FBI Season 7 is lastly coming again to CBS within the 2025 TV schedule, greater than a month after OA’s lethal ordeal within the fall finale. Scola shall be on the heart of the motion within the winter premiere, referred to as “Descent,” on January 28 when a terrorist plot involving business flights triggers his reminiscences of when his brother died through the 9/11 assaults. Shantel VanSanten is crossing over from FBI: Most Wished as Nina, and actor John Boyd opened as much as CinemaBlend concerning the excessive stakes for Scola in addition to what he was so excited to find govt producer/showrunner Mike Weiss had deliberate for Scolina.
The risk dealing with the group within the winter premiere kicks off with an investigation into the demise of an assistant U.S. legal professional’s, and the issues will escalate till they’ve a race towards the clock to cease a terrorist risk. All in all, it sounds just like the sort of disaster that FBI: CIA can be properly suited to if that potential spinoff scores a collection order. Scola, who has struggled with the demise of his brother over John Boyd’s 100+ episodes up to now, understandably could have so much on his thoughts. (You’ll be able to revisit earlier episodes that includes Scola’s emotions about his brother’s demise with a Paramount+ subscription.)
So, after I spoke with John Boyd about what Scola wants in a accomplice after shedding Tiff, I additionally requested: simply how excessive are the stakes for “Descent” as FBI‘s winter premiere? He shared:
They’re fairly excessive. We’re coping with one of many worst American tragedies in our nation’s historical past. It is indicative of 9/11, it is concerning the hijacking of planes, and the group having to thwart this terrorist group from taking up the nav methods and hijacking planes and crashing them into targets, and that is fairly a sore topic for this nation. So it was intense to shoot. I feel we did it justice, and I hope that individuals prefer it, however yeah, the stakes are excessive.
In fact, FBI isn’t solely set in New York, however movies there as properly, so it is no surprise that an episode with this material can be “intense to shoot.” I requested the actor if filming within the metropolis makes an episode like this hit more durable, and Boyd – an NYC native himself – stated:
It does. I imply, each time. Each time I take a look at the decrease Manhattan skyline, I do not find out about different folks, however that is what I take into consideration. I do not know if I’ve ever checked out decrease Manhattan and never thought of that, and possibly it is as a result of I am taking part in a personality and that is such part of him and dwelling right here and seeing it, however yeah, it nonetheless hits residence, because it ought to. It is simply such a sore topic for Scola, however I feel that he learns from this case, and he is in a position to transfer by way of it, and there is some closure. I feel it is a good private storyline for him, and I am excited for our followers and the viewers to see it.
It has been a while since FBI revisited Scola’s emotions about shedding his brother, though each John Boyd’s present and FBI: Most Wished usually function Child Dougie, Nina and Scola’s son named in Douglas’ honor. As a procedural, FBI does not at all times have operating emotional storylines like this, and Boyd opened up about attending to revisit it:
I used to be actually excited when Mike [Weiss] informed me concerning the episode. There’s this letter on Scola’s desk at the start of the episode that we discover out he is been avoiding studying. After going by way of the case, he is at a brand new place. He is in a position to ask Nina for assist, and he is in a position to face what’s in that letter. However he is a extra seasoned agent at this level. I feel he is grown up. I do not suppose Scola is as indignant concerning the lack of his brother as he as soon as was. I feel the final time we broached this topic, he was nonetheless actually carrying that ache, in a means, however changing into a father and having a accomplice, I feel that he is in a position to transfer by way of this in a means. It is a fantastic, cathartic second of grief and loss and connection for him to somebody he liked, which hopefully our viewers relate to.
It sounds just like the timing could not be higher for Scola to have Nina available as a supply of assist, with Shantel VanSanten crossing over from FBI: Most Wished shortly earlier than that present’s winter premiere airs. John Boyd appeared on Most Wished within the fall; now, it is VanSanten’s flip as Nina on FBI. The actor solely had good issues to say about working with VanSanten once more, in addition to what the EP and the writers deliberate for his or her reunion:
I used to be so comfortable that Mike Weiss and the writers put her within the episode. After I heard about it, they hadn’t stated that she was going to be in it. They simply informed me about this 9/11 fee sort of factor and the way it was an actual factor, and it was actually, actually attention-grabbing. Mike informed me that Scola opens this letter on the finish of the episode, and in my thoughts, I went, ‘Oh, it might be so cool if Nina learn that to him.’ And naturally, that is what they wrote. He already had the concept, and I used to be so comfortable. So I referred to as him, and I used to be like, ‘I am unable to imagine you guys wrote that! That is precisely what I hoped when you informed me.’ So I used to be actually comfortable to have Shantel there. She’s great.
Boyd after all did not spoil every part that is going to occur in FBI‘s first episode of the brand new yr, however “Descent” must be a fairly intense episode each for the brokers on the job and Scola in relation to reminiscences of his brother. For a sneak peek on the case of the week, take a look at Jubal and Co. digging into what info they’ve:
Tune in to CBS on Tuesday, January 28 at 8 p.m. ET for the winter premiere of FBI Season 7, adopted by the returns of FBI: Worldwide Season 4 at 9 p.m. ET and FBI: Most Wished Season 6 at 10 p.m. ET. VanSanten shall be again with the Most Wished group by the tip of the night time, as the autumn finale did not finish on a cliffhanger for her character. That is not the case for Vinessa Vidotto on Worldwide, although, as Vo’s destiny was unsure when followers final noticed her.
You’ll be able to revisit all three exhibits’ fall finales streaming on Paramount+ should you want a refresher, in addition to the winter premieres after they air on CBS.