Tonight on CBS FBI Most Wanted airs with an all-new Tuesday, April 16, 2024 season 5 episode 9, “The Return”,” and we have your FBI Most Wanted recap below.
In tonight’s FBI Most Wanted season 5 episode 9 as per the CBS synopsis, “When two armed guards are gunned down while transporting millions of dollars’ worth of Nigerian artifacts to a Brooklyn museum, the Fugitive Task Force races to catch the thieves.
Also, Ray speaks to his father (guest star Steven Williams) about taking his relationship with Cora to the next level.’
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In tonight’s FBI: Most Wanted episode, Ray had dinner with his dad. With Ray Senior. He wanted to tell his dad that he was serious about Cora. He thought she could be the one. He was already looking at rings and he couldn’t find the right one. He didn’t know it, but his father has been waiting for this moment for years.
He had the perfect ring for his son. One that he showed him. The ring has been passed down three generations of Cannons. Senior’s grandmother gave his mom that ring. Senior also gave this ring to his own wife. They were married for thirty-six years. She only took off her finger the day she died because she wanted the ring to be passed to Ray.
His mom even left a letter to go with the ring. She asked her husband to give it to their son when the moment was right. Well, that moment has arrived. Ray loved the ring. He also read the letter and he got so choked by it. He was glad to be his parents’ son. He was glad that they loved him so much that they planned for moments without them.
Ray was going to work up the courage to use the ring when he got called in to work. Two security guards were killed during a heist and their haul was stolen. They were transporting art worth millions to the Woodberry Museum in Brooklyn.
It was supposed to be for an exhibit. The exhibit was to highlight West African art. It was to highlight Nigeria and the pieces were being loaned to them by a billionaire. The billionaire bought the pieces from London. He was allowing the museum to use them for free in exchange a wing was going to be named after him.
It actually increases their value if they’re shown at museums. There also weren’t a lot of people that knew about the pieces being moved. They were being held by a private storage company.
The billionaire wanted the exhibit to be a big surprise. He wanted credit for highlighting the art. He knew about the exhibit only Dax Tillman didn’t need the insurance payout to fake a robbery.
Plus, two men were killed. The security guards raised this to a federal crime. Remy and his people were sent in to investigate. They received help from Brad May from Art Crimes. He’s the one that told them that being in an exhibit increases their value. Tillman wasn’t involved. His sad sack of an arts dealer might be though.
The guy was pathetic. He was practically trembling before Tillman when the FBI stopped by. Remy instantly suspected him. They looked into him. He does have a record for faking provenances for pieces he sells.
Still, it would be a big step up from fraud to murder. The murders could have been a result of the people they’re working with. It wasn’t long before the manhunt team got names for their killers. They were Adisa Ojo and Khadijah Kinglsey. Both men were Nigerian Nationals. They’ve been living in the United States for years. They have no known connection to Ezra Clark otherwise known as sad sap.
The FBI still went to Clark’s place hoping to talk to him alone. They instead ran into their killers. They got into a shootout. They killed one of them. Adisa got away.
Their killers had also killed Clark. They cut off his thumb to gain access to his safe. They stole something from him. They had access to his money and his contacts. They didn’t want any of that. They wanted an item that he stole for himself. It was the most expensive piece of the collection. It doesn’t stop there because the FBI also learned that Adisa was in a relationship with the museum director.
The director was Alicia Foreman. She must have made a side agreement with Clark. She was originally Nigerian and she got adopted. She was raised by her white adopted parents.
They brought her around art because they wanted her to know her culture. She took things too far when she went on a trip to Nigeria. She came back with a Nigerian boyfriend. She started speaking with an accent. She was reclaiming her roots. She even got in touch with a man claiming to be her biological father. He was a war criminal that slaughtered thousands during the Nigerian civil war. He was wanted man.
Bankole Udoje managed to sneak into the United States. He got in touch with Alicia. He showed her the original birth certificate and he’s the one that put her in touch with Adisa. He wanted her to steal an artwork so that it can be returned to Nigeria. Or so he claimed. He actually wanted to sell it to fund another civil war. Her boyfriend was in on the plan and they planned on killing Alicia once she was no longer of use to them. They told Alicia what she wanted to hear. She wanted to be connected to her biological family and there’s no telling if Bankole is even her father.
The FBI figured that all out. Alicia never did. They found her when she went to talk to her parents. She wanted to tell them that she was leaving the country and she wanted to say goodbye.
Alicia was all about repatriation. She thought she was returning the art to the culture it belongs to. She instead played a part in a crime to help fund another civil war. Another genocide. The FBI also found Alicia’s real birth certificate. Her parents died in a car crash a week after she was born. She has no living family. They showed Alicia all of this when they arrested her.
Alicia didn’t know the real plans for the art. Hence she didn’t know about the plan to sell the art to a weapons dealer. She still helped by setting a trap for Adisa.
The feds followed Adisa from this trap to the buy with the weapons dealer. They moved in. They arrested a couple of people. They had to shoot people. Bankole was shot after he tried to grab Nina’s gun. And he’ll recover in a federal prison.
And Ray finally proposed to Cora. She said yes. They got to celebrate it with their family.
THE END!