Tonight on CBS FBI: International airs with an all-new Tuesday, October 12, 2021 season 1 episode 4, “American Optimism,” and we have your FBI: International recap below. In tonight’s FBI season 1 episode 4 as per the CBS synopsis, “The team investigates an American citizen who is proclaiming his innocence after seeking sanctuary at Madrid’s U.S. embassy while still covered in the blood of his murdered Spanish boyfriend. Also, Vo and Raines continue to grow their friendship.”
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In tonight’s FBI International an American was hiding at the embassy in Madrid, Spain. He was suspected of murdering someone. Drew Edmonson was a student living in the city and with his boyfriend Rafael Delgado when he came home to find said boyfriend dead. Edmonson called the police. He then panicked and ran to the embassy six blocks away. Edmonson actually hadn’t been a suspect until he ran.
The Spanish police were left angry with the fact they couldn’t reach Edmonson and it created an international incident. FBI Special Agent Forrester and his team were called in to handle the situation that emerged from this incident. They were dealing with the second in command to Ambassador Berger. Her name is Emma Healey and not only did Forrester’s team have to clear everything past her, but they also had to deal with a member of the Spanish police.
Spanish Inspector Matteo Diaz believed Edmonson was the killer. He asked if Edmonson wasn’t guilty then why did he run? The Americans couldn’t really answer that question because the truth would be offensive. Edmonson ran because his boyfriend came from a conservative and wealthy family.
He felt he had stuck around that he would have been treated unfairly by the local police. Which wasn’t entirely wrong. The local police barely waited a day before they released the body and had the family come in to collect items from the victim’s house. The local police never questioned anyone. They would have realized that Delgado was overheard arguing with someone about money. It couldn’t have been Edmonson because he hadn’t gotten home yet.
Also, if it had been him then the neighbors would have known. They wouldn’t have said that Delgado was arguing with a stranger on the night he died. They would have said he was arguing with his boyfriend because they’ve heard Edmonson plenty of times before and they would have been able to identity his voice.
But to make matters worse was the fact the ambassador pressured Edmonson to turning himself over to the Spanish. Ambassador Berger was having a high profile party and he didn’t want the international ruckus to disrupt the party. He pressured Edmonson. He convinced him to turn himself in and that’s what Edmonson did. He was immediately arrested. Forrester couldn’t get to him and the local police were trying to pressure Edmonson into confessing.
The local police was decided to stop helping the FBI. Forrester and his team weren’t given any office space to operate inside of the precinct and the more they learned the more they saw how bare the case was. There was no autopsy done on the victim before his body was handed to his family.
They took perhaps two pictures of the body for their file. They didn’t notate how he was killed or the angle of the stab wounds or even if the perpetrator was right or left-handed. The Spanish didn’t investigate at all. The FBI continued their investigation. They learned that Delgado just came out two weeks ago and that he was embezzling money from his investment firm. He stole almost two hundred and fifty thousand euros. He hid in an offshore bank account that only Edmonson had access to.
This seemed like a motive. Edmonson killed his boyfriend for the money or at least that’s how the Spanish would frame it and so Forrester asked to speak with Edmonson again. Forrester got fifteen minutes by being honest with the Diaz. Diaz allowed him fifteen minutes. Forrester questioned Edmonson about the bank account and he didn’t know a thing. His boyfriend put some papers in front of him to sign.
It was in Spanish and so Edmonson signed it without reading it. He didn’t think any of it. He didn’t access the account. Forrester’s team learned that Delgado could set it up without any interference from Edmonson and odds are Edmonson never knew. And right after they learned that, Delgado’s family made a few calls.
They demanded that the local police stop helping the Americans. The family wishes to believe that Edmonson was a crazed homosexual stalker and that he murdered Delgado because Delgado wasn’t gay. The family was also pressuring the local police to buy this story in spite of evidence. They removed photos of Delgado with Edmonson because they didn’t want anyone to know Delgado was gay.
The family was wealthy after all and the local police were caving into pressure. They threw the FBI out of their station. They refused to work with them. They also refuse to give Edmonson protective detail in prison and so Forrester did what he did best. He became a pain in the backside until the Ambassador was forced to meet him. And once they did meet, Forrester pushed the Ambassador to making the necessary calls to get the police to work with his team again.
Forrester wanted back in because he found evidence proving there was someone else in the apartment that night. He found someone had access the bank account with the stolen money while Edmonson had been in prison and that the person matches the description of the man Edmonson saw leaving their building that night.
Forrester showed Diaz what he had. It forced Diaz into arresting the suspect and they later learned that the guy pressured Delgado into stealing from his employers by threatening he was gay to his family. But then Delgado came out. He came out on social media and he wasn’t going to be threatened anymore. Its why he argued with his killer the night he died. And why he was ultimately killed.
Edmonson was released from his prison. He met up with Delgado’s brother and together they grieved for Delgado. Delgado got to be an openly gay man for one week before his death but he at least died free.
And Forrester and his team didn’t take credit for this case and so in the future they’ll be welcomed back more freely.
THE END!