The First FBI Season Since the Spinoffs Were Canceled: A Secret About Isobel’s Fate Revealed

CBS’ primetime lineup is going to look very different in the fall 2025 TV schedule than it did in the spring, largely due to the cancellations of FBI: Most Wanted and FBI: International. The original series is now the last FBI standing on the network, and the Season 8 premiere has a big cliffhanger to resolve. After the credits rolled on Season 7 with Isobel (Alana De La Garza) collapsing without a pulse, will she be back for Season 8?

Well, I was so confident that CBS wouldn’t spoil even a bit of it when there’s still more than a month to go before the premiere that I almost missed a big clue that the network recently released.

FBI’s Season 8 Premiere

CBS dropped a lot of fall TV news this week, including for other crime shows like Elsbeth with Stephen Colbert as a guest star and Boston Blue taking Donnie Wahlberg to Massachusetts. But FBI was arguably the network’s biggest finale cliffhanger at the end of the 2024-2025 season, with Isobel’s injuries catching up with her just after it seemed like the good guys won. The stars didn’t spoil Isobel’s fate back in the spring, so the wait has been on since May to learn if she lives or dies.

Well, the official episode description for the premiere (courtesy of CBS) reveals that the title is “Takeover,” and there will be more happening than just Maggie (Missy Peregrym) and Co. chasing bad guys. Take a look:

After a federal judge disappears, a routine investigation takes a dark turn as the team uncovers that the judge had been searching for his missing son on a secluded island on the city’s edge, where authority has crumbled. Meanwhile, reality weighs heavy on Jubal as he takes on a new leadership role.

Does Jubal (Jeremy Sisto) taking on a new leadership role mean that Isobel is dead and gone? Of course not, and the only thing I’m fairly confident about guessing from this information is that the time jump between Season 7 and Season 8 won’t be too terribly long. It seems that Isobel is out of commission, at the very least. That sentence about Jubal in the episode description isn’t what I originally missed, though.

What The First Photos Tell Us About The Season 8 Premiere

One of the two first-look photos doesn’t really shed a lot of light on details for the Season 8 premiere, but I still always love to see Maggie and OA (Zeeko Zaki) in action together. They’re one of my favorite on-screen TV partnerships, and the recent video of Missy Peregrym pranking Zeeko Zaki behind the scenes was a fun look at how the actors compare to their characters. Take a look at the duo in Season 8:

At least one thing hasn’t changed in the wake of Isobel’s collapse and a cast shakeup on the way: Maggie and OA look ready for anything together. On a much more serious note, the thing that has changed is pictured in the second first-look photo below, and I initially missed it. Take a look:

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