The FBI Season 8 premiere “Takeover” isn’t a bad episode—it just has the odds stacked against it. The CBS show wants to deliver a huge first hour, and it certainly does, blowing up a whole bridge and racking up a body count. Yet its shocking twist ending isn’t one to fans who keep up with the show in the offseason.

“Takeover” ends with the death of Special Agent Dani Rhodes, the recurring character portrayed by Emily Alabi in the last few episodes of FBI Season 7. Dani takes a bullet that she believes was stopped by her Kevlar vest, but realizes that wasn’t the case in the last few minutes, and the episode ends with her body being covered up by the tell-tale white coroner’s sheet. There are two issues with what could’ve been a genuinely sad ending. The first is that informed viewers knew it was coming. Law & Order: SVU actor Juliana Alden Martinez was announced to be playing Stuart Scola’s new partner back in July, so that meant his current partner had to go.