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FBI: International Season 4, Episode 6 Review: ‘They Paid More’

In Season 4, Episode 6 of FBI: International, we were able to see how the Fly Team has come in this seasons six episode and how they are working well together as a team. Becoming a team isn’t an easy thing, but Raines, Smitty, and Vo have all welcomed in Wes Mitchell.

It is seeing them all work together and learn from each other that makes this show what it is – an inviting and keep you on the edge of your seat procedural.

In this episode, volunteers, while distributing aide in Morocco were kidnapped and being held hostage for twenty million dollars in crypto. The team has come to Morocco to rescue them, but what they find has happened is not what I thought had happened. But that’s part of what makes it so da** good.

Morocco has warned aide workers from going into the High Atlas Mountains. Guiding Hands is a non-profit that was started by a girl from Utah. With no medical training she has been diagnosing people, along with her group of volunteers. She doesn’t want to head back to the states, as her and her husband are under investigation from the IRS.

Wes and the team head to Morocco to save the volunteers. The team is shocked that Morocco let the volunteers go into the mountains. Emme, the groups founder, as Wes puts it, “is tripping balls with some kind of savior complex.”

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The Moroccan police are willing to help the Fly Team however they can, which I found strange, because I am so used to the host countries not wanting the Fly Team to be anywhere near where they are.

Raines and Smitty are working together as a team, talking to the volunteer that wasn’t kidnapped – Camille. She is able to give them insight to Guiding Hands, namely the IRS case.

The show leads you down a different path – making you think that it is local farmers who kidnapped the workers for a payday. When ransom demands are made, Wes takes the lead. He’s completely level headed and negotiating. Unable to trace the call, the team is trying to figure out what to do next.

And that’s when Emme shows up. She’s definitely not got her story straight, as things aren’t adding up. Her husband was shot, and she had said that she was knocked out, but then all of the sudden she had seen her husband get shot. What makes me wants to fly through the screen and slap Emme is that she’s placing blame on everyone else and trying to guide the FBI into looking at innocent people.

It’s definitely not going to stop the team from looking for the abducted. They are coming up against obstacle after obstacle and it doesn’t matter. Raines and Smitty are always going to find every clue that they can.

Emme and her husband Mark have a martyr complex. They seem to believe that if they can show that they are willing to die for a cause and help the people out, then, Guiding Hands will become more important. I don’t believe that they planned on the Fly Team and the way that they aren’t ever willing to give up.

SHIPPING HEART (YES, WE’RE GOING THERE)

Now, some may be upset with what I am about to say, but my shipping heart wants to say what it wants to say. When the team thinks they’ve found the hostages, Vo almost gets hit by an IUD, but Wes is able to rescue her. I’ve said it before and I will say it again – I love these two together and I am in it for whatever slow burn it takes. Give me all of the slow burn. Make me wait. I will not be complaining.

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I love a relationship that is built off trust and friendship. I know that the dynamic is off, because of the fact that Wes was her training officer and is now her boss. There is nothing about that, that I don’t get. That being said Vinessa Vidotto and Jesse Lee Soffer work together on the screen and their banter, well… it’s a chemistry that can’t be made up.

Soffer has walked into FBI: International and made the show his own. He’s no longer Halstead and the times of Scott Forrester being the leader are something that is forgotten. Soffer’s character of Wes Mitchell was a training agent, but also, one thing that we’ve learned about him is that he wears his heart on his sleeve. He takes an interest in the job, sure, but his team is of the absolute importance to him.

Vo challenges Mitchell. She wants to learn from him and she wants him to open up to her. She can read all the case files in the world, but those don’t matter to her as much as learning what can’t be written on paper. Mitchell doesn’t like being vulnerable, but his vulnerability is a strength that I think is one of his biggest assets.

WE DON’T TRUST

I believe that part of what makes this team great is their willingness to have each others back and to do whatever they can to solve a case. When Emme puts on social media information she should not know, their time for rescuing the hostages is moved up. What was supposed to be a full scale tactical operation has now become just the four of them.

Wes, Raines, Smitty, and Vo each have a chance to back out, but don’t. Adrenaline junkies? Maybe. I would have to say that they are more on the side of doing what is right.

At this point, I feel like Emme and her husband are involved with the kidnapping somehow. They are believing that if they can be seen as these martyrs, that they will be heroes, and that their issues will go away. It’s a delulu fantasy, as the IRS has several cases open on them. My belief of them being involved and/or wanting to be martyrs is only furthered by the rescue and Mark not wanting to leave.

I clapped and screamed at the TV when Wes told Mark that he would make him a martyr. Leave it to Wes to tell it like it is and not hold back. He’s got no time for anyones BS and isn’t about to put more Americans in danger for some idiot with a complex.

There is something about this season of FBI: International that has me loving it so much more than the seasons past. Yes, I love that addition of Soffer, but even more than that, I am loving all of the action. I am loving that we are seeing the insight to each character.

I can appreciate so much that we are also getting to learn more and more about the technical team that stays behind with Amanda. The way that we are seeing a powerful case of teamwork and the analysts are just as involved as the agents in the field.

THAT END….

The analysts and the team are able to work together to rescue the hostages. It’s a testament to playing up to everyones strengths. We’re able to find out that the volunteers have been abducted by a Russian mercenary and when he shows up, I think all hell is going to break loose. However, the analysts are able to find a way out of that for the team also.

One thing that you have to love is that Mitchell, at the end, tells Emme that she’s being brought back to the US, with her husband. Morocco has revoked their Visas and they are not getting away with anything. Emme and her husband put everyone in danger to cover their own backsides and Michell isn’t having it.

That all being said, my favorite part of the episode is the team bonding – is when the Fly Team tells Mitchell that the rookie has to buy a round. He’s dry and sarcastic, but he fits. They all fit.

Yes, this team keeps growing and finding how to work together. It’s something that reminds me that we all need people sometimes and there is nothing wrong with that.

Vulnerability is a strength, remember?

OTHER THOUGHTS

Vo having to leave Wes with Mark to get him out – well the look on her face about broke me, but I loved it.
If I was Wes, I would have kicked the crap out of Mark, but I applauded when he punched him
“You wanna die a martyr, I can make that happen” – Wes Mitchell
Wes and Vo talking about his tattoos… that kinda made me sad
I love all of the analysts sooo much
I love all of the times that the are questioning suspects
“You can keep that t-shirt though” – HAHAHAHA
“I’m not a cheapskate, I resent the implication” – HAHAHAHAHA