It seems like FBI will have no choice but to finally start addressing the romantic tension between Maggie and OA in season 9. The 2025-2026 network TV cycle brought many changes to the New York Field Office. At the end of FBI season 8, the CBS procedural already had a brand new spinoff, in Tom Ellis and Nick Gelfhuss' CIA, keeping its franchise traditions alive. For context, FBI season 7 averaged 6.143 million viewers every week — a slight decrease from the previous year, which was 6.76 million. Doing this in FBI season 9 is the perfect way to reinvigorate its fan-base and pull it from the rut that it has fallen into.