‘FBI: International’: Meet the Members of the Fly Team
Fall Preview
Fun fact: The Federal Bureau of Investigation has 93 units embedded in embassies, military bases and other sites around the world. Producer Dick Wolf’s third iteration of his FBI franchise focuses on one specific international unit: the mobile Fly Team, whose agents are “ready to get in the air wherever and whenever American citizens are threatened,” says showrunner Derek Haas.
FBI: International follows the (usually unarmed) Budapest-based team to a new country almost every week. Working with local law enforcement, “they handle everything from a child kidnapping to corporate theft, espionage to arms trafficking, organized crime and overseas murder,” he explains.
Here, Haas preps us for takeoff (the series moves to its regular 9/8c timeslot after the premiere).
Special Agent Scott Forrester (Luke Kleintank)
The son of a diplomat, “Forrester is the team leader you want to work for because he puts the mission ahead of anything else,” says Haas. Those under him “have to match his pace and intensity level.” That’s no problem for their secret weapon, Tank, Forrester’s Schutzhund (German for “protection dog”).
Special Agent Jamie Kellett (Heida Reed)
The team’s second-in-command is equally competent handling herself in an alley brawl or on the witness stand. This career FBI agent has established a vital informant network. “After five years [working] together, Kellett and Forrester are tight,” Haas adds.
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Special Agent Cameron Vo (Vinessa Vidotto)
The newest agent on the team is “a West Pointer who followed in her military dad’s footsteps,” says Haas. She’s a strong interrogator and strategist, “but she’ll need to [earn] everyone’s faith and trust.”
Special Agent Andre Raines (Carter Redwood)
With an accounting background, he excels at tracking criminal groups’ money. Over his two years on the team, he has become just as skilled for those times when action is necessary.
Europol Agent Katrin Jaeger (Christiane Paul)
Haas calls her the “tough as nails” liaison between local police and the Fly Team and notes a twinkle in her eye. “Though they wind each other up, Jaeger is cut from the same cloth as Forrester,” he says. “She wants to catch the bad guys.”
FBI: International, Series Premiere, Tuesday, September 21, 10/9c, CBS
This is an excerpt from TV Guide Magazine’s 2021 Fall Preview issue. For more inside scoop on the new fall TV season, pick up the issue, on newsstands now.
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Love the FBI shows! Can’t wait
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What is the breed of dog in the show?
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Dick Wolf has done it again. Best 3 hrs on TV (well 2 hr 10 less commercials) It was exceptional, love all three shows
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Great show. Background noise is too loud and makes dialogue difficult to hear.
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Tell me about that wonderful dog, please!!!
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I just got finished watching the FBI shows although FBI International was good with the cross over with FBI and FBI Most Wanted I was turned off in the end seeing Forrester the team lead come home to a naked agent Kellett waiting for him who he is involved with that for me is a major turn off I don't like that these two are involved with each other.
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Will this be Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders with a new cast but the same story lines?
One thing I hated about Borders was the team flew in and basically took over the case from the locals since the local yokels were in awe of the great FBI. And if they couldn't get their way with the locals they went around them behind their backs and in the end solve the case and all is right once again in the world of Borders.
Borders had a female agent, rightly so, and if religious dictates said she wasn't allowed the team circumvented the locals and she was able to investigate.
At least in this week's episode of EVIL Kristen recognized she wasn't welcomed to investigate the body of the Father and had to decency to stay out of the investigation and work the case on the sidelines.
Will International be as respectful to the local customs, traditions and laws of the country they are in?
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