FBI Season 7 Finale Recap: Isobel’s Fate and a Shocking Betrayal

FBI has been renewed for an eighth season — but based on the season 7 finale, one main cast member might not be returning.

Warning: Spoilers below from season 7, episode 22, of FBI.

The season 7 finale, which aired on Tuesday, May 20, was a giant game of cat and mouse and nonstop action. The episode began with ASAC Jubal Valentine (Jeremy Sisto) going to an undercover FBI meeting location to speak with a defense department employee named Kevin Saxton (Kevin Sussman), who claimed to have knowledge of an attack on 26 Fed.

While trying to figure out if the intel was legit, the building was attacked by individuals wearing FBI jackets. Jubal was the only survivor from the shooting, fleeing to a nearby bodega.

Before he could call his team for backup, an FBI agent came into the store claiming she heard his distress signal over the radio. When Jubal noticed her wrist tattoos, he tackled her through the window, and they fought for her gun.

Jubal narrowly survived the second attack and was able to identify the Forefront — a terrorist group who has infiltrated the FBI — as the people behind the attempts on his life.

When Jubal made it back to 26 Fed to debrief his boss SAC Isobel Castille (Alana De La Garza), their superior ADIC Reynolds (Ben Shenkman) made it seem like Jubal could be the traitor. Deputy Assistant Director Simon Keane (Campbell Scott), meanwhile, watched the interrogation beside Isobel and seemingly agreed with her that Jubal was clean.

Throughout the episode, Jubal and Isobel worked to figure out what the Forefront wanted and which FBI agents among them were compromised. As Isobel went to tell Reynolds that there are incendiary devices in some of the FBI-issued phones, the office blew up, killing Reynolds.

While Special Agent Maggie Bell (Missy Peregrym) was inspecting the scene and trying to get a pulse for Isobel, Keane and another agent came into the room. She managed to hide but overheard Keane saying the mission was a success in killing Reynolds and Isobel was just collateral damage.

Keane then went to Jubal and the rest of his team and put them on leave, which he was able to do as the interim ADIC. He claimed his reasoning was in hopes of figuring out who in fact was pulling the strings.

Maggie, meanwhile, told the rest of the agents that Isobel was one of the agents killed with the phone bombs and then passed a note to Special Agent Stuart Scola (John Boyd).

When Maggie and her partner, Omar Adom “OA” Zidan (Zeeko Zaki), met up with Scola and his new partner, Dani Rhodes (Emily Alabi), in an abandoned part of the subway, she revealed that Isobel survived the explosion.

Isobel, Jubal, the four main special agents and their tech team agreed to work together to take down the Forefront and Keane, who they were confident was on the inside. Isobel then showed up to Keane’s office to call his bluff and lay a trap.

Isobel revealed that Jubal’s team was still on the hunt for the traitors and gave Keane their location to stop his efforts. When the men showed up to take them out, Jubal’s agents were ready, picking off one dirty cop after the other.

Once they had Keane’s right-hand man in custody, Isobel flipped the script, arresting Keane as the traitor among them.

The episode concluded with Isobel and Jubal reuniting with their team back at 26 Fed to celebrate their massive win. During Isobel’s speech, she began to slur her words and repeated herself several times before passing out and falling to the ground. (She never saw a doctor after the explosion knocked her out.)

“She doesn’t have a pulse,” Maggie told Jubal, who yelled for help before the credits rolled.

FBI has been renewed for season 8 — FBI: Most Wanted and FBI: International were cancelled in March — so fans will have to wait until fall to see if Isobel survives.