Tonight on CBS FBI: International airs with an all-new Tuesday, February 21, 2023 season 2 episode 13, “Indefensible” and we have your FBI: International recap below. In tonight’s FBI season 2 episode 11 as per the CBS synopsis, “The Fly Team investigates the death of an American lawyer working out of Budapest after he is killed by a car bomb. Also, Kellett begins to grow close to Hungarian lieutenant Benedek Erdős (Miklós Bányai) as the critical case progresses.”
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Special Agent Jamie Kellet was helping the local Hungarian police when she injured one of them. She had been teaching them some self-defense maneuvers and she went a little hard with one of them. She injured his arm. But he wasn’t upset by it. He even turned it into a joke with the others. He said this was the reason to always be on guard because you never know when surprises might come their way. Kellet later came across the guy during a case. The FBI were asked to investigate the assassination of an American in Budapest.
The American’s name was Neil Cobb. He was a lawyer out of Houston. He was in the country representing an American company there in a lawsuit. The company was called Avercol and they were accused of poisoning people at their plant with underhanded tactics. The same tactics they wanted to maintain during the lawsuit. Avercol hired Neil with the express wish that he get the locals to agree to the lowest settlement possible. It didn’t matter that people are dying or that the plant didn’t care about the people that were getting sick. They wanted to escape culpability.
Which was why they moved. They started getting blame for people getting sick and so they moved their plant elsewhere instead of bringing the plant there up to code. Avercol managed to anger everyone from the plant. They were all part of a lawsuit. Neil was supposed to get in and out fast and yet he didn’t do that. He stalled for some reason. No one could understand why he would do that even after the plaintiffs agreed to a low settlement and then he dies. He got blown up after someone arranged for a bomb to be planted under his car.
Everyone assumed that the bombing was because of the lawsuit. They figured it was because Neil was angering them by drawing out the settlement process and so Forrester and his team didn’t suspect differently until they found the note. They found a note on their car telling them to find Neil’s files. They thought that was a dead-end because Neil’s files must have gone up in smoke like he did. They also couldn’t understand why someone would mention Neil’s files because its not like he had anything incriminating on him. Or did he?
Forrester and his team met Palma. Palma had left them that note. Palma was a part of the lawsuit against Avercol. She said that Neil had betrayed his client and he was working against them. Neil was allegedly gathering evidence against Avercol because he saw the damage they caused in Budapest. He seems to have gotten disgusted and wanted to work against them in order to stop anyone else from getting hurt. Palma left that note with the FBI because she suspected that Avercol was the one that had Neil killed.
This theory seemed plausible. At first! Neil was stalling on the settlement talks and so this theory could explain why that was possible. The FBI even looked into it. They found out that Neil had access Avercol’s hidden files recently. Files that would have proved that Avercol knew they were poisoning their workers and they went through the plans anyways. There was also the fact that Neil turned against the CEO of Avercol after a certain point in time. That point being when he found out his best friend was sleeping with his wife.
Sam Gilroy and Neil’s friendship went back years. They met in college and they were a part of the same fraternity. They’ve been friends for over twenty years. Thereby making Sam’s betrayal a very painful one. It also didn’t help that Neil could be very vindictive because he cheated on his wife all the time and it was only a problem when she returned the favor. Neil found out about the affair. He started looking for evidence to hurt Sam. And he was drawing out the lawsuit because he wanted to get as much money as he could from Sam.
Sam was brought in for questioning. He said, off the record, that it had been Neil’s plan all along to doctor the files that said the workers must have gotten sick somewhere else and that it wasn’t Avercol’s fault. Neil knew where to look for those files because he had put those files there. Neil never cared about the workers. He wasn’t looking to bring down Sam because he knew he himself would get in trouble if that were to happen. And so Neil was just throwing stuff into the fire to draw out the lawsuit.
Neil was the only one who got paid either way. But the lawyer for the workers must have realized his game when he continued to draw out the lawsuit. This lawyer hired a former Bulgarian military man to kill Neil and that way Avercol would send a new lawyer. Someone who would agree to a fast settlement. And that would have helped the lawyer to get out of debt.
The lawyer was arrested. The hitman was arrested. After everything was revealed, Avercol offered a lot of money to the worksers in an effort to move past what happened. Money they accepted. But Sam implicated himself in the coverup and so the FBI were officially opening an investigation into him back in the states.
Avercol would never hurt another person ever again.
And that cop that Jamie injured was a cop working the case. His name was Ben. He was cute. He seemed like a nice guy with a great sense of humor and Jamie asked him out to drinks to make up for breaking his arm. Who knows. She might be ready to move on from Forrester.
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