This week's episode of CBS' FBI focused on Mexican cartel violence after a cartel leader's mistress illegally flees to New York.
The episode, "Shelter," begins like the usual left-wing fantasy of an evil white guy targeting illegal immigrants for murder.
A white male shooter kills 11 people in a shelter housing illegals. The shelter, Graceful Shepherd, is located in a predominantly Muslim neighborhood, and the shooter has a history of racist behavior.
After getting the case, FBI analyst Ian Lim (James Chen) gave details to Special Agent Jubal Valentine (Jeremy Sisto) about the shelter's role in housing illegals.
Analyst Lin: Now Graceful Shepherd is donation driven, but they do receive a city grant. That means they have to start taking in undocumented migrants bussed up from other states. Turned a quiet shelter into a lightning rod of controversy.
Special Agent Valentine: Right, well, based on the location and victims, we're going to operate under the assumption that this is a federal hate crime, so let's dig into the usual suspects, hate groups, extremists. NSA, you want to scrape online chatter for me?
At this point, one usually has to eye-roll at the predictably left-wing script.
Then the episode takes an unexpected turn. A Mexican cartel actually hired the shooter to kidnap a woman named Inés Madera, an illegal hiding in Graceful Shepherd. Madera is the former mistress of fictional cartel leader, Jorge Ortega. Ortega chose Madera when she was 16 years old. She secretly fled over the border with their 8-year-old son Miguel to keep the child from turning into a "monster" like his father. The cartel leader asked little Miguel to kill a man, but the boy refused.
Special Agents Maggie Bell (Missy Peregrym) and Omar Zidan (Zeeko Zaki) argue about Madera's predicament.
Bell: I know you're angry with her, but you need to remember that she's a victim. You know that when someone like Ortega singles you out, you don't have a choice.
Zidan: And that may be true, but she had a choice when she came to New York, and she should have chosen to talk to the cops, not go to a shelter filled with innocent people when she knew a cartel was after her.
Bell: I understand, and it was in your old neighborhood.
Zidan: That is filled with good people who just want what this country has to offer, and then she brings in this violence, Maggie. The people that died today are not the only ones that get hurt. It's the owner of the halal market and the dry cleaner across the street. They're all collateral damage. And now what are people gonna say? "What do you expect from a Muslim neighborhood?"
Bell: You're right. But she still deserves our protection, and so does her son.
While hidden from Ortega, Miguel is kidnapped by a former narco assassin named El Diablo. El Diablo wants justice because Ortega burned his wife and daughter alive in a junkyard and texted him the video. He hopes to exchange Miguel for Ortega's life.
The FBI rescues Miguel from El Diablo only to discover that the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has been secretly working with Ortega the whole time and cut a deal with him in exchange for information. The DEA gives Miguel back to Ortega against the mother's wishes.
As the shady government official hands the boy back to the vicious cartel leader, you wish corrupt government leaders in cahoots with cartels could be exposed. You also wish a secure border would keep the cartels' violence out of our country in the first place.
Next week's episode of FBI is about rescuing a human trafficking victim. For all the virtue-signaling, has Trump's election caused some introspection in Hollywood?
