Tonight on CBS FBI airs with an all-new Tuesday, February 25, 2024 season 7 episode 13, “Unearth”,” and we have your FBI recap below. In tonight’s FBI season 7 episode 13 called, “Unearth,” as per the CBS synopsis,
“After two jurors for a high-profile mafia trial are gunned down, the team jumps into an organized crime investigation until it is discovered that the jurors may not have been the intended targets at all.
The case becomes personal for Scola when he learns that one of his former drill instructors from the military academy he attended may be linked.”
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In tonight’s FBI episode, there was an ongoing trial against a mob boss. The jury for that trial has been sequestered since it first began six weeks ago.
They were guarded by the US Marshalls. They were safe at the hotel. Everything was fine until someone began shooting at the jury one day. It happened right before court.
They were all outside and about to head onto the van to take them to court when it happened. The shooter killed two federal jurors. He was chased away when the Marshalls returned fire. And the feds believed their killer left something behind.
The guy was smoking outside of the hotel. They knew it was him smoking because it rained the night before. The cigarettes were still dry and they were an Italian brand. It’s only sold in Sicily. Which connected the shooter to the mob boss on trial. The mob boss was Sam Ardizzone.
He was the head of the Ardizzone crime family. He was Sicilian. The feds checked everyone that came to NYC within the past few months. They found someone that proved to be Ardizzone’s cousin. There was security footage of the cousin threatening one of the jurors the day before the shooting.
The guy denies taking part in the shooting. He wanted his cousin to be found innocent. It’s why he was threatening the jurors and so a mistrial doesn’t help anyone. Ardizzone has to stay in prison while a new trial was put together. He also faced more charges because of that shooting. No, the crime family wasn’t behind what happened.
The feds later realized that the jurors were never the target. The real target all along was US Marhsall Brad Kimble. Kimble was with these people every moment of every day. The killer accidentally killed the others while trying to kill him.
Once the feds realized they had it backwards, they tried reaching out to Kimble. They wanted to warn him and were too late in doing so. Kimble was found murdered at his home. He was shot multiple times.
The killer wanted to make sure he was dead. There was also evidence that Kimble’s home had been raided. Someone had called 911 claiming that Kimble was sexually assaulting a little boy by gunpoint. SWAT arrived. They broke down Kimble’s door. They arrested him and found his gun was still locked up in its safe. And there was no little boy.
The original 911 call was made by someone using a voice modifier. They were able to link that account to Grant Warren. Warren knew Kimble over twenty years ago.
Warren went to Cornwall Military Academy. He was a student and Kimble was a drill instructor. Warren was later arrested, but he wasn’t their killer. He only swatted Kimble. Kimble raped Warren when he was a boy. He and two other staff members. They threatened the kids. They said they’d kill their families if they said anything.
Scola went to that school. It was before either Warren or Kimble’s time there. He had no idea about the abuse and unfortunately Warren were these men’s favorite. Warren couldn’t handle it. He eventually got pulled from school when he started acting out. He tried to tell his parents years later.
His father refused to believe him. Warren was a third generation Cornwall kid. His father didn’t want there to be a scandal and so there was no investigation. No one got fired. The abuse just went on and Warren eventually met someone else that was abused.
They came together to get justice. Warren met the other guy after he ran into Kimble as an adult. Kimble didn’t recognize him in the slightest. He abused and broke that man and he didn’t even remember him.
That’s why Warren wanted revenge. He wasn’t in on the plan to kill Kimble. He just wanted to ruin the man’s life like he ruined theirs. Warren also wouldn’t tell the feds who he was working with. It didn’t matter that he was a killer. Warren felt he was justified. He wouldn’t help the feds lock up a friend.
It was fine because the FBI figured out the men’s MO. They’d always swat their abusers. The feds looked into staff members that have been swatted and they found Hank Bouchard. Scola and OA went to Bouchard’s home.
They waited outside until he showed up. They were asking to talk to him and he agreed as long as it could be done inside. No sooner did he open his door that the killer shot Bouchard. The feds tried to apprehend their shooter and he was too quick for them. He had a car waiting for him in the alley behind Bouchard’s house. He was gone before they knew it.
The feds got lucky. They were able to identify their killer. His name was Noah Thackery. He was Cornwall Class of ’09. Thackery has already killed Kimble and Bouchard. His next target was assumed to be Cornwall itself.
The school was holding a fundraiser with its biggest donors. The feds feared a mass shooting and they tried to end the fundraiser and were ignored. The new Director didn’t want to make a stink over a theory. He hadn’t thought that Thackery would show up and he was wrong.
The new Director was one of the abusers. Scola figured that out when Thackery shot at the one guy. He wasn’t interested in anyone else. He just wanted Colonel Lewis. The same man that Scola had believed in. The one that Scola thought would lead the school to greatness. In spite of his anger, Scola still had a job to do. He protected Lewis.
He did that because things were finally adding up for him. Scola thought the abuse happened after his time and he was wrong. He had a best friend at school. His best friend killed himself after becoming a parent. And now Scola knows why.
His friend had been one of their favorites. The shooter wasn’t the bad guy here. Thackery tried going to the police and he was told it was too late. The window had closed. Thackery eventually gave himself up, but what he did will now help other victims to come forward. And Lewis will go down for his crimes.
Scola on the other hand will never be able to look at the school the same way again.
THE END!
