Tonight on CBS FBI airs with an all-new Tuesday, November 17, 2020, season 3 episode 1, “Never Trust A Stranger” and we have your FBI recap below. In tonight’s FBI season 3 episode 1 as per the CBS synopsis, “On the third season premiere, the team welcomes a new member, Special Agent Tiffany Wallace, as they search for killers who orchestrated a mass shooting at a media company, and OA’s personal connection with the case threatens to cloud his judgment.”
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There was a mass shooting in Greenpoint, NYC. Two men showed up out of nowhere and they opened fire on a group of people. Nothing seems to have sparked the incident. This group of people was not doing anything. They were having lunch and making dates for the future and so it seemed odd that they would be targeted. The FBI didn’t find out until later that this group of people was standing right outside a liberal magazine. Some of them even worked there and they were having lunch on break. This liberal magazine was ultra-progressive. They allegedly printed something controversial with every issue because it was a motto of theirs and unfortunately there was nothing such as discourse anymore. The world no longer felt the conversation was enough.
It’s now action. They were those who offend and those who became offended. This liberal magazine seems to have offended the conservatives and OA has a CI with some insight. He didn’t reach out to this CI. It was the CI that contacted him. OA’s guy called him to tell him that he was working in a bar when he heard some guys go off about making a statement and that he didn’t think it was important until the driver came in just that morning to brag about being the driver to a couple of armed guys. The CI said the driver goes by the name Big Mike. He told OA this story about Big Mike and OA didn’t believe him.
The story didn’t make sense. Why would this Big Mike brag about being the driver if he hadn’t known the other guys were going to start shooting? It also didn’t make sense why he would tell the CI everything. The CI’s real name is Zayne. Zayne worked at a bar which was true and OA thought that was the only true part of the story. OA suspected that more was behind what really happened. He stayed in the room when the tech guys got a photo of the driver from the scene of the crime and it wasn’t this Big Mike character. It was Zayne. Zayne was the driver. He was involved in the shooting and OA hoped that Zayne just got mixed up in it by accident.
OA informed his bosses about Zayne. He also added that Zayne could have agreed to steal a car for this group in order to get an in with them and so he just thought Zayne was the driver. He and his partner Maggie went to Zayne’s apartment. They couldn’t get Zayne on the phone and so OA thought they would find him at home. Only Zayne wasn’t there. The FBI Agents let themselves into the apartment and they found a shrine to the Freedom Fighters. The Freedom Fighters were a group of racists who believed they needed to “take the country back” from the gays and the blacks. They especially hated the liberal magazine because the magazine was calling itself all-inclusive.
OA wanted to find Zayne more than ever. He wanted to believe that Zayne had a plausible story for being involved in the shooting and having the shrine. He continues trying to contact Zayne however the FBI got word of where the Freedom Fighters were hiding out and they hit the building. Their fellow agent Stuart Scola hit the building with his new partner. FBI Special Agent Tiffany Wallace was replacing Kristen. She also didn’t like to speak about herself and she sometimes spoke over her new partner. Stuart was learning to deal with it. He and Tiffany needed to find their own normal and maybe one day they’ll be like Maggie and OA.
Maggie didn’t believe like OA that Zayne was an innocent party. She suspected that Zayne was happily a member of the racist organization and that he was hiding now because he might be a part of the second attack. The FBI had heard chatter about a second attack. They wanted to prevent it and OA believed the best way was to get through to Zayne. He and Maggie went to Zayne’s father’s house. Zayne’s dad said he was there less than an hour ago and he also claimed that Zayne seemed all over the place. The dad called Zayne’s new number. He handed the phone to OA and OA asked Zayne what was going on.
Zayne said it was all an accident. He had to prove to the guys at the Freedom Fighters that he was down for anything and so he stole a car for them, but he swears he didn’t know they were going to start shooting people and so OA tried to tell him it was okay. He told Zayne to wait there. He wanted to speak to him in person and unfortunately, Zayne was too frightened about being arrested to think straight. He took hostages. He held himself up in a storefront with his hostages and OA had to do everything possible to convince the FBI Agent in charge not to shoot Zayne dead. OA called Zayne. He tried to talk Zayne down and Zayne wouldn’t back down.
Zayne wanted to leave the country. He wanted to go to someplace where he wouldn’t be extradited and he didn’t want to give up his hostages. He still thought there was a way out of this without consequences. OA tried to tell him that he had to assist an investigation if he wants to make out of the situation alive and Zayne didn’t have much. He gave OA a name. The name helped the FBI because it led to them finding a site and they found out the second attack involves a bomb. William Ellis was apparently on his way to carry out the second attack. He was driving to it and they searched his search engine. The last thing he looked up was a nonprofit called Trans For Life.
Stuart and Tiffany went after their suspected terrorist. They split up to cover more ground and Stuart found Ellis’s car. He used the bomb-sniffing dog to determine whether or not a bomb had been inside the car and the dog had indicated that yes there was a bomb transported in the car. Stuart told his new partner this. She came across Ellis and she tried to tell him to put his hands up. He refused to. He kept walking to the building so she was forced to shoot him. Tiffany shot and killed Ellis. Ellis did have a bomb on it and luckily it didn’t go off. They called the bomb squad. They waited as the bomb was diffused and so that lowered Zayne’s potential.
They had stopped the second attack. They didn’t need Zayne anymore and so the agent in charge of the hostage negotiation thought they should take the shot to kill Zayne. Only OA didn’t want Zayne to die. Zayne was an informant and a friend. OA wanted to keep him alive. OA went into the bakery and he tried to talk Zayne down again, but Zayne claimed that OA had been using him. He didn’t think OA texted his friend as he claimed and he even threatened to kill a hostage if he didn’t get to see OA’s cell phone. So, OA handed Zayne his phone. Zayne looked up the text messages and he found out that OA was telling the truth.
Zayne’s mind was all over the place because he was on something. He was a stupid kid and he gave up his gun the moment he realized he was wrong about OA. OA had taken a risk to save Zayne. The only one who stood by him was Maggie and so OA was there for her when she got a gold medal for some undercover work. Maggie hadn’t talked about the work she did. It was sadly too difficult to talk about before now and so she did open up in the end. And she naturally turned to OA before her new potential boyfriend.
THE END!