SAYING GOOD KNIGHT?
NCIS star Katrina Law breaks silence as fans fear her character Jessica Knight is leaving show after ‘intense’ finale
The show's co-showrunner also spilled on the character's future
THE Season 21 finale of NCIS has left fans concerned about the future of Katrina Law’s character, Jessica Knight.
Viewers believe the beloved agent is leaving the show after she made a major career decision in the new episode, and now the star herself has broken her silence on the situation.
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On Monday, CBS aired its NCIS season finale, and the final moments saw Agent Jess Knight agreeing to become the REACT team’s chief training officer.
Taking this new gig means she’ll have to leave her own team and head across the country to work at Camp Pendleton.
Katrina, who previously worked on shows like Arrow and Hawaii Five-0, joined the NCIS cast in 2021.
The military procedural has already been renewed for another season, but after the events of the finale, fans are unsure if Katrina and her character Knight will be part of it.
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“Genuinely the best episode of the season, maybe even the series, until the very last line—that broke me in ways I can’t describe,” one fan tweeted.
“I am not losing Jess, I am not losing my comfort girl,” they went on to explain. “Not now, not in a million years.”
“So does that mean this is Knight’s last episode and we say goodbye to her,” a second concerned fan asked.
A third called the finale episode “intense,” while another agreed that it had them “so stressed out.”
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BREAKING HER SILENCE
The actress responded to speculation about her future on the show in post-episode interviews
“Hmmm…. Better tune in for that season opener,” she teased to TVLine.
To another outlet, she opened up a bit more, revealing she believes fans will see Agent Knight again but that behind-the-scenes decisions can always change.
“The writers said that they were going to bring me back, but they lie sometimes,” she told TVInsider. “So we’ll see what happens.”
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Katrina went on to suggest storyline ideas to help bring her character back.
“Maybe she goes and takes this job and realizes that she truly loves her NCIS team, or maybe she just wants to be back in a relationship with Jimmy [Palmer] full time,” she said.
“Maybe something happens with the NCIS team that calls her back,” the star added. “I think there’s a whole plethora of reasons that could make her either come back or stay.”
One of the long-running drama’s co-showrunners also shared insight into what’s to come for Agent Knight.
“Well, we set something up there, ” Steven D. Binder teased to TVLine about whether or not the character was leaving. “And I will point you to our track record where you just never know.”
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“We’ve had people look like they were going away and then it turned out they weren’t, and then we had people who just disappeared, like Gibbs,” he went on.
“So I will say this: We do aim to please,” Steven added. “And we think the audience will be satisfied with where they see this go.”
NIGHT OF FINALES
While Monday night saw only the season finale for NCIS, the series finale for its spinoff, NCIS: Hawai'i, also aired the same night.
The show, which stars Vanessa Lachey as Agent Jane Tennant, was recently canceled by CBS, turning the final episode of Season 3 into an unplanned series finale.
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Vanessa recently opened up about the show's cancellation with a selfie of her and her 9-year-old daughter Brooklyn on social media.
"Trying to explain this news to my daughter... and she makes me Mickey ears, so I can 'smile,'" Vanessa captioned the pic. "This decision was bigger than a TV show."
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