CBS’ primetime lineup goes to look very totally different within the fall 2025 TV schedule than it did within the spring, largely as a result of cancellations of FBI: Most Wished and FBI: Worldwide. The unique collection is now the final FBI standing on the community, and the Season 8 premiere has an enormous cliffhanger to resolve. After the credit rolled on Season 7 with Isobel (Alana De La Garza) collapsing and not using a pulse, will she be again for Season 8?
Effectively, I used to be so assured that CBS would not spoil even a little bit of it when there’s nonetheless greater than a month to go earlier than the premiere that I nearly missed an enormous clue that the community lately launched.
FBI’s Season 8 Premiere
CBS dropped quite a lot of fall TV information this week, together with for different crime reveals like Elsbeth with Stephen Colbert as a visitor star and Boston Blue taking Donnie Wahlberg to Massachusetts. However FBI was arguably the community’s largest finale cliffhanger on the finish of the 2024-2025 season, with Isobel’s accidents catching up together with her simply after it appeared like the nice guys received. The celebs did not spoil Isobel’s destiny again within the spring, so the wait has been on since Could to be taught if she lives or dies.
Effectively, the official episode description for the premiere (courtesy of CBS) reveals that the title is “Takeover,” and there can be extra occurring than simply Maggie (Missy Peregrym) and Co. chasing unhealthy guys. Have a look:
After a federal choose disappears, a routine investigation takes a darkish flip because the crew uncovers that the choose had been trying to find his lacking son on a secluded island on the town’s edge, the place authority has crumbled. In the meantime, actuality weighs heavy on Jubal as he takes on a brand new management position.
Does Jubal (Jeremy Sisto) taking over a brand new management position imply that Isobel is lifeless and gone? After all not, and the one factor I am pretty assured about guessing from this data is that the time soar between Season 7 and Season 8 will not be too terribly lengthy. It appears that evidently Isobel is out of fee, on the very least. That sentence about Jubal within the episode description is not what I initially missed, although.
What The First Images Inform Us About The Season 8 Premiere
One of many two first-look images would not actually shed quite a lot of gentle on particulars for the Season 8 premiere, however I nonetheless at all times like to see Maggie and OA (Zeeko Zaki) in motion collectively. They’re considered one of my favourite on-screen TV partnerships, and the current video of Missy Peregrym pranking Zeeko Zaki behind the scenes was a enjoyable take a look at how the actors evaluate to their characters. Check out the duo in Season 8:
A minimum of one factor hasn’t modified within the wake of Isobel’s collapse and a solid shakeup on the way in which: Maggie and OA look prepared for something collectively. On a way more critical notice, the factor that has modified is pictured within the second first-look photograph under, and I initially missed it. Have a look:
That’ll educate me to zoom in on photos if I wish to get all of the clues out of them! I might targeted on Jubal’s considerably inscrutable expression as he stood within the largely empty workplace once I first noticed the photograph, and it wasn’t till a re-assessment that I zoomed in to identify the “ISOBEL CASTILLE” nameplate on the desk.
Jubal standing in a generic empty workplace? Completely advantageous – 26 Fed is stuffed with rooms that look related. Jubal standing within the empty workplace that used to belong to Isobel? Far more regarding! I am nonetheless not going to take this to imply that Isobel died between the tip of Season 7 and begin of Season 8, however the anticipate the October premiere simply acquired slightly bit extra nerve-wracking. Suffice it to say that I’ll look extra carefully at images shifting ahead!
Will Isobel Be Again In Season 8?
Even when we get the best-case state of affairs of Isobel sustaining some accidents that she simply could not shake off earlier than the beginning of Season 8, there is a distinct ingredient of tragedy that she had this horrible well being scare. In Season 7, she had the chance to retire to a quiet and secure life together with her new husband, however determined that her work on the Bureau was “not completed.”
Once I spoke with Alana De La Garza and Jeremy Sisto as a duo forward of the finale, the actress doubled down on Isobel not having any regrets about “not stepping away,” then described her character as a “justice junkie” on the “core of her soul.”
It was a honest rationalization, made funnier when the 2 costars began spitballing on what Isobel might do if she ever did retire. The actress urged that she would “wither up and die” earlier than deciding on “tennis membership.” Sisto went a bit additional and pitched that she’d “work for the CIA” and head on over to the set of CIA, a brand new present set within the FBI universe.
Realistically, I might be shocked if the Season 7 finale was the final time that we see Alana De La Garza as Isobel Castille, and I am guessing/hoping that she’ll be again pretty early in Season 8 after recovering from what brought about her to break down and not using a pulse. Maybe all of the clues will merely result in a reveal early within the premiere that Isobel is on the mend and simply wants Jubal to fill in for her quickly.
One other chance is that FBI is writing Alana De La Garza out for a bit, with Isobel’s accidents as a superb excuse to briefly bench the character. Different characters are omitted of episodes right here and there, and recovering from a near-death expertise is a fairly nice purpose for the SAC to step again. It is all hypothesis at this level, however FBI did one thing just like quickly write Missy Peregrym out as Maggie in Season 4.
Plus, different reveals within the Dick Wolf TV universe have needed to make cuts to the episode counts for collection regulars this season. Perhaps there are simply sensible the explanation why Isobel may not be absolutely in motion in October. Or perhaps I am mistaken on nearly each depend, and I am going to simply have to attend for the premiere to be taught the reality!
Tune in to CBS on Monday, October 13 at 9 p.m. ET for the Season 8 premiere of FBI, adopted by Watson Season 2. This would be the first time that FBI would not air on a Tuesday, with CBS allotting all three hours this season to the NCIS franchise. The present was additionally initially set to be paired in primetime with Tom Ellis’ CIA; that collection’ delay to midseason resulted in Watson being switched from a winter return to a fall premiere of Season 2.
As a fan of each FBI and Watson, I am actually not complaining! Within the meantime, you may as well the Season 7 finale of FBI streaming with a Paramount+ subscription.