Tonight on CBS FBI airs with an all-new Tuesday, Match 14, 2023 season 5 episode 16, “Family First,” and we have your FBI recap below. In tonight’s FBI season 5 episode 15 called, “The Lies We Tell,” as per the CBS synopsis, “The shooting of a federal corrections officer leads the team to an ex-Marine who has gone rogue ever since he returned from Afghanistan. Tiffany’s sister looks to her for guidance when their younger brother begins to lash out.”
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In tonight’s FBI episode, Tiffany was spending the day with her siblings when work called. The phone call came at the perfect time because Tiffany was arguing with her brother. Bryan had snapped at his manager because he didn’t like being told what to do and Tiffany was saying that’s what a job was for, but then they got in an argument.
Bryan ran off rather than talk to Tiffany. Tiffany complained to their sister that Bryan needs to grow up. Only that’s not what the other sister thinks. Erika thinks that Bryan was struggling with mental health. Their mom also had her problems and so Erika thought they should get Bryan in treatment.
Lecturing him wasn’t going to do him any good if he needs serious help. But Tiffany hadn’t wanted face the possibility that her brother was sick. She claimed he just needed to grow up. She asked her sister to deal with him and she went to work. The FBI was investigating the murder of a Federal Corrections Officer.
The victim’s name was Mia Lopez. She was walking to her car after working out at her gym and some guy shot her twice. There was a witness who heard the shooting. He also turned around to see the guy running off in one direction and so he gave a description of what the shooter was wearing.
Before Mia was killed, her shooter said “now its your turn”. The FBI thought that her killer must have been a former inmate of hers only the one person that seemed to hate her enough to kill her had died in prison. Mia for the most was pretty likeable. Her mother said that everyone liked her.
Tiffany and Scola showed her picture of the shooter and she said she’s seen him before. He was waiting outside of her house when Mia was visiting. The poor woman thought he was just a homeless man loitering in the area.
She hadn’t told Mia about it. She now blames herself for her daughter’s murder because she thought Mia would still be alive if she had simply warned her about that man. But Tiffany told her this wasn’t her fault.
The only person to blame for Mia’s death was her killer. The FBI thought they were one step towards finding this man after they found a partial fingerprint on one of the bullet casings. The fingerprint belonged to Kenny Nelson. He was a member of Throgg’s Neck Motorcycle Club. He didn’t seem to run into Mia at prison. And no one knew why he would want her dead.
But Kenny wasn’t the shooter. Kenny had recently sold one of his guns to someone who served with his little brother in Afghanistan. He didn’t know the guy’s full name, but the FBI were able to track down their shooter from surveillance cameras outside of the biker bar and the killer’s name is Michael Landry. Michael was a soldier in the US Army. Everyone said he got messed up over there. He returned to the US after he was discharged. He holds down a regular job and lives with his mother. His mother was a bit difficult.
Michael’s boss said that Michael fixates on things. He gets angry and he doesn’t know how to control that anger. The FBI figured that Mia must have upset him during her off hours. Michael could be an ex-boyfriend for all they knew, but he was their killer and the FBI went looking for him.
They couldn’t find him at work. They couldn’t find him at home. They were worried he ran off to Canada when Tiffany got a call. She heard that her brother was at his old job making a scene. She was going to ignore it when Scola said it would better if they go check on Bryan.
Bryan had smashed up a wine bar. He was delusional. He thought everyone hated him and he thought that his boss was turning everyone against him by calling his friends. Bryan clearly needed help. Tiffany was able to talk him down. She made sure he didn’t get arrested and she had her sister take him home.
Scola advised her that her brother needed to see a doctor, but again Tiffany claimed that he just needed to grow up. She said everyone has problems and that they get over them because they act like adults. She wanted to ignore the fact that her brother was a danger to himself and to others.
It didn’t help that this case was taking up most of their focus. They quickly returned to work because Michael was also a danger. Michael killed another person before shooting someone and running off in a stolen car with a teenager inside. He didn’t hurt the teenager.
He later abandoned the car with the girl still inside. But his second victim was what helped the FBI pinpoint his motive. Michael’s mom had apparently sued Mia after her daughter died. Her daughter Hailey died of an aneurysm. Her mother claimed that she was denied medical attention by Mia. She also said that the officer that arrested her daughter must have roughed her up.
There was no evidence backing any of these claims. But both Michael and his mother were sure that Hailey was murdered. They thought there was a massive coverup and that Judge Mason dismissed their lawsuit because she had been working with Mia and Officer Waites. Michael was murdering everyone involved. He went after the cop that arrested his sister. He then went on to catch a cab and he had to shooter the cab driver because he didn’t have any money to pay for the cab. And so the FBI went back to his mother’s house for answers.
His mother had initially claimed that she hadn’t seen her son in a while. This turned out to be a lie after it was proven she gave him her car to drive and that he made several calls to her from a burner cell. Michael kept the calls short. He turned his phone after call and he was impossible to find on their own, but his mother knew about his targets. She tried to deny at first that her son was a killer. Only Scola said sometimes families deliberately close their eyes to the problem because they were scared to face the truth.
It was only when she couldn’t deny that he’s killing people that she told them about Dr. Shultz. Shultz was the expert on aneurysms and he said that Hailey’s head injury had nothing to do with her death. Michael told his mother that Shultz was the worst one. He later killed him and the FBI were quick on the scene to chase after him. They caught up to Michael on a rooftop. He had turned his gun on himself. He planned on killing himself, but the gun jammed and that was enough for Scola to move in and arrest him.
And afterwards, Tiffany went to her sister’s. She and Erika talked to Bryan. They told him that either he voluntarily agrees to get evaluated or they were going to let him get arrested for what he did at the wine bar. Tiffany realized that her brother was mentally ill. She tried to ignore it for as long as possible and that wasn’t helping him. And so they got Bryan to agree to see a doctor.
THE END!
