FBI Inches Jubal Towards His Ultimate Goal (But With A Massive Trade Off)

Season 7, episode 17 of FBI just dangled a massive carrot in front of Jubal (Jeremy Sisto), but the situation is still too complicated to pay off just yet. It’s far from unusual for Dick Wolf’s TV shows to change the status quo drastically from time to time, especially since the vast majority of them run for so many seasons that it would be borderline impossible not to see a few cast replacements. In fact, FBI‘s cast of characters has been changing since the pilot episode, with the series going through three team leaders in its first two seasons alone.

Thanks to recent cancelations by CBS and the confirmation of an upcoming new spinoff, it’s also fair to assume that there might be a ripple effect across the entire franchise by the time FBI season 8 rolls out. And since the newest spinoff involves the CIA, it’s likely that Jubal’s position running the fusion center will become particularly important in the near future. On the other hand, that’s only technically true if he maintains that position, and the recent episode “Lineage” nearly seemed like it was about to change that.