.....because this involves FBI Special Agents Stuart Scola (John Boyd) and Nina Chase (Shantel Van Santen) going undercover as a married couple. It starts with retired FBI agent Mike Rosen getting shot, assaulted and killed by a gang of diamond robbers while he was working as a security guard for Provident Armored (kind of a fictitious version of Wells Fargo, but never mind that). And since one of their own was homicided, we get to see Assistant Special Agent What Is In Charge Jubal Valentine (Jeremy Sisto) blustering all over the place. Two other Special Agents, Maggie Bell (Missy Peregrym) and Omar Adom "OA" Zidem (Zeeko Zaki), are on the case. There's a shootout between Maggie, OA, Stuart, and Tiffany Chase, and the diamond robbers who open fire with submachine guns, and turning New York City's diamond district into the O. K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. An arrest of Samuel Jacobson reveals that he's been a police informant, but that doesn't hold water with the Fearless Bunch of Investigators. And despite Stuart's protests and wanting to play it safe, he and Nina go undercover after all, for the purpose of trading the bucks for the diamonds, in the possession of the criminal brothers Beto Perez and Carlos Perez. Nina points to her own Man of Men, Stuart Scola, that Mike Rosen played it safe, and look what happened to him. An untimely visit by the NYPD almost goofs up the undercover operation, but the FBI gets the best of the Perez brothers. Stuart and Nina decide to take a flight together. I would have given this episode a 10 out of 10, but there was a smart remark about citizens who do the legal conceal and carry thing. I wish Dick Wolf would tamp down his liberalism. Save that for SVU.
6 Reviews
Now we're talking!!!!!
jazzahi17 April 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Ok this is a great episode!!!! Not much on the back stories so that's a plus and was short and sweet with Scola and Nina allowing it only to exist in the last words. THANK YOU for not banging on about the Tiff story as that is getting on my nerves & not a fan of boo hoo poor Tiff storyline.
I have to say it's been a while that I have had the adrenaline rising watching an episode as the writers seem to finally got it right how it REALLY happens and gets laid out.
It's definitely one I would watch over and not pick any "yeah, as if's" and even continuity was spot on!
Let's hope this continues with the following episodes.
I have to say it's been a while that I have had the adrenaline rising watching an episode as the writers seem to finally got it right how it REALLY happens and gets laid out.
It's definitely one I would watch over and not pick any "yeah, as if's" and even continuity was spot on!
Let's hope this continues with the following episodes.
Highest rated episode for me - outside the crossover
smoon-377897 May 2024
Yes I agree - they don't follow protocol - its not meant to be 100% real as its TV - I get that so I am not going to roll my eyes too much at this episode. What I did enjoy is Scola/Nina being the focal point. One thing FBI show does better than MW and Int is the storylines of their characters (Tiff, Maggie, OA, Scola, Jubal, etc) - and with this episode focusing on real time life with Scola and Nina was a good feel. The episode was intense - the whole exchanging of goods was well thought out (typical NYPD ruining everything). I want more of this kind of FBI show. Where the agents are truly undercover and not acting like SWAT military (unless its the Fly team).
WE WANT SCOLA AND NINA MORE!!
dafipgs18 April 2024
The best episode! Best!! Just want nina and scola scenes I'vbeen craving the romance between this two couple, And Nina in straight hair is looks more beautiful.
Nina isn't the only one who has to figure out how to juggle parenthood and work. In "Best Laid Plans," Scola's concern that Doug not be orphaned isn't just about dangers in the line of duty, but whether it's okay for both parents to fly on the same plane at the same time.
"I asked the wife, 'Did you ever feel you had to to leave the FBI once you had a child because it was risky?' And she said, 'No, I actually felt I had more of an obligation to the job than ever, because I have the responsibility of creating a world for my son that is safer than ever before,"
Nina isn't the only one who has to figure out how to juggle parenthood and work. In "Best Laid Plans," Scola's concern that Doug not be orphaned isn't just about dangers in the line of duty, but whether it's okay for both parents to fly on the same plane at the same time.
"I asked the wife, 'Did you ever feel you had to to leave the FBI once you had a child because it was risky?' And she said, 'No, I actually felt I had more of an obligation to the job than ever, because I have the responsibility of creating a world for my son that is safer than ever before,"
Facepalm. So far off-protocol. How are they not dead?
printsofdarkness17 April 2024
Warning: Spoilers
But for the reckless judgment calls, this was an above-average episode for the season, which has been a measurable step down from past seasons. It was really glaring in the last half, when Scola and Chase would give in, rather than call off the deal every time the jewel thieves would change the terms of the exchange, sacrificing their safety to ensure the deal was completed to guarantee arrest. The capper was when Beto wouldn't present the full take of diamonds after the money was shown, insisting one of them meet his brother Carlos outside the apartment for the balance. Nina meets Carlos a block down, follows him around the corner, and he commands her to get in the car, to which she reluctantly complies! I'm thinking, "Nina, WTF are you doing! DO NOT get in the car! The probability of things going bad goes up tenfold the second you get in." Sure enough, a squad car passes the alley in front of Carlos seated in the driver's seat, he gets spooked and draws a gun. Of course, Nina's a badass, and is able to flout unfavorable odds and get out of a bad spot with her life. But no agent who wants to go home at the end of the day would make that call. They just wouldn't.
Scola Family Show and 5000 shots missed
Johnny_West5 May 2024
Wimp Scola and his baby Momma Shantel VanSanten have less chemistry than Zeeko Zacko and Missy Peregrym, or Jeremy Sisto and Alana De La Garza. In fact, Scola and Whiffany Wallace have more chemistry that Scola and VanSanten.
Every scene with Scola and VanSanten is some kind of argument. So now every episode of this show opens up with them waking up in bed in the morning, and having an argument about their FBI work.
Scola is always pretending that he cares by interfering in whatever her work assignment is, and VanSanten has to straigten him out. Then the show ends with them going home to argue some more about whatever she did that was too dangerous. Ponderously boring and uninteresting.
The only good thing about this episode was that there was a gunfight. The FBI literally walk into an armored car being robbed, and engage in a gunfight with three armed men. Four FBI agents, and three robbers with machine guns shoot at each other for about five minutes.
They run through a restaurant, a diner and a waiter get shot, but none of the robbers are shot. Literally hundreds if not thousands of bullets are fired, and none of the robbers get shot. None of the FBI agents get shot. Just the innocent bystanders.
This has to be the worst aim in the history of Hollywood gunfights. The FBI agents rarely manage shoot anyone in any gunfights. FBI agents may as well leave their guns at home, and bring a SWAT team with them for field work.
SWAT got canceled and Shemar Moore might be available to transfer over. At least he can actually shoot people on his show, and he has a lot more personality than Scola (John Boyd).
So FBI eventually tracks down the robbers / killers and De La Garza wants to do an undercover sting, featuring all the same agents that were shooting at these guys. Even though they were all horrible shots, they must have gotten a look at the four agents that were constantly shooting at them??
So now Scola is the undercover guy who wants to buy $10 million in diamonds, and acts really testy when the robber / killer questions him. The answers are laughable.
Even worse is the killer and the informant, who both look like they work at Pizza Hut when they aren't acting. What a goofy scene. Not even Kojak or Starsky and Hutch could have been worse, 50 years ago.
Then Scola is pressured into setting up a buy at his home! Who would agree do that? I mean even the dumbest robbers had to realize that it was a setup when Scola agreed to bring killers into his (fake FBI) house to meet his wife and fake rubber baby.
Then we get Scola and VanSanten pretending to be a couple for the sake of the undercover sting. Wow, that was hard to watch. These folks have nothing between them, just totally no chemistry. Scola had more going with the fake rubber baby than with VanSanten.
Every scene with Scola and VanSanten is some kind of argument. So now every episode of this show opens up with them waking up in bed in the morning, and having an argument about their FBI work.
Scola is always pretending that he cares by interfering in whatever her work assignment is, and VanSanten has to straigten him out. Then the show ends with them going home to argue some more about whatever she did that was too dangerous. Ponderously boring and uninteresting.
The only good thing about this episode was that there was a gunfight. The FBI literally walk into an armored car being robbed, and engage in a gunfight with three armed men. Four FBI agents, and three robbers with machine guns shoot at each other for about five minutes.
They run through a restaurant, a diner and a waiter get shot, but none of the robbers are shot. Literally hundreds if not thousands of bullets are fired, and none of the robbers get shot. None of the FBI agents get shot. Just the innocent bystanders.
This has to be the worst aim in the history of Hollywood gunfights. The FBI agents rarely manage shoot anyone in any gunfights. FBI agents may as well leave their guns at home, and bring a SWAT team with them for field work.
SWAT got canceled and Shemar Moore might be available to transfer over. At least he can actually shoot people on his show, and he has a lot more personality than Scola (John Boyd).
So FBI eventually tracks down the robbers / killers and De La Garza wants to do an undercover sting, featuring all the same agents that were shooting at these guys. Even though they were all horrible shots, they must have gotten a look at the four agents that were constantly shooting at them??
So now Scola is the undercover guy who wants to buy $10 million in diamonds, and acts really testy when the robber / killer questions him. The answers are laughable.
Even worse is the killer and the informant, who both look like they work at Pizza Hut when they aren't acting. What a goofy scene. Not even Kojak or Starsky and Hutch could have been worse, 50 years ago.
Then Scola is pressured into setting up a buy at his home! Who would agree do that? I mean even the dumbest robbers had to realize that it was a setup when Scola agreed to bring killers into his (fake FBI) house to meet his wife and fake rubber baby.
Then we get Scola and VanSanten pretending to be a couple for the sake of the undercover sting. Wow, that was hard to watch. These folks have nothing between them, just totally no chemistry. Scola had more going with the fake rubber baby than with VanSanten.
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