CBS Pulls ‘FBI’ Season Finale Following Fatal Texas Shooting

Following a school shooting in Texas on Tuesday, which resulted in the deaths of 18 children and three adults, CBS’ crime drama FBI has decided to pull its season finale, according to Deadline. The finale, titled “Prodigal Son,” dealt with the team preventing a school shooting.

Texas governor Greg Abbott announced on Tuesday that a teenage gunman opened fire in an elementary school in Uvalde, west of San Antonio, Texas. The FBI episode centered around a deadly robbery that “garnered a cache of automatic weapons for the killers.” The team eventually discovered that one of the killers was a classmate of Jubal Valentine’s (Jeremy Sisto, Clueless) son.

In place of the episode, the network will rerun the season’s 12th episode, which aired in February. However, the show’s spinoffs, FBI: Most Wanted and FBI: International, will air their season finales as planned.

FBI centers around a New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in which a group of agents investigate crime cases in the state and across the country. It stars Zeeko Zaki (The Divergent Series), Missy Peregrym (Stick It), Katherine Renee Turner (Ward 11), Ebonee Noel (The Kings of Napa) and John Boyd (Bones).

Tara Mobasher: I'm currently pursuing a Journalism major and a minor in Criminology, Law, & Society at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and working as an mxdwn TV News Intern.
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