[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the FBI: Most Wanted series finale “The Circle Game.”]
If FBI: Most Wished was renewed for a seventh season, the Tuesday, Could 20, finale would have appeared very totally different — and ended on a cliffhanger!
“Remy [Dylan McDermott] would have re-upped for an additional yr as Job Power chief and the cliffhanger within the season finale would have been a giant ‘white whale’ fugitive who will get away — solely to be captured within the following season,” showrunner David Hudgins tells TV Insider.
The CBS drama was canceled in March, that means it was too early for the producers to begin trying forward, and so there are few particulars about what we might have seen, ought to the collection have continued.
“We by no means obtained to the purpose of exploring tales for Season 7 as a result of the cancellation information got here so early, which gave us time to craft the collection finale,” Hudgins says. There’s no phrase on the potential of perhaps someday seeing what might have come subsequent.
With that heads up, Hudgins and the remainder of the writers and producers had been in a position to finish the collection as they wished to. Remy retired, as he introduced on the smooth opening of his and Abby’s (Susan Misner) restaurant. Quite than take that job in D.C., which might have taken her nearer to her youngsters, Barnes (Roxy Sternberg) is now taking up as staff chief.
“After her divorce, the query for Barnes in Season 6 was, who am I? In the long run, she determined that she might by no means do a desk job; she is happiest when being a ‘cop’ and taking unhealthy guys off the road. Generally the most effective factor a guardian can do for the children is to like themselves first,” explains the showrunner.
Different reveals within the finale in regards to the staff embody Hana (Keisha Fort-Hughes) and Ethan (Michael Raymond-James) are making it work and shifting in collectively after he’s out of rehab — “Hana loves him, and he saved his promise to get clear,” notes Hudgins — and Ray (Edwin Hodge) and Cora (Caroline Harris) are having a child. If the present had been renewed, that may nonetheless have occurred, giving them the prospect to discover Ray balancing that with work.
“It’s a blended household, with Caleb as his stepson, however as Remy says within the finale, Ray is such a stable man of fine character that the world wants extra Cannons in it,” based on Hudgins.
One thing which may have modified was Nina (Shantel VanSanten) making up together with her father in Texas — after they helped her sister transfer out, now that she’s left her husband — at first of the episode.
“I liked the concept Nina had already forgiven him — as a survival mechanism — so it was undoubtedly a transfer on her father’s facet. Maybe we’d have performed out the stress extra had the collection not ended,” admitted Hudgins.
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That dinner at Remy’s restaurant included him giving a candy toast to every member of the staff. He referred to as Nina “robust … fierce and completely essentially the most terrifying driver I’ve ever ridden with” and praised his personal determination to poach her from Jubal (FBI‘s Jeremy Sisto) “since you are a completely gorgeous agent, and within the immortal phrases of George Strait, god bless Texas.” Ray is “an absolute badass,” along with his concern of rats his solely drawback. “However after I consider you, Ray, I consider honesty, loyalty, integrity,” Remy continued. “You might be an instance to everybody, and congratulations on child #2. We’d like extra Cannons on this world.”
He then turned to the OG job drive duo; Hana and Barnes had been with the Fugitive Job Power again in the course of the backdoor pilot on FBI. To Hana, he stated, “I by no means had kids, but when I ever did, I’d need them to be similar to you: genius-level sensible, type, loyal, nice humorousness. I’d most likely omit the quick half although. … However thanks for every part. I’m going to overlook you.” It was throughout his phrases to Barnes that he revealed she was taking up as boss: “It’s no secret we’ve had our ups and downs; I believe the explanation for that’s you’re actually bossy. In all seriousness,I might say a lot about you, however I believe everybody is aware of precisely how I really feel after I say, girls and gents, the brand new staff chief of the New York Fugitive Job Power, Sheryll J. Barnes!”
With that, as a part of the custom of the FBI, he handed alongside handcuffs — first mini ones, then his from Quantico — to “preserve catching these unhealthy guys.” Barnes had one thing for him as effectively: his badge framed.
That ending “was a manner for the viewers to say goodbye to every of the characters — with Remy as their voice. Dylan nailed it as traditional,” says Hudgins.
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