FBI’s John Boyd and FBI: MOST WANTED’s Shantel VanSanten Preview Scola and Nina’s Undercover Assignment

April 15, 2024 by Marisa Roffman

“Best Laid Plans” – When a retired FBI agent is tortured and killed while working a security job, Scola and Nina (FBI: MOST WANTED) go undercover as a married couple deep in the diamond game as the team tries to find out who is responsible. During the course of his and Nina’s dangerous assignment, Scola is plagued by the possibility that their son Doug could end up parentless, on FBI, Tuesday, April 16 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+ (live and on-demand for Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers, or on-demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the episode airs). Pictured (L-R): Missy Peregrym as Special Agent Maggie Bell, John Boyd as Special Agent Stuart Scola, and Shantel VanSanten as Special Agent Nina Chase. Photo: Bennett Raglin/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

After overcoming a personal hardship on FBI: MOST WANTED last week, FBI’s Scola (John Boyd) and MOST WANTED’s Nina (Shantel VanSanten) have a different kind of test on the Tuesday, April 16 episode of FBI: Going undercover together.

“A retired FBI agent is tortured and killed and there’s a diamond heist and robbery,” Boyd tells Give Me My Remote in the video below. “And really, really fun to shoot—lots of action. But it’s a great way…that Nina gets brought into the scene through an informant of hers. But it’s really about the couple navigating risk.”

“Well, we first find Nina stomping around a few floors above her basement job,” VanSanten adds. “They called in one of her informants…we’re going to see both Nina and Scola go undercover and see them like we’ve never seen them before.”

“They get to work together in this way that it also requires a massive amount of trust in both of their capabilities and, of course, being new parents [that risk is not something] Scola is excited about—both of them being on a specific task together or case together,” she continues. “But Nina wins the fight and so undercover they go.”

To get a deeper insight into what this might be like, Boyd cold-called a real-life retired FBI couple.

“I just called them and I asked this question, because they raised kids, and they were gang task force—they were both in it for years and their son is now an FBI agent,” he recalls. “And I asked them, ‘What was different in your house? What did you have to sacrifice?’ And like such a FBI agent, who’s the smartest person in the room, she was like, ‘Did I sacrifice or was my life enhanced? Because I got to go to work and make the world better for my child that was at home. So having a child as an FBI agent, it enhanced my life.’”

“And I think that’s what we see from this episode,” he continues. “They’re mitigating risk. He’s struggling with how you deal with risk as a father.”

For the actors, portraying the undercover work was a fun challenge. “What’s interesting is I myself have to play like I have all of these capabilities as an FBI agent and I’m so badass and strong and tough [when I’m playing Nina],” VanSanten says. “When in real life, I’m sure as people have seen on Instagram and some of the videos they post, I am a complete dorko weirdo. And I’m not strong and tough whatsoever. So I’m already playing a role when I play Nina. But then I would say I had to kind of dumb down Nina a little to just be an effective partner to her husband, who is a diamond dealer—but definitely not the Nina that we see on the screen, case to case. I would say that maybe [the undercover persona was] a little bit more ignorant or slightly ditzy, maybe. And so that part was really interesting to play.”

“It was really layered to film, because there’s the show that Scola and Nina undercover are putting on for the bad guy,” Boyd adds. “But then there’s the story within that story [of] how the two of them are going through a conflict of, ‘How do we do this? You know where I stand, I want both of us to come home from work tonight.’ So it was cool to do. It was really layered. It was really…such an interesting storytelling through looks. It’s not even in the lines, it’s in the eyes and what each thing means and each decision to go this or do that. It was so fun. It’s a cool ep; I heard it’s really great.”

“Best Laid Plans” – When a retired FBI agent is tortured and killed while working a security job, Scola and Nina (FBI: MOST WANTED) go undercover as a married couple deep in the diamond game as the team tries to find out who is responsible. During the course of his and Nina’s dangerous assignment, Scola is plagued by the possibility that their son Doug could end up parentless, on FBI, Tuesday, April 16 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+ (live and on-demand for Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers, or on-demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the episode airs). Pictured (L-R): Katherine Renee Kane as Special Agent Tiffany Wallace, John Boyd as Special Agent Stuart Scola, Shantel VanSanten as Special Agent Nina Chase and Michael Mastro as Samuel Jacobson. Photo: Bennett Raglin/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

As a bonus, the duo will have to contend with extra layers of history and complications when Nina joins Scola in an interrogation with his partner, Tiffany (Katherine Renee Kane).

“It’s so funny because when we were on set, John had said something like, ‘Oh, well, me and my partner—’ and I was like, ‘Me?’ and he’s like, ‘No, I mean Tiffany,’” VanSanten recalls with a laugh. “And I was like, ‘Oh, I’m sorry. Are you two partners? I didn’t know.’ We, obviously all in jest, all joke around.”

“But I normally give credit to Tiffany for [being] the reason that Scola and Nina are even together, considering she was the one who called him out on his BS at the beginning when he ghosted me!” she continues. “And so I give a lot of credit to her.”

As for the interrogation, “of course, in those moments I, as Nina, understand your partner backing each other up and know their relationship,” VanSanten says. “Scola has to have a very deep trust in whoever his partner is. And, of course, Nina does as well. So it’s all jokes and fun and games, but we all have a different motive for why, for instance, I want my informant released and why they wouldn’t want him released. And we have to kind of find a compromise and what works for both situations.”

FBI, Tuesdays, 8/7c, CBS

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