SPOILER ALERT AND WARNING: The following contains spoilers for FBI Season 8, Episode 18. It also contains discussion of violence involving children.
FBI Season 8, Episode 18 tries to do for Maggie Bell what Episode 17 did for her partner OA Zidan. “Behavior” is less successful, though, because the CBS show goes down pathways the audience has seen before. Both the case of the week and Maggie’s individual journey are relatively predictable.
If CBS wasn’t already doing Criminal Minds, “Behavior” would feel like a setup for Missy Peregrym and Zach Grenier to lead an FBI spinoff about profilers. The episode feels very much like Criminal Minds-light, starting off with a mother and young son being trapped in cages, and later revealing that the victims are forced to choose which one of them is stabbed to death. This is one of FBI‘s darker episodes, both in terms of plot and also literally.
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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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