January 27 within the new 12 months.