Zeeko Zaki is just like Us and enjoys seeing OA, Maggie and Scola work as a trio on FBI — but he teased that their smaller team won’t last much longer.
After special agent Stuart Scola’s (John Boyd) partner Tiffany “Tiff” Wallace (Katherine Renee Kane) exited the series at the start of season 7, Scola hasn’t found a new forever partner. Instead, he’s worked alongside partners Maggie Bell (Missy Peregrym) and Omar Adom “OA” Zidan (Zaki) on and off.
“It’s [the] Three Musketeers for a minute,” Zaki, 35, exclusively told Us Weekly about the team dynamics the remainder of the season. “But we do introduce a fourth agent.”
The actor played coy about whether this new addition will stick. “Hopefully, it all works out and we’ll see if it’s for the long run,” Zaki continued, noting, “We do introduce a fourth agent in the next few episodes and it’s exciting.”
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Earlier this season, Scola was briefly paired with Sydney Ortiz (Lisette Olivera). However, she left for a different gig with the bureau after episode 8.
Since then, Scola has teamed up with both Maggie and OA together as well as partnering with them one-on-one. That dynamic is something Zaki told Us will continue before the new agent joins the force.
“What’s kind of exciting [with] the next few episodes [is] the ones that we all have off sort of line up,” Zaki shared. “You’re going to see a lot more of one of us not being there and things like that.”
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Even with the mixing of partners, Zaki said it will be seamless on the job. “We’ve all been working together now for six years. [OA] and Maggie seven, but Scola came in season 2, so the dynamic between the three of us is always really great,” he explained.
The personal shakeup, however, does mean that Maggie and OA, who have worked together since season 1 of the series, have been apart for a significant amount of time.
“It tees us up for a great kind of reunion moment for Maggie and OA when we get back together on screen,” Zaki teased. “It’s a fun new sort of thing to play.”
No matter what the pairing, Zaki promised a lot of high intensity cases to wrap up the remainder of the season. (During the Tuesday, March 11, episode, OA took down a group of train hijackers solo while trying to protect his girlfriend, Gemma, who was accidentally shot in the attack.)
“We face some eco terrorists, we face some cartel, we get some more traditional cases here and there,” he told Us, adding, “The stakes keep rising and somehow we keep finding a way to do these really exciting episodes.”
Zaki noted that FBI’s final two episodes have yet to film, so he’s not sure what the finale will entail. However, based on past patterns, he is hopeful OA will be front and center for them both.
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“Usually, OA gets a heavy one in the last few [episodes]. So we’ll see if there’s one more in the bucket for him,” he shared.
What Zaki does know is that the team will be “trying to find our new balance with four agents at the end of the season.”
FBI airs on CBS Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET.
