Review of Phantom

FBI: Phantom (2024)
Season 6, Episode 8
1/10
Never Shoot Back (again)
12 April 2024
The ridiculously incompetent and pathetic characters on this show manage to get an innocent bystander carjacked and kidnapped because of their horrible law enforcement practices.

They were supposed to do a controlled buy and arrest a guy. Scoma and Whiffany manage to botch that, because Whiffany imagines that she saw Hakim, the guy who killed Hobbs. Whiffany feels guilty that she ordered Hobbs into the restroom to befriend Hakim, and got him killed (she did).

So now Whiffany takes over the FBI and changes the orders. She decides to follow Hakim to a daytime strip club that is full of people. That is just bad writing, or else the outside scenes should have been dark instead of daylight. I have never seen a morning strip club that is packed with party people.

So Whiff goes in, and her spineless weasel partner Scoma is afraid to say no. Scoma does whatever Whiff says, even though he is the senior officer. Scoma is terrified of being accused of you-know-what, so he is always begging her forgiveness for anything white people have done.

In the club, the targeted villain immediately spots Whiffany, and gets very suspicious. She pretends it is just an accident they are meeting again, and immediately demands to know if Hakim is back. Villain gets more suspicious, and Whiff keeps pushing, like she is going to glimmer the guy into talking.

Guns are drawn, Whiff and Scoma do a typical failed chase, and squat down when shots are fired. The vil picks up a hostage, as is the tradition in every episode of this show, and another chase happens. Eventually after a car crash that should have put everyone into hospital, Scoma and Whiff shoot the guy and free the hostage.

They failed to get any information, they failed to arrest the target, and they almost got another innocent bystander killed. Typical good day on this show.

Whiff goes by Hobb's house to scare the hell out of his widow, and to feel better about herself. Hobb's widow tells her to get lost and not to contact her anymore. Somehow Whiffany can never show any credible concern for anyone else. Nobody likes her. She is a psychopath who happens to be in law enforcement.
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