God Complex
Season 5 • Episode 23
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the FBI Season 5 finale “God Complex.”]
FBI ends its fifth season and celebrates its a centesimal episode with “God Complex,” which incorporates a thrilling case that put one of many brokers at risk (Missy Peregrym’s Maggie) and hassle on a private entrance for one more.
Before the staff begins working their case, Scola (John Boyd) and Nina (Shantel VanSanten) are at dwelling, portray the nursery and disagreeing in regards to the colour (blue). “Why entrench this kid in the patriarchy right off the bat? Why not like a pink or orange?” he asks. “We have an opportunity here to mold this child into someone that’s unattached to convention and cliché.” While Nina agrees, she likes blue (as does Scola). When she will get dizzy, he instantly insists she name her physician, and he or she agrees as he heads to work.
But whereas she thought it was simply the truth that she’s eight months pregnant, Nina’s physician is anxious about her bloodwork and needs her to satisfy him on the hospital. Scola leaves work to affix her, they usually discover out she has a listeria an infection, which may be severe. In order to ensure it doesn’t unfold to the placenta, they should start therapy immediately; the newborn’s coronary heart charge is beginning to drop, and if it continues to take action, they’ll need to induce labor. The first step: antibiotics by way of an IV. Nina insists Scola get again to the case and guarantees she’ll let him know if something adjustments.
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When Nina’s lactic acid ranges are too excessive and the newborn’s coronary heart charge drops much more, nevertheless, they need to induce labor. That’s when Scola returns to the hospital — just for the physician to take him apart and clarify that since Nina’s beneath anesthesia for a C-section, as her medical proxy, he have to be the one to make the choice: The an infection has brought on injury to each Nina and their unborn little one, they usually may solely be capable of save one in all them. It’s as much as Scola “who takes priority,” the physician explains, and the agent realizes, “you’re asking me to choose between Nina and my baby.”
And Scola does, telling the physician, “Obviously I’m praying to God that both of them will be OK, but if you have to, if there’s a problem and you have to choose, your priority should be Nina.” After that, he can solely wait, then FBI makes us wait to search out out the end result by displaying Scola holding Nina in her hospital mattress after the C-section and telling her “it’s OK, I’m here.”
It’s not till the remainder of the staff — Maggie, OA (Zeeko Zaki), Tiff (Katherine Renee Kane), Jubal (Jeremy Sisto), and Isobel (Alana De La Garza) — are dropped at Scola that we discover out the newborn is OK, too. In truth, Scola introduces them to Douglas, named after his brother. “He’s perfect,” Maggie says, and Scola agrees.
And with that, FBI ends its fifth season on a cheerful be aware.
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