‘FBI’ Season 4 Finale Pulled After Texas Elementary School Shooting
The FBI Season 4 finale will not be airing as scheduled on Tuesday, May 24. CBS has pulled the episode of the crime procedural in the wake of the Texas school shooting that left 18 children and a teacher dead.
The episode was held as its storyline was related to a school shooting, with the synopsis reading, “As the team investigates a deadly robbery that garnered a cache of automatic weapons for the killers, they discover one of the perps is a classmate of Jubal’s son, who is reluctant to cooperate with the case.”
During its usual timeslot, CBS is re-airing Episode 12 from this season, “Under Pressure,” which originally aired in February. The official synopsis of the episode reads: “Maggie goes undercover working in a bar to investigate an anti-government group that regularly gathers there and has several members suspected in a series of bombings. The case opens old wounds for her when a single father on the periphery of the group begins to fear he’s in danger of becoming collateral damage.”
There will be no change in the airtimes for the series’ spinoffs, FBI: Most Wanted and FBI: International, which will both air their final episodes as usual directly after the FBI repeat. No announcements have been made about when the season finale will eventually air — if at all.
The aforementioned shooting occurred at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday. An 18-year-old gunman, identified as Salvador Ramos by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, entered the school and killed nearly 20 students and one educator before being killed by responding officers.
The Uvalde tragedy comes less than two weeks after a deadly mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, which saw another 18-year-old shooter murder 10 people at a grocery store.
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Not to drop a bomb into this discussion but IMO the plethora if brutal video games [Halo, Fortnight etc.] have desensitized young people to violence. They grow up killing others as entertainment.
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Not true. I'ts always a troubled or misused young man, and not the millions enjoying a video game.
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ITA Too many young people are jaded about anything that doesn't benefit them, and killing anything that gets in their way in video games is a life lesson they should never learn.
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Baby boomers grew up watching violent TV shows and cartoons. Did the same thing happen to them??
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Have you ever played such video games? Do you know anyone who does? Have you seen or felt any such reactions??
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Strange, other countries have people playing violent video games all the time and yet miraculously, they don't have anywhere near the amount of mass shootings as we do. We've tried that argument before. It's got no legs.
It's almost like those other countries have something significant that we can't seem to make a reality here...hmmm...what could it be, I wonder...something about some kind of control of their weaponry...
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I think this exemplifies the total absurdity starring us in the face. The network is worried about a TV show using this story line, but the real life tragedies leave Politicians completely unaffected. We continue to make it possible for these Godless maniacs to murder innocents, but we can't have a fictional facsimile aired on TV !!!
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CBS did the wrong thing! I was all set to watch the season finale of FBI now only to be robbed watching a great show! The folks who hate violence are not watching this series anyway. So how can people who don’t watch be offended.
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Yes they did the right thing...
this time.
But this is the same network who just last Sunday reaired an episode of FBI: Most Wanted about a Mall shooting that fictionally occurred during a Christmas Holiday season.
The show was littered with images of slaughtered shoppers sprawled out amidst mall decorations.
That episode Actually, Incredulously first aired last December 13, 2021...two weeks before Christmas.
I smell Tone Deaf Hypocrisy...
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Absolutely ridiculous decision.
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I wonder if you felt the same way after The WB network cancelled a season finale of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" in which the graduates of Sunnydale High School were battling various demons during the ceremony because of the Colorado high school shooting of various students by a couple of other students who were going to graduate with them only a few weeks later...By the way, it eventually aired several months later...
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Yes we should be healing but tv show portray real life events. Sometimes it is easier for kids to understand it that way.
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Fiction mirrors real life. We learn to survive because we have to or give up.
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The network did the right thing. We need time to heal this tragedy.
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OK Times up! Gotta move on and forget! In a week, none of us will remember the name of the town this took place in, and Alex Jones will claim this is another false flag operation to embarrass the GOP before the midterms. He’ll claim some of the actors in Texas appeared in this episode of “FBI” or Vice versa! Also, nowadays there’s always an episode of a shoot-em-up that needs to pulled—what does that say about our TV viewing? (Satire, kids)
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Unfortunately I think you're absolutely correct. I really wish you were 100% wrong, but yes, this horrific shooting will lead to the exact same result as Sandy Hook. And Charleston. And every other shooting in the past 10 years. By which I mean NOTHING WILL HAPPEN.
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That was a very good idea.
It’s a crazy world out there
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I sympathize with the victims but pulling a tv show that probably wouldve dome more good than harm was imo wrong.
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Why don't you research that to see if you're correct?
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im from Albany
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I have no idea what your point is. Bottom line is, we can't point to video games as the bogeyman in this case. Back in the '80s people were saying that rap music was causing violence. Before that it was 'wild' rock-n-roll. Parents were even upset at kids watching Power Rangers. Some people like to blame video games as the "culprit du jour," but rational thinking will prove that's just an easy thing to blame when people don't want to look further.
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Stupid and spineless. We can tell the difference between real life and fiction.
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Do you know how many people play "violent" video games? Let's say 5 million in the US. How many of those game players end up buying automatic weapons and goinig on a shooting spree? Probably less than 1 percent. I bet there's a higher % of shooters who eat pizza the day before they go on a rampage. Maybe we should blame Papa John's. (And not just for their bad pizza..... 😏 )
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