FBI: Best Laid Plans (2024)
Season 6, Episode 9
3/10
Scola Family Show and 5000 shots missed
5 May 2024
Wimp Scola and his baby Momma Shantel VanSanten have less chemistry than Zeeko Zacko and Missy Peregrym, or Jeremy Sisto and Alana De La Garza. In fact, Scola and Whiffany Wallace have more chemistry that Scola and VanSanten.

Every scene with Scola and VanSanten is some kind of argument. So now every episode of this show opens up with them waking up in bed in the morning, and having an argument about their FBI work.

Scola is always pretending that he cares by interfering in whatever her work assignment is, and VanSanten has to straigten him out. Then the show ends with them going home to argue some more about whatever she did that was too dangerous. Ponderously boring and uninteresting.

The only good thing about this episode was that there was a gunfight. The FBI literally walk into an armored car being robbed, and engage in a gunfight with three armed men. Four FBI agents, and three robbers with machine guns shoot at each other for about five minutes.

They run through a restaurant, a diner and a waiter get shot, but none of the robbers are shot. Literally hundreds if not thousands of bullets are fired, and none of the robbers get shot. None of the FBI agents get shot. Just the innocent bystanders.

This has to be the worst aim in the history of Hollywood gunfights. The FBI agents rarely manage shoot anyone in any gunfights. FBI agents may as well leave their guns at home, and bring a SWAT team with them for field work.

SWAT got canceled and Shemar Moore might be available to transfer over. At least he can actually shoot people on his show, and he has a lot more personality than Scola (John Boyd).

So FBI eventually tracks down the robbers / killers and De La Garza wants to do an undercover sting, featuring all the same agents that were shooting at these guys. Even though they were all horrible shots, they must have gotten a look at the four agents that were constantly shooting at them??

So now Scola is the undercover guy who wants to buy $10 million in diamonds, and acts really testy when the robber / killer questions him. The answers are laughable.

Even worse is the killer and the informant, who both look like they work at Pizza Hut when they aren't acting. What a goofy scene. Not even Kojak or Starsky and Hutch could have been worse, 50 years ago.

Then Scola is pressured into setting up a buy at his home! Who would agree do that? I mean even the dumbest robbers had to realize that it was a setup when Scola agreed to bring killers into his (fake FBI) house to meet his wife and fake rubber baby.

Then we get Scola and VanSanten pretending to be a couple for the sake of the undercover sting. Wow, that was hard to watch. These folks have nothing between them, just totally no chemistry. Scola had more going with the fake rubber baby than with VanSanten.
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