CBS

FBI: International Season 4, Episode 22 Review: ‘Gaijin’

As we come to an end of FBI: International, my bitterness is showing. My want to travel may be at a standstill also, but living in New York taxis are not allowed to scare me. But what scares me the most is that some people think that this was a satisfying ending to this series.

I am calling BS. That wasn’t satisfying. That straight up left me angry.

I AM MAD.

I feel like I was given a lesson in don’t expect anything, because you won’t get the ending that you want. You’ll get led on for years and left with some sort of disappointment. I am disappointed.

As we have the second part of the series finale, We have Wes Mitchell (Jesse Lee Soffer) has arrived in Tokyo to work with Reiko Isokawa (Yoriko Haraguchi) and Superintendent Kosuke Kubo (Shintaro Kanaoya) on the serial killer case. Another American has gone missing and it turns out that it may be an American that is responsible.

And I happen to love the fact that Wes Mitchell and Reiko Isokawa are not going to deal with his crap. They know that when they find Lloyd, that he’s the one responsible. Lloyd is also a creep. He’s psycho and Mitchell is straight up going to make him pay.

I know, I know that there are different customs in different countries. Sometimes the boundaries need to be pushed. People need to work together and the Fly Team is sitting there in Budapest and trying to help from there. We all know that if there is anyone that can help the Tokyo PD, it would be the Fly Team.

It doesn’t take long into the episode before they are able to prove who it is that is has taken the women. It will involve Reiko putting her positition at risk and Mitchell upsetting the Tokyo PD. The thing is, she knows that what she is doing is right and sometimes doing what is right is more important than tradition.

Reijo and Wes being able to find the lair and know that there is more than 13 women – I wanted to puke. Forensics is sifting through the photos and there are more than 50 women who have disappeared. Reiko and Wes are able to communicate on a level that makes finding the missing easier.

The Japanese big wigs take Reiko off the case and they are trying to get Wes out of the country. The team in Budapest gets access to the CCTV, which leads Wes to chasing down Lloyd. If There is one person who will never give up, that’s Wes. The cardio prowess that he must have…

I wanted to stand up and clap when Wes took Lloyd down. I wasn’t even mad when he made the deal to give Lloyd and out and the button to kill himself. Keep it to yourself, I know, I know, it’s wrong. But I hate Lloyd and the photos that we saw of all those women who had been tortured… made me feel violently nauseated. Wes was able to find Heather, which, honestly brought tears into my eyes.

The best part of this final season of FBI: International has been that Wes Mitchell is a part of it. He’s brought this new drive to the team, but his character development over the season has been more than has been given to other characters over multiple seasons. He doesn’t give up and stays focused. He knows that he wants to make sure that people are okay.

And that’s been something that has made the team better. More focused. He’s made sure that he’s brought all of them to a point that they can grow and see more for themselves than just where they are.

And where this episode fails a lot is that we see little to none of Vo and Raines. The OG’s that have been there since the beginning and have been critical parts of the series – and all we get is a glimpse. Not to mention the GS-14 storyline and we don’t even get to see who got the job? What kind of nonsense is that?

I tell you what kind of nonsense! Wolf Entertainment is taking the viewers for granted, not to mention CBS not seeing that people have been and are invested in this show. So taking a moment to – you know – tie things up? You would think that they took all the kids of the writers in a room and asked them whose story that they wanted to focus on.

Where as I do love Mitchell, the reality is he’s only been here for 22 episodes. We’ve got characters that we’ve grown with over the entire series and we don’t get an ending for them.

That’s insane.

I think that is where this episode got away from me – the fact that they took two characters and gave them little to no time. We’ve seen since the first season that these two want to run the FBI one day. We’ve shipped them, treasured their friendship, and then we are left here – seeing them holding hands and everything left to interpretation? Hard pass.

Even ending with Smitty the way they did – giving her nothing? What is this?

I feel like FBI: International took away from me what I needed and left me with nothing. Just a hole. And for that I will forever be angry.

I will be glad that Wes went to see his sister. That was a good move. But ending the way that it did, just set me up for wanting to see where people go, but never knowing? This is crap.

2/10. Lots of notes. Need a redo. Not satisfied.