NCIS star Katrina Law breaks silence as fans fear her character Jessica Knight is leaving the show after ‘intense’ finale

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On Monday, CBS aired the season finale of NCIS, and the final moments saw agent Jess Knight agreeing to become the training director for the REACT team.

Taking this new job means she will have to leave her own team and move across the country to work at Camp Pendleton.

Katrina, who has worked on shows like Arrow and Hawaii Five-0, joined the cast of NCIS in 2021.

The military procedural has already been renewed for another season, but after the events of the finale, fans aren’t sure if Katrina and her character Knight will be a part of it.

“Genuinely the best episode of the season, maybe even the series, until the last line – it broke me in ways I can’t describe,” one fan tweeted.

“I’m not losing Jess, I’m not losing my comfort girl,” they explained. “Not now, not in a million years.”

“So does this mean this is Knight’s last episode and we say goodbye to her,” asked a second concerned fan.

A third called the final episode “intense,” while another agreed it left them “very stressed.”

BREAKING YOUR SILENCE

The actress responded to speculation about her future on the series in post-episode interviews

“Hmmm…. Better tune in for the season opener,” she joked to TV line.

For another outing, she opened up a little more, revealing that she believes fans will see Agent Knight again, but that behind-the-scenes decisions can always change.

“The writers said they would bring me back, but sometimes they lie,” she said TVInsider. “So we’ll see what happens.”

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Katrina went on to suggest plot ideas to help bring her character back.

“Maybe she takes this job and realizes she really loves her NCIS team, or maybe she just wants to get back into a relationship with Jimmy. [Palmer] full time,” she said.

“Maybe something will happen to the NCIS team that will call her back,” the star added. “I think there are a multitude of reasons that could make her come back or stay.”

One of the long-running drama’s co-hosts also shared insight into what’s next for Agent Knight.

“Well, we set something up there,” Steven D. Binder joked to TVLine about whether or not the character was leaving. “And I’m going to point out our track record where you never know.”

“We’ve had people who looked like they were leaving and then found out they weren’t, and then we’ve had people who just disappeared, like Gibbs,” he continued.

“So I will say this: Our goal is to please,” Steven added. “And we think the public will be pleased with where they see it going.”

FINALS NIGHT

While Monday night only saw the season finale of NCIS, the series finale of its spinoff, NCIS: Hawai’i, also aired the same night.

The show, starring Vanessa Lachey as Agent Jane Tennant, was recently canceled by CBS, turning the final episode of Season 3 into an unplanned series finale.

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 made me Mickey ears so I can ‘smile,’” Vanessa captioned the photo. “This decision was bigger than a TV show.”

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