FBI: International Season 4, Episode 3 already has us on the edge of our seats waiting to see what happens next. It’s interesting to watch because we’re seeing the Fly Team bond as they never have. Each person on the team has the chance to reinvent themselves because they have a new leader.
Which also means a new dynamic. A new dynamic is always interesting, especially when you know some of the characters and you see them reinventing themselves. Sometimes it feels as though you’re watching a lie – only because you know the person that they used to be, and you know that wasn’t a part of their personality a hot second ago.
But here we are – watching the Fly Team grow and move a different kind of heaven and earth for the people that they are protecting. That is a beautiful thing.
Tonight’s episode, Nothing Sudden About It, made us start to see the team differently. But is that a good or a bad thing? We’re pretty sure that it’s a good thing.
MORE: The first episode of the season review can be read here!
Parents are protective and when you’re in a foreign country, they are going to be ten times as bad. They want to make sure you’re protected and taken care of. And hey, when you’re in Portugal for your birthday and disappear, well, just proves that parents being overprotective isn’t such a bad thing after all.
Leah disappearing at a party that she wasn’t supposed to be at brings in the Fly Team.
Wes Mitchell is getting to know his new home in Budapest. He does not mind being there and is lying and saying he working in sales. He’s not got the best of luck, because it’s in the middle of a tattoo that he finds out that he’s heading to Portugal to find Leah Cardwell.
TO PORTUGAL THEY GO
As the team heads to Portugal they are in for a long road. The Mom is freaking out (as anyone would when their child disappears). The friends are freaking out – well, Olivia is. She seems to be a level-headed friend. Zoe seems to be the one who just doesn’t seem to care, and wants to have a good time. She is acting like a victim.
But maybe that is why I like Olivia, because she was sober, and she noticed that Nico was feeding Leah drinks. He was constantly searching for his phone. Everyone has a part to play though – Zoe recorded everything on her phone and was able to show what Nico looked like.
MORE: The second episode of the season review can be read here!
Nico’s real name is Duarte and he’s got a criminal past. When the team figures out who he is, Smitty and the Portuguese contact go to visit him. He’s a cocky SOB, and he knows it. He doesn’t really care, because he’s got an alibi and one that checks out.
THEY FOUND LEAH
When Smitty comes in and says they found Leah, I have to admit, quickly my heart sank. Normally that’s not the best thing to hear in a procedural. But Leah is alive.
Vo and Mitchell head to see Leah and she seems despondent. When she was on the beach, she had a bag put over her head, she was taken on a boat, taken to another dock, and taken to a home. He handcuffed her to a pole.
It turns out that when Nico left her on the beach and she was left there, she was kidnapped in under a minute later. She didn’t escape, she was let go. The man returned her after he heard Leah’s Mom on the news.
For Wes, nothing is really making sense – at least that is what his face is saying. Have to agree though it doesn’t make sense. She wasn’t harmed physically. She was returned. There is something I am not getting here. The team isn’t sure if Leah is telling the truth.
Of course, Leah’s parents aren’t keen on the idea that the FBI thinks that there is a lie there. Well her Mom says no and her Dad says yes. Have to admit I was a little weary of what Leah said. Leah was very offended that they asked her if it was true, and Wes tells her if she wants to get pissed at someone to get pissed at her.
Vo, oh poor Vo. I love her so much and I hate that she had to ask Leah. I get why she had to ask because Leah’s stories don’t match up with how a vast majority of these cases work. However, for Vo, it’s something so personal – it’s as if she’s doubting a fellow female, and one thing I think that the show has always done well is portray Vo as a supporter of females. Taking that away for even a moment is hard to understand. Yet so is Leah’s story.
LOVE MOTEL
Tate and the team find a room that matches Leah’s description. It’s a “love motel” – a place with a garage next to a room, for discreet interactions. Though we all know that is mean for some shady sh**. The establishment has no cameras, as it’s a place for cheating.
Love so much when Raines and Smitty head in to investigate and we are proven wrong. All the things that Leah said are coming true. In all honesty, it sucks that we’re having to question a person’s story. It really does make me feel gross, even though I am watching it trying to figure out all the twists and turns that could come with this episode.
When they are trying to figure out who it could be, it turns out that the guy that Leah’s Mom was with at the pool – it’s him. She seems fishy – she’s hiding something. Once again, I am bothered because I am sitting here questioning another person’s story. That being said, I know that when you’re watching a movie or a television show, you’re supposed to be questioning everything.
It’s the way that you try and figure out what happened.
If the Mom has a part in her daughter’s kidnapping, I think I will puke. What kind of Mom would do that? This whole thing is so weird. So strange. Have to admit that the writing on FBI: International Season 4, Episode 3 is really quite good because there isn’t anyone that I am not questioning.
It feels like everyone could be involved in what happened to Leah.
PARENTAL NEGLIGENCE
Okay, wait – is it the father now? Did he have something to do with it? He’s filed a police report against his wife for parental negligence and has also filed a motion back in the States for custody of his sons.
Leah’s about to be 18 and if we’re being honest, all of the drama that her parents are causing seems to be too much. Now that we know that Leah filed to drop her Dad’s last name, I am wondering if he did it to be spiteful.
Wes doesn’t hesitate to go and call Leah’s Dad out. Her Dad doesn’t seem to care about Leah. The theories that the team have, it’s the same theories that we’re (yes, I am looping all of you into that too) all having. It’s when Tate finds something to link Alves and Craig that I think it may be Dad’s fault.
I know that divorces can be vicious, but this whole using your kids and putting them in harm’s way makes me feel ill. The team has to figure out who is lying and who is telling the truth, it feels like a lot to put on them. But the danger that they’ve been put in continuously, this may be nothing. Craig leaving town in four hours means that they are living on borrowed time to figure it out.
But, this team has Wes, and he’s willing to lie his a** off.
HE’S GOING TO LIE
The thing about Forrester is that when he was going to lie, it felt weird and kind of embarrassing. When Wes is telling us that he’s going to lie, I find myself screaming at the TV – DO IT!
Jesse Lee Soffer brings a different feeling out of me watching this show. It’s the kind where I am questioning ethics and saying do all of the dirty tricks. Do whatever it takes to get it all done. Wes Mitchell, it doesn’t feel dirty for him to do it.
It feels really natural for Wes and Vo to go in and talk to Alves in FBI: International Season 4, Episode 3. He won’t help them, saying that he won’t talk to cops. Wes and Vo work together well and then go in to talk to Craig – I was amazed. I was amazed because I didn’t see Wes being able to lie so well that I was like “Oh he’s a single dad” and I wanted to cook him a meal and have him be a good Dad.
Turns out that Craig was the one who hired Alves to kidnap his daughter so that he could get custody of his sons. Yup, I am officially ill. How he could do that to his own kid? Craig, you deserve to rot in hell.
ONE LAST NIGHT
One thing that is really special about this season is the relationship between Vo and Mitchell. It’s not a shipping relationship that I am feeling, but one right now of a friendship that is beginning to grow.
I think that Mitchell wants to let Vo in, but he can’t. He doesn’t think that he can lose anyone else so getting that close to someone would destroy him.
That tattoo – the one he was getting – it’s a badge number. Mike’s badge number. Having to add another badge number to his arm, I feel like would destroy him more than he’s already destroyed. Wes is all in on his job because he doesn’t know how to be all in on his feelings. Having to face the pain that he’s felt in his life would be too much for him.
And I have to admit that I respect that you can see that about him, but it doesn’t mean that he’s letting it define him. He’s going to keep pushing forward, suppressing the pain, and he’s going to stay in survival mode.
Agree? Disagree? What did you think of FBI: International Season 4, Episode 3 ‘Nothing Sudden About It’? Share with us in the comments below!
It’s just the way it has to be. For now.
FBI: International returns November 12th on CBS.
