The Federal Bureau of Investigations, the FBI, is the principal federal law enforcement agency in the United States, handling domestic intelligence and threats. Emmy Award-winning creative,Dick Wolf, has created an entire universe based on this single agency, and one of its spinoffs,FBI: International, is welcoming a new character very soon. TheFBIUniverse returns from a two-week hiatus tonight, withFBI: InternationalpremieringSeason 4, Episode 6, “They Paid More.“Looking ahead to next week’s episode, the procedural drama is set to welcomeJay Haydento the show as he makes hisFBI: Internationaldebut in the December 10 episode titled, “Keen as a Bean.”
Hayden, whose credits include a multi-year stint as Travis Montgomery in theGrey’s Anatomyspinoff,Station 19, will debut as U.S.-based agent Tyler Booth. Booth will travel to Budapest, where the FBI’s Fly Team is headquartered, to consult withSupervisory Special Agent Wesley “Wes” Mitchell, played byJesse Lee Soffer, on a case he is working on. In the episode, “Keen as a Bean,” Booth’s target is to lure a criminal out of Russia after flipping his ex-wife. Speaking withDeadline, Hayden offers a description of the big bad Booth and the Fly Team will be after, saying:
“His name is Ed Haskins (Will Janowitz) and he’s been on the FBI’s most-wanted list for a long time. Tyler’s been chasing him for a long time and, frustratingly so, hasn’t gotten him. [Haskins] has continued to spread disinformation and release a lot of damaging material and information about people, [which in turn] is getting them killed. Tyler gets a little bit of a break in his case when he finds Ed’s ex-wife and convinces her to help lure him out. Needing a place to trap this guy, Tyler picks a place where he has an old friend, which sets up Tyler vs Wes, or Tyler and Wes. I don’t know, but it feels like every scene is different.”
Hayden’s character,Booth, has beendescribedas “an intelligent and charismatic agent.” The actor and new Fly Team leader, Soffer, are good friends, which makes for some serious chemistry to come. “I think it’s great because Jesse and I have been friends for a long time and we’re very different guys,” Hayden says. “We process and think about things differently. [Similarly,] we play two guys who don’t always have the same point of view on how things should be done in a case, like chasing someone or maybe right from wrong. It was like a perfect melding of who we are personally into these characters.”
Booth’s Personal Life Sips Into His Case
As many who lead intensive career lives can attest to. Oftentimes, work and personal life can mix in very unpleasant ways. InFBI: Internationalthis season,Special Agent Amanda Tate (Christina Wolfe)had to remunerate with that as she went undercover for the first time. While she willseek some balance going forwardin that regard, Hayden’s Booth will see the scales of his tip, as his teenage daughter will be dragged into the case in the December 10 episode. Discussing the twist, Hayden says:
“This was easy for me because I have a teenage daughter. You’re trying to do the right thing, by the book. Keep it cool, keep it professional. But then as soon as Ed brings Tyler’s daughter into it, and he feels like she’s unsafe, the gloves come completely off. Now, it’s up to Wes to hold him back.”
FBI: Internationalreturns tonighton CBS. Catch up on Paramount+. Stay with Collider for the latest onFBI: International.
FBI: International
Elite agents of the FBI’s International division travel the world with the mission of protecting Americans wherever they may be.
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