Tonight on CBS FBI airs with an all-new Tuesday, December 17, 2024 season 7 episode 8, “Riptide,” and we have your FBI recap below. In tonight’s FBI season 7 episode 7 called, “Monumental,” as per the CBS synopsis,
“After three Customs Officers are shot dead in a cargo heist, the team entrusts OA’s old army buddy Clay to help them determine if it was an inside job.”
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In tonight’s FBI episode, Clay Voss was OA’s confidential informant. CI for short. Clay was a private contractor. He also played a part in corporate espionage. OA knew he was sitting on valuable information and so he turned his friend into an informant in order to get that information without breaking any laws.
It had actually been Maggie’s idea. Maggie was afraid that OA’s affiliation with Clay would back OA into a corner. She suggested putting him on the books as a way of ensuring that OA doesn’t get burned. She had been right to suggest that. OA could see that in an instant and that’s why followed through on her advice. And he also went through with it because he believed Clay was still a good man.
It wasn’t until he was working a case that he came to see his friend as he truly is. It all started when several custom agents were murdered at an airport.
The gunmen wanted to steal cargo. There was apparently twenty-five million dollars in gold bullion in that cargo and not a lot of people knew about it. The shipment was sent from Switzerland. Danny Chun was in charge of it. He was the one that convinced his boss at a hedge fund to diversify cash into gold because he said gold was a better bet.
Only Scola used to work in finance. He knew the price of gold just dropped recently. He came to wonder if the robbery/homicide was an inside job. Chun would have lost money if he kept it in gold.
He could regain what he lost if he reported it stolen and the insurance company made a payout. Chun was questioned. He denied all culpability. He also gave them a list of everyone that knew about the cargo. There was a guy at that same hedge fund that was deeply in debt. He has a second mortgage on his property in the Hamptons.
Caleb Boyles also had several credit cards that were maxed out. He would need that money. He was later questioned. He denied knowing anything about the cargo and he said Chun never spoke of it with him.
The FBI soon switched gears when they identified one of the gunmen that killed a border agent. The man was caught on camera going upstate. The killer was identified as Samuel Baptiste. He has a record with Interpol. He was a part of a rebel Haitian group. He and his friends were doing their best to destabilize the Haitian government and were ruthless with their methods.
By time the feds caught up to Baptiste, the whole rebel crew was killed. This included Chun. Chun was the inside man all along. Scola had been right about him and it was too late to do anything about that because now Chun was dead. That crew had been hit by another crew.
OA found evidence that his friend Clay had been at the scene. Clay later said he found the bodies and that he wasn’t responsible for them. Clay’s company was hired as backup security. Chun’s boss didn’t trust him. Clay was hired to follow Chun and he happened to be there moments after Chun was killed.
Clay swore he didn’t kill the guy or the others. He offered up his own gun to OA. OA was running it through ballistics even as Maggie was warning him that something wasn’t right. She felt they should have questioned Clay officially. OA instead reached out privately to a friend and that friend was a possible suspect in a robbery/homicide.
He could get in trouble for that. Hell, Jubal was just back from suspension because he used his own position to save his son from getting arrested. And the same could happen to OA if he unintentionally covers for a killer.
OA refused to learn Jubal’s lesson. He later turned to Clay for assistance. The feds came to find out that the second crew that killed the Haitians were a bunch of cops. The Suffolk County cops.
They killed those people in revenge. The county had used the police’s pension fund to invest in Second Point Capital. They were promised big returns and instead the hedge funds guys lost them billions. Most of the cops couldn’t afford to retire anymore. They got bitter and then they heard that someone robbed the same hedge fund that stole from them.
They somehow managed to track Chun before anyone else. They robbed them. They didn’t plan on killing anyone until Baptiste came back and surprised them. Then they were forced to kill the crew.
They now have the gold. They were trying to stay under the radar when one of the cops’ girlfriend was spotted leaving the crime scene. It was her that led the feds to the dirty cops. And that’s when OA suggested that they send Clay in as what he was – a private contractor that was following Chun in his final moments.
They couldn’t send in an undercover federal agent from the New York field office. There was a chance that the local cops would have recognized them. They also couldn’t use another agent from a different state because it would take too long. OA suggested using Clay. Isobel and Jubal went along with his plan.
Maggie did so reluctantly. She didn’t fully trust Clay and so OA finally told her why he has such faith in his friend. OA was ambushed overseas. He was taken hostage with his buddy Noah. Noah was killed by their captors and OA thought he’d die too until Clay came.
Clay rescued him. He was injured doing so. He also got in trouble with the army because he didn’t have clearance to rescue OA and so OA owes Clay everything. He would be dead right now if Clay wasn’t such a rulebreaker.
OA thought those days were over for Clay. He was wrong and he found out at the worst time. They sent Clay in. Clay was good at his job. He was getting shown where the gold was when he camera went dead. The feds rushed onto the scene hoping to “save” Clay. And that’s when OA found out Clay was trying to steal the gold for himself.
Clay even killed one of the dirty cops in cold blood to get the gold. He thought OA would let him escape because OA owed him his life and in doing that Clay forgot who OA was.
OA shot his friend. He killed Clay. He stopped him from escaping with stolen gold or getting away with murder. He did what was right because he will always be the boy scout. Clay used to call him that all the time. He really shouldn’t have forgotten that in his greed.
The cops were also arrested and now they might share a cell with the people they put behind bars.
THE END!
