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FBI: International Season 4, Episode 11 “Veritas Fidelis,” sees Wes Mitchell (Jesse Lee Soffer) channel his inner Jay Halstead, as he challenges the police to do their jobs in the investigation of a death of an American student, asking the chief when he started phoning it in and even telling him, “What’s the point of a badge if you’re not gonna do something?” (A very Halstead thing for him to do.)

Later, Mitchell is also the one to make the call to basically go rogue to divert a plane that’s taking their main suspect to Moscow and away from repercussions. It’s a Halstead-coded move that already feels like the “Wes Mitchell” special, but also one that makes it clear why Jesse Lee Soffer ended up in this show, which at first glance doesn’t seem all that different from the one he left in Chicago P.D., in which he played Detective Jay Halstead from Seasons 1 to 10.

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Both are Dick Wolf procedurals, both focus on law enforcement of some kind, and both rely on team dynamics—though FBI: International is much better at the team part of team dynamics. But in FBI: International, Soffer gets to do the one thing he was never going to do in Chicago P.D.: be the leader. Here, he gets to call the shots. And here, even though there is a team-centric approach, he’s clearly the boss.

On Chicago P.D. that is and will always be Hank Voight (Jason Beghe). There was no way around it. And Soffer might have stuck around thinking Jay Halstead could one day become the leader of Intelligence, but he was right to cut his losses. He hasn’t even had a full season on FBI: International and it’s already clear he belongs. And though we will forever be sad that we had to lose Jay Halstead, Hailey Upton, and Upstead to get to where we are, we won’t complain about getting to see Wes Mitchell on our screens.

As for the main plot, the episode sees the team investigate the death of an American student at a prestigious U.K. university. The murder is linked to a secret society, but it’s Smitty’s (Eva Jane Willis) personal connection with the school — which she once attended and was expelled from — and Wes’ (Jesse Lee Soffer) leadership skills that result in a happy ending… or at least justice in the case of Emma Byers.

It’s particularly good to see the episode focus on Smitty, especially after the team finds out the school was covering up the victim’s sexual assault, which caused her to take matters into her own hands to investigate the secret society. But that’s not the thing that rocks Smitty — it’s the reveal that, all those years ago when she was a young girl on a full scholarship to study medicine, she was expelled for the same reason Emma’s assault was ignored: to please someone powerful.

The revelation deeply affects Smitty, but she isn’t alone. Andre Raines (Carter Redwood) is there for her every step of the way, offering not just a hug when she needs it or a reassuring handhold at the funeral, but the certainty that, even if things didn’t turn out like she imagined they would, she ended up exactly where she belongs. He isn’t the only one on Smitty’s side, either, with Wes also checking up on her and making sure he lets her know how lucky the team is to have her.