FBI Season 6 Episode 4 Review: Creating a Monster

OA had himself one awful day, did not he?

First, it was his new girlfriend, Gemma, on FBI Season 6 Episode 4.

Then, it was a wild card of a Muslim FBI agent who served as a funhouse mirror for Omar.

Let’s begin with the latter first, because it was the extra intriguing of the 2 storylines.

We will all agree that Gemma is a mistake that OA hasn’t acknowledged but.

Hassan, performed by English actor Elyes Gabel (Scorpion), had a chip on his shoulder. He felt that he needed to do extra simply to be accepted by the WASPS within the FBI.

As OA defined to Hassan, he noticed himself as an FBI agent, not a Muslim FBI agent.

They’re each seemingly fooling themselves.

OA cannot ever escape the truth that others will view him as Muslim. However there’s all the time going to be a spot for somebody reminiscent of Hassan who can go undercover as a Muslim at a second’s discover (though perhaps he should not have been utilizing his precise title.)

Neither of those Muslim FBI brokers was at their finest on this case.

Because of Gemma, OA was in a temper from the beginning. It did not assist when the witness to the taking pictures described the shooter as having an accent like a terrorist when he meant Arabic.

Omar was appropriate when he identified that, even the rising home pressure.

Sure, having a Muslim terrorist has turn into a TV trope over the previous twenty years. But it surely was mandatory for this storyline involving OA and Hassan.

Nonetheless, OA did not should be so intense to Hassan’s companion Jessica, who occurred to be Maggie’s previous buddy from Quantico, who sadly was launched and largely ignored for the remainder of the episode. Why hassle with that storyline?

Oh, effectively. It wasn’t an episode that includes up-and-coming white feminine brokers. So, into the background they went.

It might have been worse. They may have been Scola, Tiffany, Jubal, Isobel, or anybody within the JOC who solely had a scene or two.

That is the draw back of highlight episodes. They concentrate on one character to the detriment of everybody else.

Hassan might function a cautionary story for OA. If every little thing hadn’t damaged proper for him, he too might have been that cliche of a Muslim secret agent making an attempt to infiltrate a terrorist cell.

Sure. Hassan was an object lesson of what to not do. As an illustration, do not draw consideration to your self by staring on the visiting FBI brokers after which operating away as a substitute of fading into the background as a custodian ought to. May he have acted any extra suspiciously?

Then, reasonably than sharing all of the intel he had, he held again data, pretending to not know who Adil was after it grew to become clear that the teenager had killed the choose.

Hassan had good purpose to be elusive as a result of he radicalized a shy, awkward child and transformed him right into a zealot and a assassin.

Then, he tried to play the Muslim brother card and make Omar his companion in misadventure. OA allowed Hassan to redeem himself, however he stored making dangerous selections.

Like placing that gun to his chin and pulling the set off to show himself to the cell mastermind. Positive, he might say he knew it wasn’t loaded the entire time, however that was nonetheless reckless, even when it did get him the positioning of the next assassination.

How did Asghar turn into a terrorist chief when some man off the road tricked him into revealing his plans?

And the way might Hassan presumably assume that Adil would give up to him? Hassan made him a real believer and he bought winged for his efforts.

Then, to seek out out that Hassan put the homicide weapon in Adil’s hand. That was the ultimate straw.

As OA identified, Hassan could not use his Muslim heritage to excuse his failure to rise throughout the bureau. He simply needed to work smarter. But it surely’s seemingly too late for that now.

Now, again to Gemma. Everybody likes brilliant, shiny issues. However Gemma is somebody OA is woefully outfitted with whom to deal.

Yeah, opposites appeal to, however these two are too reverse. She’s uptown glitz and glam, and as a lot because the Egyptian boy from the borough needs to maintain up together with her, he is not outfitted to. He is out of his depth.

Omar poorly dealt with Cate being killed on FBI Season 6 Episode 3. He wanted to offer Gemma a heads-up as quickly as she got here to the membership that they had below surveillance so she might make an excuse and go away.

Then, as quickly as potential, he wanted to be the one who advised Gemma about Cate’s loss of life reasonably than letting social media care for that. That is no approach for her to seek out out about her buddy’s passing.

Now that she was already upset with him, he selected that minute to badger her about whether or not she makes use of medication. He could not maintain that robust speak for one more day?

It will be superb if this relationship had been one way or the other repaired. OA must attempt more durable to seek out somebody he is extra simpatico with.