Former Chicago P.D. star Jesse Lee Soffer is zooming into a brand new chapter in his profession, starring as Supervisory Particular Agent Wesley “Wes” Mitchell in Season 4 of CBS‘ FBI: International, which premieres on October 15. Within the clip above, now we have your unique first have a look at the action-packed occasions that ultimately take Wes on a visit overseas.
In “A Chief, Not A Vacationer,” Wes will get caught up in an epic automotive chase following a mysterious crew inflicting chaos in Los Angeles. However when his accomplice is shot and the suspects flee to Budapest, Wes is scorching on their path with a bit of help from the Fly Staff. Oh, and for anybody questioning, Soffer is doing “most” of his personal stunts. “Yeah, my knees are aching,” he joked throughout a latest interview with Deadline.
Jesse Lee Soffer as Supervisory Particular Agent Wesley “Wes” Mitchell in Season 4 of CBS’ FBI: Worldwide’
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The brand new gig heralded a giant reunion between the quick and livid driver and Chicago P.D. co-creator Matt Olmstead, who writes and govt produces on FBI: Worldwide.
“There’s a lot motion, the primary episode is nice,” he teased. “When Matt and I first began speaking about doing this, we mentioned who this character was going to be. I really like Matt’s writing, which was one of many largest attracts for me to do that. He delivered; that first episode was a lot enjoyable and it felt like a pilot.”
He continued, “If you meet Wes, he’s on this sophisticated relationship and he’s clearly married to his work. You’ll see his girlfriend throwing out his shit as a result of she thinks he’s dishonest however he’s not. He’s only a laborious employee however they get into this battle, and that’s how the episode begins. When he goes off afterward together with his accomplice, who’s an in depth buddy, they get entangled in a capturing once they’re chasing this theft crew. However when his accomplice will get shot, Wes turns into a person on hearth and chases these guys to Budapest. He reconnects with Cameron Vo (Vinessa Vidotto) there, with whom he has this entire backstory…The episode is full of lots of characters, backstories and lots of motion. It’s an incredible start line for this new season of FBI: Worldwide and this new power.”
The “new power” arrives following the exit of Luke Kleintank, who led the sequence as Scott Forrester throughout the present’s first three seasons. Forrester made his final appearance in episode 11 on Might 7 and his character was written off within the finale of Season 3 as having gone on the run together with his mom with the pair heading to Alaska. Within the last beats of the finale, the Fly Staff absolutely welcomes Tank (Inexperienced) into the fold and is adopted by Raines (Carter Redwood). Does that imply he may very well be returning for a meet-and-greet with Wes?
Inexperienced as Tank on ‘FBI: Worldwide’
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“Wes meets Tank and Tank indicators off on Wes,” Soffer confirms. “All the things is cool so hopefully that will get me some road cred with the followers. Belief me, I do know Tank is the star of the present. We had a extremely cozy, cuddly scene within the second episode, so hopefully that will probably be a deal with for the followers.”
Along with the beloved black Big Schnauzer, Soffer may even be joined on the present by his good friend and Station 19 star Jay Hayden, who will painting Agent Tyler Sales space in episodes to air later within the season, as we reported in September.
“You haven’t any thought how thrilling it’s. It’s so cool,” he mentioned of working with Hayden. “Jay is one in every of my greatest buddies for over 15 years. We studied appearing collectively, we taught collectively. We used to educate one another on auditions. We had been each on TV on the similar time, however I used to be in Chicago and he was in Los Angeles, so we frolicked throughout hiatuses. It’s a dream come true that we get to work collectively on the identical present. I hope the followers like our dynamic.”
Soffer additional teased that Wes and Tyler “have a extremely cool backstory” and “have been by way of some shit collectively.”
He continued, “Wes marches to the beat of his personal drum and doesn’t all the time do issues the best method. He doesn’t go by process and is extra like, ‘Yeah, we’re gonna get it performed and we’ll work out if there’s an answer someplace.’ Jay’s character Tyler is even worse than that. He’s like, ‘We’ll do the improper factor to get it performed…’ For Wes, Tyler is his unhealthy angel and Smitty [Eva-Jane Willis] is the great angel as a result of he’s someplace within the center.”
With Wes and Soffer’s Chicago P.D. character Jay Halstead each being regulation enforcement professionals within the Dick Wolf Universe, it was inevitable that each had been current in Soffer’s thoughts when he was capturing.
“[Playing Wes], was each simple and laborious on the similar time. It’s difficult as a result of they’re each cops, so their conditions, their procedures and their traces of dialog and [using technical terms] like, placing out a BOLO or giving an outline of any person, all these cop ideas are the identical,” Soffer mentioned. “The simple half is that Halsted had a lot baggage on the finish of P.D. and had been put by way of the wringer and was such a brooding, darkish character. However Wes is sort of a breath of contemporary air; he’s a lot lighter, carefree, and type of unaffected. I’ve joked a few occasions that they do maintain the gun the identical method.”
Seeing Soffer with a brand new love curiosity on FBI: Worldwide caught me a bit of off guard as a long-time Chicago P.D. watcher who half anticipated Haley (Tracy Spiridakos) to seem—no disrespect to the actress who performs his love curiosity within the sequence. Hey, it’s an Upstead factor and Haley did go away P.D. for a job with the FBI. Though Soffer shouldn’t be taking part in Halstead anymore, it may very well be a contemporary begin for each Haley and Wes.
“Hypothetically, she exists on this universe,” Soffer mentioned of Haley. “And if she ever confirmed up in Budapest, Wes could be like, ‘Do I do know you?’”
He added, “Hey, you by no means know.”
