Spoilers forward for Episode 14 of FBI Season 7, referred to as “Hitched” and obtainable streaming now with a Paramount+ subscription.
FBI returned to CBS from a short break within the 2025 TV schedule with an episode that had OA flying solo much more than regular after the practice carrying him and Gemma was hijacked. Whereas Maggie and Co. have been serving to as a lot as they may from the skin, OA needed to discover a approach to cease the practice and save his girlfriend from bleeding out. Zeeko Zaki spoke with CinemaBlend about getting to drag off some motion movie-esque motion pictures, and his feedback about that remaining scene with Maggie go away me glad over again that FBI has already been renewed for Season 8.
Followers are actually used to seeing OA in motion after greater than 100 episodes over seven seasons and counting, however combating his method towards the entrance of a practice is sort of completely different from a chase sequence throughout New York Metropolis. Zaki opened up about filming scenes happening in a shifting practice… a.ok.a., an area with loads much less elbow room than regular. The actor shared:
It was actually cool. It is so enjoyable to get to do stuff that we do not normally do, and being on that practice, and attending to sort of honor the motion motion pictures that I’ve seen in these confined areas, planes and trains and issues like that, was actually enjoyable. However our stunt supervisor and our stunt guys are all so nice, so it was actually pure for us to simply see the house, determine it out and make it look as cool as attainable.
The stunts on FBI (in addition to on the Emmy-nominated FBI: Most Needed and FBI: Worldwide) are typically fairly cinematic on a weekly foundation, so it is becoming that Zeeko Zaki bought to “honor the motion motion pictures” with OA’s practice fights. OA luckily did efficiently save all the hostages and cease the practice within the nick of time, however Gemma’s life was in critical jeopardy after she was caught in crossfire.
Because of emergency first help involving tea luggage, tampons, and a few sympathetic hijackers, Gemma did reside, resulting in a candy scene between Consolation Clinton in Gemma’s hospital mattress and Zeeko Zaki because the nonetheless very shaken OA. The longtime collection common shed some mild on what was going by his character’s head at that time:
We do not actually see the guilt an excessive amount of as we see the concern, as a result of we’re nonetheless on this second. And there is a lot at stake. You will have Gemma, after which you have got all the opposite passengers. I feel he is superb at compartmentalizing that. He is superb at staying in it and staying centered. So hopefully that reads, however the guilt undoubtedly comes by on the finish there, and simply attending to play these completely different ranges on the emotional type of spectrum that we’ve not gotten to possibly see earlier than, was actually enjoyable.
That emotional scene between OA and Gemma wasn’t truly the ultimate scene of the episode, although. Maggie, who had been freaking out to numerous levels all through “Hitched” whereas OA was combating hijackers on his personal, was on the hospital to help her accomplice. After he confided that he felt like he was supposed to guard Gemma, she gave him a hug that he clearly wanted, and jogged my memory of why Maggie and OA are one in every of my favourite TV partnerships.
So, what did it imply to OA that Maggie was there for him on the very finish of an exceptionally making an attempt day? I posed Zeeko Zaki that very query, and he shared:
It means the world, in fact. Our relationship and our partnership is so sturdy, and I might have finished the identical for her, in fact. Once more, it is actually thrilling to get these moments to point out how linked and the way sturdy we’re collectively and aside.
For all of the adjustments that FBI has gone by through the years, Maggie and OA’s partnership remains to be a key a part of the collection, and Zaki’s feedback make me relieved that – assuming there aren’t any main tragedies for the crew earlier than the tip of Season 7, anyway – they will be again for Season 8. In truth, in mild of Most Needed and Worldwide getting cancelled, FBI‘s multi-season renewal final spring comes as a reduction. The unique collection is presently assured by Season 9.
There’s nonetheless loads of time earlier than the Season 7 finale, nonetheless, and the promo for the following episode means that Maggie would possibly have to lean on OA quickly. Have a look:
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Maggie seemingly will find yourself in critical peril whereas the crew is on the hunt for a serial killer, and the crew remains to be quick an agent because of Scola not but getting a everlasting accomplice after shedding Tiff. Tune in to CBS on Tuesday, March 18 at 8 p.m. ET for the following new episode of FBI, adopted by FBI: Worldwide at 9 p.m. ET and FBI: Most Needed at 10 p.m. ET.
Tuesdays will look very completely different come fall with out Worldwide and Most Needed, so a giant query now could be whether or not CBS will formally order the potential FBI: CIA spinoff to collection.