CIA Recap: FBI's Maggie And Isobel Help Track A Bomb Suspect In High-Stakes Crossover Case

Another "CIA" crossover hit screens Monday featuring previously announced guest stars Missy Peregrym and Alana De La Garza from "FBI." And now, we finally know what brought Special Agent Maggie Bell and Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille to Colin and Bill's doorstep.  

The episode's first seconds drop us immediately into the action after a bomb threat is made against an international soccer game that Colin and Bill have been assigned to secure. Luckily, the FBI, including Maggie, is on scene to assist. As both agencies work to evacuate the stadium, two of the players duck onto a bus heading for the city, while a suspicious man in a hoodie places a sketchy looking backpack on the cement by the exit. 

The bomb at the stadium doesn't explode, leaving Colin, Bill, and Maggie to wonder whether the whole thing is a hoax or maybe a diversion. Back at the office, Isobel reports that the FBI is working with the South Korean embassy in D.C. in order to garner information from the National Intelligence Service. According to the NIS, the team's two coaches are actually spies. Our heroes eventually figure out that the players have disappeared, but when they track down the bus the ladies hopped, the coaches emerge, but subsequently escape capture. 

Isobel brings in Kevin Turner from the Counter Terrorism desk. He confirms the "coaches" frequently travel with the soccer team and wherever the team plays, there's trouble — bombs, assassinations, you name it. They're part of a Korean black-ops group called Unit 124, and they're in the States because they have a new target. The missing players are thought to be military, but whether they're defectors or threats remains uncertain.  

Over drinks with his South Korean contact Andy Yun, Colin admits to blaming himself for getting his former partner Toni blown up. And the guilt has been eating him up ever since. Before things can get too emo, a lead on Josh, the guy who planted the backpack "bomb," comes through, and off they go to Brooklyn to investigate. When they bring Josh in for questioning, he reveals that one of the players is his cousin. A young girl named Grace was smuggled into the country from North Korea, and Josh is trying to reunite them all. His plan was to plant a fake bomb and rendezvous with his family in the parking lot amid the panic, but once his cover was blown, he was forced to flee the scene. But as Bill questions Josh, Yun calls Colin and says that Josh is actually a North Korean asset and that the players are spies, too. Who can a CIA agent really trust these days?! 

Grace's father is a North Korean military head honcho who wants his daughter returned to him ASAP. This is why the coach-spies are chasing down the soccer players, one of whom is Grace's mother. But after the CIA gets a warrant to search a restaurant Josh pointed them to, it's clean... except for a scanner that detects counterfeit money that is found by Bill.  

Bill's theory is that Andy is a double-agent for North Korea, but Colin doesn't want to accept that, at least not at first. But after spelling things out, Colin has no choice but to begrudgingly admit that Bill is right. His friend Andy has been compromised. 

Colin follows Andy to the Canal Street subway station where Andy pulls a gun on the soccer players. He orders the coach-spies to bring the women outside, and then tells Colin to turn around. He puts the gun on Colin's neck and says, "Say hi to Toni for me." But before he can pull the trigger, Bill swoops in to save the day, while the FBI apprehends everyone involved. Later, Bill and Colin find Grace and reunite her with her mother, and the two Korean women, plus child, are all granted asylum. 

But the pain dredged up from the case will likely stay with Colin for some time. At the end of the episode, he heartbreakingly admits to Bill that Toni wasn't just his partner, she was the love of his life. 

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