Spoilers forward for Episode 12 of FBI: Most Wanted Season 5, known as “Derby Day.”
The Season 5 finale of FBI: Most Wanted is rapidly approaching, and all indicators presently level in the direction of Ray and Cora tying the knot earlier than the ultimate credit roll on the spring 2024 TV season until one thing goes horribly mistaken. After the occasions of “Derby Day,” I’m truly feeling much less nervous for the long run married couple and extra paranoid about Hana. Her present private storyline appears designed to provide her a cheerful ending at Ray’s marriage ceremony this season… however it’s going just a bit bit too effectively for consolation, for those who ask me, full with a visitor star who appears too huge for a simple character.
“Derby Day” noticed the return of Ethan, performed by True Blood and Law & Order: Organized Crime alum Michael Raymond-James. Hana had a little bit of a meet cute (by FBI requirements, anyway) with Ethan on the flight house from a case, and he was throwing up zero pink flags in his scenes within the newest episode. At the beginning of the episode, he was playfully making an attempt to impress Hana along with his canine earlier than getting crepes for breakfast; by the tip, he was at Hana’s condominium, gamely making her crepes after they’d needed to cancel their breakfast date and rolling with the arrivals of Ray and Cora.
They had been even a fantastic staff for a recreation on the finish of the episode, with Cora taking a quiet second to encourage Hana to deliver Ethan to the marriage. They definitely seem to be a fantastic match, and Hana deserves to catch a break after every thing she’s been via and kind a bond with anyone who would not additionally work together with her and/or want to maneuver into her condominium ASAP.
And if this did not occur within the penultimate episode of the season, I won’t query Ethan within the slightest, however now could be the time when seeds will be planted for what’s going to later flip into a reasonably darkish storyline. After all, aren’t most FBI: Most Wanted storylines fairly darkish? With Ray and Cora’s romance going so effectively, I can not assist however be suspicious that Most Wanted appears to be organising one other profitable relationship.
Plus, Michael Raymond-James is nice at enjoying characters which can be hiding secrets and techniques, if not at the very least barely shady. Even his function on ABC’s Once Upon a Time – a.ok.a. the present about Snow White, Prince Charming, and different fairy story characters – concerned some shadiness. He definitely wasn’t one of many heroes when he appeared elsewhere within the nine-show Dick Wolf TV universe as a part of the Kosta Organization in Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 2.
His earlier roles in fact do not imply that Ethan has to have a shady facet, and he might undoubtedly be the FBI: Most Wanted model of Prince Charming for Hana to at the very least wrap up Season 5. This simply is not a present that has pleased endings week in and week out, and Michael Raymond-James is simply too recognizable for me to put in writing his character off as only a love curiosity.
But both method, I’m invested! FBI: Most Wanted has been renewed for Season 6, so so long as nothing occurs to Ethan within the Season 5 finale, there’s the prospect for Hana to spend extra time with him come fall. Find out if she does certainly deliver him to Ray’s marriage ceremony with the fifth season finale on Tuesday, May 21 at 10 p.m. ET on CBS. You can even revisit his first episode of Season 5 streaming with a Paramount+ subscription now.