# FBI season 2

The second season of FBI, an American police procedural drama television series, premiered on CBS on September 24, 2019, and concluded on March 31, 2020. Only 19 episodes were produced due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The season is produced by CBS Television Studios.
The season featured a crossover event with spin-off series FBI: Most Wanted, which took place a week before the season finale. The finale itself was also a crossover with NBC's Chicago P.D. with Tracy Spiridakos reprising her role as Detective Hailey Upton.

## Cast and characters
### Main

* Missy Peregrym as Maggie Bell; FBI Special Agent (SA).
* Zeeko Zaki as Omar Adom "OA" Zidan; FBI Special Agent (SA) and Maggie's partner, West Point graduate, and a retired Army Ranger.
* Ebonée Noel as Kristen Chazal, FBI Special Agent (SA) and an Intelligence Analyst (IA).
* John Boyd as Stuart Scola; FBI Special Agent (SA) and Kristen's field partner. (Recurring episodes 1 to episodes 4, main from episodes 5 onward)
* Alana de la Garza as Special Agent-in-Charge (SAC) Isobel Castille; Mosier's replacement as the team's supervisor.
* Jeremy Sisto as Jubal Valentine; FBI Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge (ASAC), who runs the office's fusion center.

### Recurring

* Derek Hedlund as Special Agent JT, an FBI Special Agent (SA) who frequently worked in the field with OA and Maggie.
* James Chen as Ian Lim, an FBI Technical Analyst (TA).
* Thomas Phillip O'Neil as Dr. Neil Mosbach, an FBI Forensic Pathologist.
* Taylor Anthony Miller as Kelly Moran, an FBI Analyst.
* Roshawn Franklin as Trevor Hobbs, an FBI Special Agent (SA) and an Intelligence Analyst (IA).
* Vedette Lim as Elise Taylor, an FBI intelligence analyst (IA).
* Catherine Haena Kim as Emily Ryder, an FBI Special Agent (SA) who temporarily fills in for Kristen when she is injured in the line of duty.

### Crossover

* Julian McMahon as FBI Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Jess LaCroix, the Team Leader of the Fugitive Task Force (FTF).
* Kellan Lutz as FBI Special Agent (SA) Kenny Crosby of the Fugitive Task Force (FTF).
* Roxy Sternberg as FBI Special Agent (SA) Sheryll Barnes, who is Second in Command of the Fugitive Task Force (FTF).
* Keisha Castle-Hughes as FBI Special Agent (SA) and Technical Analyst (TA) Hana Gibson, who is assigned to the Fugitive Task Force (FTF).
* Tracy Spiridakos as Detective Hailey Upton, a member of the Intelligence Unit for the Chicago Police Department.

## Episodes

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
| 23 | 1 | "Little Egypt" | Arthur W. Forney | Rick Eid | September 24, 2019 (2019-9-24) | FBI201 | 8.83 |
| As Kristen receives her badge and starts her first day as a field agent, partnered with recently transferred agent Stuart Scola who worked with Jubal at the Boston field office and the New York field office begins working under its new superior, Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille, the team investigate when a bomb detonates at a restaurant in Queens not far from where OA grew up. Although the culprits, Justin Murphy and Michael Moosa, are apprehended, things get even more complicated when one of the witnesses, waiter Joseph Nasser, is revealed to be an undercover FBI agent with another agenda, that being apprehending two Muslim youths in the act of terrorism by recruiting them. O. A. joins Nasser's operation, but is conflicted about if it is right to let it happen. Despite reaching a deal with them, the boys join an imam to execute a bombing in Central Park. The FBI are able to evacuate the crowds and neutralise the threat in time with Maggie defusing the bomb while O.A. later visits one of the boys in prison. This is the first episode of the FBI series to have Alana De La Garza (Isobel Castille) now credited as a series regular and marks the debut appearance of John Boyd (Stuart Scola) while Jeremy Sisto (Jubal Valentine) receives the "And" credit. ||||||||
| 24 | 2 | "The Lives of Others" | Alex Chapple | David Amann | October 1, 2019 (2019-10-1) | FBI202 | 9.46 |
| Eli Harper, the six year old son of prominent blogger Stacy Harper, is kidnapped, forcing the team to look through her two million followers. As the team dig into the family's personal life and online presence, not everything is as it seems. The team suspect former convicted sex offender Todd Crebins, who is also the Harper's neighbour, after finding Eli's toy dinosaur in his sofa. However his alibi proves them wrong, and further evidence points them to Wayne Rydell, who admits to having canvassed the Harper's house and attempted to break in. His assessment of a black car, leads them back to the Hernandez park call made to the Harpers earlier. They track down the owner, Lisa Defacio, who is revealed to be Eli's surrogate mother. Bell has her surrender and finds Eli in a bedroom unharmed. Kristen continues to adjust to life as a field agent and Bell reevaluates how she has been coping with her husband's death. ||||||||
| 25 | 3 | "American Idol" | Milena Govich | Mo Masi | October 8, 2019 (2019-10-8) | FBI203 | 8.70 |
| Congresswoman Valerie Caldwell, who is running for president, survives a car bomb which kills one of her bodyguards, and Maggie and O.A. must find out if there are any more threats. As the team race against time to find the perpetrator, they discover that the motive for the assassination attempt may not be entirely political. Despite initial suspicions against the sister of one of Caldwell's sentences suspects admitting hatred against her, she did not plant the bomb. Evidence instead points towards a member of the People's Liberation Army Ray Zhao, possibly being a spy who was digging up dirt on Caldwell. The FBI discovers that Caldwell fired her colleague Len Barker back when they worked together, after he started with odd behaviours. Barker targets a campaign meeting at the Roosevelt Hotel, but is thwarted by the FBI. Maggie finds herself at odds with Caldwell's motives to cover up evidence that would have confirmed Wayne Simmons's alibi, and manages to put her admiration for Caldwell behind, a move O.A. later voices his pride at her for doing. ||||||||
| 26 | 4 | "An Imperfect Science" | Jean de Segonzac | Erica Shelton Kodish | October 15, 2019 (2019-10-15) | FBI204 | 8.75 |
| A white man opens fire in a black nightclub, killing one and wounding more, and it appears the FBI ignored previous threats from a white supremacist group, the First Order. A high school white supremacist, Ivan Childress, admits to the shooting, but Maggie does not believe he is the shooter and tries to prove his innocence. Kristin must decide between her responsibility to the FBI and the black community. Maggie's hunch about the shooter is proven correct, and the real shooter, Jim Housley Dietz, is determined to have targeted his ex girlfriend in the club, Patrice. Maggie and O. A. races to her safe house, where Housley Dietz ambushes them, also wounding O. A. in the process and when he attempts to kill Maggie, O.A. emerges and fatally shoots Dietz. Later, Castille expresses to Jubal that they should have taken the threats against the club more seriously, and wants to expand the responsibility for more thoroughness in investigating threats. ||||||||
| 27 | 5 | "Crossroads" | Charles S. Carroll | Rick Eid & Clare Demorest | October 22, 2019 (2019-10-22) | FBI205 | 8.87 |
| Commercial truck driver Jim Russo, with a spotless record and no enemies is kidnapped, but the FBI cannot determine why he was targeted until they realize he was carrying a dirty shovel in his truck. They deduce he buried something, later revealed to be bags of cocaine. The FBI clashes with the DEA when a person of interest, driver Miguel Boaz, is revealed to be an informant working for the DEA. They discover that the DEA was setting up an operation to take down the Juarez gang leader. The FBI decides to raid the gang's house despite the DEA's warnings, arresting everyone present and rescuing a badly injured Russo. Jubal must make a difficult decision regarding his divorced wife and children, seeking advice from Maggie. He decides to accept that his ex-wife and children will be moving to Scarsdale. This is the first episode to have John Boyd (Stuart Scola) credited as a series regular. ||||||||
| 28 | 6 | "Outsider" | Stephen Surjik | Rick Eid & David Amann | November 5, 2019 (2019-11-5) | FBI206 | 8.54 |
| Brad Hughes, a Wall Street investor, is found dead by a jogger and the team investigate the shady side of insider trading when they discover he was a whistleblower who had contacted the SEC about an illegal deal. Scola's inside knowledge as a former trader comes in handy as he and Kristen comb through a suspect pool of tight-lipped investment bankers and traders. Through Elena Bondar, they discover that she and nine other girls were used as assets to spread malware order for an Albanian gang to get inside information to Wall Street trading. O. A. goes through his girlfriend Mona, who is an attorney, identifying their suspect, Nikolas Christo. Bondar goes to a bar to meet Christo, wearing a wire, but is held at gunpoint. After taking out Christo, the FBI frees the remaining girls. Castille informs O. A. that the head of organized crime wants to know how he got Christo's name and that unlike her, the organized crime head will not accept "no" as an answer. ||||||||
| 29 | 7 | "Undisclosed" | Emile Levisetti | Joe Halpin & Katherine Visconti | November 12, 2019 (2019-11-12) | FBI207 | 8.87 |
| The team tries to learn who has the most to gain after Robert Cabot, university president of Armstrong University and board member of Cemera, a medical tech company about to go public is murdered. Initial suspicions points to a student, Luke Wagner, who was personally expelled from campus by Cabot, but Wagner reveals he only heard the shots killing Cabot while waiting at his home. The FBI look into people involved with Cemera, and the CEO, Corinne Baker, is shot by the same suspect. The suspect is revealed to be security guard Tommy Ward, who was also one of the witnesses. It is also revealed Cemera's scanners are faulty through a sacked employee, and Ward and other patients developed further stages of cancer. Ward held Cemera responsible for his cancer, and holds a hostage before walking in front of a truck, committing suicide. O.A. is put at odds when his cousin Ryan, through his uncle, asks him a favor that would involve him lying about the cousin being fit to be a cop with the Newark P. D. O. A. decides to be honest, which includes that Ryan is not fit to be a cop, enough for the department to not give him the job, disappointing his uncle. ||||||||
| 30 | 8 | "Codename: Ferdinand" | Alex Zakrzewski | David Amann | November 19, 2019 (2019-11-19) | FBI208 | 8.83 |
| Photographer Frank Webber is killed in a car accident, later revealed to be sabotage. The FBI cross paths with CIA agent Collins, who reveals that Webber worked for the agency photographing suspected sleeper agents. The Russian agents are revealed to be the couple who reported the accident, Ben and Lisa Blake. The FBI works with the CIA to discover their assassination plot, narrowing the target down to being Farhad Amiri, the son of the Iranian defence minister, who is in New York on a student visa. They are able to thwart the attack and apprehend Ben. Maggie is accosted by a man who accidentally bumped into her car and gets asked out for coffee. ||||||||
| 31 | 9 | "Salvation" | Alex Chapple | Rick Eid | November 26, 2019 (2019-11-26) | FBI209 | 8.81 |
| High school English teacher Patrick Miller disappears and is later found murdered after an altercation with a student, Alex Williams. Williams points the team to Max Bailey, Miller's girlfriend's ex-husband who accuses Miller of being a pedophile after seeing him with an underage girl. The girl is revealed to be Jessica Sanchez, a Mexican gang member who has settled in the US and sought help from Miller to get out of it. Her revelations point them to her gang leader, Marco Gomez. Sanchez meets Gomez and the gang, the D15, undercover to find incriminating evidence. The FBI arrest the gang and Gomez and secures a process to get Sanchez into witness protection. However, their efforts are halted by ICE, who have an order of removal on Sanchez (with Maggie and OA nearly coming to blows with the arresting ICE officers). Bell contests the decision and brings it to court. Despite her best efforts, the judge rules in favour of having Sanchez deported due to her past involvement with the D15. ||||||||
| 32 | 10 | "Ties That Bind" | Stephen Surjik | Claire Demorest | December 17, 2019 (2019-12-17) | FBI210 | 8.47 |
| Hannah Bloom, the daughter of decorated NYPD detective Harry Bloom, is killed, and the FBI is tasked with investigating the case to avoid a conflict of interest but soon realize she is only the latest in a long line of women to be strangled. They discover that the killer strangled mostly orange haired women stretching from southern New York down to the city. Kristin makes a mistake in field training that leads to Scola being shot with a paintball and worries Scola is going too easy on her when he does not chastise her for it. The team brings in Andrew Cameron, a victim of kidnapping and abuse, whose description matches the killer. Despite flaws in his recollection, after saving another victim, Grace Lennon, the FBI deduces it was actually his brother, Jordan. Harry Bloom intervenes when they are about to confront Jordan, but in an attempt to escape, Jordan fights Maggie, only for Kristen to intercept the hit, taking the stab to her throat before she collapses to the ground. O.A. and Scola then proceed to fatally shoot Jordan while Maggie performs CPR on Kristen, urging her to keep on breathing and to look at her, ending the episode in a cliffhanger. ||||||||
| 33 | 11 | "Fallout" | Alex Chapple | David Amann | January 7, 2020 (2020-1-7) | FBI211 | 9.32 |
| Kristen is rushed to the hospital as the doctors race to save her life. What happened to her throws the team off balance as they investigate the murder of businessman Keith Gilroy, who lost his position after being accused of sexually harassing numerous female employees of his. The team suspects one of his accusers is behind his death after they discover an assassin, Sarah Baines, was paid to take him out. Their initial suspect, Gayle Dixon, is cleared, and they also learn that Ava Mercer, was Gilroy's daughter, but she did not know him. Gilroy had planned to include her in his will, but died before the change happened, thereby putting his inheritance to his foundation, led by Lila Robbins. Robbins reveals she was also a victim of Gilroy. The team tries to adjust to newcomer agent Emily Ryder while Kristen fortunately makes a successful recovery. This is the first episode where Alana De La Garza (Isobel Castille) receives the "With" credit. ||||||||
| 34 | 12 | "Hard Decisions" | Emile Levisetti | Joe Halpin | January 14, 2020 (2020-1-14) | FBI212 | 8.57 |
| After a bank is held up, but nothing is reported stolen, the team's investigation leads them to a safety deposit box whose contents have fallen into the hands of an infamous cyber criminal, dubbed The Sentinel. The contents threaten national security, as the NSA becomes involved. The Sentinel, who is later revealed to be Kenneth Bates, asks to speak to Castille once he is arrested, also revealing a high level of knowledge about the team. They trick him into seeing a live feed from the New York Stock Exchange where he claims a bomb will be detonated. They call his bluff when the alleged bomb does not explode, leading to his arrest. Kristen is discharged from the hospital and returns to the FBI on a desk assignment. She states she's eager to return to field but her teammates are less sure she's ready. ||||||||
| 35 | 13 | "Payback" | Monica Raymund | David Amann & Mo Masi | January 21, 2020 (2020-1-21) | FBI213 | 9.24 |
| Jake Osborne, the son of retired FBI agent Dan Osborne, is kidnapped and the team investigates to see if it is an act of revenge from one of the criminals Osborne helped put away, Castille revealing she worked with Dan Osborne in the past. They discover Jake sold pills with Beth Kimball from his school, and was beaten by Beth's boyfriend, Warren Cooper. Cooper reveals he let Jake out of his car, and CCTV shows Sean Ellis, a recently released ex-convict who Dan arrested, taking Jake from the scene. Frustrated with not being allowed to assist the investigation, Dan confronts Sean on his own. Maggie and OA track Dan down, and find both him and Ellis wounded, the two having shot each other. Ellis, as revealed by his girlfriend Gina Ramos, was in debt to his gang leader of the Easy Eights although Ellis later dies from his injuries while being taken to the hospital. Jubal privately voices his suspicion to Castille that Dan might have stolen drug money when he arrested Ellis, though Castille is reluctant to believe her friend would have done that. Through CCTV and a car with stolen plates, the team manage to track down where Jake is being held, saving him after a shootout. As the Osbornes are reunited, Castille confronts Dan and he confesses that he stole Ellis's drug money to pay for life-saving surgery for Jake. Even though Dan begs her to look the other way, on Castille's signal, Scola and Ryder arrive into Osborne's room and arrest him, handcuffing him to his hospital bed. ||||||||
| 36 | 14 | "Studio Gangster" | Alex Chapple | Rick Eid | January 28, 2020 (2020-1-28) | FBI214 | 9.26 |
| The media go into a frenzy when the body of US attorney Scott Conway is found dead steps away from the body of a prostitute, Maya Depriest, accusing the two of having sex, much to the dismay of Conway's widow and Jubal's disgust. The FBI must piece together what really happened, which leads them to rapper Big Tracy who joined the 718 gang for publicity. Jubal's connection with one of the victims makes finding the killer personal as it's revealed that he arrested Maya's mother, Christina for drug possession and later personally goes to notify Christina that her daughter has been murdered. Conway was later revealed to have been killed in an attempt to save Depriest from her assailant. The FBI get Big Tracy to work for them, and he discovers heroin in Thumper's girlfriend's house. After a failed attempt to reconcile with Thumper, Tracy meets him again after Thumper expresses regret. In the process, he reveals that he killed Maya and the FBI move in to arrest him. Jubal also gives Thumper's girlfriend a fighting chance. ||||||||
| 37 | 15 | "Legacy" | Carl Seaton | Claire Demorest | February 11, 2020 (2020-2-11) | FBI215 | 8.93 |
| A truck transferring armor-piercing bullets is hijacked and the crime is traced back to Sulaiman Mansor, the leader of a terrorist group O.A. thought he helped kill years ago. The airstrike that supposedly killed Mansor was called in by an old friend of O.A., Terry Brooks, who O.A. learns did not confirm Mansor was in the building before the strike, having only assumed he was, a move that leaves O.A. angry at Brooks and believing that the mission which soon saw him being promoted to the FBI was just a lie. Castille, Jubal and O.A. later meet with the FBI Deputy Director Van Leer along with members from other federal agencies and the military, Van Leer revealing that details of this investigation are to remain highly classified for national security reasons. Upon exploring a container, DNA evidence reveals that Mansor who was thought to have died is in fact alive and has arrived in the United States with other members of his NIA organization, Mansor seeking revenge against those who ordered the air strike that killed his family. O.A. soon realizes Mansor and his team are heading to West Point where a ceremony is being held with General Carson, one of the military officers who ordered the strike in attendance. Arriving at the entrance, Maggie and O.A. discover that Mansor and his men have already invaded the area, having killed two military police officers to gain access with Maggie informing her colleagues they need to take Mansor and his men down quickly and quietly and that the bulletproof vests they're all wearing won't hold due to the group having armor-piercing rounds in their possession. Splitting up, the agents along with the FBI SWAT team head to West Point, arresting Mansor's men one by one with Kristen even helping, Jubal having allowed her to rejoin the team. O.A. later fatally shoots Mansor just as the terrorist disguised as a military police officer is about to approach General Carson. ||||||||
| 38 | 16 | "Safe Room" | Carlos Bernard | Rick Eid & Joe Halpin | February 18, 2020 (2020-2-18) | FBI217 | 9.22 |
| Chloe Ford, the daughter of billionaire Nathan Ford, is kidnapped just outside the gates of her home, but the FBI team finds her in under three hours. She and her kidnapper, Mike Helton, are locked in a safe room in the house of a real estate owner with Helton revealing he kidnapped Chloe to prove a point, noting that when a rich kid is abducted, the FBI work fast but when a poor kid gets taken, they take their time. With Jubal on site, leading the hostage negotiations, the team discover that Helton's daughter, Stephanie Rice was kidnapped weeks ago and remains unfound. Helton demands that the FBI find his daughter in the 2 hours, 45 minutes it took them to find Chloe or he will kill Chloe. The team discover Stephanie was abducted and is part of a sex trafficking ring with the team raiding one house they manage to find by tracking the flight of a pigeon with Stephanie being found. However, she is in critical condition and is hospitalised. After reaching the deadline, Jubal has the SWAT team storm the safe room and Helton is shot while Chloe is rescued. Eventually, Jubal shows Helton proof that Stephanie's alive and has woken up but Helton's fate is left uncertain as he immediately codes with paramedics working on him while Jubal looks on with it never being revealed if Helton managed to survive or if he died from his wounds. ||||||||
| 39 | 17 | "Broken Promises" | Olivia Newman | Tamara Jaron | March 10, 2020 (2020-3-10) | FBI216 | 8.30 |
| The shooting of a art gallery owner Nicole Mitchell at a climate rally hints at a political motive, and the team initially suspects her ex-boyfriend Todd Conroy, but is cleared with an alibi. As more bodies pile up and O.A.'s girlfriend is among those targeted, they realise this is a personal vendetta over sixteen-year-old Alex Bryant being sent to prison on trumped up charges. The different upbringings of O.A. and Mona cause their relationship to start to fracture. The team conclude that Bryant's father, Roman, is responsible, killing everyone he deemed responsible for Alex being sent to prison and ultimately ruining his son's future. They manage to disarm him whilst he holds a hostage, in a failed attempt to kill Alex's friend, Benny Delgado. Maggie is offered a new assignment that would take her away from the New York office, but she is hesitant to tell O. A. When she eventually does, she reassures him she will be back. ||||||||
| 40 | 18 | "American Dreams" | Terry Miller | David Amann | March 24, 2020 (2020-3-24) | FBI218 | 10.67 |
| When a school bus with 26 elementary students is hijacked, the FBI race against time to find them. With Maggie away on her undercover mission, Jess LaCroix of the FBI Fugitive Taskforce and his team of Agents Sheryll Barnes, Hana Gibson and Kenny Crosby join the New York team. They learn the mastermind is white supremacist Tyler Kane and that he's holding the children at a closed amusement park which Jubal eventually realizes translates to P.T. or Play Town after a video showing Owen Jamison using sign language to communicate is post online. Storming the park, the FBI team rescue the children while Kane is later wounded during a confrontation between himself and O.A. In the aftermath, O.A. and Jess realize that Owen's father, Roger paid the ransom and got his son back, causing them to discover that Tyler's wife, Emma who escaped now has the money and that whatever her husband planned is something she's going through with, causing O.A. to grimly realize this isn't over. As they leave the Jamison house, Jess receives a video call from his young daughter, Talia, informing him that the food bank where she volunteers is being raided by ICE agents with Tali being detained on suspicions of being an illegal immigrant due to her skin color, ending the episode in a cliffhanger. This episode begins a crossover event that concludes on FBI: Most Wanted season 1 episode 9. Julian McMahon (Jess LaCroix), Kellan Lutz (Kenny Crosby), Roxy Sternberg (Sheryll Barnes) and Keisha-Castle Hughes (Hana Gibson) are credited as Special Guest Stars. In the UK, Sky Witness has the two episodes merged into one, lasting for 100 minutes- 1 hour and 40 minutes. ||||||||
| 41 | 19 | "Emotional Rescue" | Monica Raymund | Rick Eid & Joe Halpin | March 31, 2020 (2020-3-31) | FBI219 | 10.85 |
| When foreign graduate student, Arman Patel, an Indian national, is murdered during a drug deal gone bad, the team investigate and with Maggie still away, Chicago P.D.'s Detective Hailey Upton (guest star Tracy Spiridakos) temporarily joins the team as a part of the FBI's interagency training program, becoming O.A.'s temporary partner with Upton discovering her own methods clash with the Bureau's by-the-book environment. They soon discover that Patel's roommate, Lucas Reed, was in dealings with the Chicago-based gang, the Latin Players with Upton managing to unsettle one of the members into making a phone call by informing she will contact her colleagues back in Chicago and have them arrest every member of the Players with the gang even possibly coming to suspect that the man Upton and O.A. spoke to "snitched" on them. Upton's attempts to rattle the man have them making a phone call to his associates. The team realize Reed was meant to deliver the drugs to the Latin Players. Eventually, they speak to Reed's girlfriend, Harper Quinlan who isn't willing to cooperate with them but Upton, drawing upon her own experience of abuse manages to get Quinlan to work for them which she does by wearing a wire and meeting with Reed, hoping to get the location but Reed dies in the attempt, O.A. being forced to shoot him. Harper soon discovers her father, Tom, has been kidnapped and will die if the drugs aren't brought to the location with Upton later finding the drugs stashed between the seats of the Range Rover they took from the scene much to the surprise of both O.A. and Scola, Upton even revealing to the two she has an informant in Chicago who modifies cars like that. Gathering at the pier, the team watch as the exchange between Harper and the members of the Players goes down and they soon manage to save Tom Quinlan with Harper reuniting with her father while the men who held Tom prisoner are arrested. Once the case has been solved, O.A. and Upton head out to celebrate with a beer. This episode picks up after the Chicago P.D. episode "Lines". It also marks the final appearance of both Ebonee Noel (Kristen Chazal) and Catherine Haena Kim (Emily Ryder) while marking the first and only appearance of Tracy Spiridakos (Hailey Upton) who is also credited as a Special Guest Star. ||||||||

## Production
### Development

On January 25, 2019, during the TCA press tour, FBI was renewed for a second season, which premiered on September 24, 2019. On May 7, 2019, following the renewal it was announced that Milena Govich joined as co-executive producer and director.
On March 12, 2020, Universal Television has suspended the production of the last three episodes of the second season following the COVID-19 pandemic.

### Casting

During the first season finale, it was indicated that Ward would be departing the series after the first season. On July 9, 2019, Alana de la Garza—who played Isobel Castille in a guest appearance in the first season—was promoted to the main cast for the second season; she also recurs on the spin-off series FBI: Most Wanted.
On August 6, 2019, John Boyd was cast as Special Agent Stuart Scola, Kristin's new partner in the field, in a recurring role with the option to be promoted to regular at a later date while Ebonée Noel departed at the end of the season. Boyd was promoted to regular on October 7, 2019.

## Ratings

Viewership and ratings per episode of FBI season 2 :
| No. | Title | Air date | Rating/share (18–49) | Viewers (millions) | DVR (18–49) | DVR viewers (millions) | Total (18–49) | Total viewers (millions) |
| 1 | "Little Egypt" | September 24, 2019 | 0.9/5 | 8.83 | 0.7 | 3.85 | 1.6 | 12.69 |
| 2 | "The Lives of Others" | October 1, 2019 | 1.0/5 | 9.46 | 0.6 | 3.40 | 1.6 | 12.86 |
| 3 | "American Idol" | October 8, 2019 | 0.8/4 | 8.70 | 0.5 | 3.24 | 1.3 | 11.94 |
| 4 | "An Imperfect Science" | October 15, 2019 | 0.9/4 | 8.75 | 0.5 | 3.18 | 1.4 | 11.93 |
| 5 | "Crossroads" | October 22, 2019 | 0.8/4 | 8.87 | 0.5 | 3.04 | 1.3 | 11.90 |
| 6 | "Outsider" | November 5, 2019 | 0.8/4 | 8.54 | 0.5 | 3.51 | 1.3 | 12.06 |
| 7 | "Undisclosed" | November 12, 2019 | 0.7/4 | 8.87 | 0.5 | 3.57 | 1.2 | 12.45 |
| 8 | "Codename: Ferdinand" | November 19, 2019 | 0.8/4 | 8.83 | 0.5 | 3.33 | 1.3 | 12.17 |
| 9 | "Salvation" | November 26, 2019 | 0.9/5 | 8.81 | 0.6 | 3.50 | 1.5 | 12.32 |
| 10 | "Ties That Bind" | December 17, 2019 | 0.8/4 | 8.47 | 0.6 | 3.68 | 1.4 | 12.15 |
| 11 | "Fallout" | January 7, 2020 | 0.9/4 | 9.32 | 0.5 | 3.43 | 1.4 | 12.76 |
| 12 | "Hard Decisions" | January 14, 2020 | 0.8/4 | 8.57 | 0.5 | 3.70 | 1.3 | 12.27 |
| 13 | "Payback" | January 21, 2020 | 0.9/4 | 9.24 | 0.5 | 3.44 | 1.4 | 12.69 |
| 14 | "Studio Gangster" | January 28, 2020 | 0.9/5 | 9.26 | 0.5 | 3.43 | 1.4 | 12.69 |
| 15 | "Legacy" | February 11, 2020 | 0.8 | 8.93 | 0.5 | 3.38 | 1.3 | 12.32 |
| 16 | "Safe Room" | February 18, 2020 | 0.9 | 9.22 | 0.5 | 3.42 | 1.4 | 12.65 |
| 17 | "Broken Promises" | March 10, 2020 | 0.8 | 8.30 | 0.5 | 3.64 | 1.3 | 11.94 |
| 18 | "American Dreams" | March 24, 2020 | 1.1 | 10.67 | 0.6 | 3.88 | 1.7 | 14.57 |
| 19 | "Emotional Rescue" | March 31, 2020 | 1.2 | 10.85 | 0.5 | 3.22 | 1.7 | 14.08 |