Fortunately, this week’s FBI: Most Needed episode, “Pageantry,” had little to do with pageants. Dick Wolf, the author/creator, regrettably follows a components for plotting and storytelling. As an illustration, the present’s lead character, Remy (Dylan McDermott), constantly delivers the most effective traces. The entire workforce closes in on their goal close to the top of every episode, however McDermott takes down the felony most frequently. The third act introduces a twist, but the present’s predictability makes these twists simple to decipher. This predictability has rendered the present considerably tiresome, providing a scant cause to proceed watching. Need to hear extra?
“Pageantry” – FBI: Most Wanted, Pictured: Keisha Castle-Hughes as Special Agent Hana Gibson. Photo: Mark Schafer/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Hana is enjoying TV with her boyfriend Ethan McPherson (Michael Raymond-James) as the episode begins. I’m thrilled when I see the women on Remy’s team experiencing romance. Why should Ray (Edwin Hodge) and Remy be the only ones happy at home? To make up for being MIA lately, Ethan shares his plan to take Hana to the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. They are about to kiss when Ethan stops to take the dog out. The second he steps out, a message appears on his phone, and the agent in Hana can’t pass up the opportunity to read it. The message says, “Missed you tonight. I will be up late if you happen to want me. XOXO” (hugs and kisses). Hana’s bliss didn’t last long did it.
After being crowned, sashed, and bouqueted, Miss Honduras (Susana Sierra) began her victory walk before dropping dead. Sarin gas, a chemical weapon, kills Miss Honduras, Miss Philippines, and injures Miss Canada, prompting Remy’s team to respond. The Fugitive Task Force (FTF) plans to interview all the contestants as potential suspects, and Remy says, “Whereas we’re at it, we are able to ask them how they’d finish world starvation.” Funny, right? I told you Remy gets the best lines.
Meanwhile, Remy and Special Agent Sheryll Barnes (Roxy Sternberg) went to the hotel where the pageant contestants were staying to review security tapes. Remy and Special Agent Sheryll Barnes (Roxy Sternberg) notice a woman using the employee entrance, who no one else recognizes but Remy. That woman was a contestant, Annalise Neilson, who had introduced herself to Remy as Miss Norway. The woman’s real name is Harper Dowar (Caroline Day). She’s not a beauty contestant; she’s not Norwegian, and this isn’t a simple murder case, but rather an international spy caper like the Bourne Identity.
Conversations with the Honduran embassy and Harper’s former law professor, Ben Lifkowitz (David Manis), slowed the show a bit. But I understand that the plot needed these characters to help establish Harper as an international assassin. The FBI discovered through the embassy that Harper had used a third fake passport to enter Honduras. Honduras should have deported Harper, but her case disappeared. How? Why? The Honduran government considered Miss Honduras an anti-government dissident who needed to be killed in a brazen manner—ala a live TV broadcast—to deter future dissenters. Harper was the girl to see the job done.
“Pageantry” – FBI: Most Needed, Pictured (L-R): Roxy Sternberg as Particular Agent Sheryll Barnes and Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Particular Agent Remy Scott. Picture: Mark Schafer/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Harper’s professor felt damage when she rejected his advice for a job
with the regulation agency. He doesn’t give suggestions casually. As a substitute, Harper went to Paris on vacation for a few months and stayed there for a yr. Why? She fell in love. The professor had photographs of Harper along with her love curiosity, Adrien Dubois (Nicolas Sellar). Presto change-o, the FBI found Adrien Dubois had a number of aliases and, like Harper, was an murderer for rent.
Harper continues her one-woman crime spree. She kills this Vietnamese man whereas he’s taking a selfie outdoors of a restaurant. Following this assassination, Remy’s workforce tracks Harper’s actions with the assistance of CCTV cameras. Harper results in New Jersey carrying a heavy bag, thought to perhaps include a bomb or a protracted gun. Ray spots a press cross connected to the bag. Coincidentally, the Argentinean soccer workforce has a scheduled photoshoot with their president. Sheryll calls an previous good friend, Chief Vincent Sayles (Colin Walker), who cheekily solutions the telephone, saying, “Special Agent Barnes loves Kim Carnes.” Remy interrupts, directing the chief to cease the photoshoot by any means mandatory.
“Pageantry” – FBI: Most Wanted, Pictured (L-R): Keisha Castle-Hughes as Special Agent Hana Gibson, Edwin Hodge as Special Agent Ray Cannon, and David Manis as Professor Ben. Photo: Mark Schafer/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
The FTF rushes to the stadium. As they approach, Sheryll Barnes (Roxy Sternberg) spots the car Harper drives. As they break into the vehicle, they discover that the bag Harper had been carrying was filled with money! Harper must have been there to assassinate the president. While mean mugging, Remy orders the team to fan out. He barks, “Keep alert. Watch your again. Finger on the set off.” Remy finds Harper first. They tussle. She loses the fight with Remy, but not the battle with the FBI. Later, the CIA acquires her with the intention of extraditing her to the Philippines.
Remy thinks Harper is there to assassinate the Argentinian president. The third act twist reveals that Harper is not the intended assassin. The CIA has hired her to dispatch the real assassin, her former lover Dubois. Remy is skeptical until Harper explains that she knows how Dubois works. To prove this, Harper says Dubois never works alone and works with someone in the President’s security detail. Remy isn’t swayed. Harper questions why the photoshoot was still taking place when the FBI ordered it canceled. Remy radios Ray to find out who cleared the threat. Ray locates the ‘inside man’ just as Dubois kills him. The FBI closes in on Dubois, and Remy wounds him during the shootout.
The story turns into delightfully soapy when Harper and Dubois begin to quarrel. Harper taunts that she’s working for the CIA. Dubois accuses her of
loving cash greater than him. If she hadn’t, she ought to have returned to her life within the U.S. This prompted Harper to scream, “What life? You ruined my life.” Fed up with them each, Remy tells Dubois, “The CIA hired her to take you down.” Reside to die one other day. Drop your gun, Frenchie.” Told you that Remy had the best lines. A woman scorned, Harper spit out, “It is ironic; you are the one particular person I’d have killed free of charge.” Increase!
Dubois was simply any person that she used to know.
“Pageantry” – FBI: Most Wanted, Pictured (L-R): Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott and Caroline Day as Annelise/Harper. Photo: Mark Schafer/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
The episode returns to Hana and Ethan’s story. He canceled their date to the Christmas spectacular as a result of he needed to work. He informed her he’d make it as much as
her. “Sure,” Hana says with snark. “We can see a Christmas show any time.” Ethan met with the mysterious Jaimie. Later, Hana finds him handed out on his sofa, excessive on oxycodone. She yells, “I knew I was right about you. I’m done with you.” May or not it’s that Ethan is now simply any person Hana used to know?
I am keen on Dylan McDermott and luxuriate in this present, however I need it to enhance after reviewing it. My recommendation: shake up the forged with a high-profile visitor star who hangs round for a few episodes; cease wrapping issues up in a single episode; or let the workforce do one thing morally ambiguous, however not unlawful. I do not know; simply change it. Once more, the FBI has misplaced a few of its luster. Nonetheless, its saving grace is the peek into the private lives of the FTF members. As a self-confessed sucker for cleaning soap operas, that is what constantly attracts me again.
Total Score:
7/10
