FBI Season 8 fall finale: Jeremy Sisto on Jubal’s breaking point after Tyler is caught in the explosion

The following article contains spoilers from FBI Season 8 episodes 9 and 10

FBI Season 8 delivered a crackling two-part fall finale that left the audience shell-shocked. In episode 9 titled Lone Wolf, when Jubal, portrayed by Jeremy Sisto, learns that his son Tyler, played by Caleb Reese Paul, is at the scene of an explosion. The emotional troll that takes hold of Jubal as he sees his son unconscious at the blast site weights heavily on him.

While speaking to TV Insider about FBI Season 8 fall finale, Jeremy Sisto said,

“I know, parenting is an ever-changing and increasingly frustrating and also at times rewarding chore. And Tyler is now in a very different phase than he has been before. Ever since last season, there’s been a new side of him, which is something that I’m dealing with with my children, too, which is what they want to do with their lives. And fortunately or unfortunately, Tyler is starting to come to the conclusion that he wants to be more like his father than perhaps his father would like. And so he’s anxious to get his hero shoes worn in.”

CBS’s FBI revolves around the team of officers at the Federal Bureau of Investigation at New York office. Jubal Valentine is the Assistant Special Agent in Charge, who is one of the more integral parts of the team.

Jubal’s breaking point after Tyler is caught in the explosion in FBI Season 8 fall finale

In the FBI Season 8 episode titled ‘Lone Wolf’, we find the team investigating a murder as they uncover something large in play. The episode ends with Jubal receiving an alarming call from his son Tyler, leaving him shaken. His son was at the site of the explosion in New York City as he had seen something. Jubal begs his unconscious son to respond. Speaking about the moment, Jeremy Sisto said in an interview with TV Insider,

“…He is still Jubal. He’s not somebody who allows himself to become somebody different, and maybe he’s unable to do that. Perhaps that’s part of his addictive personality is that alcohol allowed him to be somebody different in some way. But he is a very self-aware person. So he definitely goes out of his comfort zone in this situation. But it’s also the threat is huge. The threat is big.”

He further explained about the scene and how it impacts his character deeply. Sisto said,

“I mean, obviously, it’s very personal to him because of his son’s being at the heart of that explosion... We wanted a certain stillness there. We thought that was kind of cool. But then a level of losing himself a little bit and then pulling back, and yeah, ultimately getting to a point where at least there is the possibility of him going way too far.”

The following episode of FBI Season 8 titled ‘Wolf Pack’ finds the team amidst chaos as emergency services take a hit. The team uncovers that the true perpetrators behind the chaos are threatening the society on the whole. Meanwhile, Tyler is in the hospital. Jubal is emotionally driven and Isobel (played by Alana De La Garza) will tell him to step back. But Jubal appears irrational. Overcome with anger, he takes it upon himself to get vengeance.

Jeremy Sisto shared about the turning point for Jubal in FBI Season 8 Episode 10,

“…As we know, vengeance can be a very satisfying feeling, but ultimately does nothing to heal a wound. And so yeah, Jubal allows himself to, spurned on or encouraged by his wife, put his feelings of uncertainty and sadness and fear about the well-being of Tyler into making these guys pay. And so yeah, he finds himself in a situation where he has a real ability to siphon all of that emotion into one of the culprits. And I think ultimately, he wants the big fish here. He knows that there’s a lot of different cogs in this wheel. And so he’s after something bigger, but at the end of the day, sometimes emotion can overtake. And so I think he is fighting with that the whole time.”

However, at the end of the episode, it is revealed that Tyler is recovering well and even writes about his father’s gallant work as part of his college application. Sisto shared that Jubal needed the moment in FBI Season 8. He said,

“…Jubal’s already suffered enough. I can’t imagine they would kill his son, but that’s the fun of being an actor on a show that you are not the writer of is all of this is a possibility. And though we have conversations, my largest thing with the writers is, I always tell them the kind of stories I love to do is when they come from something personal within the writers’, within whoever’s writing it, lives. And so you never know what they’re going to go. But Mike Weiss and the whole writing team is doing a great job. And this was a really fun episode to do.”

Watch FBI Season 8 on CBS.

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