# FBI season 1

The first season of the American crime drama FBI premiered on CBS on September 25, 2018, and ended on May 14, 2019 with 22 episodes. The season is produced by CBS Television Studios and Universal FBI Television.
The series stars Missy Peregrym, Zeeko Zaki, Jeremy Sisto, Ebonée Noel, and Sela Ward and centers on inner workings of the New York office criminal division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The episode "Most Wanted" served as the backdoor pilot of a spin-off titled FBI: Most Wanted.
The first of FBI ranked as the 11th most watched new series with a total of 12.37 million viewers.

## Cast and characters
### Main

* Missy Peregrym as Maggie Bell, FBI Special Agent (SA). She is the de facto agent in charge of the team while out in the field.
* Zeeko Zaki as Omar Adom "OA" Zidan, FBI Special Agent (SA) and Maggie's partner, West Point graduate, and a retired Army Ranger
* Jeremy Sisto as Jubal Valentine, FBI Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge (ASAC), who runs the office's fusion center.
* Ebonée Noel as Kristen Chazal, FBI Special Agent (SA) and an Intelligence Analyst (IA).
* Sela Ward as Special Agent-in-Charge (SAC) Dana Mosier, Solberg's replacement as the team's supervisor.
* Connie Nielsen as Special Agent-in-Charge (SAC) Ellen Solberg ("Pilot"), the team's initial supervisor.

### 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.
* Rodney Richardson as Ray Stapleton, an FBI Evidence Response Team (ERT) Forensic Technician.
* Nina Lisandrello as Eve Nettles, an FBI Evidence Response Team (ERT) Forensic Technician.

### Guest Stars

* Julian McMahon as Jess LaCroix, FBI Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) and Team Leader of the Fugitive Task Force (FTF). Has a history with FBI Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge (ASAC) Jubal Valentine, the two having previously worked together.
* Kellan Lutz as Kenny Crosby, FBI Special Agent (SA) in the Fugitive Task Force (FTF).
* Roxy Sternberg as Sheryll Barnes, FBI Special Agent (SA) and Second in Command of the Fugitive Task Force (FTF).
* Keisha Castle-Hughes as Hana Gibson, FBI Special Agent (SA) and Technical Analyst (TA) assigned to the Fugitive Task Force (FTF).
* Nathaniel Arcand as Clinton Skye, FBI Special Agent (SA) assigned to the Fugitive Task Force as well as Jess LaCroix's brother-in-law and the uncle of Tali, Jess's daughter.
* YaYa Gosselin as Tali Skye LaCroix, the daughter of Jess LaCroix.
* Alana de la Garza as Special Agent-in-Charge (SAC) Isobel Castille.

## Episodes

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
| 1 | 1 | "Pilot" | Niels Arden Oplev | Teleplay by : Craig Turk Story by : Dick Wolf & Craig Turk | September 25, 2018 (2018-9-25) | FBI101 | 10.09 |
| When an apartment building is destroyed by two bomb blasts, killing 27 people including a young African-American boy, it first appears to be part of a gang war. However, further investigation reveals that the mastermind behind the carnage is a white supremacist named Robert Lawrence who wants to create the illusion that groups of non-white people are turning the city of New York into a war zone. The FBI is closing in on Lawrence, but there's one more bomb somewhere, about to go off, sending field agents Maggie Bell and Omar Adom "OA" Zidan into a frantic race against time to stop the final attack before it happens with assistance from their boss, Special Agent in Charge Ellen Solberg, her second-in-command Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine, technical analyst Kristen Chazal and their colleagues in the Joint Operations Command or JOC at 26 Fed. This episode marks the first and only appearance of Connie Nielsen (Ellen Solberg). ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Green Birds" | Nick Gomez | Aaron Fullerton | October 2, 2018 (2018-10-2) | FBI104 | 9.37 |
| Several people in New York collapse and die after buying food from a take-away. As Maggie, OA and the rest of the FBI's New York field office meet their new boss, Special Agent in Charge Dana Mosier who's a former profiler with the BAU, they quickly locate the store and find CCTV footage showing a young woman spraying poison onto the food. They track her using CCTV cameras and she dumps the dispenser and her clothes. She also collapses, landing in hospital while eventually dying from the very same poison that she unknowingly injected into herself via a dispenser that has a needle that appears on the fifth press, injecting the user with poison with the woman eventually dying from the poison. Tracking through her computer, the team finds that she has been attracted to a radical form of Islam and duped into undertaking the terrorist attack. One of her online friends is also being lined up for the same treatment with OA soon realizing the girls were in fact working with ISIS and also a terrorist whose methods he encountered during his time in the Army. This episode marks the debut appearance of Sela Ward (Dana Mosier), Ward also receiving the "And" credit while Jeremy Sisto (Jubal Valentine) retains the "With", a credit he also received during the Pilot episode. ||||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Prey" | Norberto Barba | Andrew Wilder | October 9, 2018 (2018-10-9) | FBI105 | 9.17 |
| A family argument is interrupted when a young woman staggers onto the property, stabbed multiple times. Following back her steps, the team finds that she had been buried barely alive and dug herself out of her grave with the FBI team soon discovering many other graves that contains the bodies of other young women. The team's investigation finds that the woman in question is an American citizen born in Ukraine who, along with her sister, Brooke was tricked into moving to the United States by a human trafficking group. With her help, the team works out the identity of the local ring-leader, catching up with him in an apartment building where he had just killed the Ukrainian doctor whom they were looking for although Maggie is left with injuries after encountering and fighting the man. The traffickers shift their bases of operations, so an online booking service is used to entice them to a motel where Jubal is waiting, having gone undercover due to his previous experience of working in Vice. Eventually, the team arrest the people responsible and rescue the girls who are found hiding in the basement of a house. ||||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Crossfire" | Arthur W. Forney | Brian Anthony | October 16, 2018 (2018-10-16) | FBI102 | 9.31 |
| Three people, including an assistant US attorney, Roland Poe, are killed by a sniper on Park Avenue. Bell and Zidan interview his wife because he was meeting a divorce lawyer. Later, six people in a residential neighborhood on Staten Island are killed by the same man. The FBI agents identify the sniper as Cole Cooper, an army veteran who'd lost everything in his life. Cole had taken a teenage boy named Kofi under his wing; the FBI capture Kofi, and try to gain his trust in the hope that he'll tell them where Cole will strike next. They learn that Cole lost his girlfriend to illness and felt betrayed by faith in life, and discover his last location to be the church he and Kofi went to. Despite Bell trying to empathize with him, she makes the final decision to have him fatally shot when Cole attempts to shoot a civilian. Bell and Zidan find their closures with the case, with Susan Poe and Kofi respectively. Zidan vows to help Kofi through his trial process and Bell lies to Susan, so she doesn't find out he was seeking a divorce. ||||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Doomsday" | Fred Berner | Judith McCreary | October 23, 2018 (2018-10-23) | FBI106 | 8.82 |
| After a drill at a nuclear power plant, a real alarm goes off, warning that the reactor's coolant water is leaking and an employee is found dead. The situation is stabilized and the FBI is called in. It is first suspected the murdered employee tried to sabotage the plant, but she did not have the expertise needed to attempt it, meaning she had a partner who is still on the loose. They end up working with most wanted felon Jake Fletcher, who was investigating the plant for corruption. Fletcher stayed in Cuba where he also started a relationship with the victim, and he returned to the US after hearing the news of her death. Together with Fletcher, they're able to narrow the suspect pool down to the plant's inspector, who killed the IG inspector as collateral damage for the Inspector General's investigation into the plant. ||||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Family Man" | Jean de Segonzac | Barbie Kligman | October 30, 2018 (2018-10-30) | FBI103 | 9.41 |
| When senator Gary Lynch's daughter, Gracie, is kidnapped and held for ransom, the FBI must find the little girl before time runs out. To do so, they must dig into the senator's past to find out who is behind it. They discover that Lynch once had an affair with Nicole Sousa, with whom he also had a son, Nathan. Sousa also suffers from ALS, a condition OA reveals his grandfather suffered from with Sousa insisting she needs Lynch's assistance. Returning to the apartment later, Maggie and OA find Sousa dead, having overdosed and manage to save Nathan from overdosing too. They suspect she worked with Lynch's childhood friend, Joe Finnegan. The kidnapping also reaches the press, which puts a strain on the possibility of getting Gracie back. Finnegan refuses to answer to the FBI, until they allow senator Lynch to talk to him himself. Finnegan's motives reveals that he felt betrayed by Lynch for not doing him a favor regarding his son's prison sentence with Kristen also revealing that Finnegan's son, Sean died in prison ten days prior even though there was nothing Lynch could have done. He subsequently gives Gracie's location, and the FBI rescue her and apprehend the guarding goons with Maggie and OA returning with Gracie which draws applause from their colleagues including Jubal with the Lynchs reuniting with their daughter. As Maggie prepares to leave, Lynch's wife asks her if it's possible for her to adopt Nathan so she and Lynch can take custody of him. Maggie happily confirms she can. ||||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Cops and Robbers" | Jean de Segonzac | Hadi Nicholas Deeb | November 13, 2018 (2018-11-13) | FBI108 | 9.19 |
| Criminals masquerading as police officers rob an armored car and steal two million dollars. The FBI suspects it was an inside job. They manage to identify the members of the robbery crew, but their prime suspect Nick Salerno ends up dead, having been shot in the chest before they can apprehend him. They get Jason Morgan, a former veteran who was involved with the crew, to go in undercover. After they escape, Morgan is compromised as the FBI move in. They manage to apprehend the two remaining members, Ryan Jenkins and mastermind Eric Healy at the docks, but Zidan is almost forced to shoot Morgan. Bell wounds him before he can shoot Zidan. Bell also tries to help Zidan to be more open about his experiences during the war in Iraq. ||||||||
| 8 | 8 | "This Land Is Your Land" | Charlotte Brandstrom | Claire Demorest | November 20, 2018 (2018-11-20) | FBI109 | 8.91 |
| The FBI is called when Victor Beniov, a Russian chemist who used to create chemical weapons and recently published a tell-all book, is kidnapped. The trail of the illegally purchased weapons leads to two local brothers related to the far-right militia movement with the FBI descending on the area. With Jubal overseeing the field operation and Kristen assisting, Maggie and OA along with an FBI SWAT team invade the area. However, they're pinned down by the shooters but eventually manage to find and get some children who were in the house to safety while OA saves Beniov who tells him and Jubal that they forced him to make hydrogen cyanide by threatening his daughter who Beniov reveals they also had pictures of. The FBI tracks the middle brother to the city courthouse, where he holds members and a judge hostage, and threatens to bomb the place in revenge for his father who was anti-government being sentenced. Zidan manages to convince him that his father is in the courthouse, in an attempt to persuade him to surrender. Mosier is approached by her Russian contact, who warns her that the Russians are keeping tabs on them equal to them keeping tabs on the Russians. ||||||||
| 9 | 9 | "Compromised" | Ed Ornelas | Katie Swain | December 4, 2018 (2018-12-4) | FBI107 | 9.72 |
| The FBI team is called to assist when Damon Cruz, a witness in witness protection program is assassinated. After Maggie and O.A. apprehend the assassin, Maggie gets him to reveal that he purchased the information on Cruz's location from Vincent Marino. The FBI storms Marino's home, only to find him dead. Suspicion falls on US Marshall handler Paul Ackerman when another protected witness, Maya Nelson, is killed. Maggie and O.A. question the man Nelson helped put away, Nate Skinner, who admits putting the hit on her and gives a description of the man and his girlfriend who leaked Nelson's location - the latter of which matches the description of Amber Turner, Marino's Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor and one of Ackerson's witnesses. The FBI discovers that Ackerman has exploited vulnerable female witnesses, including Amber Turner, and that Marino obtained Cruz's identity from Ackerman after he threatened to expose Turner and Ackerman's affair, only for Ackerman to later kill Marino and start selling witness names himself. After Ackerman calls the FBI and threatens to expose the identities of more witnesses if Amber is not released from custody, Bell goes undercover as Turner, leading to Ackerman's arrest. ||||||||
| 10 | 10 | "The Armorer's Faith" | Nicole Rubio | Andrew Wilder | December 11, 2018 (2018-12-11) | FBI111 | 9.04 |
| O.A. is called upon to go undercover when an arms buyer is assassinated. The dead man had been turned by members of another branch of the FBI and was going to help take down Martin Vickers, who is selling 50 new generation shoulder-mounted, laser-guided anti-tank missiles that could be used to shoot down planes. The handler of the dead man was O.A.'s former instructor at Quantico, Rowan Quinn who has a hostile encounter with O.A. They almost bring down Vickers but are beaten to the punch by Vickers's daughter, Arianna, who was also involved in her father's business, and who had sold him out to a Mexican cartel prepared to pay more to get the weapons. She kills her father, before leaving O.A and Quinn to fend off her goons, but is arrested in her attempted escape by Maggie. While in hospital, O.A. learns from Quinn that the man was going through personal problems at the time O.A. was in Quantico and regularly chose a recruit to pick on under the belief it would make them stronger, something O.A. refuses to accept with Quinn later apologizing for his actions. O.A. later attends a course by an FBI instructor where potential new recruits are being taught and prepares to give them a lecture concerning his experience in the FBI. Billy Burke (Rowan Quinn) is credited as a Special Guest Star. ||||||||
| 11 | 11 | "Identity Crisis" | Norberto Barba | Rick Eid | January 15, 2019 (2019-1-15) | FBI112 | 9.33 |
| After judge Leslie Chapman sentences a man to life in prison, she is murdered along with her daughter, Sam. Maggie and O. A. investigate the scene and looks for a possible link related to the sentencing. Bell and Zidan come across club owners Jack Rossi and Ray Costa, whose club Chapman visited only hours before her death. They also cross paths with Gina Pratt, a friend of Bell and undercover agent working in Rossi and Costa's inner circle. The team implements Pratt's operation into their investigation after it's revealed that Rossi and Costa are secretly dealing drugs, with Rossi also having a connection to Sam Chapman while Jubal goes undercover again, posing as a friend of Gina's although his role ends when the drug dealers fail to arrive at the pre-arranged meeting spot. After failing to strike deals with Rossi, Pratt expresses sympathy with him, putting her career at risk and causing Maggie to believe she's developed Stockholm Syndrome as a result of working undercover for fourteen months. The team manages to stop Rossi and Costa before they make it to Essex County Airport, arresting the two men and charging Costa with the murder of Chapman and her daughter while Maggie tells Gina the U.S. Attorney will be filling charges against her. ||||||||
| 12 | 12 | "A New Dawn" | Terry Miller | Brian Anthony | January 22, 2019 (2019-1-22) | FBI110 | 7.40 |
| The FBI team investigate the murder of a misogynist white-supremacist right-wing activist, Nathaniel Bain, at the Paul Rivera college campus, the same college O.A.'s younger sister, Amira, attends. When the investigation leads them to a former staff member of the campus' newspaper, Claire, O.A. and Maggie turn to Amira, who also works in the paper, for information. Thanks to Amira's former friendship with Claire, Maggie infiltrates the radical organization they believe responsible for the murder, New Dawn by going undercover. Their investigation reveal that the college headmaster's son, Connor Whitman, murdered Bain and torched the Savage Sons club house. Whitman outs professor Will Kelly being the mastermind behind ideas with Kelly revealed to have been manipulating students into taking action. Amira is taken hostage by New Dawn member Heather, threatening to bomb the church Bain's funeral is taking place at. Bell and Zidan manage to get Heather to give up and save Amira. ||||||||
| 13 | 13 | "Partners in Crime" | Jean De Segonzac | Claire Demorest | February 12, 2019 (2019-2-12) | FBI113 | 9.45 |
| Maggie and O.A. searches for a couple who is responsible for armed robberies that led to the death of an off-duty NYPD officer, Oliver West. While the male suspect is identified as Patrick Cross, the situation turns out to be far more complex than thought when they realize that the female is a missing 18 year old, Julia Parker. However the CCTV footage does not add up, given the girl's height is different to her actual height. The team deduces that the second girl is missing 15 year old Katharine James. After being cornered by the FBI and NYPD, Cross takes hostages in a nearby restaurant. The FBI bring his father who murdered Patrick's mother and two sisters in a domestic violence incident many years ago to try and convince him, but to no avail. Bell then goes in as a paramedic to treat a shot victim's wound. In the process she disarms Cross after he loses his temper, while Julia shoots him dead, ending the hostage situation while Jubal leads an FBI SWAT team to an apartment area where Cross lived many years ago and is successful in finding and rescuing Katharine. Jubal is coming to terms with his ex-wife now having a new boyfriend, but decides to attend his son's birthday party despite the new boyfriend being there. ||||||||
| 14 | 14 | "Exposed" | Norberto Barba | David Amann | February 19, 2019 (2019-2-19) | FBI114 | 9.06 |
| An investigative journalist, Rob McCann, is murdered and the team uncovers information linking the incident to past cases. They discover he was investigating a pharmaceutical company who produced a drug for childhood leukemia with a 29% mortality rate. McCann's informant, William Patterson, is assassinated in an alleged car accident. They also discover the same jogger who appeared on CCTV in a case in Michigan in the death of a state senator. The jogger is later identified as the assassin, Frank Cutler. Maggie learns her husband's death was not an accident, after spotting Cutler in the background of an old video of her and Jason. O. A. initially dismisses her suspicion, before finding evidence to the contrary. The FBI arrest Russell Donovan for hiring Cutler to kill McCann. Bell and Zidan confront Cutler at a bank, shooting him when he refuses to surrender. After learning that Cutler was involved in Jason's death, Bell confronts him at the hospital, but he dies after a second surgery. ||||||||
| 15 | 15 | "Scorched Earth" | Nick Gomez | Rick Eid & Brian Anthony | February 26, 2019 (2019-2-26) | FBI115 | 9.45 |
| Wall Street Keller Hogan CEO Veronica Klein is murdered by a bomb planted in her office. Soon after, a barista, Carly Fincher, is also killed in a bombing. Their connections are in contrast, with Fincher being a blogger and Klein being known for sacking anyone undermining her leadership. The team question Nick Frost, who sent a threat to Klein. A male profiler, Supervisory Special Agent Spencer Briggs, is sent by headquarters to help the team and he clashes with Dana's authority, notably arguing with statistics, likelihood and different priorities while Dana proves him otherwise right over time. Frost points the team to Stuart Moore, who was also sacked by Klein. They discover Moore attempted suicide a week before the bombings, and suspicion turns to his son, Cameron, who idolised him. Cameron reveals after his arrest, that he planted another bomb, revealed to be in a gentleman's club attended by Frost. Bell and Zidan evacuate the club and Bell secures the bomb in a freezer vault although it explodes seconds later. Maggie and OA later return to 26 Fed where Maggie receives applause from everyone in the room for her efforts while Briggs and Dana part on good terms, Briggs having come to acknowledge Dana's skills. ||||||||
| 16 | 16 | "Invisible" | Charles S. Carroll | Joe Halpin | March 12, 2019 (2019-3-12) | FBI116 | 8.95 |
| Elizabeth Chase, the daughter of media mogul Benjamin Chase, is kidnapped while leaving a dinner with him. The FBI look for possible assailants among high school society, before the kidnapper makes a ransom. The money is picked up by a homeless man, who leads them to an employee working for Chase, who took advantage of the case to get back at him. A lead on Elizabeth's missing inhaler leads them to CCTV footage capturing Charlie Jacobs after stealing one from a pharmacy. After Bell and Zidan chase Jacobs, he commits suicide, blaming Elizabeth. After rescuing her from Jacobs's cabin in Pound Ridge, she reveals that Jacobs possibly worked with someone, revealed to be Sam Musk, in planning school shootings. They manage to stop Musk from shooting up an event, with Zidan jumping in front of his weapon, taking a shot to the vest. Chazal applies to become a field agent, an application which Quantico and Mosier accepts. ||||||||
| 17 | 17 | "Apex" | Jean De Segonzac | Andrew Wilder | March 26, 2019 (2019-3-26) | FBI117 | 9.13 |
| Bell and Zidan assist the NYPD with a possible serial killer who photographs his victims in full make-up in perfect lighting. Initially, the team are faced with three victims, but the number rises to ten after more are revealed. Deputy Mayor Lynn Carver informs Mosier that the mayor does not want bad publicity for the city and scaring away tourists. This forces Mosier to tackle the press with a more softer approach. However they later come to disagree on how evidence should be handled. The team tracks evidence to doctor Edward Praeger, who has a Polaroid of one of the victims, but his DNA does not match the others. He leads them to the killer, revealed to be Robert Burke IV, a member of the Burke property owner family. Burke's wife reveals she filed for divorce because he photographed her like other victims. Mosier disobeys Carver's orders, and approves Bell and Zidan to storm Burke's studio, preventing him from taking another victim's life. ||||||||
| 18 | 18 | "Most Wanted" | Fred Berner | René Balcer | April 2, 2019 (2019-4-2) | FBI118 | 9.08 |
| When ICE deportation officer Thomas Gilman kills his family consisting of his wife and two children and flees, the resulting explosion destroying his house while leaving one neighbor dead and two in the ICU, O.A. and Maggie investigate. They soon collaborate with the FBI's Fugitive Task Force led by SSA Jess LaCroix to apprehend Gilman with Jess, FBI agents Sheryll Barnes, Clinton Skye, Kenny Crosby and Hana Gibson later beginning a search for Gilman by talking to the people Gilman encountered as the body count from Gilman's rampage begins increasing. It's soon revealed that Gilman is motivated by the desire to exact revenge against his mother who has recently died even though Gilman is refusing to believe it as when they were children, Gilman and his brother, Mike Venutti were separated, Gilman staying behind with his abusive father while their mother took Mike and left. By using footage they've obtained from Venutti which shows their mother celebrating her 78th birthday while also stating she wishes her son, Tommy was here, indicating she still felt guilty over what she had done, the team are able to lure Gilman to a house, but are cornered by Venutti. Once Gilman arrives, he holds his brother hostage while LaCroix negotiates with him. Bell, who arrived at the scene for the takedown, hands Jess a shotgun, making him able to disarm Gilman with Gilman losing his right hand in the process. This episode is the backdoor pilot for FBI: Most Wanted. based on FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives "Robert William Fisher" and also marks the debut appearance of Alana De La Garza as Isobel Castille. Julian McMahon (Jess LaCroix), Kellan Lutz (Kenny Crosby), Roxy Sternberg (Sheryll Barnes), Keisha Castle-Hughes (Hana Gibson), Nathaniel Arcand (Clinton Skye) and Alana De La Garza (Isobel Castille) are all credited as Special Guest Stars. ||||||||
| 19 | 19 | "Conflict of Interest" | Christine Swanson | Nick Santora | April 16, 2019 (2019-4-16) | FBI119 | 8.76 |
| The FBI investigates the murder of Ryan Parker, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regional Trade and his driver Scott Callum, who was unknowingly used as a pawn by a dangerous drug-trafficking ring, the White Horses. The drugs are revealed to have been delivered through with his translator, Michelle Chang with the drugs being identified as carfentanil which is a more powerful and deadlier drug than both heroin and morphine. The team track down a JFK airport worker, Kevin Okoro, who served as a middle man, but he is killed at the hospital via suffocation before they can speak to him. As that goes on, OA finds himself reconnecting with his friend, Juan who later overdoses on some carfentanil, forcing him to be transported to the hospital for treatment. Meanwhile, Jubal unwillingly gets his friend and former drug addict Morris Kalu, a man who was previously a member of the White Horses involved, putting him through an undercover operation to get to the leader Tayo. During his attempt to escape, Tayo takes Kalu hostage but Jubal manages to save Kalu by shooting Tayo dead. Back at 26 Fed, Jubal expresses sympathies to OA, revealing that Juan died off-screen, an incident that has left OA devastated and guilty he couldn't spot the signs that his friend was an addict, something Jubal agrees with before he then tells OA that there's no such thing as an ex-addict and all it takes is one bad day. Jubal later visits Kalu and the two leave for a new rehab meeting. ||||||||
| 20 | 20 | "What Lies Beneath" | Vincent Misiano | David Amann | April 30, 2019 (2019-4-30) | FBI120 | 8.86 |
| When controversial secret police leader Ahmed El-Masri from Egypt comes to New York for a heart transplant, O.A. struggles to balance his personal opinion with his professional duty when he is assigned to the security detail. While on route to the hospital, El-Masri's convoy is ambushed and is diverted to Hope General Hospital. With OA on the protection detail for El-Masri, Maggie is assigned a temporary partner, agent Art Perkins (Titus Makin) to track down the assailant, Karim Mohammad, who is revealed to be working for professional assassin, Zev Solin whose work Jubal has prior experience with seeing, Jubal even revealing that Solin who is a former Mossad officer with a reputation for being a ruthless killer capable of eliminating protected targets once blew up a plane with 63 passengers just to kill his main target. Solin takes matters into his own hands and infiltrates the hospital disguised as a doctor, but escapes once spotted by O. A. State Troopers later disarm him, and O. A. confronts him about a bomb revealed to be in the hospital. The FBI bomb squad manages to disable the bomb and El-Masri safely gets his transplant, but dies after complications which occur as a result of his body rejecting the donor heart. His advisor gives O. A. closure about his missing cousin who disappeared during the Arab Spring, revealing she died during an outbreak at the prison she was sent to. ||||||||
| 21 | 21 | "Appearances" | Jean De Segonzac | Joe Halpin | May 7, 2019 (2019-5-7) | FBI121 | 8.76 |
| The FBI investigates the murder of a fellow FBI agent, Greg Kennedy. When it is revealed he was living a double life, the team struggle to decide how much to tell his wife, Linda, also an FBI agent, and one of Maggie's closest friends. They learn from the bartender Kennedy met, that he was looking into "the devil", revealed to be biker gang member Mason Thorne. The gang was also dealing drugs after attorney Mike Krawley got them in touch with Philadelphia dealer Michael Rizzo. Thorne is found murdered, and Rizzo reveals that Krawley murdered him and has CCTV footage to prove it. As Linda interferes with the investigation, they learn she went to Krawley's office, before finding him dead at the biker club house. They arrest the gang leader, Tommy Chase, for murdering Krawley in retaliation for Thorne's death. Kristin and O. A. dig into Jason's death, discovering he met a businesswoman, Angela Perez, some time before his death. ||||||||
| 22 | 22 | "Closure" | Nicole Rubio | Rick Eid | May 14, 2019 (2019-5-14) | FBI122 | 8.56 |
| Angela Perez is kidnapped and later murdered by assassin Carlos Sanchez. Mosier advises Bell against taking on the case, but later changes her mind. The FBI connect Sanchez to a Mexican drug cartel, and later the company Perez worked for, as a front for money laundering. Initial suspicion is held against Perez's ex boyfriend Nathan Post, but he has an alibi for the day of the ordered hit and Perez's kidnapping, but the hit was ordered from the same building. Bell deduces that the same person ordered Jason dead, and it is revealed to be Perez's supervisor Sophie Keller, who ordered the hits. After chasing her to a marina in an attempted escape, she tells Bell that the cartel forced her to order the hits. With Keller giving up information on the cartel, Bell finally gets closure for Jason's death while Mosier confides in Jubal and announces that she will be retiring as special-agent-in-charge, having already submitted her retirement papers after realizing her decision to let Maggie proceed could have cost Maggie her career or worse while noting that for the first time in her career, she made a decision based on feelings, not logic and empathy, not protocol. She tells Jubal she'll inform the rest of the team tomorrow. Maggie and O.A. later go out to dinner together, announcing it's a toast to new beginnings and to celebrate the fact they've been partners for ten months. This episode marks the final appearance of Sela Ward (Dana Mosier) and it is the last episode of the entire FBI series to have Jeremy Sisto (Jubal Valentine) listed under the "With" credit. ||||||||

## Production
### Development

The origins of the series go back to the Television Critics Association summer 2016 press tour, where Wolf revealed plans for a crime drama series, placed in New York and set in the world of the FBI. Wolf's original plan was to introduce it on the NBC network as a planned spin-off to his New York crime drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, where it was intended to introduce an FBI agent character, but NBC ultimately did not go through with it and the idea was later put on hold for different reasons. It's Wolf's first drama series to launch on a network other than NBC in 15 years. CBS officially picked up the series on September 20, 2017. The series is produced by CBS Television Studios and Universal Television.

### Casting

On March 1, 2018, Zeeko Zaki was cast as Omar Adom. A week later, Jeremy Sisto was cast as Jubal, including Ebonée Noel also cast as Kristin. Before the end of the month, Missy Peregrym had joined the cast as Maggie. The FBI Special Agent in Charge in the first episode ("Pilot") was Ellen Solberg, played by Connie Nielsen. On May 16, 2018, the day of scheduling the series for fall 2018, Nielsen was announced to have left the series for undisclosed reasons.
On July 13, 2018, Sela Ward was cast in the second episode as Dana Mosier who fulfills a similar role to Connie Nielsen who was in the first episode. During the season finale, it was indicated that Ward would be departing the series after the first season.

## Broadcast and release

The season premiered on CBS on September 25, 2018. It aired on Tuesdays at 9:00 p.m. Canada's Global TV premiered the show at the same time as the United States premiere.

## Reception
### Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the first season has an approval rating of 63% based on 24 reviews, with an average rating of 6.22 out of 10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Dick Wolf's new series sports a compelling cast and adrenaline-spiking spectacle, although some viewers may find this retread of the mega-producer's previous procedural formulas overly familiar." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 57 out of 100 based on 13 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

### Ratings

The series premiere drew approximately 10 million viewers, and scored a 1.3/5 rating/share, beating out the second season premiere of Bull which occupied the same timeslot the previous year. The season finale, "Closure", earned 8.56 million people. For the first season, FBI was the 11th most seen show in total viewership, averaging 12.37 million.
Viewership and ratings per episode of FBI season 1 :
| No. | Title | Air date | Rating/share (18–49) | Viewers (millions) | DVR (18–49) | DVR viewers (millions) | Total (18–49) | Total viewers (millions) |
| 1 | "Pilot" | September 25, 2018 | 1.3/5 | 10.09 | 0.8 | 4.07 | 2.1 | 14.16 |
| 2 | "Green Birds" | October 2, 2018 | 1.2/5 | 9.37 | 0.7 | 3.70 | 1.9 | 13.07 |
| 3 | "Prey" | October 9, 2018 | 1.0/4 | 9.17 | 0.7 | 3.56 | 1.7 | 12.74 |
| 4 | "Crossfire" | October 16, 2018 | 1.0/5 | 9.31 | 0.6 | 3.51 | 1.6 | 12.82 |
| 5 | "Doomsday" | October 23, 2018 | 1.0/5 | 8.82 | 0.7 | 3.61 | 1.7 | 12.44 |
| 6 | "Family Man" | October 30, 2018 | 1.0/5 | 9.41 | 0.7 | 3.22 | 1.7 | 12.63 |
| 7 | "Cops and Robbers" | November 13, 2018 | 1.1/5 | 9.19 | 0.7 | 3.55 | 1.8 | 12.75 |
| 8 | "This Land is Your Land" | November 20, 2018 | 1.0/5 | 8.91 | 0.7 | 3.58 | 1.7 | 12.49 |
| 9 | "Compromised" | December 4, 2018 | 1.0/5 | 9.72 | 0.7 | 3.52 | 1.7 | 13.24 |
| 10 | "The Armorer's Faith" | December 11, 2018 | 1.0/4 | 9.04 | 0.6 | 3.50 | 1.6 | 12.54 |
| 11 | "Identity Crisis" | January 15, 2019 | 1.0/5 | 9.33 | 0.5 | 3.20 | 1.5 | 12.54 |
| 12 | "A New Dawn" | January 22, 2019 | 0.8/4 | 7.40 | 0.7 | 3.64 | 1.5 | 11.04 |
| 13 | "Partners in Crime" | February 12, 2019 | 1.0/4 | 9.45 | 0.6 | 3.65 | 1.6 | 13.11 |
| 14 | "Exposed" | February 19, 2019 | 0.9/4 | 9.06 | 0.7 | 3.95 | 1.6 | 13.02 |
| 15 | "Scorched Earth" | February 26, 2019 | 1.0/5 | 9.45 | 0.6 | 3.76 | 1.6 | 13.21 |
| 16 | "Invisible" | March 12, 2019 | 0.9/4 | 8.95 | 0.7 | 3.62 | 1.6 | 12.58 |
| 17 | "Apex" | March 26, 2019 | 0.9/4 | 9.13 | 0.6 | 3.57 | 1.5 | 12.70 |
| 18 | "Most Wanted" | April 2, 2019 | 0.9/4 | 9.08 | 0.7 | 3.73 | 1.6 | 12.81 |
| 19 | "Conflict of Interest" | April 16, 2019 | 0.9/4 | 8.76 | 0.6 | 3.82 | 1.5 | 12.58 |
| 20 | "What Lies Beneath" | April 30, 2019 | 0.9/4 | 8.86 | 0.5 | 3.48 | 1.4 | 12.34 |
| 21 | "Appearances" | May 7, 2019 | 0.8/4 | 8.76 | 0.5 | 3.45 | 1.3 | 12.11 |
| 22 | "Closure" | May 14, 2019 | 0.8/4 | 8.56 | 0.6 | 3.51 | 1.4 | 12.07 |