FBI: Most Wanted – Invisible

By: Mary Watkins

This episode focuses on army veterans and the PTSD they suffer when coming home. It opens with U.S. Army veteran and ex sniper Scot Weitzen (Cillian O’Sullivan) standing at his friend Danny’s funeral clearly upset. The death of his friend causes Scot to lose it and he goes on a killing spree at shooting range killing five people after an argument with an employee over bullets. Scot wanted certain kind of bullets and they were out which is just the push Scot needed to cause destruction.

Scot is out to make a point. He has been trained to kill and not be seen. And after returning home and dealing with PTSD, he feels more invisible than ever. We then cut to LaCroix (Julian McMahon) with his family enjoying a nice day when he gets the call about the shootings. So, LaCroix and his team strap up and start the hunt. LaCroix mentions that Scot has a point to prove and they must stop him before he kills someone else. LaCroix and Kenny (Kellan Lutz) go to a veterans meeting where they have learned Scot attends to try to get information on him and his whereabouts. During this scene we learn a little more about Kenny. We find out that he is a veteran himself and suffers from PTSD.  While at the meeting Kenny notices a man with bruised knuckles and he realizes this man has anger issues like he does. No one at the meeting is willing to help, so LaCroix moves on to the next lead.

The team finds Scot’s abandoned car with a letter from the VA rescheduling his psych evaluation with his mother’s address on it. So, they head over to her home to see if he is there or if she has heard from him. They learn that his mother kicked him out weeks ago because she just couldn’t handle how Scot was since coming back. He wasn’t the same person he was before the war. They also discover that he has been hiding out in the woods behind her house waiting for them to try and find him. Also in Scot’s car the team discovers a pill bottle that turns out to be an addictive antidepressant commonly given to soldiers once they return home. Kenny tells LaCroix they need to go back to the meeting house and talk to the guy with the bruised knuckles. They return and talk to Lenn (Ian Michael Stuart) about his knuckles and how Kenny knows he is using the drug they found. Kenny wants Lenn to tell him who his supplier is because he believes Scot uses him as well and they can find Scot that way. This lead ends up being a dead lead.

Next we see the team as learn that Scot has a storage unit. So, the team heads to the storage unit to see if they find a clue as to where he may be. They get to the unit to find guns, ammo, food, sleeping bag and a cross hanging on the wall. It looks like Scot had been hiding out there for some time. As the team is leaving the unit shots start being fired out of no where. Everyone takes cover and begin to look around trying to see Scot. However, Scot does exactly what he was trained to do – be invisible. He doesn’t kill anyone; he merely is making his point to LaCroix. Soon after the shooting the team finds surveillance footage of Scot at the storage unit earlier in the day. He is sitting in a chair with a gun to his head when something catches his attention on the wall. We learn that he had seen news footage about him and finally in Scot’s mind he is no longer invisible.

We cut to the team sitting in the FBI van trying to figure out their next move. LaCroix wants to get into Scot’s head better and he knows just how to do it. He asks Kenny to describe to the team what Scot must be feeling and going through. At first Kenny is reluctant to share but finally he does. You can tell at this point LaCroix is asking Kenny to do this difficult task with the hopes it might help Kenny deal with his own personal issues. Kenny explains what is it like being trained to kill and being left alone to carry at that task. He explains what it’s like to see his friends die in front of him and he can’t help them and the guilt he feels coming home to continue to live his life like nothing happened.

We come to learn that Scot broke into a VA medical center looking for medical record on his friend Danny who had passed away. This leads the team to Danny’s home where they speak with his father. While at the home they discover that Scot wanted to see the last picture that was taken of him and Danny and that Danny’s nurse was also in the picture. LaCroix figures out that Scot is looking for the nurse and they need to get to her before Scot does. LaCroix thinks that Scot wants to talk to the nurse about Danny’s death since he had committed suicide by an overdose of his pain meds. So, the team finds the nurse and goes to talk to her. They learn the nurse’s name is Tina (Kersti Bryan) and LaCroix heads to talk to her with Kenny. There they learn she is very religious and believes that there is not enough help for veterans when they come home and that she feels so guilty over Danny’s death. She feels like she didn’t do enough for him and should have noticed he was saving his pain meds for an overdose.

The team believes Scot is going to reach out to Tina for help and since she feels so guilty she will help and not tell them. They put her under constant surveillance and follow her every move. The team also comes up with a plan to get Tina to turn against Scot and give him up. They fake the autopsy report of Danny to say that he died from an overdose of medication that helps beat addiction – the same medications they believe Tina is giving to Scot. Once Tina sees the report she feels panicked and concern for Scot, so she calls LaCroix and tells him Scot is in her basement. The SWAT team and LaCroix and his team go into Tina’s home to retrieve Scot only to find him already gone. As everyone is leaving to gather their thoughts and figure out their next move a member of the SWAT team is shot and seconds later another member is shot. Everyone takes cover as they try to find where the shots are coming from. It doesn’t take much to realize it is Scot. LaCroix tells Tina to call Scot so he can talk to him. LaCroix is trying to talk Scot down and convince him to give himself up but he just hangs up and shoots one of the agents already laying on the ground wounded for a second time. Clinton (Nathaniel Arcand), who is a trained sniper himself and LaCroix brother in law, is trying to find Scot in the trees but Scot is too well hidden. Clinton tells LaCroix he would have a better chance of finding him if he had audio. Therefore, LaCroix tells Hanna (Keisha Castle-Hughes) to tap into Scot’s audio on his phone and patch it into Clinton’s ear piece. Now, Clinton can hear everything Scot does.

As Clinton is listening to try and find Scot, one of the injured agents is crawling to Kenny and he is struggling to do so. You can the look on Kenny’s face as he is watching the injured agent dressed in camo crawling on the ground. Everyone can tell Kenny is having a flash back moment including LaCroix. LaCroix tells Kenny’s no but he doesn’t listen and Kenny runs out of safety to go pull the injured man to safety. We see Kenny is lined up in Scot’s rifle scope. Just as he is getting ready to pull the trigger, Clinton finds Scot and shoots him. Scot falls to the ground from the tree. We next see LaCroix and Clinton standing over the now dead body of Scot as Tina comes running up to find him dead with a shot to the head. She starts to freak out asking what she did and crying. Kenny grabs her and tells her to calm down and advises her to never second guess herself. Kenny tells her to never stop helping veterans as they all need her. We can tell that he means himself included. We can see the mutual understanding between Kenny and Tina and she nods her head and turns to leave with another agent.

Finally, as if we weren’t already feeling emotional from that tragic ending, the next scene is Clinton, LaCroix, Tali (YaYa Gosselin) and her grandparents standing at her mother’s grave. They are all there to remember Tali’s mother and the sacrifice she made for our country. Tali places three corn husk dolls she has made with her grandma on the tombstone. One doll is her, one is her dad and one is her mom. LaCroix bends down to Tali and tells her that her mom is watching over her and loves her. Tali wrap her arms around her father’s neck and cries.