[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the FBI Season 7 finale “A New Day.”]
Zeeko Zaki wasn’t exaggerating when he known as the FBI Season 7 finale cliffhanger “life or dying.” Within the closing moments, simply as it appears that evidently 26 Fed has taken care of their main downside of the terrorist group members having infiltrated the bureau, Isobel (Alana De La Garza) collapses.
Forefront pops again up, now with members within the FBI (beforehand within the US Marshals). They provoke an assault on brokers utilizing mini explosives in government-issued telephones, and Isobel is within the room with one when it goes off. To everybody outdoors the inside circle — Maggie (Missy Peregrym), OA (Zeeko Zaki), Jubal (Jeremy Sisto), Scola (John Boyd), Dani (Emily Alabi), Kelly (Taylor Anthony Miller), Elise (Vedette Lim), and Ian (James Chen) — she’s lifeless, till she reveals herself to the corrupt deputy assistant director to make him suppose she’s on his facet. As an alternative, she data him ordering males to kill federal brokers (the group). However then, as Isobel and Jubal have everybody gathered, she collapses — and he or she doesn’t have a pulse! We have been proper to fret when she didn’t get medical consideration earlier. Did FBI simply kill off Isobel?! Alana De La Garza isn’t saying.
“Actually, you must tune in to see,” she tells TV Insider within the video interview above along with her and Jeremy Sisto. “It’s a legit cliffhanger. It was very thrilling and really enjoyable to play, in contrast to something I’ve ever performed earlier than for positive. In order that was enjoyable.”
Sisto says if Isobel dies, “it will be an enormous blow to the workplace and to Jubal and to clearly the present as properly. We’re all hoping that that isn’t the case. … I feel one of many causes our present works is as a result of all of the characters fill a mandatory function inside this household, and so it will be an actual disgrace to interrupt one thing that’s working so properly.”
Previous to that, there was very a lot a query of who might be trusted throughout the FBI — with Jubal on the opposite facet of an interrogation at one level! Isobel put her fame and profession on the road backing him.
“I really like the dynamic between Jubal and Isobel, that they’re buddies by way of and thru. They’re each bosses. And though she’s his boss, she turns to him as a confidant as properly,” says De La Garza. “And they may not at all times agree they usually may disagree and he or she might need to reprimand him often, however I really like that dynamic as a result of on the root of it, they’re buddies as properly. It’s enjoyable, and we’re buddies in actual life.”
Close to the top of the episode, OA does fear that another person might need taken up Forefront, and Sisto wouldn’t be shocked if he’s not the one one.
“I can’t think about they’re not extraordinarily insecure, figuring out that not solely have been they in a position to get contained in the US Marshals’ workplace within the earlier episode, however now they have been in a position to get brokers. Actually the insecurity comes from, how are these folks being turned? Is there that form of apprehension about these establishments, that there’s a number of folks throughout the companies which might be questioning them?” Sisto asks. “[People in law enforcement are] not fast to belief. It’s simply going to make them go additional in that path, double verify somebody’s MO and what their goals are.”
Watch the total video interview above with Jeremy Sisto and Alana De La Garza concerning the Season 7 finale, getting in on the motion, Jubal and Isobel’s bond, what their characters would do in the event that they retired, hopes for Season 8, and way more.
FBI, Season 8, Fall 2025, Mondays, 9/8c, CBS