‘FBI’ Reveals Eva’s Connection to Forefront — Juliana Aidén Martinez Tease What It Means for Scola Partnership

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for FBI Season 8 Episode 3 “Boy Scout.”]

“It provides her a pleasure, I feel, to be part of this crew,” Juliana Aidén Martinez says of her new FBI character, Eva Ramos, who reveals simply why she sought out this switch within the last moments of her first episode.

Eva is Stuart Scola’s (John Boyd) new companion, and he or she will get a glance proper off the bat on the sort of individual he’s: somebody who turns in somebody he knew as soon as it’s revealed that he killed one other individual to keep up his cowl. After seeing him do this, Eva reveals that her final companion — with whom she was romantically concerned — was Forefront, the group that attempted to convey down the FBI within the Season 7 finale. She had virtually misplaced her religion within the job and hadn’t recognized who to belief, then heard concerning the opening with this crew, the one which beat Forefront. She put in for the switch as a result of she knew it was the place she wanted to be. The crew, particularly Scola, is the FBI’s conscience, she makes clear to him.

Under, Juliana Aidén Martinez breaks down that key second for the brand new companions.

This did find yourself being the proper case to throw Eva into when she first joins as a result of she will get an excellent take a look at the sort of agent that Scola is, that he’s somebody who will flip in somebody he is aware of for doing one thing unsuitable due to that reveal about her ex that we then get. Did a part of her surprise what he was going to do about Bobby?

Juliana Aidén Martinez: I feel by the purpose that we see Scola not take that shot, and he or she’s like, why didn’t you are taking the shot? There’s already some extent of, can I belief you? And I feel in the direction of the top of the episode, it turns into actually vital to her, particularly coming from that have together with her ex of being like, I’m not going to be duped once more. I’m not taking place this street once more, so can I belief you or can I not? And when Scola does do the proper factor, I feel that that’s the reason she opens up in that method and he or she tells a bit about her life as a result of she sees that he’s definitely worth the danger. That was very essential that Scola does that.

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… It’s sort of like if you date someone and so they have been a perpetual liar, and also you’re like, I’m by no means courting somebody who gambles or lies once more, after which the subsequent individual you date, you’re like, what’s your relationship with honesty? It’s very a lot that. I feel it’s identical to, I’ve discovered my lesson the laborious method. I have to know that that is the proper individual and the proper crew, and Scola proves that on the finish.

What wouldn’t it have taken for her open up if not for this? One thing like this?

I feel it could’ve taken one thing like this. I feel she is available in with a damaged coronary heart, and I feel that’s going to be one thing that we see — or that’s one thing that’s going to be together with her for some time. I don’t assume it was simple for her to be in a relationship together with her companion that she labored with, and he or she did one thing that she by no means did earlier than after which it broke her prefer it by no means did earlier than, and Scola needed to do one thing to indicate that he actually was reliable for her to open up like that.

What do you assume it’s going to take for her to divulge heart’s contents to the remainder of the crew about her ex?

I don’t know. Perhaps additionally moments of integrity and time.

What made the revelation about her ex worse for her, that it was about somebody she was romantically concerned with or that it was about her companion as a result of they’d been companions for years earlier than they acquired romantically concerned?

I feel it’s twofold. I feel one, it’s undoubtedly the romantic factor. How did I open my coronary heart romantically to this individual? However I do assume the deeper minimize is that it was her companion as a result of she was with this individual for years, and it’s like, how did I not see it? How did this go over my head? Do different folks now doubt my integrity and doubt my capability to understand and decide ’em, if you’ll? And so I feel the deeper minimize is who she selected as her companion, which is why that episode with Scola is so vital as a result of it’s like she has a lot historical past of why she has to decide on the proper companion this time and it hurts an excessive amount of, particularly I can think about the New York Discipline workplace or different folks have been like, yeah, we don’t belief you anymore. How did you miss this? I feel it’s simply essential for her to decide on the proper individual, too, to companion up with.

Will we see that come into play? Anybody questioning her due to who her companion was?

I can’t say, however I simply assume it’s part of her story and their dynamic, that she’s somebody that must be with somebody that she might belief and somebody that has integrity.

Is it simpler for the 2 to settle into working collectively going ahead?

I feel each of them skilled a loss — he simply misplaced his companion, she simply misplaced her companion — and moments that we see all through that episode, there’s simply an understanding of that loss. I feel with this shared grief, if you’ll, it creates chemistry. And I feel that there’s an understanding with them of, I do know what you’ve been by and I do know what you’ve been by, and I respect you, and I do know what you want. And I simply assume that’s actually fascinating as a result of it’s sort of like the place wounds meet, when you have got shared wounds with somebody, you simply perceive them in a deeper method than no one will.

How rather more are we going to listen to about Eva’s private life?

There’s some stuff coming the place we’ll get to know extra. So, yeah, that’s sooner or later. However yeah, I’m excited for the viewers to get to know her extra as a result of she has an enormous coronary heart and he or she has a thriller and a mischief about her that I feel as episodes will go on, you’ll see how huge of a coronary heart she has.

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