Spoilers forward for Episode 13 of CBS’ FBI: Worldwide Season 4, known as “You’ve got Been Greenlit” and obtainable streaming subsequent day with a Paramount+ subscription.
FBI: Worldwide did not waste any time in including some issues to Agent Riley Quinn after she arrived to Budapest to fill Tyler Sales space‘s emptiness within the 2025 TV schedule. So far as the Fly Staff knew, she was there initially to crack a selected case after which caught round for a bit to pitch in. In actuality, she had been despatched with a mission that made her extra of a mole than a member of the crew: a bit chief from the Bureau’s Inspection Division wished grime on Wes, and she or he needed to ship if she wished to assist her brother together with his bind on the ATF.
Riley (performed by La Brea forged member Veronica St. Clair) determined to defend Wes and open up about the actual motive she was there by the top of “You’ve got Been Greenlit,” and I am glad she wasn’t torn for extra than simply this one episode. Whereas she’d proved that she was a succesful agent in her first episode and her conscience was clearly twinging at having to deceive the Fly Staff, I wasn’t satisfied that she would actually flip to come back clear earlier than the top of “You’ve got Been Greenlit” till she had a video name along with her brother.
Contemplating that Riley defended her brother within the earlier episode by saying that “he was framed for one thing he did not do by somebody on his unit, somebody he trusted,” I believed that he’d be fairly much like his sister. As a substitute, his mood shortly rose when speaking to her in “You’ve got Been Greenlit,” when she did not do something greater than admit she felt like “some form of a rat” on the Fly Staff. He responded:
You aren’t a rat. They’re simply attempting to make an instance out of your brother, and I am not going to jail over this BS, so no matter Inspections is asking for, you gotta give it to them.
Riley went on to remind him that she has to seek out any grime earlier than she has something handy over, and puzzled what if the Inspections part chief was flawed about Wes crossing strains and committing crimes. Getting offended, her brother began a rant:
Can I ask you one thing? Who’re you anxious about proper now, hmm? This agent you’ve got recognized for, I do not know, three days, or your personal brother? What number of occasions have I been there for you? Huh? Fort Lauderdale, Boise. Stuff with Mother – ooh, stuff with Mother. I by no means mentioned a phrase ‘trigger that is household. Now, I really like you, Riley, however I’m asking you to be there for me now, for the primary time and the final, perceive? If this goes down a sure approach, I’m federal expenses. It’s possible you’ll by no means see me once more! You realize what? Do no matter you need, okay? Do no matter you need.
Riley did not pack her luggage for this sort of a guilt journey! Her brother dropped loads of clues that Riley has extra secrets and techniques in her previous past his issues with the ATF, however my greatest takeaway is that he escalated the dialog a lot so shortly that there is a couple of crimson flag flying. And he hung up on her!
Between feeling like a rat attributable to her boss, a guilt journey from her brother, and the unwavering loyalty of the Fly Staff – full with a suggestion for pancakes from Wes – I might have been shocked if Riley did not resolve that her loyalties have been with the Budapest crew.
What’s not clear is whether or not there is a approach out of the mess for Riley… or Wes, for that matter. Her assertion cleared his identify for the taking pictures that went down in “You’ve got Been Greenlit,” however there are professional points on the report after Wes’ actions in Paris after Vo was shot, and Riley already handed these up the FBI ladder.
Plus, deciding that she did not need to be a mole on the Fly Staff doesn’t suggest that she’s able to abandon her brother’s trigger. All in all, for as a lot as I have been wishing for extra of Jay Hayden in his first post-Station 19 gig, I am getting invested on this Riley storyline.
Sadly, I and the remainder of the FBI: Worldwide fandom have an additional week to attend to seek out out what occurs after Riley reached out to Vo to admit that she’s “in a bind.” Worldwide (in addition to FBI and FBI: Most Needed) will not be again with a brand new case till Tuesday, March 11 within the normal time slots. Worldwide and Most Needed have been additionally each ignored of CBS’ current renewal spree, with FBI as the one one of many trio assured to return past the 2024-2025 TV season on the time of writing.