FBI Winter Premiere Recap 01/28/25: Season 7 Episode 9 “Descent”

FBI Winter Premiere Recap 01/28/25: Season 7 Episode 9 "Descent"

Tonight on CBS FBI  airs with an all-new Tuesday, January 28, 2024 season 7 episode 9, “Descent,” and we have your FBI recap below. In tonight’s FBI season 7 episode 9 called, “Descent,” as per the CBS synopsis,

“The suspected suicide of a former Assistant United States Attorney puts the team onto an airline whistleblower scandal.

But when the investigation uncovers a sinister terrorist plot hacking the computer systems of airlines, they must race to stop planes falling out of the sky.

Dealing with the memory of his brother, who was a victim of the 9/11, the case pushes Scola hard to prevent another catastrophe.

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In tonight’s FBI recap, the body of Allen Champion fell on some poor bystander’s car. It was believed at first to be a suicide. Only his wife disagreed with that assessment. She said her husband wasn’t depressed.

They were looking at buying a Lakehouse as a vacation home and her husband wasn’t just some schmo. He was an AUSA. Assisted US Attorney. He prosecuted a lot of cases for the FBI. He put away human traffickers and evil people. There’s a chance one of them threw him off that roof and so the FBI were brought in to investigate.

The investigation came at the perfect time for Scola. His new partner got promoted. He was glad for her, but he also got a mail from the Mayor’s office that’s been on his desk for weeks.

He hasn’t opened it. He doesn’t want anyone else to open it. It was really weird. OA and Maggie were making fun of him for it when this case popped up. Scola was glad when they all shifted focus. They went to the victim’s home. They found out he was very anal. He has to have everything matching. It helped the feds out in the end because it made it easier to see what didn’t fit.

Which in this case was a statue. There was a statue that was missing a large chunk in it. It could have been used to kill the victim and the fall from his penthouse merely masked the murder.

The feds ran tests on the statue. They also tracked Allen’s last movements. Allen met up with a man named Wendell Troost. They were seen having an argument. It turns out Allen was Wendell’s lawyer. He hired him on the same day he quit his job at Cantal Airlines. Canto Airlines was the fastest growing airline nowadays.

No one thought anything about the airline until they found Wendell’s body. His murder was also made to appear like suicide. The difference this time was that the feds arrived on the scene before the killers could flee.

They were seen. They were chased. They were identified as Bolivian military. The murder victims had no ties to Bolivia or its military. The only thing that connects the victims to each other was the fact that Wendell hired Allen to help in a dispute with his former bosses. And so the feds had to go check out Canto Airlines.

The company earns about six billion dollars a year. Some felt they could easily hire assassins to hide something if they wanted to. The feds spoke to the airlines’ lawyer. She has no clue why Wendell quit or why he hired outside attorney. She also said that his immediate supervisor was Daniel Ruskin. Ruskin was allegedly on vacation in Italy. Isobel thought that was a little too convenient. She had some of her people go by Ruskin’s house and they found he was still in the country. He also tried to run from them.

Ruskin has a partner. Her name is Anna Fox. She was abducted a few weeks ago by the same men that killed Wendell. These men threatened to kill Ruskin’s girlfriend if he didn’t help them get a backdoor into Canto’s computers. He gave in because he was hoping to save Anna’s life even if those men kill him in the aftermath. He created a backdoor that would allow them to control any Canto plane. The only way to fix the backdoor would be to have access to the offsite computer that kidnappers carry around. And when Wendell found this backdoor, he tried to fix it.

He made the mistake of telling Ruskin that he hired a lawyer. He was willing to become a whistleblower if it meant keeping people safe. However, Ruskin told the Bolivians about him getting a lawyer. The Bolivians then killed both Wendell and Allen. The feds even thought they would have killed Anna as well if they hadn’t found her. They later found her bound. There was no sign of the Bolivians or their computer. Anna was reunited with Ruskin and everyone was concerned about the planes at risk.

They tried to reroute as many planes as they could. Only the terrorists took control of one plane. They did that to show that they could and would bring down hundreds of planes if they didn’t get what they wanted. The terrorists called themselves “Mina Rota”. They were Bolivian freedom fighters. Their country was allowing the United States to open mines to find lithium for their cell phones and smart cars. What they left out was that the people working the mines were being paid pennies. It was modern day slavery according to Mina Rota.

They threatened to kill thousands if their country didn’t get a livable wage. The terrorist group was run by Luis Zamora. Scola had a gut feeling about Anna and it proved to be correct because her real name isn’t Anna Fox. It was Verona DeSilva. She was Zamora’s wife. They set up Ruskin.

They honeypot him with Verona. They waited until Ruskin proposed and then they pretended to kidnap her to gain access to those planes. Now, Verona didn’t care who died. The feds couldn’t get her to sympathize with their own people on those planes, but they did find her burner cell.

They called Zamora with a voice modifier. They were able to track his location down to a two block radius before he figured out they weren’t Verona. The feds then cut off electricity to the city. They forced the Bolivians out onto the streets. They killed them. They got access to their computer.

Ruskin closed the backdoor on their computer and no planes crashed in the meantime. The FBI saved about seven thousand people that day. And while the Bolivians may have been right about the injustice of those mines, no one will remember hat now.

Scola went home with that letter from the Mayor’s office. He had Nina open it for him. It was apparently a letter from the 9/11 recovery team. They finally found his brother’s remains and he can be properly buried now.

THE END!