FBI came back from the holiday break with an episode that focused on an investigation into an arson attack. After an apartment building exploded, the team quickly found their suspect, but there was more to the story. Plus, Isobel finally chose the person who would take her position, or did she?
After an apartment building exploded, OA and Maggie found evidence that heating coils were used to make a time-delay detonator that caused the building to quickly go up in flames before residents could make it to safety.
The coils led them to a brewery that recently hired Harry Jenkins, who just got out of prison after serving time for arson. While he was proven to be responsible for the fire, he was ordered to do the hit.
The search for who ordered an attack on an apartment building leads to a prison riot on FBI
After looking into who sent him text messages ordering the hit, the JOC learned someone inside the prison had used their burner phone to make the request. The team went to the prison in order to determine whose phone was used. Once they found it, they learned it belonged to a man named Russell “Two-Slice” Jackson. He was a rival gang member of a previous inmate, Kaos, whom Scola and Ramos both questioned.
However, before the team could question him, they discovered his dead body in the prison yard.
He was killed with a shiv made from a needle, and the most likely suspect is a lower-level member of his gang, Cole Watkins. Since Jackson was in mandated counseling at the time, his phone was used to send the order, the team figured out Watkins went into his cell and made it look like it came from Jackson.
Watkins is connected to a resident of the apartment building, Lorraine Green, whom Scola and Ramos had questioned. Green had recently visited Watkins, and the team learns they have a son, Demarcus, who is set to be a famous athlete. While Scola and Ramos question Watkins, unbeknownst to them, a prison riot begins to form.
As the rest of the team watches helplessly, Ramos and Scola are in danger when Kaos arrives to punish Watkins for blowing up a building in his territory. During the beating, the agents are tied up, and they hear Watkins tell Kaos he was only trying to save his son.
Jubal and Isobel begin to figure out what was actually going on. One of the residents, Cierra Gibson, was pregnant, and based on the timing of her pregnancy and when Demarcus was home for summer break, he was the baby’s father.
While they looked into this further, Maggie and OA made a desperate attempt to get to their fellow teammates. They managed to make it to the infirmary without being seen, but then had to fight off some inmates keeping watch on the infirmary. At the same time, Scola and Ramos had managed to overpower Kaos just as more backup arrived to help the four agents.
Despite being shaken from the experience of being beaten and nearly assaulted, Scola and Ramos thanked each other. They managed to have each other’s backs despite the danger and held their own long enough for Maggie and OA to arrive to help them.
In the meantime, Jubal and Isobel questioned Lorraine. Watkins had confessed that both he and Lorraine worked together to protect their son from the situation with Cierra. Then they dropped the bomb that Cierra had no soot in her lungs, meaning she had died before the fire started. Despite this, Lorraine claimed they wouldn’t be able to prove Demarcus had anything to do with her death.
Even though they wouldn’t be able to do anything about Demarcus for now, the team could at least solve the case of the arson attack. As for Isobel’s decision on who her successor would be? She actually decided to turn down the promotion.
Isobel had seen how the Assistant Director had talked to Jubal, and she didn’t want to turn out to be the kind of person he was when he spoke to Jubal about being passed over. Plus, she loved working with Jubal and the team, being part of the action when it came to solving cases. Both she and Jubal were where they were meant to be, solving cases as a team.
While we’re glad Isobel chose to stay in her position with the team, we hope one day she finds the opportunity to move up when she feels she is ready.
FBI airs Mondays at CBS at 9/8c.