FBI: International is an American crime television series that airs on CBS. It is the second spin-off from Dick Wolf's drama FBI and the third series in the FBI franchise. The series follows a team of FBI agents who investigate crime and terrorism abroad. FBI: International premiered on September 21, 2021, and a full season was ordered in October 2021.
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Created by | Dick Wolf & Derek Haas |
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Composer | Atli Örvarsson |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 27 |
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Running time | 43 minutes |
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Original network | CBS |
Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) |
Original release | September 21, 2021 (2021-09-21) – present (present) |
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Related | FBI FBI: Most Wanted |
In May 2022, CBS renewed the series for a second and third season.[2] The second season premiered on September 20, 2022.[3]
The series follows members of the FBI's international "Fly Team", elite operatives headquartered in Budapest who locate and neutralize threats against American interests around the world principally in Europe.[4][5] The team is led by Scott Forrester, a tough and grizzled FBI agent; Jamie Kellett, a career FBI agent and second in command; Andre Raines, a young but highly intelligent agent with expertise in accounting; and Cameron Vo, an interrogation expert who is the newest team member, having formerly been a field agent in the Seattle FBI office. Assisting the team is Katrin Jaeger, a veteran Europol agent from Germany who helps the team navigate political and linguistic barriers. At the end of season 1, Jaeger is promoted to oversight of all Europol operations, and Megan "Smitty" Garretson, an old acquaintance of Forrester, is assigned in her place.
In addition to facing a wide array criminal and terroristic threats, the Fly Team must also contend with the practical and legal challenges of operating in foreign jurisdictions, ranging from uneasy partnerships with foreign law enforcement to restrictions on using firearms.[6] The show's international flavor is meant to juxtapose it with the vast majority of American police procedural shows, which take place almost exclusively in the United States.[7]
On January 12, 2020, it was reported that Dick Wolf was having conversations with CBS Entertainment President Kelly Kahl about launching a second FBI spinoff, following the success of the first spinoff, FBI: Most Wanted. Wolf claimed he always envisioned FBI as a franchise, as it offers an "endless trove of stories", while Kahl states "We are always talking to Dick [Wolf] and Dick is always bouncing ideas off of us and I can't rule anything out." It was also reported that development of the proposed spinoff would begin during the 2020–21 television season.[10][11]
On February 18, 2021, it was announced that a second FBI spinoff titled FBI: International was being developed for the 2021–22 television season. Derek Haas was announced as series' showrunner and one of its executive producers, alongside Wolf, Peter Jankowski, and Arthur Forney. The new series also likely to begin with a backdoor pilot.[12] On March 24, 2021, CBS officially ordered the series, announcing it would debut in a crossover episode of FBI and FBI: Most Wanted, with Rick Eid also being added as an executive producer.[13]
FBI: International premiered on September 21, 2021;[14] a full season was ordered on October 11, 2021.[15]
On May 9, 2022, CBS renewed the series for a second and third season.[2] The second season premiered on September 20, 2022.[3]
The show airs on Tuesday nights in Canada on Global.
The show airs on Network 10 in Australia, Rai 2 in Italy, TV 2 in Norway, FOX in Portugal and AXN Asia.
FBI: International aired the first episode of season 1 on Sky Witness in the UK on July 22, 2022, at 9pm with new episodes of FBI: International airing every Thursday night at 10pm, an hour after the main FBI series which airs in the UK on Thursday nights at 9pm.
In July 2021, Luke Kleintank, Heida Reed, Vinessa Vidotto, Christiane Paul, and Carter Redwood were cast to star.[16][17] On July 14, 2022, Paul exited the series with Eva-Jane Willis replacing her as a new character.[9]
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1 | 21 | September 21, 2021 (2021-09-21) | May 24, 2022 (2022-05-24) | TBA | TBA | |
2 | TBA | September 20, 2022 (2022-09-20) | TBA | TBA | TBA |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date [18] | Prod. code [18] | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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1 | 1 | "Pilot" | Michael Katleman | Teleplay by : Derek Haas Story by : Dick Wolf & Derek Haas | September 21, 2021 (2021-09-21) | INT101 | 6.43[19] |
What started as a simple murder investigation on federal property in New York City has turned into a manhunt for a dangerous fugitive with ties to sex and arms trafficking rings. The New York City office enlists the help of the Budapest-based International Fly Team after discovering that their fugitive has fled to Europe.
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2 | 2 | "The Edge" | Michael Katleman | Derek Haas | September 28, 2021 (2021-09-28) | INT102 | 6.04[20] |
The team are tasked with serving a warrant against Katya Milgrava after witnessing the abduction of her young son in broad daylight in Budapest. During her interview, Katya informs them that she married an American, David Milgrave, and had a son with him. She later divorced him because he hit her, but the judge didn't believe the allegations and sentenced shared custody between the couple. When she had signs that he was hitting his son too, she fled to Hungary with him. The team investigates the kidnapping while trying to discern which parent is a danger to the child with the team also receiving assistance from the FBI New York field office's Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine.
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3 | 3 | "Secrets as Weapons" | Deborah Kampmeier | Matt Olmstead | October 5, 2021 (2021-10-05) | INT103 | 6.08[21] |
When a couple of American private detectives are attacked on a road in Switzerland, the man being shot while the woman is left injured, the team investigate and discover that the couple were carrying several cryptocurrency wallets to a Swiss vault for safekeeping, the owner being an American but when Jamie and her informant are attacked, Jamie being left wounded and the informant ending up shot dead, the case quickly turns for personal for Scott with the team racing to track the criminals while the wallet's owner refuses to collaborate, as he's interested only in recovering his money.
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4 | 4 | "American Optimism" | Deborah Kampmeier | Matt Olmstead | October 12, 2021 (2021-10-12) | INT104 | 5.63[22] |
When an American citizen arrives at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, Spain, claiming to be innocent despite being covered in the blood of his murdered Spanish boyfriend, the team investigate despite facing resistance from the local Spanish police who along with the victim's family all believe that the citizen is the one responsible for the killing while Vo and Raines's friendship continues to grow. | |||||||
5 | 5 | "The Soul of Chess" | Alex Zakrzewski | Wade McIntyre | November 2, 2021 (2021-11-02) | INT105 | 5.42[23] |
As the team investigate the death of an American journalist who was fatally poisoned during his attempt to meet with an anonymous source in Poland, Kellet takes Scott to task for his overprotectiveness of her. | |||||||
6 | 6 | "The Secrets She Knows" | Anton Cropper | Brooke Roberts | November 9, 2021 (2021-11-09) | INT106 | 5.59[24] |
When a U.S. intelligence negotiator disappears and the apartment she lives in Paris has not only been ransacked but covered in her blood, the team race to find her before the country's nuclear fall into the hands of a foreign enemy while Scott finds himself realizing the case has certain parallels similar to his mother's disappearance. | |||||||
7 | 7 | "Trying to Grab Smoke" | Alex Zakrzewski | Matt Olmstead | November 16, 2021 (2021-11-16) | INT107 | 5.96[25] |
When an American founder of an illegal adult-only site is murdered in Prague, the team race to find the website's co-founder who's still on the run in the Czech Republic with Fugitive Task Force agent Jess LaCroix giving the team a profile into their suspect while Kellet finds herself struggling to maintain a relationship with her mother due to the fact that she's working so far from home.
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8 | 8 | "Voice of the People" | John Polson | Stuti Malhotra | December 7, 2021 (2021-12-07) | INT108 | 5.79[26] |
When a bombing occurs in Budapest, a group of American one of the victims, the team are brought in find those responsible before another attack takes place while Vo begins re-evaluating what dating while as an FBI agent truly means when her new beau is injured in the blast. | |||||||
9 | 9 | "One Kind of Madman" | Michael Katleman | Roxanne Paredes | January 4, 2022 (2022-01-04) | INT109 | 6.06[27] |
A group of Albanian terrorists assault the Balkan Philharmonic Auditorium in Sofia, Bulgaria and hold the audience hostage, with 15 American students among them. They demand $10 million in cryptocurrency as ransom, and will only speak with the FBI. The Bulgarian police allows Forrester to handle the situation until its Commissar arrives. The Commissar wants to pump poison gas into air conditioning system and raid the theater, like the Russians did in the Moscow theater hostage crisis, despite Forrester reminding him of the high number of casualties. Forrester and his team get 10 minutes to enter to rescue the hostages, and they manage it only seconds before the Commissar would have given the order to release the gas. Meanwhile, Tank undergoes surgery at the vet. | |||||||
10 | 10 | "Close to the Sun" | Rob Greenlea | Hussain Pirani | January 11, 2022 (2022-01-11) | INT110 | 6.29[28] |
Porter, an agent from the FBI's OPR comes to Budapest to investigate Kellet about her actions in the 2nd last previous episode. Then the team is called to Northern Ireland, where one of Kellet's informants, a man called Walsh, has been arrested in connection to the murder of a policewoman. He claims innocence from the killing and offers information on an IRA gun-smuggling ring. When they visit his ex-wife, they deduce the divorce was a sham for their protection. Forrester and Raines find out the policewoman's partner was corrupt. Turns out Walsh is the ring leader and planned to kill Kellet, but she turns the tables on him by forcing him to choose between her and saving his family. Walsh chooses his family, and him and the ring are arrested. Back in Bulgaria, Forrester lies to protect Kellet from the OPR, but she tells them they should break it off. | |||||||
11 | 11 | "Chew Toy" | Rob Greenlea | Hussain Pirani | February 1, 2022 (2022-02-01) | INT111 | 6.25[29] |
When Mark Douglas, a NYPD officer assigned to information gathering in Transnistria, assaults and shoots a man at a bar, the team are assigned to find him. But as an unrecognized territory, neither the FBI or the Europol have official contacts here, but Katrin accompanies them because she does have contacts as a German officer. Mark tells them he was investigating a woman-trafficking ring and wanted to help a woman called Sabina. His NYPD contact, also his cousin, tells them Mark lost his pregnant wife in the 11-S. Sabina shares a strong resemblance to her. A corrupt officer offers them a way to smuggle Mark out. They end up cutting a deal with the corrupt officer and with the help of their contact, a clean officer, arrest everyone and find Sabina with Jubal Valentine returning once again to give the team an insight into the case with the episode ending with Forrester's mother tracking him down at a bar.
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12 | 12 | "One Point One Million Followers" | Hernan Otaño | Derek Haas | February 22, 2022 (2022-02-22) | INT112 | 6.14[30] |
While Jamie and Scott try to "tap the brakes" on their relationship, Scott comes to a crossroad when he meets his alleged turncoat mother who claims to be working as a double agent for the CIA, forcing him into making a decision. At the same time the team has to deal with a manhunt in Germany which in a twisted way loosely resembles the case of the arrest of John McAfee in Spain in October 2020 with the investigation becoming complicated when the local protestors he's incited with his conspiracy theories on social media get involved while Jaeger finds herself relishing working in her home country. | |||||||
13 | 13 | "Snakes" | Loren Yaconelli | Matt Olmstead | March 8, 2022 (2022-03-08) | INT113 | 5.92[31] |
When a couple flee to Albania while awaiting sentencing for stealing millions in COVID relief funds from the U.S. government, the Fly Team and Jager must track them down while dealing with the wife's own crime family as Kellet who's struggling to regain her professional boundaries with Scott works the case from Budapest. | |||||||
14 | 14 | "The Kill List" | David Barrett | Wade McIntyre | March 22, 2022 (2022-03-22) | INT114 | 6.12[32] |
When the U.S. attorney general arrives in Hungary for an important meeting, the team scramble to protect her amidst a possible security breach while Raines learns his sister, Jordan is also in Budapest. | |||||||
15 | 15 | "Shouldn't Have Left Her" | Michael Katleman | Derek Haas | March 29, 2022 (2022-03-29) | INT115 | 6.24[33] |
When his sister goes missing while in Kosovo, Raines finds himself going rogue in an attempt to find and save her, putting both his job as an FBI agent and his own life on the line while Kellet and Scott find themselves facing more scrutiny from inside the FBI. | |||||||
16 | 16 | "Left of Boom" | Nina Lopez-Corrado | Rachael Joyce | April 12, 2022 (2022-04-12) | INT116 | 5.79[34] |
When Vo is discovered at the scene where a Hungarian gambling regulator was murdered, the team find themselves in hot water. | |||||||
17 | 17 | "Uprooting" | Avi Youabian | Brooke Roberts | April 19, 2022 (2022-04-19) | INT117 | 6.02[35] |
When an American vintner is shot dead while on his wine estate in France, the team must investigate and ultimately determine if the region's local protest group which has a history of foreign nationals is to blame for the murder. | |||||||
18 | 18 | "On These Waters" | Michael Katleman | Hussain Pirani | April 26, 2022 (2022-04-26) | INT118 | 6.10[36] |
In the aftermath of a frenzied attack by gunmen on board an American-owned river cruise ship on the Daude, the team heads to Vienna in hopes of finding out why the boat was targeted while Scott comes to the realization his own feelings of mistrust caused what happened in his past are beginning to have an effect on his personal relationships. | |||||||
19 | 19 | "Get That Revolution Started" | Jonathan Brown | Wade McIntyre | May 10, 2022 (2022-05-10) | INT119 | 5.82[37] |
When a sniper kills an American during an attack on a biomedical lab in Belgium, the team race to find the sniper while Jaeger collides with her Europol boss over her loyalty to the FBI Fly Team. | |||||||
20 | 20 | "Black Penguin" | Milan Cheylov | Roxanne Paredes | May 17, 2022 (2022-05-17) | INT120 | 5.96[38] |
The team along with Jager head to Berlin, Germany when the nineteen year old of an American billionaire is found dead in his apartment and as they begin investigating in order if it was foul play, they soon realize that there's another shadowy group working on the case too. | |||||||
21 | 21 | "Crestfallen" | Rob Greenlea | Matt Olmstead | May 24, 2022 (2022-05-24) | INT121 | 5.32[39] |
When a private jet carrying a group of American citizens is shot down over Europe, the team begin investigating the man who missed the flight while Scott finds himself conflicted when his mother, Angela gives him information on a case.
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22 | 1 | "Unburdened" | Jonathan Brown | Derek Haas | September 20, 2022 (2022-09-20) | INT201 | 5.44[40] |
As the Fly Team meet their new Europol liaison Megan "Smitty" Garretson, they find themselves investigating when an American police detective assigned to a Federal task force and who was looking into a company in the United States that is suspected of selling illegal weapons in both France and the Middle East is murdered in Paris.
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23 | 2 | "Don't Say Her Name Again" | Avi Youabian | Matt Olmstead | September 27, 2022 (2022-09-27) | INT202 | 5.88[41] |
The Fly Team investigate when a local predator begins extorting underage American girls online with the team soon relying on help from one of the victims while Kellett finds herself coming to the realization she should get a roommate. | |||||||
24 | 3 | "Money Is Meaningless" | Jonathan Brown | Wade McIntyre | October 4, 2022 (2022-10-04) | INT203 | 5.97[42] |
When an American is found brutally murdered on the estate owned by her powerful father-in-law, the team head to Mallorca to investigate. | |||||||
25 | 4 | "Copper Pots and Daggers" | Avi Youabian | Roxanne Paredes | October 11, 2022 (2022-10-11) | INT204 | 6.15[43] |
When a former United States Marine is detained in Istanbul, Turkey, having been charged with smuggling antiquities, the Fly team race against time to get her released from custody and before the Turkish police learn why she was really in the country. | |||||||
26 | 5 | "Yesterday's Miracle" | Attila Szalay | Hussain Pirani | October 18, 2022 (2022-10-18) | INT205 | 6.09[44] |
When a Romanian surrogate carrying the baby of an American couple to term disappears, the Fly Team search Bucharest for her while Forrester's concern about the safety of his neighbors who are looking after Tank increases. | |||||||
27 | 6 | "Call It Anarchy" | Milena Govich | Rachael Joyce | November 15, 2022 (2022-11-15) | INT206 | 5.51[45] |
28 | 7 | "A Proven Liar"[46] | Michael Katleman | Kristina Thomas | November 22, 2022 (2022-11-22) | INT207 | TBD |
No. | Title | Air date | Rating (18–49) | Viewers (millions) | DVR (18–49) | DVR viewers (millions) | Total (18–49) | Total viewers (millions) |
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1 | "Pilot" | September 21, 2021 | 0.6 | 6.43[19] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
2 | "The Edge" | September 28, 2021 | 0.5 | 6.04[20] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
3 | "Secrets as Weapons" | October 5, 2021 | 0.5 | 6.08[21] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
4 | "American Optimism" | October 12, 2021 | 0.6 | 5.63[22] | 0.3 | 2.03 | 0.8 | 7.55[47] |
5 | "The Soul of Chess" | November 2, 2021 | 0.5 | 5.42[23] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
6 | "The Secrets She Knows" | November 9, 2021 | 0.5 | 5.59[24] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
7 | "Trying to Grab Smoke" | November 16, 2021 | 0.5 | 5.96[25] | 0.3 | 2.30 | 0.8 | 8.26[48] |
8 | "Voice of the People" | December 7, 2021 | 0.5 | 5.79[26] | 0.2 | 2.14 | 0.8 | 7.93[49] |
9 | "One Kind of Madman" | January 4, 2022 | 0.6 | 6.06[27] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
10 | "Close to the Sun" | January 11, 2022 | 0.6 | 6.29[28] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
11 | "Chew Toy" | February 1, 2022 | 0.6 | 6.25[29] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
12 | "One Point One Million Followers" | February 22, 2022 | 0.5 | 6.14[30] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
13 | "Snakes" | March 8, 2022 | 0.5 | 5.92[31] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
14 | "The Kill List" | March 22, 2022 | 0.5 | 6.12[32] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
15 | "Shouldn't Have Left Her" | March 29, 2022 | 0.6 | 6.24[33] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
16 | "Left of Boom" | April 12, 2022 | 0.5 | 5.79[34] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
17 | "Uprooting" | April 19, 2022 | 0.5 | 6.02[35] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
18 | "On These Waters" | April 26, 2022 | 0.5 | 6.10[36] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
19 | "Get That Revolution Started" | May 10, 2022 | 0.5 | 5.82[37] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
20 | "Black Penguin" | May 17, 2022 | 0.5 | 5.96[38] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
21 | "Crestfallen" | May 24, 2022 | 0.4 | 5.32[39] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
No. | Title | Air date | Rating (18–49) | Viewers (millions) | DVR (18–49) | DVR viewers (millions) | Total (18–49) | Total viewers (millions) |
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1 | "Unburdened" | September 20, 2022 | 0.5 | 5.44[40] | 0.2 | 2.26 | 0.7 | 7.70[50] |
2 | "Don't Say Her Name Again" | September 27, 2022 | 0.5 | 5.88[41] | 0.2 | 2.03 | 0.6 | 7.91[51] |
3 | "Money Is Meaningless" | October 4, 2022 | 0.5 | 5.97[42] | 0.2 | 1.97 | 0.7 | 7.94[52] |
4 | "Copper Pots and Daggers" | October 11, 2022 | 0.4 | 6.15[43] | 0.2 | 1.93 | 0.6 | 8.07[53] |
5 | "Yesterday's Miracle" | October 18, 2022 | 0.5 | 6.09[44] | 0.2 | 1.99 | 0.9 | 8.08[54] |
6 | "Call It Anarchy" | November 15, 2022 | 0.4 | 5.51[45] | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
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