SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers from FBI Season 8, Episode 2.

After an action-packed premiere, FBI Season 8 continues with an episode that gets pulled in a few directions it doesn’t need. “Captured” has an interesting idea at its core, but extraneous guest characters and a few bumps in the plot make it an hour that ultimately doesn’t reach its potential. A lot happens, but little is memorable.

The episode begins with a brief acknowledgement of the death of Dani Rhodes, when Maggie Bell checks in with Stuart Scola and Scola talks about focusing “on the day-to-day.” While Dani wasn’t Scola’s partner for that long, it still feels like there should be a little bit more in this moment; she was still part of the team. From then on, there’s a lot of action but things tend to get convoluted.

The gist of the case is that a pair of thieves break into an art gallery, allegedly to steal paintings on loan from various European countries. The team eventually discovers that the heist is part of a larger, grandiose escape plan. One of the paintings is returned to the Ukrainian consulate with a hidden device inside in order to spring a Russian warlord. There are a lot of steps in this plot, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But it gets awkward in the moments where the audience is unintentionally ahead of the characters.