SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for FBI Season 8, Episode 16.

FBI Season 8, Episode 16 won’t surprise anyone who’s watched enough procedurals. “3 Up, 3 Down” follows a pretty familiar storyline: a foreign terrorist blames America for the deaths of his innocent family members, and is determined to exact revenge. The CBS show hits all of the story beats required, but the subplot is what holds viewers’ interest.

The episode has an awkward title—the phrase is more commonly utilized in baseball—but it has all the components that viewers watch FBI for. The story has a foot chase (albeit briefer than usual), a shootout, and an obvious suspect who turns out not to be the real perpetrator. The characters of the week are only fleshed out as much as they need to be for the plot to keep moving. And the actual antagonist called “the Falconer” is pretty standard as far as fictional terrorists go. The one logistical quirk is that he wants to blow up a warship, so that gives FBI‘s final act a different backdrop, but this is generally business as usual for the JOC.

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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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