“68 Seconds” is FBI Most Wished’s most up-to-date providing. The episode includes a compelling narrative, the place the Supervisory Particular Agent Remy Scott (Dylan McDermott) investigates his former lover’s, Decide April Brooks (Wendy Moniz) sexual assault case. However, regardless of this compelling begin, the episode fell quick in its execution. Let’s overview.
“68 Seconds” – FBI: MOST WANTED, Picture: (L-R): Wendy Moniz as Decide April Brooks and Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Particular Agent Remy Scott. Picture: CBS ©2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Decide April, Remy’s ex, is sexually assaulted at the back of a van. Her rapist tells her, “For those who battle, you die. Inform anybody you die.” The viewer subsequent sees Remy rejecting a name from April, however she retains calling. When he lastly solutions her name, she tells him she’s been raped. Viewers instantly know it is as much as Remy to ensure the rapist doesn’t make good on his risk and that April doesn’t die.
When Decide April and Remy meet, she doesn’t need a rape package, saying, “I’m a decide, not a sufferer.” What? Happily, she does the rape package, however it’s how that scene was framed and shot that was significantly arresting (pun supposed). There’s a shut shot of the tray with all of the package’s instruments – the swab, the speculum, and many others. Then, there’s a closeup of the actress’s pained face. This emotional excessive level occurs early on. How this delicate challenge is dealt with all through the episode is commendable however in the end seems like a missed alternative.
For instance, Remy Scott, in typical vogue, beefs with the native police, Detective Tyler Jackson (Matthew Russell), by accusing him of not connecting April’s case to others that occurred within the space within the final 12 months. He calls in his workforce. It’s noteworthy to this viewer that solely the feminine particular brokers, Nina Chase (Shantel VanSanten), Sheryll Barnes (Roxy Sternberg), and Hana Gibson (Keisha Citadel-Hughes), can be found to assist. This truth is just not noteworthy to their boss, Remy. The opposite process drive member, Particular Agent Ray Cannon (Edwin Hodge), stayed in New York due to his father’s sickness.
“68 Seconds” – FBI: Most Wished. Picture: (L-R): Keisha Citadel-Hughes as Particular Agent Hana Gibson and Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Particular Agent Remy Scott. Picture: Mark Schafer/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Based mostly on the DNA evaluation, the ladies of the Fugitive Job Pressure discovered that the rapist had been victimizing ladies for over a decade. The perpetrator eludes seize largely due to systemic points surrounding the dealing with of rape kits. The grim actuality is that many kits stay untested for years, if in any respect. The all-female squad expresses impotent rage over this truth, then drives dwelling the prevalence of sexual assault by sharing statistics and extra.
“68 Seconds” – FBI: Most Wished, Picture: Shantel VanSanten as Particular Agent Nina Chase. Picture: Mark Schafer/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Nina quotes, “Rape happens each 68 seconds in America.” Sheryll contributes, “One out of each three ladies is a sufferer of assault.” As a viewer, I instantly consider three ladies within the automotive; which one will communicate up? The automotive goes silent. All the ladies look tense and resigned. Lastly, Hana confesses, “I used to be 15…” Nina declares, “It occurred my sophomore 12 months at a membership.” Sheryll admits to being victimized whereas “celebrating getting accepted into the NYPD.” One out of three grew to become three out of three, portray a harrowing image of the ubiquity of this crime.
“68 Seconds” – FBI: Most Wished. Picture: (L-R): Roxy Sternberg as Particular Agent Sheryll Barnes and Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Particular Agent Remy Scott. Picture: Mark Schafer/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
One thing about this second felt pressured and, thus, just a little false. Might the writers have felt this, too? They turned to Remy to shed a special mild on this severe challenge. Remy, the king of impotent rage, operates all through this episode out of intense anger and frustration to maintain at bay the emotions of his personal powerlessness.
Viewers ought to take note of his dialog with the top of campus safety, Lucia Torres (Maggie Bofill), who needs to recruit him. She tells him you continue to get to hold a gun, however you gained’t should take care of the ‘worst of the worst.’ Remy replies, “I do that job due to the worst of the worst.” He continues to expertise overwhelming feelings of anger, helplessness, and sorrow as a result of he can not undo or forestall the hurt that has been performed.
This sense of impotence is deeply distressing, as seen when he tells Hana about visiting an artwork set up in Philadelphia. The exhibit, consisting of 1,000 pairs of fight boots, symbolically represented souls misplaced to struggle. This expertise was significantly affecting, leaving him feeling a sure means. What means? I suppose the viewer can fill within the emotional clean. Nevertheless, Remy compares how he felt at this exhibit to how he felt when he discovered “trophies”—objects” taken from victims—within the rapist’s dwelling.
“68 Seconds” – FBI: Most Wished. Picture: (L-R): Roxy Sternberg as Particular Agent Sheryll Barnes, Keisha Citadel-Hughes as Particular Agent Hana Gibson, Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Particular Agent Remy Scott, and Shantel VanSanten as Particular Agent Nina Chase. Picture: Mark Schafer/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
“68 Seconds” is a median FBI Most Wished episode with a well-intentioned script and course. Sadly, the episode falls quick in its execution because the present’s core actors delivered performances with minimal emotional vary. Whereas this strategy works for many episodes, I discovered it detracting from the present’s potential impression, given the intensely private connection the Fugitive Job Pressure members needed to the crime. For those who watched, I’m certain you discovered some affecting scenes, however in case you didn’t watch and select to not stream it, you gained’t miss out on something groundbreaking.
Am I flawed about this episode? How did you are feeling watching “68 Seconds”? Do you are feeling like Nina, Sheryll, and Hana’s relationship will change due to their revelations?
General Score:
5:10