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Spoilers ahead for episode 11 of FBI Season 5, titled “Breakdown”.
FBI returned to CBS with an episode that shifted focus to Jubal shortly thereafter. Illuminating Isobel . Unlike this case, however, the crisis of the week combined with an issue in his personal life meant a combination of exactly the wrong factors to knock Jubal off the wagon in “Breakdown.” For the first time in years, Jubal wasn’t just drinking, he was drinking at work, with only Maggie to call him. Actor Jeremy Sisto spoke to Gossipify about what happened and what was initially going to be different.
At the beginning of “Breakdown,” Jubal’s biggest problem was that his morning bagel was almost toasty instead of chewy, but that quickly changed. A bioweapon tossed into a train left two MTA workers dead and another in the hospital with a bleak future, and his son Tyler found a lump that raised the possibility that his cancer had returned. Jubal had to rush to the office and wonder about his son while his ex-wife took him to the doctor.
Jubal often compartmentalizes his personal life, which has been necessary for reasons ranging from the death of a loved one to your child’s involvement in a case . This time that wasn’t the case, and viewers learned before the episode ended that she’s been drinking alcohol in her coffee (followed by breath mints) throughout the day. When I asked Jeremy Sisto if Jubal’s downfall was cumulative due to everything he’s been through over the past few years or a perfect storm of things gone wrong this episode, the star shared:
With an addict, they say take it one day at a time, and I think the reason is that you never know what confluence of times and events might trigger that switch in your brain that says, “Fuck it.” It happens very fast. You can hold so much resistance to this idea. ‘There’s no way I’m going to do that. I’m fine. I will never take this route again. But if you’re an addict, there’s always that little open space to make the wrong decision. I found it very interesting that the writers chose to pick up on a concept they had used before, something Jubal had already explored. His son already had cancer, now he’s in remission. So this possibility that this lump is a bad thing, it just is. It’s a possibility.
As Jeremy Sisto noted above, Jubal’s relationship with his son and his son’s health “they were pretty solid” before he started drinking again . Although he only knew about his son’s cancer could having returned, that was enough for him to start circling… which was good enough to hide it from his colleagues. The star continued:
Jubal is usually pretty good at delaying his reaction until he gets the real news, but for some reason he’s starting to get a little paranoid that day. You seem to have this feeling, like an intuition when you’re chasing a criminal, where you say, “I’ve got a feeling,” and you just have a feeling that it’s going to be awful, that this is the beginning of something that you’ve earned. not being able to drive. And it just so happens that there is alcohol right in your viewfinder at that particular moment when your eyes are drawing.
If Jubal had had more time between the news of the chemical attack and the discovery of a lump on his son, would the episode have been different? Or if you had received this bad news from somewhere away from booze bottles, could you have made it without falling off the wagon? We can only speculate how well everything would have been if something had been different, but Jeremy Sisto explained why he thinks it wasn’t a cumulative problem, saying:
That’s the thing. I don’t think it’s cumulative. I think if it was cumulative it would have happened when her girlfriend died in her arms soon after she found out her son had cancer. There were other times when things were good [bad]. It was during a time of relative strength and stability, and I think that may be more of why he finds himself succumbing to his addiction.
Jubal certainly hasn’t had it easy in recent seasons, e Rina’s death in season 4, it seemed to push him closer to the edge than ever before the events of “Breakdown”. The actor shared at the time that he might lose her they have been “really dangerous” to him in his recovery . (You can rebroadcast Rina episodes with a Paramount+ Subscription .) He stayed in the car at that time and improved his relationship with his son. Tyler didn’t know his dad was drinking when the credits for “Breakdown” rolled, but Sam did.
And May too! While most of his colleagues noted that he was more nervous and unstable than usual in his handling of the bioweapons case, none but Maggie seemed to connect the dots about what might be causing his actions… with cup after cup. another cup of coffee. , followed by mint breath after mint breath. After one of her coffees spilled, Maggie noticed the smell of alcohol and didn’t keep quiet.
While she was discreet when talking to someone with an addiction problem who was also above her in the chain of command, she was also forthright when asking him if he was still drinking. Jubal protested so much that his denials largely confirmed what he suspected, and she doubted he was sober enough to handle the scene as time passed before a chemical bomb exploded. . Jeremy Sisto explained what it meant to Jubal that Maggie was the one to confront him about it:
He knows she took care of it, but he’s not happy about it. She helps sway him into making the right decision, but in the end he knows he can’t admit it to her. He makes sense. He’s not going to put her in a position to admit it, because then he should do something about her. There’s no way she can’t, so it’s just a problem because she’s going to take this case and she’s going to keep falling overboard, at which point she could actually stop it. But especially throughout the whole case, as she’s trying to figure out what’s going on with him, I think she’s really upsetting for him to deal with because she’s already struggling in her head with everything that’s going on.
Maggie had her own issues with compartmentalize their personal feelings during cases in the past due to her sister’s struggle with addiction , so he had some experience of what Jubal was trying to hide from everyone. This explains why Isobel noticed something was wrong enough to understand Tyler’s story, but why Maggie was the one to connect the dots. According to Jeremy Sisto, Maggie wasn’t originally meant to be the person to have those moments with him, as she shared:
The one moment that really hits it is at the end after the end. She won’t believe it. She really tries to convince her. You’re wrong, you’re wrong, you’re wrong. And there’s just no convincing her. Does this make sense. They changed it, actually. Initially she was another character who had an idea of what was going on and they changed it to Maggie because of her history with her sister’s addiction and I was a part of that, or at least giving her my take on this as an addict . So we have some history in this conversation.
Though Jubal admitted he drank again when he visited his ex-wife to get Tyler’s test results and seemed miserable enough not to want his son to see him like that, he didn’t end up drowning. their sorrows in a bar. He attended an AA meeting, which is hopefully a sign that he’ll be back on the bandwagon sooner rather than later.
Find out what Jubal looks like after giving in to his old demons in “Breakdown” with new episodes of FBI (opens in a new tab) Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on CBS, premiere FBI: International (which has had to do with large problem for Forrester and the Fly team as time is running out ) at 21:00 and FBI: Most Wanted at 10pm There are even more shows to come in the new year, so be sure to check out our 2023 schedule of TV premieres.
Source: Cinemablend
