Spoilers forward for the autumn finale of FBI Season 7, known as “Riptide” and set for streaming with a Paramount+ subscription.
The ultimate episode of FBI within the 2024 TV schedule has aired on CBS, and OA wanted extra assist than he knew when confronted with the betrayal of his previous buddy Clay. The character, performed by Chicago Med alum Man Lockard, confirmed his true colours within the fall finale, and his try to flee with a complete lot of gold ended abruptly when OA shot and killed him. Zeeko Zaki spoke with CinemaBlend about what comes subsequent for his character because the 2025 TV schedule approaches, in addition to the challenges of filming for the second half of Season 7.
OA has gotten into fisticuffs loads of occasions through the years of FBI, however hardly ever have the non-public stakes been so excessive for him as he got here to blows with an opponent. Regardless of having his suspicions – or, as Zaki put it, his “spider senses tingling” – the agent clearly needed to imagine that the person who had saved his life all these years in the past wasn’t able to betray him. It was an unpleasant struggle that ended with OA taking pictures Clay, however an ideal efficiency by each Zaki and Lockard.
Since there was extra emotion than ordinary for a struggle on FBI, I requested the longtime collection common: was the motion choreographed otherwise this time round? He defined:
I really feel just like the struggle wasn’t essentially choreographed otherwise, however it’s a totally different motivation. I am not essentially on this struggle to harm him or kill him. I am within the struggle to possibly knock some sense into him and to shake him out of this loopy path he is on. So it was undoubtedly totally different in that sense. However once more, when push involves shove and lives are on the road and the case is on the road and issues like that, we all know what aspect OA stands on, and it is good to see that if the gloves have to return off, even with a private buddy, they will.
It was clear that OA hadn’t needed to kill Clay even after he pulled the set off, scrambling over to his buddy to see if he was nonetheless respiration. Later, although, he confirmed to Maggie that he knew that he did what he needed to do. All in all, it was only a tough episode for Zeeko Zaki’s character, and ended with one other buddy lifeless. The actor elaborated:
It is robust. It was undoubtedly an unbelievable kind of second. Once more, I believe it reveals that whereas OA succeeds at a lot of the issues he tries, not having the ability to discuss his buddy down is unquestionably going to have an effect on him, and is unquestionably displaying that we’re all human on the finish of the day, and never every part works out the best way that we wish it to.
Actually, not a lot of something from “Riptide” labored out the best way that OA needed it to, and I virtually want that there was one final scene within the fall finale with the character opening up a bit extra to Maggie or his girlfriend. Gemma appears to be round to remain regardless of a tough starting, in any case!
After OA shared with Maggie earlier within the episode about how Clay had damaged protocol again of their military days to usher in the cavalry and save his life following weeks of captivity, it was simple to know his battle. FBI is in fact a procedural, however will this case persist with OA whether or not or not followers see it on display screen every week? Zeeko Zaki weighed in:
It has to. I believe his navy background and his background within the Bureau have made him superb at compartmentalizing these items. So it is good to have the chance to play that, however I am excited to see the place the writers go along with it and the way we do play that sooner or later.
“The longer term” of FBI continues to be a methods off for followers, as CBS’ hit drama will not return within the new 12 months till January 27. That stated, the forged has been onerous at work past the autumn finale, which was the eighth of Season 7. I requested Zeeko Zaki how far forward they’ve filmed for the 2025 return up to now, and he stated:
We’re filming Episode 12 in the meanwhile, and we’ve Episode 13’s script, however after that, no thought.
Assuming that FBI goes to 22 episodes in Season 7 as the standard depend for seasons not affected by COVID-19 problems or the WGA writers strike, then Zaki and the remainder of the forged have been simply past the midway level after we spoke forward of the autumn finale. After all, filming on the finish of 1 12 months and starting of the subsequent has a unique set of challenges than the autumn or spring. Zaki defined the adjustments:
Principally it is the chilly. [laughs] It is undoubtedly intense, and it does damage, but it surely actually brings out one other layer to the characters. For me, it simply makes you actually, actually current once you’re within the chilly and also you’re type of struggling by means of that. So I like after we get to shoot within the chilly, as a result of I do know the work goes to have that additional edge on it, and it actually performs on display screen.
Zeeko Zaki put a optimistic spin off filming open air within the chilly of New York Metropolis in December (up to now) and into the early months of the brand new 12 months! Followers simply have a little bit of a wait till the winter episodes of Season 7 hit the airwaves on CBS. Unsurprisingly, FBI was not one in all CBS’ reveals with a Christmas episode.
Through the hiatus forward of the return of FBI (in addition to FBI: Worldwide with new forged member Jay Hayden and FBI: Most Wished) on January 27, you may all the time revisit earlier episodes streaming through Paramount+.