‘FBI’ Officially Brings Back a Fan-Favorite Agent in 2 Weeks

It’s been over a year since CBS closed down its other wings of the FBI. While the flagship procedural co-created by Dick Wolf is still going strong in Season 9, the spin-offs FBI: Most Wanted and International have since been left behind, with the new CIA taking its place and offering a different dynamic on Monday nights. Despite each of their followings, financial reasons ultimately led to both Dylan McDermott and Jesse Lee Soffer‘s respective teams being disbanded in March and saying an abrupt farewell in May. Just because they’re not on the small screen every week, however, doesn’t mean they don’t still exist in the world.

That’s especially true for Shantel VanSanten‘s Nina Chase, the lone agent from the Fugitive Task Force whose future was left open-ended after Most Wanted‘s for obvious reasons. Chase’s relationship with FBI‘s Stuart Scola (John Boyd) has given her plenty of reason to keep crossing over into the mothership series for business and personal reasons. Season 9 is now officially welcoming her back for a new mission that will team her up with her domestic partner in the field to catch a Most Wanted criminal. She’s set to return in Episode 7, “Posterity,” airing on November 16.

To set the stage, CBS has released four new images from the episode that show “Scolina” back in action. Their investigation takes them from the field office into an art museum with guns drawn to capture an imminent threat. They’re even shown questioning someone together in a workshop, looking like the perfect FBI pair. Their mission in question is to track down a killer who has murdered an online influencer, but was fortunately captured by one of the agency’s cameras. With only a limited time until he disappears once again, the bureau will need to rely on Chase’s expertise in handling crooks on the Most Wanted list to find him through the footage and cut off his escape.

Four of the largest communities on the planet, and four completely
different reasons to belong to one. Here is yours, what it would give you, and the argument you
would be having within a week.

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you.

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it. That disagreement is not a flaw in this fandom, it is the main activity.

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‘FBI’ Is Going As Strong As Ever in Season 9

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VanSanten’s return will add to what’s already been a very eventful season for the New York field office. Season 9 began where Season 8 left off — with a “fired” OA (Zeeko Zaki) going deep undercover with the dangerous Anna Vorpe (Claire Coffee). The first three episodes followed his and the team’s efforts to bring her down from the inside, which required OA to venture into a morally gray realm and do things he was far from comfortable with to keep up his cover. Even after Vorpe is finally arrested, he’s still dealing with the guilt and weight of working with her, despite help from Maggie (Missy Peregrym) and his fellow teammates. That climactic opening has done wonders for the show, though, which premiered among the top-ten most-watched programs on broadcast television with 8.93 million viewers during a colossal CBS premiere week.

FBI Season 9, Episode 7 airs on September 16. Check out the images from “Posterity” in the gallery above.