SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for FBI Season 8, Episode 21.
There’s so much about FBI Season 8, Episode 21 that either feels awkward or far too obvious. “Long Shot” has a shaky premise, character development that doesn’t really work, and the return of a guest character viewers didn’t need to see again. The end result is feeling like the CBS show is just filling a space until the Season 8 finale.
“Long Shot” begins with the public murder of a senior vice president at a fictional Fortune 100 company. It initially seems like another Dick Wolf show is utilizing the Luigi Mangione case for plot fodder; Law & Order previously did an episode inspired by that situation. But instead, FBI pivots to a story about a revived domestic terror group, and then semi-moves away from that to a convoluted idea about weaponizing “predictive markets” like Kalshi and Polymarket. None of this ever comes believably together. If anyone wants to see a better story about people gambling on crime, NBC had a TV series called The Player that utilized the idea much better—with the caveat that it had the whole show to develop the concept.
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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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