FBI Season 5 Finale Recap: Scola Makes an Important Choice
May 23, 2023 by Marisa Roffman
“God Complex” – When a prominent doctor is found dead in a ritualistic slaying, the team must race against the clock to hunt down a religiously motivated serial killer. Also, Scola faces a life-or-death decision, on the fifth season finale and 100th episode of the CBS Original series FBI, Tuesday, May 23 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+. Pictured: John Boyd as Special Agent Stuart Scola. Photo: Bennett Raglin/CBS ©2023 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
[Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Tuesday, May 23 FBI season finale, “God Complex.”]
FBI ended its fifth season—and celebrated its milestone 100th episode—with a religiously motivated serial killer on the Tuesday, May 23 episode, “God Complex.”
But for our core characters, who go through a stressful work situation virtually every week, the biggest hardship was a near-tragedy that hit close to home.
Initially, Nina (Shantel VanSanten) and Scola (John Boyd) got to enjoy a little bit of cute domesticity, bantering about the color of their son’s nursery. But Nina wasn’t feeling entirely well…and a conversation with her doctor raised further alarm.
After testing, it was discovered Nina had a Listeria infection—caused by something she ate, not from the gunshot wound she sustained months earlier—and it was endangering both her and her unborn baby. Though they tried medication, it wasn’t taking, and Nina needed to be rushed to surgery to induce labor, with the hopes it would save both her and the baby’s life.
But before that could happen, the doctor had an impossible decision for Scola: There was a chance they would only be able to save one of them…who should they prioritize? Ultimately, Scola opted to save Nina.
“God Complex” – When a prominent doctor is found dead in a ritualistic slaying, the team must race against the clock to hunt down a religiously motivated serial killer. Also, Scola faces a life-or-death decision, on the fifth season finale and 100th episode of the CBS Original series FBI, Tuesday, May 23 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+. Pictured (L-R): Katherine Renee Kane as Special Agent Tiffany Wallace, Jeremy Sisto as Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine, Alana De La Garza as Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille, Zeeko Zaki as Special Agent Omar Adom ‘OA’ Zidan, and Missy Peregrym as Special Agent Maggie Bell. Photo: Bennett Raglin/CBS ©2023 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
After the team caught the serial killer, Tiff (Katherine Renee Kane), Jubal (Jeremy Sisto), Isobel (Alana De La Garza), Maggie (Missy Peregrym), and OA (Zeeko Zaki) came to see Scola at the hospital…where he was staring at his son in the nursery.
“Guys, this is Douglas,” an emotional Scola told his friends.
“You named him after your brother,” Jubal says. (Scola’s brother died during the 9/11 attacks.)
“He’s perfect,” Maggie gushes.
“Yeah, he is,” Scola replies.
And after a season that found everyone challenged, the teammates ended the year safe, together, and marveling at the new life who had joined their quasi-family.
FBI, Tuesdays, 8/7c, CBS
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