History Series / FBI

* ArtisticLicenseExplosives: In the season 5 premiere "Hero's Journey", the team scrambles to find a specially-made bomb consisting of 25 blocks of C4 with a sophisticated trigger, all capable of fitting neatly into a duffel bag. However, multiple characters speak of the bomb as having similar power to Timothy {{McVeigh's}} Oklahoma City device, saying it can level over a city block's worth of area. While C4 is better than improvised ANFO, {{McVeigh}} had a device weighing in at approximately 7,000 pounds. An explosive that could fit inside a duffel bag and be carried by one person couldn't come close to that kind of power.

* ArtisticLicenseExplosives: In the season 5 premiere "Hero's Journey", the team scrambles to find a specially-made bomb consisting of 25 blocks of C4 with a sophisticated trigger, all capable of fitting neatly into a duffel bag. However, multiple characters speak of the bomb as having similar power to Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma City device, saying it can level over a city block's worth of area. While C4 is better than improvised ANFO, McVeigh had a device weighing in at approximately "7,000 pounds". An explosive that could fit inside a duffel bag and be carried by one person couldn't come close to that kind of power.

** The episode "Hacktivist" has the FBI investigate a case of hacking in a hospital, which is done by a literal hacktivist to get the FBI investing other crimes that happened, which the agency overlooked.

The show is currently airing the fifth season.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Every time we see the central headquarters of our FBI team, the heroes are consistently getting information about major breakthroughs and important statistics on the fly, with Scola asking a question and almost immediately getting what he needs if it's available. It's to the point that characters have just learned about a suspect, and within the next 5-10 seconds they've already pulled up videos involving the suspect and every piece of info they can publicly get. Time spans within cases also tend to be understated or even outright never touched upon, making all of them seem localized within a short period. Law enforcement is ''not'' this fast; simply finding what you want, when you want, can take much longer periods of time between internet traffic and the actual relevancy of information, especially for suspects that don't have any prior tangles with the law, and actually mobilizing operations, stings and arrests requires a fair amount of time in its own right, potentially even several weeks or months of bureaucratic red tape. ''FBI'', of course, consolidates all of this to keep up the fast-paced thiller mysteries as they unfold with little pause besides for the cast's personal scenes.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Every time we see the central headquarters of our FBI team, the heroes are consistently getting information about major breakthroughs and important statistics on the fly, with Scola asking a question and almost immediately getting what he needs if it's available. It's to the point that characters have just learned about a suspect, and within the next 5-10 seconds they've already pulled up videos involving the suspect and every piece of info they can publicly get. Time spans within cases also tend to be understated or even outright never touched upon, making all of them seem localized within a short period. Law enforcement is ''not'' this fast; simply finding what you want, when you want, can take much longer periods of time between internet traffic and the actual relevancy of information, especially for suspects that don't have any prior tangles with the law, and actually mobilizing operations, stings and arrests requires a fair amount of time in its own right, potentially multiple days. ''FBI'', of course, consolidates all of this to keep up the fast-paced thiller mysteries as they unfold with little pause besides for the cast's personal scenes.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Every time we see the central headquarters of our FBI team, the heroes are consistently getting information about major breakthroughs and important statistics on the fly, with Scola asking a question and almost immediately getting what he needs if it's available. It's to the point that characters have just learned about a suspect, and within the next 5-10 seconds they've already pulled up videos involving the suspect and every piece of info they can publicly get. Time spans within cases also tend to be understated if not outright never touched upon, making all of them seem localized within a short period. Law enforcement is ''not'' this fast; simply finding what you want, when you want, can take much longer periods of time between internet traffic and the actual relevancy of information, especially for suspects that don't have any prior tangles with the law, and actually mobilizing operations, stings and arrests requires a fair amount of time in its own right, potentially multiple days. ''FBI'', of course, consolidates all of this to keep up the fast-paced thiller mysteries as they unfold with little pause besides for the cast's personal scenes.

* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: [[FatBastard Peter]] [[CheshireCatGrin DeLeon]] in "Unreasonable Doubt" who at first seems like a NiceGuy who [[FriendToAllChildren volunteers at the children's hospital]] but is actually a murderous serial rapist who rapes and strangles young married women he finds on an incel website. Once he's finished, he bounds his victims with wire and steals their wedding rings before sinking them underwater. The chilling part is that his first kill was eight years ago and is still killing. The reason why he hadn't been caught? He underwent a bone marrow transplant in his youth due to having acute lymphoblastic leukemia. His DNA merged with his donor's. In other words, his semen came back as his donor and not him, which lead to the said donor being wrongfully imprisoned. And even when he is being interrogated by Jubal and Scola, he still puts on a friendly face.]]

* BrokenPedestal: In "American Idol," [[spoiler: Maggie gets this when she realizes a Senator running for President who she's long admired deliberately buried evidence that would have proven a suspect didn't commit a crime. Worse, the woman ruined the career of a co-worker who wanted to go public about this and still defends herself on how the man was "obviously" guilty.]]
** In the same episode, [[spoiler: OA reveals that when he was a kid, he met his favorite baseball player and told him that he wanted to be just like him when he grows up. But the player just looked at OA and told him that that was the stupidest thing he's ever heard.]]
*** In "Payback", [[spoiler: Isobel is jarred to learn her former FBI mentor stole money from a bust to pay his bills which led to his son being kidnapped by the cartel he ripped off. Isobel tells him off (in his hospital bed) about how she had trusted him so much and he lied to her and has him arrested.]]

The show is currently airing the fourth season.

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: "Most Wanted" has all the hallmarks of an incipient spinoff (presumably to be titled ''FBI: Most Wanted''). A new FBI agent character has a touching scene with his daughter before Maggie and OA investigate the episode's case, and their suspect is placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list and handed off to the new character and his task force, which is devoted to hunting suspects on the list. All of the usual characters disappear from the story in favor of the new team, which has scenes establishing its dynamics and history. Maggie returns at the end to help take down the suspect by her own request.

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* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: [[FatBastard Peter]] [[ChesireGrin DeLeon]] in "Unreasonable Doubt" who at first seems like a NiceGuy who [[FriendToAllChildren volunteers at the children's hospital]] but is actually a murderous serial rapist who rapes and strangles young married women he finds on an incel website. Once he's finished, he bounds his victims with wire and steals their wedding rings before sinking them underwater. The chilling part is that his first kill was eight years ago and is still killing. The reason why he hadn't been caught? He underwent a bone marrow transplant in his youth due to having acute lymphoblastic leukemia. His DNA merged with his donor's. In other words, his semen came back as his donor and not him, which lead to the said donor being wrongfully imprisoned. And even when he is being interrogated by Jubal and Scola, he still puts on a friendly face.]]

Not to be confused with the 1965 series ''Series/TheFBI''.

* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Peter [=DeLeon=] in "Unreasonable Doubt". He seems like a NiceGuy despite a CreepyGood vibe and a CheshireCatGrin. But it is later revealed he is a murderous serial rapist who rapes and strangles young married women he finds on an incel website. Once he's finished, he bounds his victims with wire and steals their wedding rings before sinking them underwater. The chilling part is that his first kill was eight years ago and is still killing. The reason why he hadn't been caught? He underwent a bone marrow transplant in his youth due to having acute lymphoblastic leukemia. His DNA merged with his donor's. In other words, his semen came back as his donor and not him, which lead to the said donor being wrongfully imprisoned. And even when he is being interrogated by Jubal and Scola, he still puts on a friendly face.]]

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Not to be confused with the 1965 series ''Series/TheFBI''

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Not to be confused with the 1965 series ''Series/TheFBI''.

* BadgesandDogTags: OA served with the U.S. Army Rangers prior to joining the FBI.

* DoubleStandard: [[spoiler: A judge gave an African-American 16-year-old boy 20 years in prison while letting his white accomplice off on probation.]]