With the team handling a quickly escalating threat, Jubal touched base with his son, Tyler (Caleb Reese Paul), who was nearby, and vaguely urged the teen to get to safety. But when Tyler spotted suspicious activity, he called his dad to tip him off…and Tyler then took off to warn the cops who had shown up about what he saw.

Though Tyler filmed a shootout between the suspects and the cops—evidence that would be key later—he also ended up in the path of the explosion that took out the power grid, impacting communication across New York City.

A devastated Jubal found his son in the rubble of the destruction, with the teen clinging to life and unconscious; the team was able to get an ambulance for Tyler, and Jubal went with his son to the hospital. As the team worked to identify leads—and Tyler’s prognosis grim—Jubal asked to be let back into the case. Isobel (Alana de la Garza), however, insisted he should focus on his family.

Instead, Jubal went rogue, finding an injured member of the group responsible for the attack, Third Testament, and demanding information about the MIA leader. Though the man refused to give anything up, even after Jubal physically tried to coerce him, a slip of the tongue led to Jubal figuring out what was going on.

Ultimately, the team was able to prevent a large-scale tragedy…and, later, Tyler woke up, coherent and apparently okay.

Here, Sisto talks with Give Me My Remote about the two-hour event and what’s to come in 2026.

Jubal goes rogue as he’s trying to get information about the attacks—and justice for Tyler. What can you share about filming that scene and the process of getting that delicate line right, both as an actor and for the character who is grief-stricken, but still an agent?
You hit it on the head: That was my goal. It was like, “All right, how are we going to do this?” And, honestly, that pushing on the wound—that wasn’t in the script, that was just something that felt right in the moment. And that’s way too far. So I can’t even blame the writers for, like, going too far with it, because it was something that just felt too good at the moment to pass up on.

But that’s not okay for an agent to do that. And Jubal definitely doesn’t think that that’s how it works.

That being said, it was a very extreme circumstance that would have changed our way of life, quite drastically, if they had not been able to prevent it. But ultimately coming from a place of vengeance, vigilante justice, is not…it’s not a good thing to do. And in the story, Jubal doesn’t get anything from it; he figures out his next move from something the guy says, accidentally, but he doesn’t get any information because he was torturing him, which is basically what he was doing.

So, fortunately, he was stopped before anything worse happened. I don’t know if it would have or not. Hopefully he would have come to his senses, because, yeah, that’s really not who Jubal is.

But it was fun. I was excited about doing it, for sure, but that’s exactly what I told Alex [Chapple]—great director-producer, who directed the episode. I was like, “Alright, let’s just try some different things.” And so we thought this kind of stillness was good, but we wanted to bring some of that self-righteous anger. At the end of the day, I felt like, “Okay, we got enough stuff that they’ll be able to find a version [for air].” And I haven’t seen it…I’ve seen parts of it on the set. [Chapple] showed me some stuff…so I don’t know how it actually turned out in the end, but from what I saw, it felt believable to who Jubal is.

OA and Maggie saw Jubal in this dark place—and reiterated this wasn’t who Jubal really is. What does that do for him, and for his relationship with them, going forward?
I mean, I think it’s a vulnerability. He’s seen them at hard times as well. So…it’s part of that thing, of being [in] a war with somebody—you see some dark times, dark parts of themselves.

But what OA says is bang on: That’s not who we are. So I think, ultimately, he’s just appreciative of the fact that they came when they did. And, yeah, it’s a vulnerability. They know. He knows they know that he went down a road that he’s not proud of. And that’s not a bad thing for a leader to show his team we’re not perfect. And he doesn’t hold his agents to perfection either. He believes in human error and frailty, and he’s a complicated man; there’s no sense of perfection in him, feeling that he’s…I think [it] goes further to inform their relationship going forward, and their sort of intimacy almost.

Though there’s a warning that Tyler might have some issues if he survives, the episode does end with Tyler waking up, seemingly okay. What does this mean for Jubal that Tyler is okay, and what kind of lingering impact will there be?
I mean, I think he comes out of it pretty strong. And I think kind of the real thing is this ongoing story of him trying to prove to himself, and to me, and to the world, that he’s got what it takes to follow in his dad’s footsteps. That’s a tough pill to swallow for a dad, to some degree. It’s definitely something that’s going to cause more heartache and stress. But it’s part of being a father.

I don’t think this is going to sway the kid. It might, maybe. Maybe this will sway him to be like, “You know, actually, I want to go into finances.” Because until you’re in that moment, dealing with that kind of stuff, sometimes you don’t really know if it’s right for you. And I have a feeling that Jubal doesn’t think it’s right for him, actually. But you’ve got to support your kid and not put that projection on him because that could just be because it sucks to have your kid in harm’s way, you know? And maybe that’s why he thinks that. So he always does his best to try to remain objective with his support, and that kind of stuff. But it’s challenging, for sure.

Looking ahead, what can you share about episodes or cases you are most excited for fans to see when the show returns in 2026?
There’s some really, really cool ones. We’ve never had one that hits late at night and pulls us out of bed and gets us into the JOC overnight. The JOC, it was in danger at the end of last season with the possible Chinese takeover. But something happens that really gets into our space in a new way. That was a really fun episode.

And then we have another one that we’re about to start shooting that has to do with a real-life sort of figure that we play with in an interesting way. And I guess I don’t know what I can pitch about it, exactly, but it’s another really great set piece that I’m really excited to see how the team handles.