[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for FBI: International Season 4 Episode 4 “The Unwinnable War.”]
Tate (Christina Wolfe) is put in a troublesome place within the newest FBI: Worldwide. Together with her information of Spanish and the truth that she appears to be like like an agent who was killed, she’s the one to go undercover to assist nab a grimy DEA agent.
That’s simpler mentioned than performed, regardless that he falls for his or her entice and takes a shine to her. As soon as he realizes, nevertheless, what’s happening, Tate should battle for her life. Ultimately, the agent takes a deal (so no trial, which Tate was involved about, given she needed to kiss him to take care of her cowl, which is in opposition to the principles), and whereas Wes (Jesse Lee Soffer) factors out she has a knack for fieldwork, she’s completely happy the place she is … for now.
Under, Wolfe discusses Tate’s large task, whether or not she’d do it once more, and extra.
Tate was nervous about jeopardizing the case and breaking the principles with what she needed to do with Lopez. However after that nice second within the interrogation room on the finish—which I liked by—and the dialog with Wes, how do you assume she’s feeling about the way it all went?
Christina Wolfe: I believe she’s very happy with herself as a result of it wasn’t simple and she or he may have mentioned no. She was given the choice to say no. The case went proper ultimately. There was a degree at which she felt very ashamed and afraid about how she’d carried out herself on this undercover mission, and had she damaged the principles and what does this imply for the case? Had she sort of messed it up? After which when she realizes that she hasn’t, and that truly her involvement within the case has actually helped, then I believe she feels very happy with herself on the finish of the episode. However she’s additionally relieved that it’s over and there’s possibly a bit trepidation to return there.
I really feel like we see her being happy with herself in that interrogation room scene. And I like Vo (Vinessa Vidotto) simply standing there and watching.
Oh, 100%. It was nice for each of them as properly as a result of I believe their relationship on this episode actually blossomed they usually each sort of put this unhealthy man away, which was actually cool for his or her working relationship and their friendship, too.
It begins off with Tate bringing her daughter over to Vo, after which we get to see the shift into the skilled, I actually like that dynamic. Are we going to be getting extra of that?
Oh, you’ll have to attend and see. However I agree with you. I really like that dynamic and I actually like that this relationship with Vo is being explored.
Speak about filming these undercover scenes after which that Tate-Lopez battle.
Oh, I completely liked it. I completely love the motion stuff. I simply discover it fascinating to look at how the stunt crew places collectively this battle and you then watch the battle with the stunt performers and also you’re like, am I going to do this? And you then discover out that you simply’re breaking it down and the best way that they piece it collectively in order that it flows collectively as if it was all you is unbelievable. I discover it actually exhilarating. I actually liked filming that battle scene. And yeah, the undercover stuff is simply a lot enjoyable. It’s simply so completely different as a result of Tate doesn’t usually get to go within the discipline, so each time I am going within the discipline, it’s like a bit vacation.
Do you assume Tate has any regrets about saying sure to this task now that it’s over?
I don’t assume she has regrets when it’s over. I believe she has regrets throughout and self-doubt and emotions of maybe having failed. However I believe on the finish, she doesn’t remorse it as a result of it labored out. I believe it will be very completely different if it had ended a unique method.
Wes makes the pitch for her to enter the sector extra and she or he says she’s completely happy the place she is for now. How does she really feel about fieldwork now going ahead? Is it one thing that she’s extra apt to say sure to?
I believe she’s torn about it. I believe she has an inherent ability for it and Wes says that to her that she’s prepared. I believe she is aware of that, but it surely would possibly take her a bit longer to discover a strategy to marry that life with the life she has at house. And he or she says for now. I believe she is aware of herself and that she has this facet of her that maybe can’t be silenced, which is a want to work on these instances within the discipline and to place herself in these conditions the place she will be able to actually show herself.
And I like that that dialog happened along with her out along with her daughter—she may take a look at her daughter and see why she would wish to possibly hesitate.
Yeah, precisely. It’s precisely what’s happening in her thoughts and we get to see all of it visually on display. So it really works very well, I believe.
Yeah, and I identical to that we obtained these moments of them away from work on this episode to bookend it for Tate.
Yeah, it simply provides you far more of an perception into who she is and what her life is like so that you simply perceive her extra once we see her within the workplace. You realize this backstory, what’s happening for her exterior of this world.
After which constructing the relationships throughout the crew additionally.
Precisely. I believe that’s simply actually compelling as a viewer. You wish to understand how they’re interacting, what their relationships are like.
What would it not take for her to go undercover once more? What would she be weighing when making that call in comparison with what she did this time, do you assume?
I believe she’d should have an actual concept of how harmful it will be and maybe she’d want some extra battle coaching or one thing or one thing that will make her really feel safer in an effort to take care of issues in the event that they go flawed, as a result of she’s been within the discipline twice and issues go flawed, she does get in peril. So I believe she must weigh it as much as see whether or not it was one thing that she actually felt was too harmful. I suppose it additionally is dependent upon her emotional involvement within the case as a result of if one thing is de facto calling to her, it will be more durable to say no to.
Do you assume she ought to get in on that battle coaching now to organize?
Completely! Depend me in.
What was your favourite scene to movie from this episode?
I liked my scenes with Lopez. Bobby Soto was so incredible to work with and we actually obtained on and I believe we labored properly collectively, in order that was a spotlight for me.
I additionally should say I really like that her nickname for her daughter was her misery phrase.
I do know, isn’t that candy? I like that, too. I believe that actually sort of anchors her. It provides her some sort of strong grounding in such a tumultuous.
As a lot as I really like seeing Tate within the discipline, I additionally like watching her take command of the Hub.
Oh, I like it. My favourite episodes are those within the discipline, however I suppose that’s simply because they’re so completely different. However she’s actually in her aspect when she’s within the Hub, and I completely love that. And he or she loves working along with her analysts who’re simply so good, and now we have such a good time filming there. I actually like it.
FBI: Worldwide, Tuesdays, 9/8c, CBS