The FBI writers by no scheme insecure faraway from striking their characters in mortal possibility — and constant with essential particular person Zeeko Zaki, the season 7 finale received’t be any diverse.
“The leisure of this season is form of a bit of shut calls that ends with an chronicle cliffhanger that expectantly will throw all people for a huge loop,” Zaki, who performs Particular Agent Omar Adom “OA” Zidan, solely urged Us Weekly at CBS Fest 2025 on Wednesday, Might possibly 7.
Zaki, 35, didn’t give any further particulars about what’s to advance, nonetheless for fans who fill been conserving music, each and every OA and his accomplice, Particular Agent Maggie Bell (Missy Peregrym), fill nearly died on the least as soon as this season.
For the duration of episode 14 titled, “Hitched,” OA used to be trapped on a hijacked educate — unarmed — and narrowly stopped it from operating staunch into a plant and exploding.
Both OA and Maggie, in the intervening time, fill been despatched flying when a drone strike dropped a bomb on their blueprint all the scheme via the Tuesday, Might possibly 6, episode, “Startup.” Maggie’s heart stopped, nonetheless OA managed to bring her succor to life.
Whereas Zaki didn’t recount who can fill the “shut calls” heading into the finale, he solely urged Us in March that the following couple of episodes will encompass skedaddle-ins with “eco terrorists,” collectively with, “We face some cartel, we salvage some extra broken-down conditions right here and there.”
He confirmed, “The stakes set rising and in some scheme we set finding a scheme to remain these in actuality thrilling episodes.”
In the case of how he handles the total curveballs, Zaki urged Us on Wednesday that the “greatest field” after seven seasons on build is “the bodily stuff.”
“Every episode one thing happens to OA and every episode I form of salvage a recent kink or pull a muscle, so it in actuality does translate, which is thrilling because it makes it steady,” the actor outlined on the TV fest. “But on the cease of the day, the most no longer easy stuff will not be any topic’s next. It’s the most modern thing.”
Zaki eminent that the writers and actors brainstorm in their “interrogation room” to determine “how will we drag eight years with making it attention-grabbing and that form of stuff.”
He referred to as it a “fun field to defend all the pieces contemporary, even supposing we are unique of a acquainted enviornment.”
Over the years, FBI fans fill seen characters fancy OA crossover to diverse spinoffs, collectively with FBI: Global and FBI: Most Wanted, which has saved the story lines contemporary.
“My most memorable 2d[on[onFBI]used to be attending to shuttle to Europe to film and salvage to shoot the crossover for Global,” Zaki urged Us, recalling a “magical trip” working with the in a foreign country solid.
Whereas viewers received’t judge any extra FBI crossovers to Most Wanted or Global — each and every spinoffs are ending after their respective sequence finales on Tuesday, Might possibly 20 — they could possibly salvage a undeniable form of crossover now that CBS is making a CIA model of the level to, premiering this tumble.
“We’re going to take what the FBI guys fill build up in that form [of] world,” CIA essential particular person Tom Ellis solely urged Us at CBS Fest on Wednesday. “We’re going to then consult with it via the eyes of the CIA.”
Ellis, 46, will play a “rapid-talking, rule breaking unfastened cannon CIA case officer,” constant with CBS, while his but-to-be named FBI counterpart will likely be extra “by-the-ebook.”
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The sequence will encompass a CIA agent and an FBI agent in every episode, that scheme the OG stars of FBI could possibly bear cameos as neatly.
“Shall we salvage slightly little bit of crossover with FBI infrequently,” Ellis teased. “But indirectly, that is going to be about how the CIA goes about its industry on blueprint of foundation soil and why it’s crucial that these very diverse bureaus fraction info with each and every other and one of the most top ways for the increased genuine.”
FBI airs on CBS Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET.
