FBI Season 7 is on the verge of returning to CBS within the 2025 TV schedule, with the primary new episode because the fall finale that put OA (Zeeko Zaki) via the wringer. The winter premiere, referred to as “Descent,” airs on January 28 and shifts the main focus over to Scola (John Boyd) because the case of the week leaves him flashing again to the lack of his brother greater than twenty years in the past.
In fact, Scola nonetheless does not have a daily companion because the departure of Tiff (Katherine Renee Kane) within the premiere, however a brand new casting means that he would possibly lastly discover one who sticks this season, and Boyd not too long ago advised CinemaBlend what Scola actually wants in a companion.
FBI’s Latest Agent
FBI has forged Emily Alabi as a brand new agent becoming a member of the group, in line with Deadline, with the expectation that her character would be the subsequent newcomer to be paired with Scola. Alabi is not any stranger to CBS after recurring on S.W.A.T., debuting on Magnum P.I. earlier than the Jay Hernandez present moved to NBC, and even touchdown a job on FBI: Worldwide. She additionally appeared in Joe Pickett (seen above) for viewers with a Paramount+ subscription.
Particulars are scarce about Alabi’s character, though the actress confirmed her casting on Instagram. She’s going to recur via the again half of Season 7, with the potential for promotion to collection common standing for Season 8. FBI has already been renewed via Season 9.
The information comes after the actress who was initially forged to play Scola’s new companion was minimize, reportedly because of the FBI group deciding to go in a unique course relatively than due to any shortcomings in Lisette Olivera’s efficiency. FBI hasn’t but revealed how Olivera’s character, Agent Sydney Ortiz, will probably be written out, nevertheless it’s presumably solely a matter of time as soon as Season 7 returns.
What John Boyd Informed Us About A New Associate For Scola
Information broke over the summer season that Katherine Renee Kane would not be returning to FBI as a Season 7 collection common, however she did come again for the Season 7 premiere for Tiff to get a stable goodbye on display. The tremendous candy remaining scene between Tiff and Maggie was a product of Missy Peregrym wanting a second with Kane, whereas Tiff and Scola’s remaining scene concerned her saving his life after he was stabbed out within the area.
On the time, John Boyd referred to the selection for the companions’ remaining scene because the “clear and apparent alternative of what to do,” and confirmed that scheduling labored out for that to even be his remaining scene reverse Katherine Renee Kane. All in all, the stage was set for Scola to wish a brand new companion, however he hasn’t discovered one who matches fairly like Tiff did.
So, after I spoke with Boyd forward of the winter premiere that can showcase his character, I requested what sort of persona in a companion he thinks Scola must mesh nicely with on FBI, and he shared:
Effectively, Scola can mesh nicely with everybody as a result of he does not like anybody, till he does. He does not belief anybody, and he thinks everybody’s stuffed with BS. No, I feel what could be cool is for Scola to get the form of companion that he does not know he wants. [Those] are the funnest tales to inform, are the those that carry some aspect out of him that he did not know. Somebody that challenges him, somebody that teaches him, that he can study from. You actually, actually need that belief on this present, you must have a companion that you just really feel like you may actually belief, and it will be attention-grabbing to construct that again once more sometime.
I spoke with the actor, who hit a serious milestone in Season 7, earlier than information broke that Emily Alabi had been forged, so it must be attention-grabbing to see how her character matches (or does not match) his description of Scola’s preferrred companion from the start. Even when they do not hit it off instantly, it is price remembering that Tiff and Scola weren’t precisely on OA/Maggie ranges of belief from the beginning, and John Boyd agreed that “it certain was” a course of for Tiff and Scola to construct their belief and partnership again within the day.
This companion storyline has been ongoing for Scola within the first FBI season with showrunner Mike Weiss, and the upcoming large episode for the character was written by Aaron Ginsburg, who can also be new to Season 7. Boyd solely had good issues to say about how the present is being dealt with with contemporary blood behind the scenes, saying:
It actually has been [fresh]. I’ve simply been so impressed with how they have been capable of write. The storylines that they’ve considered this season for Scola, I’ve simply been actually enthusiastic about, and too within the partnership stuff and the velocity relationship and folks not working and the Goldilocks. It is simply been actually enjoyable. The whole lot they throw at me, I feel is basically cool.
As for what FBI will throw at Scola subsequent, the wait is not for much longer! “Descent” airs on CBS because the Season 7 winter premiere on Tuesday, January 28 within the regular 8 p.m. ET time slot. The group will examine the demise of an assistant U.S. lawyer, which is able to put them in the course of a terrorist plot involving industrial airplanes. Understandably, this triggers reminiscences of Scola’s late brother, who died within the 9/11 assaults.
Whereas Scola will not have Tiff as his trusted companion and it stays to be seen if Syd has a component to play, Shantel VanSanten will cross over from FBI: Most Needed as Nina Chase. Hopefully Nina will be capable of give Scola any assist he wants, however followers might want to tune in to seek out out. FBI, FBI: Most Needed, and FBI: Worldwide all have their present seasons thus far streaming on Paramount+ as nicely.