FBI’s Jubal Valentine went rogue within the name of protecting his family on the two-part fall finale of the CBS series — but will there be consequences for his actions?
Warning: Spoilers below from FBI season 8, episodes 9 and 10.
“He’s definitely waiting for the decision, but I feel he might skirt this one since it was such an enormous win for the agency,” Jeremy Sisto exclusively told Us Weekly of Jubal’s headspace after his controversial actions. “And at the top of the day, we actually saved a variety of lives and so I feel, in point of fact, that’s going to take precedence, and he’s going to not must pay consequences.”
Throughout the two-part fall finale, which aired on Monday, December 15, Jubal (Sisto) interrogated a suspect alone in a plastic surgeon’s office after his son, Tyler (Caleb Reese Paul), ended up unconscious within the hospital following an explosion in Recent York City.
In accordance with Sisto, 51, the interrogation scene had a couple of ad-libs, including the moment Jubal pushed his finger into the bad guy’s bullet hole to get answers.
“That was something that wasn’t scripted, but that’s pretty bad. You’re not allowed to do this as an agent,” Sisto said, noting it was “definitely” out of character for ASAC Jubal, who has a powerful moral compass.
The actor explained, “We’re making a show that’s exciting, and so we take some liberties,” adding that because the radical accelerationist movement group’s threat was “pretty intense” when Jubal found the assailant, his extreme tactics were somewhat comprehensible.
During part one among the autumn finale, Tyler, who was in town with a friend, was prompted to return to the suburbs by Jubal after he learned a terrorist group was planning something detrimental within the Big Apple.
Before Tyler could get in a taxi to depart town, he spotted two gunmen and called his dad to tell him. Tyler sent his friend home and proceeded to film the gunmen shooting on the responding police before an explosion went off and left him unconscious on the scene.
After rushing to Tyler’s side within the rubble, Jubal met up along with his estranged wife on the hospital and she or he gave him the green light to do whatever was needed to search out the individuals who hurt their son. That moment inspired Jubal to go a little bit off script, based on Sisto.
“I feel a part of that’s he was encouraged by Sam … and that was a fairly rare [and] pretty surprising thing to listen to coming from her,” the actor told Us. “And so it’s comprehensible that this person who he’s disenchanted a lot in, you recognize his life, you recognize, through his own demons suddenly is encouraging him to type of follow some pretty bad instincts, that are using vengeance as a fuel. I feel that encouraged him to go farther than he would have.”
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Sisto noted that Jubal didn’t take that torture sequence “frivolously,” and was “pretty upset with himself for going that far.”
“I used to be on high alert after I read it to be like, ‘Alright, how can we work out the way to tell this story without Jubal losing who he’s? How far can he go for the sake of the episode with still holding that character in place?’” Sisto recalled.
The writers seemingly had the identical questions, because during part two of the autumn finale, Jubal appeared to course correct.
He stopped himself from hurting the primary suspect and eventually handed him over to his agents, before joining the team on the bottom to search out the ringleader, who was planning a gas attack on one among town’s bridges.
Jubal ultimately is the one who finds the pinnacle villain, and as an alternative of leaving him to die from gas exposure, the FBI agent chooses to tug him out to safety.
“That was an important moment that he comes back around to deciding, you recognize, that he’s not a rogue crime fighter,” Sisto shared. “He believes within the system. He believes in what he does. He’s dedicated his life to it. It’s a part of who he’s. So he does come back around.”
That call to return to his heroic self — which his son used as inspiration for his college essay before he was injured — is why Sisto told Us Jubal likely won’t have any repercussions for his one bad act throughout the case.
Sisto added that in real life, an agent would more than likely get into trouble for coloring outside the lines, but in Jubal’s case he doesn’t “foresee it” becoming a difficulty. Plus, Tyler woke up and is within the clear health smart, so Jubal has that positive to concentrate on.
In terms of what’s going to occur next for Jubal and the remaining of the team when the series resumes in February, Sisto told Us that fans should buckle up.
“There’s one [episode] that was really cool, where the danger hits pretty near home for all of the agents, in a fairly unique way that we’ve not seen,” he teased. “In order that was a very fun episode to shoot.”
The Clueless actor revealed that one episode within the second half of the season will show Jubal “out of the office and into the world” for a “kidnapping situation.”
“It is admittedly harking back to, type of a unique form of story [that] is likely to be a little bit bit more of a Law and Order type of thing,” Sisto explained. “[I’m] very excited concerning the shoot.”
FBI returns on CBS Monday, February 23, at 9 p.m. ET.