Episode
FBI: Checks and Balances
Overview
The team must track down two assailants who wear animal masks while committing armed robberies, with the latest leaving an off-duty 26 Fed security guard dead. Also, Tiffany and Scola butt heads on whether or not to accept the local NYPD’s offer to help in the investigation.
Details
- Series
- FBI
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 2021-04-06
- Runtime
- 41 min
Episode context
Checks and Balances is Episode 10 in Season 3 of FBI. It aired on 2021-04-06. The runtime is 41 min.
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Episode 9: Leverage
When a political reporter is kidnapped and held without a ransom demand, the team must dig into her past relationships in order to pin down her assailant’s motive. Also, Isobel’s relationship comes under fire when the case makes a connection to her boyfriend, Ethan.
Episode 11: Brother's Keeper
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