SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for FBI Season 9, Episode 1.
The FBI Season 9 premiere, “Rendition,” unsurprisingly picks up not that long after the Season 8 cliffhanger. The clear intent of the episode is to establish a new normal for the CBS drama. But while it has its fun with that, the script mercifully retains the core elements that got FBI to nine seasons in the first place.
It’s been three months since OA Zidan was fake-fired so he could go undercover in Anna Vorpe’s terrible task force, and that’s just enough time for executive producer Aaron Ginsburg to shake up the status quo. But he does that in ways that mostly make sense. Smartly, the focus of the hour is Maggie Bell’s new partnership with Isaiah Green (played by Chicago Med alum Roland Buck III, miles away from his Med character Noah Sexton), and how it’s not quite working. This is understandable, because the audience’s emotional focus is on how Maggie will fare without OA. And having that dynamic be flawed respects the partnership and friendship she has with OA. It would feel wrong if she got a new partner and they were just fine, not to mention that would be much less dramatically interesting.
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FBI airs Mondays at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. Photo Credit: Courtesy of CBS.
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