Spoilers forward for Episode 8 of FBI: Most Wished Season 5, known as “Provide Chain.”
FBI: Most Wished delivered a crossover with FBI that introduced none apart from John Boyd over as Stuart Scola for a pair of tense scenes with Shantel VanSanten as Nina Chase. The 2 characters have spent loads of time collectively off-screen within the 2024 TV schedule after the start of their son on the finish of FBI Season 5, however “Provide Chain” was the primary episode to really present the pair collectively. And what it confirmed actually wasn’t nice… at first, anyway, when a minor disagreement become an unpleasant battle. The episode gave them a contented ending, although, and the 2 stars spoke with CinemaBlend concerning the combat earlier than the FBI half of the persevering with crossover.
“Provide Chain” aired simply hours after FBI: Most Wished was renewed for the 2024-2025 TV season, together with John Boyd’s FBI and FBI: Worldwide. Nina and Scola weren’t in celebratory moods to begin the episode, although, as he was sensitive about her stockpiling child provides (and transferring his footwear) whereas she felt that he was insulting her skills as a mom. They could not actually hash the difficulty out earlier than Scola went to work over on FBI, and the duty drive caught an area case in New York.
Once I had the possibility to talk with Shantel VanSanten and John Boyd, I famous that the combat felt lifelike for characters of their positions, even when it was additionally ugly. They opened up about attending to play large character moments in procedural TV reveals, with VanSanten saying:
I really feel so grateful for these moments. I perceive and know what the present is, and I like every week figuring out the crime and fixing it, however getting to actually deep dive into a personality and expose them for perhaps their ugliest moments, and a few of their greatest moments. Like, that is what makes us human, and it is necessary, and such an honor to have the ability to do these issues. That is why you turn out to be an actor, is to point out folks and relate to folks in these methods.
Neither Nina nor Scola appeared significantly grateful for a lot of something in the course of the combat early in “Provide Chain,” however that wasn’t the case for the actors. Plus, after Nina had a chat with Roxy Sternberg’s Barnes concerning the stresses of the job mixed with stresses of parenthood, she was capable of compromise and see Scola’s viewpoint. John Boyd agreed with what VanSanten mentioned, after which added his personal perspective:
To piggyback on that, it is so necessary for an viewers to see a brand new dad who’s stressed on his method to work, who’s form of stressed and being a jerk and demanding and the way {couples} combat and restore. It is time to see that. It is time to see how they reside an actual life.
The combat actually labored as a result of neither considered one of them was absolutely proper and neither was absolutely incorrect, and so they had a candy scene on the finish of the hour of discovering frequent floor once more. They actually have been simply careworn mother and father lashing out, and – as John Boyd famous – that is not one thing that audiences all the time get to see.
Personally, I used to be blissful to see a quiet second between Barnes and Nina, which helped Nina to reframe her argument with Scola and perceive that she was overcompensating as a consequence of her personal childhood. It result in the quiet second of “restore” by the ultimate scene of the episode. Shantel VanSanten added:
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We cannot spoil an excessive amount of, however I feel it was actually necessary to have these two moments for folks to see the restore, for folks to see the way it’s okay to combat and disagree and bump heads and be two actually robust, opinionated those that do the identical job, which might be working arduous, that need to do their greatest, however the best way that generally you simply miss one another and the best way you could sort of come again collectively in honesty and vulnerability.
Fortunately, the wait is not too lengthy to see what VanSanten wasn’t spoiling. The second leg of the Nina/Scola crossover would be the subsequent episode of FBI, airing on Tuesday, April 16 at 8 p.m. ET. Whether or not they’ll be on strong floor after transferring previous their combat on Most Wished stays to be seen. Try the promo for the episode, known as “Greatest Laid Plans,” for subsequent week:
Scola and Nina might be going undercover within the subsequent crossover episode, bringing Shantel VanSanten to FBI to hitch forces with John Boyd! If you wish to revisit earlier episodes of their characters’ journeys throughout FBI and Most Wished, you could find each reveals (together with Worldwide) streaming with a Paramount+ subscription.
As all the time, FBI airs on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET and Most Wished airs on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET, all on CBS. Remember to take a look at what Missy Peregrym instructed us about enjoying Maggie for almost seven “very arduous” years to this point!
