Tonight on CBS FBI airs with an all-new Tuesday, April 11, 2023 season 5 episode 18, “Obligation,” and we have your FBI recap below. In tonight’s FBI season 5 episode 18 called, “Obligation,” as per the CBS synopsis, “When the deputy commander of an Air National Guard Base is kidnapped and forced to give over access codes, the team must work quickly to find the suspect along with stolen ammunition. Also, Scola questions his own safety in the aftermath of a recent traumatic experience.”
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In tonight’s FBI Recap, Scola was back at work. He returned from Rome. His girlfriend and baby were doing well. They were on the road to recovery after Nina was shot. Scola took some time off to be with them, but now he felt it was safe to return to work. Scola was assigned an abduction case on his first day back.
The victim was Colonel John Sittenfeld. He was the deputy commander of an Air National Guard Base. He was a kind of a big deal and he was seen being dragged into a vehicle. Only no one reported the abduction until twelve hours after it happened.
The colonel wasn’t well-liked. He was a ladies man. He showed up at his favorite restaurant with a different woman each and every time he went there and so most people thought of him as a sleaze. John was even sleeping with his very married assistant. The affair meant more to her than him and her husband quickly found out about it.
The husband was Derek White. He was also Air Force. He confronted John about the affair on the night John got taken. And so the FBI assumed he was responsible for what happened.
They unfortunately had been wrong about that. Derek left things at exchanging words and he was ready to move on. He wrote the marriage off. He also had an alibi for John’s abduction.
John wasn’t grabbed by a jealous spouse. He was taken for much sinister reasons. Also, it wasn’t just one person who grabbed John. It was a group of people. The people that abducted him were smart about it. They planned everything down to the last detail. The car they used was in fact stolen. The owners didn’t notice it because they were on an Alaskan cruise.
The people that were running this had known that as well as how to avoid cameras while they rode with their victim to their hideout. Again, the FBI didn’t get this case until twelve hours after the abduction.
They tried to move quickly only timing is everything in abduction cases because the first twenty-four hours are crucial for a reason. The feds were able to get information on the car thanks to the secret cameras at the restaurant John was in. They then used the GPS on the car to track it down back to a warehouse where they found John.
John had been tortured and left for dead. He sadly later died of his wounds. Just not before he warned Maggie and OA that they have to stop “them”. The feds also found an empty case of a javelin. It turns out John was taken because someone wanted to rob the armory on the base he controls and so they got the weapons they were looking for. They got an untraceable missile system known as the javelin. The javelins were easy to use. Experts claimed it was like playing a video game. OA remembers the device from his own time serving overseas and he knew how destructive they were.
He knew that they were looking at a terrorist level event if it got in the wrong hands. It became imperative that they find the javelin before it was used. They searched that entire warehouse where John had been left and they did find some evidence. They found evidence pointing them to Ray Nichols. Nichols seemed like an average joy at first sight, but he was paying for his lifestyle to a secret job tied to several shell companies and his supposed boss was a Turkey national who ran a garment manufactory. Except the garment place was a cover.
The boss name was Adem Polat. They asked Nichols about him and he refused to talk. He lawyered up. He didn’t care that he might go to prison for the rest of life for murder. He was fine with that and it was his wife that had a problem with it. His wife Mila was pregnant. She wanted to help him even if he wasn’t helping himself. Tiffany talked to her and she convinced Mila to wear a wire as she went to go talk to Polat. Mila tried to get him to admit to wrongdoing. Only she was nervous about getting confession. She pushed too hard and Polat actually came close to killing her.
Scola and Tiffany stepped in to save Mila. They were forced to kill Polat and his bodyguard because they drew guns first. They also shot a crossing guard while they tried to escape. The feds had to kill them. It was the only way to take them down and at the same time they lost one of their best leads. They had no clue what was done with the javelin. They couldn’t ask Polat or his muscle. The only person they could ask was Nichols. Nichols hadn’t wanted to talk because he knew Polat had friends and he was worried about his family. Tiffany assured him that unless he has a release date – there’s no telling what might happen to his family if he’s behind bars.
Nichols must have seen sense after that because he talked. He was the driver. He didn’t take part in the theft or the murder. He said that Polat was an arms dealer and that he sold the javelin to Pascual Santos. Santos was a hitman for the Colima Cartel. He even bought the javelin using the money that the DEA used with the cartel. Santos bought the javelin because he wanted to use it to pierce an armored truck. It’s what he told Polat he needed it for. Santos also didn’t stay long in the United States thanks to his notoriety and so the feds looked into anyone being transferred in an armored truck on that specific day.
They found out about a key witness against Nico Hernandez. Hernandez was once the leader of the Colima Cartel. His people were trying to sink the case against him and so the FBI warned the US Marshalls. Only they were being real jerks about the situation. They said they had everything covered. They refused to the witness in a different route. The FBI knew it was up to them to save the witness. They kept searching for their hitman. Scola was able to find him first. Scola had to engage before the others could join him. And he helped take down the hitman and his backup.
It also convinced Scola that he shouldn’t take a job in White Collar. He was considering it because he thought that would be safer with a baby on the way and so he followed Tiffany’s advice. He continued the job he loved doing because he knew he couldn’t protect his baby from everything in life.
THE END!
