SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for FBI Season 8, Episode 7. It also includes mention of pregnancy loss.

FBI Season 8, Episode 7 goes in the opposite direction of most of this season’s episodes—and that’s why it almost entirely works. Some of the CBS show’s plots have been easy to figure out, but that allows for time to have more character development moments. “Fadeaway” has a plot with extra twists that risks becoming convoluted, but keeps the fans guessing for much longer.

The episode starts with the firebombing of an apartment building and ends with a prison riot, and there are four different suspects across the hour. Audiences will have to decide for themselves if they believe the real explanation: that a college basketball star got his 15-year-old girlfriend pregnant, murdered her when she refused to terminate the pregnancy, and then his parents tried to cover up the crime with the apartment building explosion. That’s a pretty massive scheme—which FBI has to explain by having Jubal Valentine and Isobel Castille spell it out to one of their suspects. Yet audiences are unlikely to have parsed it out before the team does, save the fact that Lorraine’s appearance in the beginning of the episode is foreshadowing.

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FBI airs Mondays at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. Photo Credit: Courtesy of CBS.

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