Tonight on CBS FBI airs with an all-new Tuesday, February 14, 2023 season 5 episode 13, “Protégé,” and we have your FBI recap below. In tonight’s FBI season 5 episode 13 called, “Protégé,” as per the CBS synopsis, “The team investigates the murder of a professional informant after he’s found dead outside an abandoned factory in Red Hook. Also, Maggie reconnects with an old colleague and mentor .”
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Tonight’s episode begins with a man running for his life down at the loading docks, an SUV is chasing him. All of a sudden, the man is hit, and the driver gets out and walks toward him, and shoots him dead.
The next morning, Maggie is on the scene and she says someone wanted him dead pretty badly. She sees a stamp on the victim’s hand that reads IR. Sadly the entire area is a dead zone for cameras and the tire marks only tell them that the vehicle was a high-end SUV. A few calls and the FBI find out that the IR stamp is for a bar called Infrared. Tiffany and Stuart head over to the bar to confirm the stamp belongs to them and discover that the bar has a camera.
They watch a surveillance video and find their victim arguing with his barstool partner, they both left together after 10 pm. John Doe paid with his credit card at 10:06, they pull out the receipts and find out that his name is Cole Dixon, he lived in Bay Ridge and has a wife and a kid. His employment is off the books, he got regular deposits in his bank account. Maggie and Cole head out to speak to his widow.
They show his widow the guy who he was with, she says she doesn’t know him. She reveals that sometimes she thinks Cole had secrets, she thinks he was hiding money in a safe in the garage.
They check out the safe and get it open, there is a lot of money, burner phones, and a log of some sort. On his phone, a text comes in that asks if he is ghosting the person, they thought he had a big score. The text pinged off of a tower in Long Island. Maggie responds to the text to meet at the Middle Pier, they are hoping to catch the guy. Once there, Maggie recognizes a woman there, her name is Gwen and she is FBI.
Gwen is an FBI, she is also Cole DIxon’s handling agent. Cole was a professional informant. Gwen will be joining the investigation moving forward. Last week Cole said that he stumbled on to a huge score. His wife thought Cole was an Uber driver.
Gwen recognizes the patron at the bar with Cole, it was Daryl Watkins, aka Little Daryl, he is one of Cole’s sub-sources.
Gwen, Maggie, and Omar find Daryl, but they have to go on a foot race to catch him. Gwen gets a cramp in her foot and stays behind. Maggie and Omar catch him. Daryl says he didn’t kill Cole, he was at Chauncey’s poker room. Daryl says they argued about money, Cole paid him less than he was supposed to for an introduction to a Scientist named Walt Taylor, he is a former chemist.
He has a house in Queens. Maggie goes to the bathroom and finds Gwen in there sick, then they head to Walt’s house. Once there, they find Walt, he has two bullet wounds to the chest, the wounds are fresh, and he probably has only been dead for an hour. The dead informant and dead Scientist, and it looks like Walt was working on a bomb.
Gwen says the bomb doesn’t matter if they don’t know who has it. A lady down the street from Walt heard the gunshots, she saw two men rushing out of the house, one had a big duffle bag like they robbed Walt. The men were of average height and she is pretty sure that they were Asian. They are probably looking at a suitcase bomb that can level an entire building. After some investigation, it looks like Walt and Cole were killed with the same gun. And, looking at Walt’s bank account, he took despots of crypto last week for 150k, triple his entire holdings. The source is Asia and it looks like it is flagged as a current DEA case.
Isobel and Jubal meet with agent Lee, this is a two-year case and she is not eager to share details. Isobel tells her that this is a double homicide and that whoever is in the position of that account has a bomb. Agent Lee says East-19, the Chinese gangsters, the accounts point man is Rex You, he is very dangerous, and they need to be careful when they make their move. The bomb doesn’t fit their profile. Rex Yu and junior lieutenant, Ethan Chen are suspected of a hat dozen murders over the last few years. Both are regulars at Infrared, and Asian, this may be the guys who did the shootings.
Omar, Maggie, and Gwen find the two men, Gwen is having issues again with her health, she stops running and looks like she is in pain. Omar is down, he is shot, but thankfully it didn’t go through, just knocked him down. They caught Ethan and have him in custody, he gets a chance to talk his way out of prison, if he gives up Rex. Ethan starts laughing. He says he was an eleven-year-old orphan when Rex found him, there is no way in hell he is speaking and he wants a lawyer.
Gwen thinks they are trying to get water out of stone. Maggie and Omar are going over to Rex’s body shop to see if they can find any clues as to why he wants a bomb. Omar asks Maggie why Gwen wasn’t there for him, he was shot and it could have ended badly. Maggie doesn’t know what to say. Then, Maggie finds something, blueprints, there’s no address but it looks like an eight-story building, and Omar thinks Rex wants to take it down.
Maggie wants to take another run at Ethan, Gwen says he won’t talk, he is loyal to his mentor. LAPD found Rex’s vehicle. Maggie goes to get their jackets and finds in Gwen’s pocket a Physi-Pen with Interferon beta-1a.
Omar, Maggie, and Gwen go to the vehicle, Rex ditched his car and stole a new one. Gwen says they can access his GPS on the car, there are six trips where he was camped outside of 37th and Hayden in the past two weeks, which is nowhere near where he lives, maybe that is the building he wants to blow up.
Back at the station, they find out this is an eight-story building. The penthouse was bought by a Hong Kong shell company, the owner is Victor Ho, a Chinese businessman. There is a five million contract on Victor by his former business partner, Jintao Wong. Looks like Rex is trying to plant the bomb himself. The huge score Cole discovered is going to be an international incident if that bomb goes off.
At the building, Maggie tells Gwen that she knows she is sick and wants her to stay outside. Maggie says she is out of line. Maggie reveals that she saw the Med Pen and tells her to stand down. Inside, they can’t find the bomb anywhere, Maggie thinks something is not right, there is something they are not seeing. Ho’s security guard won’t have him evacuate, he believes the building is safe. Looking at cameras nearby they see Rex on a walkway near a building next door.
Maggie and Omar head over there and find Rex, bullets go off and Rex makes a run for it, but he left the bomb there. Omar tells Maggie to get out of there. Omar kneels down and opens the duffel bag, he finds the bomb and they have a little over a minute before it goes off. He calls Carla and tells her that she has to walk him into disarming it, there is no time. She tells him to cut the largest white wire, he does it within seconds of it going off. He does it, the bomb is disarmed. Rex got away, Maggie couldn’t catch him.
The team finds Rex in midtown, he is headed for diplomatic cover. Omar and Maggie are approaching the consulate when they find Rex. They get into a foot race, and Maggie catches him but Rex manages to pull a gun on him, Gwen appears and she shoots Rex and saves Maggie’s life.
At a bar, Maggie meets up with Gwen, she thanks her for saving her life. Gwen says the case is over, they got a good result. Maggie says her partner almost got killed, she has to tell the truth about Gwen and she doesn’t want her to make her the bad guy because she knows something is wrong.
Maggie tells her that she can talk to her. Gwen says she has multiple sclerosis, it is treatable, and she lives a basically normal life. She hasn’t told anyone. She has given 28 years of her life to her job, it is all she knows to do and she doesn’t want to be pulled from the field. Maggie says being pulled is better than putting someone else’s life at risk.
THE END!
