As we’re driving towards the end of the road for FBI: International, we know that there are going to be good and bad. People like me are bound to get more and more critical. I have to wonder what it is that I am missing out on because things are going to end. I also have to wonder what they are going to piece together in order to give final closure to the storyline.
The truth is though when it comes to FBI: International, there are a lot of stories that are left to be told. Granted all good things come to an end. Then again, I am allowed to bitter about it.
This season of FBI: International has been its best, so I find myself wondering why it is that it has been cancelled. When a show continues to improve, to give better storylines, and to make itself something that you want to watch more and more of – one has to wonder about why it is that cancellation seems eminent for everything that gets this way.
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The type of show that opens you to more and makes you think about more. The way that life is constantly changing and the way the world is very complicated. Complication is something that we experience in all aspects of life. Fear is something that we experience. Change isn’t easy, but in this episode – we learn a lot about fear.
Fear of loosing the people that you love and fear loosing.
This wasn’t the strongest episode of the series, but it also wasn’t the worst. It just was. And I know that there has to be a purpose to it. The question is what is it?
FAKING YOUR DEATH
When a man goes missing in Switzerland, there is a lot of fear around it. The man who they are looking for – David – is one of the worst kinds of human. He’s a master manipulator and doesn’t care who he has to step on.
He’s married with two kids. His wife and their best friends are in Switzerland visiting him. David is over there for work and has been for a year. His wife and kids are excited to see him. However, we find out that he’s having an affair with this best friends daughter – who is only 19.
It’s not the only woman that he’s cheating on his wife with.
And maybe it becomes too much or maybe he’s just looking to hide from his lies – but David decides to fake his death. While the family is out on a hike, the man separates from his family and makes it look as though he’s gone over a ledge. At first there’s the possibility he’s dead, but with a man that has so many top secret security clearances and national secrets in his head, of course they are going to want to find a body.
The government has a directive – they need a body. Doesn’t matter if it is dead or alive.
TO BOOTH WE GO
Booth is the agent in charge of the investigation of what happened to David, so when the fly team gets there – it’s him that they are working with. Seeing Wes and Booth back together, as well as the familiarity that they all feel with each other is nice. It’s nice to see that this team continues to have each others back, no matter what the changes that have happened.
When Booth and Wes work together, it’s a different kind of case. The two are not going to let anything pass. The thing that I love about the two is that the two will not ever let anyone pass just because of status. Status means nothing. What does mean something is making sure that things are solved.
I think that Wes and Booth make a good team. Don’t get me wrong, I do believe that Wes and Vo do also. There is just a different familiarity between Booth and Wes. I think that they know – going into everything – that there is the possibility of the worst and the possibility that it’s cut and dry. The thing is though, when they find out just how bad things can be and the mistakes that were made – they will go to the ends of the earth to make things right.
But they will always protect those who are wronged.
The guy who is missing – David – has all sort so of top secret clearance and they need to make sure that his death was real. They need to make sure that he wasn’t captured by a foreign entity.
But what does one do, when the truth is even worse than you could think of? Watching these two work – as well as the rest of the team – I found myself not knowing who I was supposed to be invested in and root for. Thinking about it, I wasn’t rooting for David or his family and figuring anything out there.
I was rooting for these two – Wes and Booth to find the path to solving the case, but also helping those that needed it.
EMBASSY ISSUES
David has been working with the United States Embassy on whatever he is there for. Wes and Booth head there to figure out what has happened with David and what he could have been working on.
When they meet the Ambassador, they aren’t given much information. They are doing a round and round game of avoidance and it becomes really complicated. The Ambassador keeps saying that she can’t talk about what they were working on, regardless of everyones clearance.
It takes a second for them to see her for who she truly is. And who is she? Well, she’s obviously in a relationship with David. She wants to keep avoiding the questions and be as vague as possible.
It makes you wonder who we are dealing with – David wise. Also ambassador wise. All of these people doing shady things and causing issues. It makes me thing twice about all of the people that they are around and the way that things are in the world.
While most people would hesitate to call out a government officials, Wes and Booth won’t. They will make sure that they keep the secrets that they need to, but also that they solve the case.
I don’t think that Wes and Booth expected to have to call the ambassador out but they did. They told her that they knew that they were sleeping together and about the nineteen year old that he was sleeping with. They informed her of the lies that she was told and his family that was falling apart.
But where they were and where they stood was they needed to know what he was capable of.
The thing is that no one really knows what he is capable of.
A MOTHERS LOVE
After finding proof that David faked his own death, the team goes to take him in. The thing is – when they do that – they find him dead. He’s face down, on the ground, passed away.
But the question is – who murdered him?
There is no shortage of people that would mind seeing David dead, but the person that it all seems to be pointing to is his wife. The things that follow are textbook – easy to guess. It’s not the wife, even though she’s trying to make people believe it is.
The team knows that it’s not her because the way she describes what happened is wrong. Wes believes it was the son. When they can’t question the son, Smitty comes up with a plan to get the Mom to talk.
All of these shows have taught me that you really can’t trust anything that anyone says. Everyone has an angle. Everyone has a story. You never know if they are trying to manipulate an answer from you to get what they need.
The team gets her to confess that her son did it. The Swiss are ready to throw the book at the son – Finn – but Wes is going to make sure that doesn’t happen.
I think that one of the things that make stories like this so great is the predictability at times – because you know that someone is going to rise to the occasion and save the person that needs saving. This time it was Wes and he made sure to get the Ambassador to help the kid so that he could be sent back to the states and serve minimal time.
The Fly Team knows that Finn didn’t mean to hurt his Dad. They even make it so that the Mom is set free and not sent to jail. It’s a moment that we can see just how great this team is.
MITCHELL HAS BEEN THROUGH TOO MUCH
When Mitchell came to Budapest, I think that we all accepted that there were things about him that we just didn’t know. There was an understanding that one of the things that this show doesn’t excel at is giving us a lot of insight to characters. Well they hadn’t until this season and now, there’s an understanding that we have to read between the lines.
Only sometimes, reading between the lines is really hard. We’re all not good at it and sometimes I think that we miss the things that shape the characters that we love. For Mitchell, he wants to show that he’s moved forward, but his childhood still stays with him. It’s a reminder that childhoods stick with us.
Mitchell has been able to move forward on a lot of things and build a life for himself. But we do know that his biological father was abusive and he’s having to face that his father may be released from jail. He’s asked to have his sentenced commuted.
Wes decides that he’s going to testify at the hearing for his biological father. I was actually saddened even more that this show was cancelled as we saw that the person playing his father is Kenny Johnson. Loved Johnson on S.W.A.T. and have missed him. Him looking into the camera and Wes visibly shaking when he sees him makes me nervous.
A storyline about abuse is not an easy thing to see. How this is going to change Wes and make him change is going to be something to watch. We’ve already seen him change so much, but I believe that’s one of the exciting things about having Jesse Lee Sofer in the role. You know that the man can bring a lot to the role.
OTHER THOUGHTS
- Guys like David are the reason I am single
- Vo working with Raines and going to interview peeps and get answers is something I always love to see.
- Mitchell telling Booth that he should come work with the Fly Team – I agree
- Mitchell and Booth giving each other crap is what I live for
FBI: International airs Tuesdays on CBS.
