FBI Team Is “Very Worried” For Maggie After Family Tragedy As Missy Peregrym Skips Next Season 8 Episode

Agent Maggie Bell just experienced a major loss in the most recent episode of FBI, and cast member Juliana Aidén Martinez opened up about what this means for the team going forward.

In FBI season 8, episode 14, “Forgiven,” Maggie’s sister, Erin, was kidnapped by Ray DiStefano, sending the federal agent on a massive hunt to save someone she cares deeply about. Unfortunately, Maggie was too late, and the episode ended with the discovery that Erin had been killed.

Maggie, played by Missy Peregrym, will be absent from the next episode, but once she rejoins her team the following week, all of her co-workers will be “rightfully concerned,” according to Martinez, who spoke to TV Insider about how everyone will react to the tragedy.

Martinez explained that when someone experiences “something so traumatic,” like Maggie did, “you feel each other out, you feel when someone is going through something very heavy.”

The FBI team wants to be there for Maggie as she mourns her sister’s loss, but each person is “going to react differently in how they give a person space.” So it’s all about finding that right balance between showing support and allowing Maggie to process her pain without being smothered by everyone around her.

“When you experience something so traumatic like losing a sister…you feel each other out, you feel when someone is going through something very heavy. So I do think the team is rightfully concerned, and also each person’s going to react differently in how they give a person space. So, yeah, I think the team wants to make sure that Maggie’s good.”

Martinez’s character, Eva Ramos, is a new character on FBI, so her approach to the situation will be much different than her co-workers, who have known Maggie for years. In fact, Eva will have to tread lightly, even though there’s a “desire for connection, the desire for partnership.”

From Maggie’s perspective, it’s possible that she won’t be as trusting of Eva since that deeply embedded connection hasn’t formed between the two women yet, according to Martinez.

“It’s a bit like treading lightly. But the desire for connection, the desire for partnership, I think that’s always very active for [Eva]. So I think that’s just—how much is Maggie going to trust her to come in also?”

In fact, Peregrym recently made a similar comment about trying to figure out who Maggie can trust while she’s navigating the aftermath of her sister’s death. It appears that she was referring to Eva.

With Maggie gone in the next episode of FBI to handle funeral arrangements, Eva will take center stage as she investigates a drug kingpin from her past. The newbie feels torn between properly completing the task at hand and acting on her own need for revenge.

Then, in the episode that airs on March 30, Maggie returns, but there’s a shakeup in the latest case, as Deputy Chief of Station Nikki Reynard (Necar Zadegan) from the new FBI spinoff CIA is called in to help following a double homicide.

Before joining the cast of FBI, Martinez was best known for starring on Griselda (which earned her an Imagen Award nomination) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She’s also made guest appearances on The Mysteries of Laura, Prodigal Son, The Blacklist and 9-1-1.

Martinez and Peregrym’s FBI co-stars include Zeeko Zaki, Jeremy Sisto, Alana de la Garza, John Boyd, Taylor Anthony Miller, Vedette Lim, Shantel VanSanten and Emily Alabi.

FBI airs Mondays at 9 p.m. EDT on CBS.