Tonight on CBS FBI: International airs with an all-new Tuesday, September 21, 2021 season 1 episode 1, “Pilot,” and we have your FBI: International recap below. In tonight’s FBI season 1 episode 1 as per the CBS synopsis, “The team heads to Croatia to capture an American fugitive who escaped to Zagreb with a 14-year-old girl; Europol agent Katrin Jaeger attempts to help the team secure the necessary support from the less-than-cooperative local authorities.”
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In tonight’s FBI Internation episode, Special agent Scott Forrester along with his Budapest-based FBI fly team were heading to Croatia to stop a human trafficker. The trafficker’s name was Colin Kent and he was wanted for several crimes. Which included murder. Kent was also guilty of extortion because he would blackmail men who he sometimes tricked and sometimes not into sleeping with underage girls and he used the extortion as means for his cover.
Kent claimed to be an investment banker. The only investments were into himself and he used that to buy drugs for runaway teenage girls and that convinced them to sleep with strangers. Kent killed most of the girls the moment it looked like authorities were getting too close to him. He only left one alive.
Kent was traveling with the one girl. She was fourteen and her real name is Madison. But everyone calls her “Sunny”. Sunny was in danger. Kent left her alive because he planned on trading her for something down the line and so Forrester tried to grab Kent in the Croatian city of Zagreb only he was stopped. He was stopped because he hadn’t cleared his actions past the local police force.
Something he needed to do if he expected any cooperation and so he got in trouble for that. The local police also stopped him from questioning the suspects. They found a rich man connected to Kent and they were forced to leave the man’s home unmolested because the local police didn’t like a Croatian being questioned by Americans without their say so.
Forrester and his team were forced to retreat. They also had to deal with a fellow American. Special Agent Omar Adom Zidan flew to Croatia when he heard Kent might be in the area because he has been following this case from the beginning and he wanted to rescue the girl. The girl had apparently called the tip line a month ago. She tried to tell them about the underage sex ring and she had been too scared to say anything important.
She hung up before she could reveal any details about the ring. It was OA working the tip line who spoke with her. He thinks if he pushed her harder then he could have avoided this whole thing and so that’s why he was now in Croatia however there was a problem.
OA wanted to take down Kent. It was Forrester who reminded him to look at the bigger picture and the bigger picture was the blackmail material that Kent currently has in his possession. Kent took all the videos and photos he had of men with underage girls and this material could bring down leagues of pedophiles. It was important that the FBI get their hands on this.
They later and finally got the local police to work with them. They checked in with Kent’s Croatian friend. He was sleeping with an underage girl and she gave him clues. The FBI also used their contacts in the area. They found out that Kent was looking to grab a burner that couldn’t be traced and so they were tracking it when Kent ruined things by turning off the phone.
They couldn’t trace it or Kent. But they did have a lead on where he was going and so they went there and they were able to arrest Kent. It was just unfortunate that he handed over the blackmail material before he was arrested. The team then had to track down who he transferred his briefcase to. They were later able to find him but that was pretty much dumb luck and it worked out for them.
They found out where Sunny was by watching one of the videos. Kent traded her for money and access to the elite circle in the Croatian government and so they went to the house where she was being held. They arrested the man raping her. They freed her and they used the fact that Kent had close friends in the government to get Croatia to expedite the extradition.
OA was the one to carry the extradition. He returned with Kent, Sunny, and the blackmail material. The FBI back in the States was later able to use the material to round up twenty-eight pedophiles. They arrested them all at once which left them the little opportunity of using their wealth to flee or destroying critical evidence at their homes. OA was also able to bring closure to one of the victim’s mothers.
Julia was fifteen when she was killed. She began hooking as a way of paying her sick mother’s medical bills and now she’s dead and her mother would gladly take on the debt if she could get her daughter back. Julia’s mother wanted to find out the men who hurt her daughter were captured. OA was able to give her that closure.
Forrester also managed to befriend some of the local police before he left Croatia. He returned to Budapest with his team and unbeknownst to pretty much everyone he’s been sleeping with one of them.
THE END!
