Spoilers forward for Episode 6 of FBI: Most Needed Season 6, known as “Pageantry” and out there streaming now with a Paramount+ subscription.
After a short break, FBI: Most Needed returned to CBS in what’s left of the 2024 TV schedule earlier than the beginning of the 2025 TV schedule with an episode that concerned a magnificence pageant, assassins, the CIA, and sarin, the latter of which had me flashing again to certainly one of FBI‘s most intense storylines. It was additionally the epic episode that showrunner David Hudgins had previewed to CinemaBlend earlier within the fall, however none of his feedback about Ethan‘s “secret” had me prepared for what Hana would uncover about her boyfriend in “Pageantry.”
Earlier than absolutely stepping into spoilers, let’s begin with what the showrunner mentioned that had me completely unprepared for the massive reveal of the most recent episode.
What David Hudgins Instructed Me About Hana And Ethan
I spoke with FBI: Most Needed showrunner David Hudgins forward of Season 6 this fall about all the pieces starting from that Crosby throwback to the perks of attending to do a full season once more. He additionally supplied some relationship updates for the primary characters, together with that “Hana’s nonetheless with Ethan” to start out the season.
I admitted to Hudgins that I would initially suspected that Ethan was too good to be true for Hana, and he responded:
Ethan is again. He doesn’t have nefarious intentions, however he does have a secret that Hana discovers, they usually should work collectively to determine if it should tear their relationship aside or not. You are not fallacious. I imply, Michael Raymond-James has that twinkle, proper? You all the time really feel like that child’s bought mischief, one thing’s up. However I like them collectively a lot. I used to be telling anyone earlier, I like to observe dailies when Michael’s there, as a result of after they are saying lower, watch him and Keisha work together, as a result of they’re hilarious collectively and have good chemistry. So he doesn’t have nefarious intentions, however he does have a secret, and it results in some drama.
Though Hudgins talked about a secret with the potential to tear their relationship aside, his feedback about Michael Raymond-James and Keisha Fortress-Hughes being “hilarious collectively” actually made me suppose that nothing too critical would come between them. The truth is, the showrunner went on to share why he enjoys getting to inform tales for the characters’ private lives in addition to the harrowing instances of the week, saying:
I believe it is good for the present. I personally get pleasure from writing them and breaking these tales with the writers. One of many issues concerning the present because it’s advanced through the years goes house with our characters and seeing what is going on on of their private lives is entertaining. We’re all the time going to have our driving A narrative, catching our fugitive, however these are actual folks with actual lives, they usually have actual issues and actual triumphs and we need to inform these tales as effectively.
Nicely, weeks after I initially spoke with Hudgins, I can positively see that Ethan can increase “actual issues” for Hana with out really having “nefarious intentions.” His secret appears sure to break their relationship and presumably put her in a sticky scenario as an FBI agent, however he isn’t intentionally wronging her. It is simply… very messy. So, let’s get into what occurred for Hana to be taught Ethan’s secret!
What Occurred In “Pageantry”
The episode opened with Ethan and Hana having fun with an evening in watching TV collectively, with Ethan admitting that he is been “MIA” these days however had a particular evening deliberate for them later within the week: the Rockettes’ Christmas Spectacular at Radio Metropolis with a pleasant dinner afterwards. Hana was all smiles… which can have been an indication that one thing was going to take a dramatic twist, since that is FBI: Most Needed we’re speaking about. Whereas he took Milo exterior, a textual content popped up on his telephone that he’d left with Hana from a “Jamie” that learn:
Missed you tonight. I will be up late should you want me xxoo
Now, even when Hana gave him the largest advantage of the doubt about who “Jamie” is, the “xxoo” to finish the textual content is fairly damning. She wasn’t completely disillusioned, although, and was enthusiastic about their Radio Metropolis evening… till he known as to cancel. He mentioned – seemingly sincerely – that he was actually sorry and supposed to make it as much as her.
And by the top of the episode, the opposite shoe dropped. Hana banged on his house door when she could not get by way of to him for a couple of hours, then let herself in and found him handed out in entrance of the TV. It wasn’t the sort of passing out one would do after a protracted flight or needing a great evening’s sleep, both. She found a bottle of Oxycodone sitting on his counter, and the dots linked that he was extraordinarily excessive. Slamming her key to his place down, she gave him one minute to attempt to clarify concerning the scenario and about Jamie.
When he could not do rather more than slur his phrases and mutter “It isn’t” about Jamie, Hana declared that she was executed, that she’d recognized she was proper about him, and stormed out of the house. All the girl had wished to do was get pleasure from a festive evening watching the Rockettes, and that is what she will get!
Primarily based on the showrunner’s feedback, I am really inclined to suppose that Jamie is not one other lady within the sense that Hana is considering. May she be his seller, who she’d hoped to see in order that she might promote him extra oxy? Or an NA sponsor who did not know that he was off the wagon? Is there a superbly affordable rationalization for the “xxoo” textual content?
And dang it, might Hana and Barnes simply meet up and go see the Rockettes collectively, no relationship drama allowed? Each girls might use some enjoyable at this level, and I have never forgotten what Roxy Sternberg mentioned about Barnes’ relationship with Hana when she broke down her massive episode to CinemaBlend.
It stays to be seen if we’ll get any extra solutions about whether or not Hana has a future with Ethan earlier than winter hiatus begins, as just one episode is left earlier than the autumn finale. Followers will not have to attend too terribly lengthy into the brand new yr to see the Fugitive Job Power again in motion, although.
Together with FBI (which simply delivered a devastating selection for Maggie)and FBI: Worldwide (which is about to herald Station 19 alum Jay Hayden), Most Needed will return in 2025 on Tuesday, January 28. For now, although, you may maintain discovering new episodes on CBS Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET.