User Reviews

I am on the fence about this series, but am interested enough to continue watching to see how it develops.

Like many other viewers I was skeptical about this episode, and in the early portions thought it was heading down a rather tedious monologue.

The story isn't great, and like a few in this series the stories are a little predictable, and we are still waiting to unravel the characters, and since it is 12 episodes so far we would rather see a bit more of that.

Is it liberal propaganda?... well.. kind-of, it is developed by Dick Wolf after all, so if you don't like the liberal slant, Wolf's work probably isn't for you. But there were a few good moments in this episode, especially at the end with both Bell questioning the motives and Valentine and his family.

I will keep watching.........

This story begins with a bank shootout that involves the killing of a police officer. Then it turns liberal left into propaganda about the killers being the victims.

The main killer's Dad killed his Mother and two sisters, so the killer is a victim of crime too, and had no chance to grow up normal. The two accomplices have been victims of kidnapping by the main killer, so they are victims too. Everyone is a victim, and the FBI does not want to hurt anyone. The logic of the main FBI characters is flawed and disappointing.

Early on, the FBI have the killers blocked off in an alley, and Missy and Zaiko and 20 other agents cannot manage to shoot the killers, so the killers run into a bar, take seven hostages, and shoot one of them. Really incompetent police work.

Then the FBI agents bring the killer's father out of Prison to visit his son, and talk him into letting go of the hostage who is bleeding out. It is impossible for that prison release and transfer to happen in less than 5-6 hours, so that idea never made any sense.

At one point the NYPD Chief is ordering the two killers to be shot by snipers, and the snipers have a clean shot, but the FBI agents cancel that, because they argue that the killers are victims too.

Perhaps the worst part of this show is that the Muslim identity of Agent Zaiko is constantly an issue. It is always about him being a Muslim, not really about The F.B.I.

This series started well but is turning into typical TV cop tripe. Reality takes a back seat to intelligence. As someone else put it "This story begins with a bank shootout that involves the killing of a police officer. Then it turns liberal left into propaganda about the killers being the victims." That's exactly where it goes. I won't do any spoilers but it isn't even good escapism anymore. Pathetic, Hollywood can take any subject and add their political spin to make it unbelievable. The real FBI works in the real world.