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“After so much time off, It’s been extremely fun to be back on FBI,” says Zeeko Zaki, who plays dedicated and fearless New York special agent Omar Adam “OA” Zidan on the popular crime show.
All three shows in the franchise—including the spinoffs International and Most Wanted—kick off new seasons on Tuesday, February 13, starting at 8/7c. OA and the team’s first case of 2024: a bus explosion. Below, Zaki exclusively teases Season 6’s first few cases and OA’s surprising girlfriend.
FBI’s sixth season premieres with a very literal bang. What happens?
Zeeko Zaki: We have a massive explosion on a bus full of civilians in Episode 1. When a bomb goes off, terrorism is always on the table. I was very eager to see how we would handle terrorist attacks this season with everything that’s going on in the world. Our show does a really good job staying on that 50-yard line, and it’s a very interesting route we take. There will be false roads and twists and turns that our characters are involved in and terrorists who reinforce how crazy a world we live in.
Does OA get to do any big action scenes early on?
I do get to put on my action hero pants in the first couple of episodes. And in Episode 3, I have a cool maneuver when a suspect enters the room. I’m excited to see that on cameras.
Is there anything new in OA’s personal life this season?
There is definitely some romance in the air for OA starting in Episode 3. There’s a woman who’s at the other end of the spectrum from his last girlfriend, who was a lawyer. We’ll explore some other types of social circles in Manhattan and what they have to offer. It’s a fun and different type of relationship for OA. Of course, it has its ups and downs. I can’t say anything more about her yet.
What are some other stories coming up?
In the second episode, we step into a storyline for [Assistant Special Agent in Charge] Jubal [Valentine, played by Jeremy Sisto]; it’s very family focused concerning a kid about the age of his son, who had been kidnapped at one point.
His journey into being a father so far has been very wholesome and positive, nothing too high stakes.[Laughs] Hopefully that will stay that way for a while.