Followers of CBS’ FBI had lots to be enthusiastic about initially of the autumn 2024 TV schedule, not least as a result of the hit drama had already been renewed for one more three seasons. There was one loss that might begin out Season 7, although, as Katherine Renee Kane’s exit as Agent Tiffany Wallace had been introduced over summer season hiatus. At the same time as we stay up for the 2025 TV schedule, I’m nonetheless lacking Tiff as a part of the crew, and I’m reflecting on the showrunner’s story behind Missy Peregrym and Kane’s surprisingly emotional closing scene collectively as Maggie and Tiff.
Probably the most eventful a part of Tiff’s closing case with the crew was after all Scola getting stabbed within the leg and needing a tourniquet from his companion as their final interplay, with a small second of hand-holding that John Boyd dubbed the “clear and apparent alternative.” Her closing second with Maggie was a complete lot much less bloody, coming towards the top of the Season 7 premiere. (You could find the episode streaming with a Paramount+ subscription.)
Maggie needed to get a drink with Tiff earlier than the latter headed all the way down to Georgia to be with household and requested for what made her determine to lastly name it quits on the Bureau. Tiff defined that she simply needed closure after Hakim on the finish of Season 6 and was shifting to Georgia to be along with her sister. On paper, it’s not all that emotional of an interplay till Maggie hugged her former coworker, however actresses Katherine Renee Kane and Missy Peregrym actually bought the emotion of it.
And as a fan of Kane as Tiff, I requested new showrunner Mike Weiss method again within the fall about why the premiere took the time to present Maggie and Tiff a tearful goodbye. After addressing how the FBI crew needed to present Tiff and Kane a “correct goodbye,” Weiss defined:
I believe it isn’t BS. [For] Tiff and Scola, after all their goodbye was going to be her saving his life on the prime of an escalator at a prepare station. That made sense. After which, to be completely sincere, Missy, who performs Maggie Bell, learn the primary draft of the script and requested for a goodbye scene, as a result of she loves Katherine a lot as an actress. She principally stated, ‘If it is sensible story-wise, may you write in a goodbye scene for the 2 of us?’ And I stated, ‘I like that.’ And we wrote that scene for the 2 of them, they usually’re stunning in it.
Maggie’s strongest bond could also be with OA and Tiff’s might have been with Scola, however the two girls of the crew had gone by means of hell and again collectively on the crew. Not solely did Missy Peregrym’s push for a goodbye scene permit for an emotional second on a fairly procedural present, but additionally gave some extra context to Tiff’s reasoning for leaving her job.
The Season 7 premiere was FBI‘s first episode underneath Mike Weiss as a showrunner, and he penned the episode. After I famous in our interview that Peregrym’s efficiency specifically was a tear-jerker within the scene, Weiss responded:
Her feelings are very obtainable to her as an actress, and we did not make it simple on anybody on this season premiere… While you’re new to a present, and also you watch episodes, and also you learn scripts, you understand that we do not go simple on these characters or these actors. We put them in powerful conditions week after week. It is not saccharin, it isn’t sentimental. There is a world weariness and a toughness to the present and to the characters, which is a complete pleasure to have the ability to write. It feels rather more actual and feels rather more lived-in than numerous reveals. It is a bizarre factor – you like your characters, and so your first uncooked impulse is to make your characters comfortable. However that is not at all times the best inventive alternative.
Tiff didn’t simply trip off into the sundown for a happily-ever-after after every thing she’d been by means of, which Katherine Renee Kane actually mirrored in her efficiency as her character stated her final on-screen goodbye earlier than beginning a brand new life in Georgia. Her closing interplay with Maggie was bittersweet at finest. All in all, I used to be very glad that FBI didn’t write Tiff out by killing her off or some other method that there’d be no getting back from, and it’d be good to see her once more sometime.
In fact, Scola’s makes an attempt to discover a new companion haven’t been going properly, which actually provides to how I’ve been lacking Tiff. Nationwide Treasure: Fringe of Historical past’s Lisette Olivera had been solid as a brand new collection common to work reverse John Boyd, however her exit was introduced earlier than she even debuted. For now… properly, we will solely wait and see if Scola does get a brand new companion earlier than the top of the season.
At present, FBI is on winter hiatus however will return to CBS on Monday, January 27 at 8 p.m. ET. As standard, new episodes shall be adopted by FBI: Worldwide at 9 p.m. ET and FBI: Most Wished at 10 p.m. ET. If you wish to revisit the autumn finales forward of the winter premieres in late January, you could find these episodes streaming by way of Paramount+.