SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for FBI Season 8, Episode 14.

Third time’s the charm for FBI, which wraps up the saga between Maggie Bell and Ray Distefano in Season 8, Episode 14, “Forgiven.” The CBS show doesn’t have much of a choice—there are only so many episodes any TV show can do with a recurring villain before the heroes start looking incompetent for not catching them. Thus “Forgiven” is a definite swan song for Ray, and it is every bit as big as longtime fans expect it to be.

Those same fans probably saw this coming because they’ll remember the end of FBI Season 7, Episode 15, “Acolyte.” It was clear that Maggie not informing Ray about his father’s death was going to come back around, in the same way that the show revisited the Oslo story. So it’s no shock that lie by omission prompts Ray to plot revenge. In fact, the scene in which Jubal Valentine wonders aloud how Ray even got out of prison seems to be speaking for both him and the audience. But if one can set aside those few instances of dramatic license, “Forgiven” is an emotionally satisfying episode.

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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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