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FBI: INTERNATIONAL Post-Mortem: Jesse Lee Soffer Teases the Long-Term Impact of Wes’ First Case

October 15, 2024 by  

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“A Leader, Not a Tourist” – The Fly Team is introduced to Supervisory Special Agent Wesley “Wes” Mitchell (new series regular Jesse Lee Soffer) when his partner is shot in Los Angeles and the suspects flee to Budapest, sending Mitchell overseas, on the fourth season premiere of FBI: INTERNATIONAL, Tuesday, Oct. 15 (9:00-10:00 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): Jesse Lee Soffer as Supervisory Special Agent Wesley “Wes” Mitchell and Vinessa Vidotto as Special Agent Cameron Vo. Photo: Nelly Kiss/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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

FBI: INTERNATIONAL’s new boss Supervisory Special Agent Wesley “Wes” Mitchell (Jesse Lee Soffer) made quite an impression in the opening moments of the October 15 season premiere, “A Leader, Not a Tourist.”

After the agent had a fight with his girlfriend—who mistakenly thought he was cheating when she read messages from his dental hygienist—he then embarked on an action-packed high-speed chase with his partner, Mike…who was promptly shot and gravely wounded.

“It was really fun [filming],” Soffer tells Give Me My Remote with a laugh. “It was so much fun because the scenes were written really well and they were exciting. It was like, here’s a ton of backstory to who this guy is. Real quick [we] get a sense of him, and you’re like, ‘Okay, life’s complicated.’ And I think that could be pretty entertaining. So I think his introduction is a fun roller coaster in those first five minutes. It’s nice. It’s a good intro. I was [said to FBI: INTERNATIONAL showrunner] Matt [Olmstead], ‘Man, you did a great job here. This is awesome.’…[he’s an] action hero, and [has] just such a complicated relationship, and everything’s a mess. It was fun.”

Unfortunately, though Wes is able to track down the people who were responsible for his partner’s shooting, things spiral: Mike dies from complications and then Wes’ girlfriend dumps him. But a new start is offered to him, too.

“He has some choices to make because he goes through the breakup and his partner passes away, and then he has this relationship with Vo and she’s telling him to stay and run the Fly Team,” Soffer notes. “And he knows that all he has back home is grief and loss. He’s like, ‘I have an opportunity here to keep moving forward and put my focus and my energy onto work. That’s what I’m going to do.’ And so, I think he moves through things pretty quickly.”

But the past won’t be able to stay entirely buried: One of the key figures in Wes’ investigation (played by Beau Knapp) threatens he’ll be out in six months…and be coming for Wes.

“Beau showed up, and he did a great job,” Soffer gushes. “He was a good and scary bad guy. And [he] definitely made some pretty certain threats that he was going to get out. From what I know, that is going to come full circle, and there’s going to be a serious confrontation. Those two are going to go at it again…So I’m looking forward to that, because he was a lot of fun and did such a good job, and we had some great scenes. So that’ll be exciting.”

FBI: INTERNATIONAL, Season Premiere, Tuesday, October 15, 9/8c, CBS

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