FBI Season 5 Episode 3 Assessment: Prodigal Son

It is a miracle that CBS managed to seek out an acceptable time to air an episode on this subject.

A few loners considering a faculty taking pictures was on the coronary heart of FBI Season 5 Episode 3.

It had been scheduled to be the FBI Season 4 finale however acquired postponed following the Could taking pictures on the elementary faculty in Uvalde, Texas, that left 21 lifeless.

Since there have been no mass faculty shootings up to now month, now’s nearly as good a time as any to air it.

Thankfully, this storyline ended up with the group monitoring solely a possible faculty shooter.

As a substitute, this was extra about Jubal, the absentee father.

Sadly, this did not even really feel that out of order. Tyler struggled on FBI Season 5 Episode 1 when work triggered Jubal to overlook Tyler’s birthday celebration.

Tyler was nonetheless struggling on this episode, the occasions of which occurred sooner than within the one talked about above.

So, regardless of all of the peril that Tyler confronted now and Jubal swearing to do higher, little had modified by FBI Season 5 Episode 1.

Work is all the time going to come back first for Jubal. That, and his affair with Rina, had been the 2 important components in his divorce from Samantha.

Jubal appeared magnanimous when he went together with Samantha’s plan to maneuver Tyler and Abigail to the burbs in Scarsdale. However issues simply have not labored out that nicely.

Being a young person is tough sufficient. Add to that being the boy that is recovering from most cancers. So Tyler has had a tough transition adjusting to his new prep faculty.

However a workaholic like Jubal transferring his children a half-hour away was asking for hassle. I imply, he could not discover the time for them after they lived in the identical metropolis.

Jubal wants to provide extra weight to Samantha’s issues about Tyler relatively than simply brushing her off with the “boys can be boys” protection. She is the one who’s with Tyler daily.

Jubal was there for Tyler when he was sick. However he is acquired to point out up everyday. Tyler taking his mom’s final identify ought to have been a wake-up name.

Positive, Jubal does important work. But when his son being held hostage by an armed wannabe faculty shooter would not get him to vary his methods, what is going to?

Possibly it should be a cumulative factor, and there can be a turning level. Or possibly Jubal simply wakes up in the future and realizes he would not know his son.

With two of the primary three episodes of the season Jubal-centric, do not anticipate that revelation to come back anytime quickly.

The one half that appeared dated was Isobel being out with Covid since Covid was extra of a priority in Could than in October. In any other case, it matches in pretty seamlessly.

The important thing level was how frightfully easy it was for a few disgruntled teenagers to tug off a theft that netted them 30 weapons, lots of them computerized weapons.

These teenagers had been sensible sufficient to tug off this theft but dumb sufficient for certainly one of them to be caught on a house safety system.

The mother and father of the 2 robbers, who gave their kids method an excessive amount of latitude, ought to have given Jubal pause, as they had been oblivious to what their children had been as much as. Similar to him.

Classmates similar to Simon had been extra clever as they gave Clayton and Zach, with their darkish ideas, a large berth. Simon volunteered an inventory of Clayton’s gamer buddies, which led to the identification of Zach because the second robber.

That additionally led to Kelly giving Jubal the top’s up about Tyler’s connection, nevertheless tentative, to the robbers.

The estranged relationship between Jubal and Tyler made this case way more difficult than it wanted to be.

Had Jubal been extra of a presence in his son’s life, Tyler may have been a supply of intel for the FBI. As a substitute, Tyler felt extra loyalty to the 2 robbers than he did to his personal father, which proved problematic.

Jubal did not assist himself by approaching Tyler like a supply relatively than his son. It was little surprise that Tyler wasn’t forthcoming with what little he did know.

A giant a part of that was that Tyler felt a debt to Zach, who had protected him from bullies in school. Tyler suffered from low shallowness, which might have been evident to a extra current father.

Jubal additionally did not do himself any favors by blowing up at Samantha, who was doing the perfect she may elevating two kids primarily by herself. (Talking of which, the place is her new important different, anyway?)

A few of that was sheer panic as a result of Tyler was lacking and sure was going to satisfy a gunman aiming to change into a faculty shooter.

Thankfully, discovering Tyler was a breeze with the assets at Jubal’s disposal.

Rescuing Tyler from himself wasn’t as Tyler gave Zach the hostage he wanted.

Jubal tried (he actually did) to speak down Zach, and Tyler got here via for his father ultimately. That led to a contented pause in what continues to be a rocky relationship.

To comply with Jubal’s sad residence life, watch FBI on-line.

What was the message you took away from this?

What should Jubal do to get his household life again on observe?

What’s the resolution to the epidemic of faculty shootings?

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