Having Jubal entrance and heart in an episode is at all times choice.
That is much more true when 9/11 will get combined in just like the tragedy was on FBI Season 5 Episode 19.
Muslim terrorists have been a TV boogeyman staple within the 22 years since 9/11. A minimum of this episode was fairly even-handed in its remedy of Muslims.
It was fairly clear that Jubal was going to be on the coronary heart of the episode as quickly as Isobel revealed that he can be receiving the Distinguished Service Award.
It was so in character for Jubal to downplay his getting the award as a measure of his longevity as a substitute of the standard of his work.
It is not simply his modesty. He can also replay each mistake he is ever made. He is a glass-half-empty type of man.
He did not have time to savor his accomplishment (not that he would have) as a result of the case of the murdered truck driver fell into the FBI’s lap.
That case shortly turned from fixing a drug-smuggling driver’s homicide to searching for a terrorist bomber. The urgency ramped up accordingly as properly.
It additionally ended up taking Jubal and OA again to these days simply after 9/11.
And the person who served as a wedge between Jubal and OA was NYPD Detective Joe Lombardo.
Jubal appeared genuinely excited to be working with Lombardo once more. However he quickly found they had been approaching the case from two completely different instructions.
Whereas Jubal and OA might transfer ahead from 9/11, Lombardo was nonetheless caught.
At first, that seemed to be as a result of his spouse was dying from most cancers contracted within the days following 9/11. However the true motive was one thing darker that did not develop into obvious till a lot later.
After the analysts established that Samir and his confederate Hasan had met at a Muslim-owned restaurant, OA reminisced fondly in regards to the place and volunteered to go in to study what he might from Khan, the proprietor.
Lombardo and Jubal made their broadly various positions clear to OA, with Lombardo telling OA to entrap Khan and Jubal urging him to maintain on the straight and slim. So OA felt beneath the gun from the get-go.
Khan was too smart to fall for OA’s try to get a pretend inexperienced card. So they’d OA copy the safety footage from Khan’s laptop computer.
Whereas ready within the surveillance van, Lombardo and Jubal recalled the times proper after 9/11, giving the viewers context as to why every felt how they did now.
After the FBI introduced in Khan, it took OA to get Khan to open up by approaching him as a fellow Muslim.
He appealed to Khan’s love of America. He discovered that Khan was an unwilling participant in Samir’s scheme. He recalled simply sufficient particulars to provide the brokers an outline of the bomb-delivery automobile and to permit them to work out his goal, police headquarters.
Whereas OA and Khan had discovered methods to satisfy their American desires whereas conserving their Muslim identities, Samir had not. He had a secret about his loss. Like Lombardo, he was nonetheless struggling due to 9/11.
As soon as the group had a goal, One Police Plaza, it was easy sufficient to determine the place Samir was establishing his automotive bomb. Lombardo raced in forward and managed to separate Samir from his detonator.
Though Samir tried to flee, it was throughout for him at that time, his bomb and detonator misplaced to him.
It was telling how in a different way Jubal and Lombardo approached Samir’s holding a hostage. Jubal was nonetheless attempting to speak him into surrendering whereas Lombardo urged the sniper to take out Samir.
Seeing Lombardo, Samir turned incensed and advised how the detective had dropped his father, a shopkeeper, off a roof to his demise within the days following 9/11. He knew as a result of he and his household had been hiding on that roof.
After Maggie subdued Samir, it will have been simple to disregard his story because the ravings of a terrorist lunatic. The episode might have taken that simple method out, as many collection have over the previous twenty years.
However OA stored digging. Hasan, who was additionally on the roof, corroborated Samir’s model. However the phrase of two terrorists definitely wasn’t sufficient to take down an NYPD detective.
The medical expert’s report had an anomaly that matched up with their tales: bruises on the ankles of Samir’s father like he had been dangled off a constructing.
Jubal made the brave transfer of placing reality forward of a long-ago friendship.
He met Lombardo for a drink at a bar, the final place an alcoholic like himself wanted to be. Lombardo was so oblivious to anybody else’s ache that he had no thought Jubal was in restoration.
Jubal wore a wire and received Lombardo to confess that he had murdered Samir’s father beneath the guise of “Hey, it was 9/11.” Lombardo even insulted OA, intimating that he might have switched sides.
Jubal might maintain his head excessive afterward, though it was evident how badly he needed a drink.
To observe Jubal’s profession, watch FBI on-line.
Who did your sympathies lie with ultimately: Jubal, Lombardo, or Samir?
How did OA deal with himself on this difficult case?
Did Jubal do the appropriate factor?
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Dale McGarrigle is a employees author for TV Fanatic. Observe him on Twitter.
