What’s the quickest strategy to get on the FBI’s Most Wished Listing? Kill a girl in broad daylight in entrance of Supervisory Particular Agent Remy Scott (Dylan McDermott) and the Fugitive Job Power, clearly. That is what occurred on this week’s FBI Most Wished episode, “Ars Moriendi,” Latin which means the “art of dying.” Let’s discuss it.
” Ars Moriendi” – FBI: Most Wanted, Pictured: Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott. Photo: Mark Schafer/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Before the perpetrator, Jay Lark (Steven Maier), committed his first murder, he rudely pushed past Remy in a diner. The ensuing pursuit by Remy and Ray Cannon (Edwin Hodge) was a visceral experience, bordering on nauseating due to its graphic subject matter. The extended, first-person, hand-held chase scene, while delivering an adrenaline rush, felt (paradoxically) overdone and stretched thin. Lark’s flight escalated from a foot chase to a car chase, then to a scooter and finally the subway. Despite the palpable tension of the FBI’s pursuit, it did little to mask the predictability of Lark’s inevitable escape that early in the episode.
“Ars Moriendi” – FBI: Most Wished, Pictured: Roxy Sternberg as Particular Agent Sheryll Barnes. Photograph: Mark Schafer/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
After escaping, Lark posted the video of his homicide on an unregulated on-line server. The video, which Remy aptly described as a ‘snuff’ movie, garnered feedback from customers, significantly from Jar-Man26$$, aka Jarret Bahri (Rama Vallury). With the help of Jill from Cybercrimes, the FBI swiftly deleted Lark’s account, ‘God is Dead.’
The storyline, centering on the self-loathing avid gamers Lark and Bahri participating in a ruthless real-life kill competitors, felt disturbingly acquainted—evoking echoes of Leopold and Loeb—however with the added twist of Gen Z’s social isolation as a result of pandemic. Lark’s lack of each mother and father to COVID and Bahri’s abandonment by his father in the course of the epidemic launched a singular perspective. Nonetheless, the execution lacked consistency and left a lot to be desired. The perpetrators, totally unlikeable, didn’t evoke any sympathy. Particular Agent Sheryl Barnes (Roxy Sternberg) and Remy’s half-hearted justifications, blaming the pandemic or the web for the avid gamers’ actions, fell flat and felt unconvincing.
“Ars Moriendi” – FBI: Most Wanted, Pictured: Roxy Sternberg as Special Agent Sheryll Barnes. Photo: Mark Schafer/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Despite the predictability and unsettling theme, the episode managed to retain a certain level of entertainment. Most viewers likely anticipated the inevitable betrayal as one gamer turned on the other. In the end, Lark reached out to Bahri when the FBI began to close in on him. Bahri couldn’t resist live streaming Lark’s murder, unable to resist the age-old adage from “Highlander”: there can be only one—Übermensch. Although the episode provided a certain morbid enjoyment. it ultimately fell short of being groundbreaking and left an unsettling aftertaste.
“Ars Moriendi” – FBI: Most Wished, Pictured (L-R): Keisha Citadel-Hughes as Particular Agent Hana Gibson, Edwin Hodge as Particular Agent Ray Cannon, and Roxy Sternberg as Particular Agent Sheryll Barnes. Photograph: Mark Schafer/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Total Ranking
7:10
Lynette Jones
