The drama surrounding FBI has overshadowed the drama happening onscreen. The franchise has suffered the loss of both of its spinoff shows, FBI: Most Wanted and FBI: International, in the past few weeks. This leaves FBI as the lone title. Until more spinoffs come along, that is.
The spinoffs aren’t the only shows going through changes, though. FBI star Zeeko Zaki confirmed that FBI will also be switching things up on the small screen, and introducing new characters as the rest of season seven gets underway. The actor confirmed that a fourth agent will be brought into the fold to compliment the “three musketeers” that have been driving the action.
Zeeko Zaki hopes the new agent sticks around
Zaki noted that his character, Omar Adom “OA” Zidan, has been working quite consistently alongside Maggie Bell (Missy Peregrym) and Stuart Scola (John Boyd). They include the “three musketeers” in his mind, but their run as a trio will be coming to an end soon. Not to say that the characters will stop working together, they will just have to adjust to a fourth musketeer entering the fold.
“It’s [the] Three Musketeers for a minute,” Zaki told Us Weekly. But we do introduce a fourth agent. “We do introduce a fourth agent in the next few episodes and it’s exciting.” The actor played it close to the chest when asked if this fourth agent was going to stick around long term. “Hopefully, it all works out and we’ll see if it’s for the long run,” he remarked.
The decision to bring in a fourth agent makes sense. And while the conspiracy theorist in us would love to see the FBI pull a character from one of the spinoffs facing cancellation, we know that would be an unlikely development.
The actor laments spinoff cancelations
Zaki is a huge supporter of the “dynamic” between OA, Maggie and Stuart, but he is eager to break it up for a little bit and force the characters to adjust to working under different conditions. Variety will always be exciting in a show, especially this many seasons in. “What’s kind of exciting [with] the next few episodes [is] the ones that we all have off sort of line up,” he asserted. “You’re going to see a lot more of one of us not being there and things like that.”
The actor may be excited for the future of FBI, but he’s also made it clear that he’s disappointed to know the FBI spinoffs will be no more after the current season. “I would’ve loved to do a few more crossovers and get to work with the entirety of the cast and stuff like that,” he admitted to TV Line. “So I’m a little sad about that.” So are we.
