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FBI Post-Mortem: John Boyd and Mike Weiss on Scola and Tiff’s Unexpectedly Emotional Important Scene

October 15, 2024 by  

FBI Tiffany Wallace exit

“Abandoned” – The assassination of a seemingly ordinary Brooklyn plumber launches the team into a globe-spanning investigation that ruffles feathers with the CIA. Meanwhile, Tiffany struggles with fieldwork in the aftermath of the Hakim case, on the seventh season premiere of FBI, Tuesday, Oct. 15 (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): John Boyd as Special Agent Stuart Scola and Katherine Renee Kane as Special Agent Tiffany Wallace. Photo: Bennett Raglin/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

[Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Tuesday, October 15 season premiere of FBI.]

FBI said farewell to Tiff (Katherine Renee Kane) on the Tuesday, October 15 season premiere—but, first, she helped save the day.

While the team was trying to find a suspect, Scola (John Boyd) got stabbed in the leg while on the escalator in “Abandoned,” and his partner ran to help him out. Though Scola tried to convince her to go after their perp, Tiff wouldn’t leave her partner alone and quickly applied a tourniquet to his leg.

“To think I was going to call in sick today,” Tiff said.

“So glad you didn’t,” Scola replied as his hand covered hers.

It was an emotional moment for the duo, as Tiff had decided to leave the FBI to go spend time with her sister in Georgia. (Her sister “has a little cafe down there, so I think it’ll be good for me,” she told Maggie.) After killing Hakim in the season finale, Tiff had been hoping for closure that didn’t come. So she was done with the job as she tried to take care of herself.

“I loved what [new showrunner] Mike [Weiss] wrote because it’s so Scola and Tiff,” Boyd tells Give Me My Remote. “Their goodbye is still understated and unsaid. They don’t have a hug and walk in separate directions—that’s not the way it goes, and it never was with them. It’s understated, and it’s something that everyone knows that they have and they don’t talk about and that’s who they are; that’s how they’ve always been. So I thought it was a really nice way to wrap up.”

“Scola [is] just not able to believe that this is what’s happening right now, that I’m about to bleed out at the top of an escalator on your last day of work when you’re leaving,” Boyd continues in character. “And here you are, and I’m guiding you through tying a tourniquet on my leg.”

Boyd was also instrumental in a notable moment between Tiff and Scola in the immediate aftermath of the agent’s injury. “[As we were preparing to film, I said,] I have an idea…I got too emotional as I was sharing what the idea was, that the director just went, ‘Okay, great, yeah, do that, let’s go,’” Boyd recalls. “I had this idea [that] maybe I just put my hand on [her] hand. Because they never touch. They are in tune with each other in a different way. They don’t give each other a pound, they don’t hug. That’s not who they were. They moved in lockstep with one another and did the job and had this soulful connection between one another. And we’re listeners, you know? So it was interesting to choose physical touch, which was something that he was always so afraid of.”

“[Scola] was contrary to intimacy,” he continues. “What he learned from that partnership, you know, Tiff’s the reason that he was able to have a [romantic] partner, to open up to Nina. So that moment of putting my hand on Katherine’s hand, and that being the end of it, and saying goodbye. It was really emotional, as actors, for me. That was the last scene we shot on the last day.”

For Weiss, when it came down to how to write out Tiff, “we wanted to honor what had happened in season 6.”

“We carried forward the fallout of her killing Hakim in the field,” Weiss says. “He had killed her friend in the season 6 premiere, and she was really messed up about it. She was filled with rage. She wasn’t okay, and she was really hoping that if she had her revenge on him, she arrested him, she killed him—which is what ended up happening—that would exorcise all of that rage, and she would be free…but she wasn’t. And like John said, of course, because we’re FBI, of course, her last day on the job, she finds herself tying a tourniquet at the top of an escalator to save her partner’s life.”

“If she was wavering for one second, she was like, even though I care about this guy, and I obviously want to save his life, this amount of intensity and trauma, she’s not able to take it on anymore,” he continues. “And so she needs to step back. We’re not totally shutting the door, obviously; she’s going out of state to clear her head, But it felt like a really honest way of kind of paying off her season 6 experience.”

FBI Tiffany Wallace exit

“Abandoned” – The assassination of a seemingly ordinary Brooklyn plumber launches the team into a globe-spanning investigation that ruffles feathers with the CIA. Meanwhile, Tiffany struggles with fieldwork in the aftermath of the Hakim case, on the seventh season premiere of FBI, Tuesday, Oct. 15 (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: Missy Peregrym as Special Agent Maggie Bell. Photo: Bennett Raglin/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

But Tiff and Scola weren’t the only ones having a rough hour: After Maggie (Missy Peregrym) tried to put together a dream birthday party for Ella, the daughter of Maggie’s slain friend who the agent has been raising this year, the young girl acknowledged how much she missed her mom and how unhappy she was.

“No spoilers, because this is going to come to a head, but Maggie’s got to figure out for herself how to balance this new surrogate motherhood with what is obviously a very intense job that she cares about deeply,” Weiss acknowledges. “Deeper into the season, she’s got to ask herself some tough questions about whether or not, as much as she loves Ella, is she the right person for this girl at this moment, given how intense her work really is?”

FBI, Season Premiere, Tuesday, October 15, 8/7c, CBS

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