NCIS Season 22's handling of its Jessica Knight Cliffhanger only has one right path.
One of the most important issues viewers are posing is how Ncis season 22 will handle the cliffhanger from the season 21 finale. It is almost here. In the last episode, NCIS Director Leon Vance presented Jessica Knight with a Chief REACT Training Officer promotion, which would carry her to the opposite side of the country. Knight took the post, leaving viewers worried about her future on the show.
Jessica Knight should depart NCIS.
Jessica Knight leaves Ncis logically since she has accepted her dream job. She would still be part of the shared NCIS universe, but her character should be much less as the promotion would send her all across the nation. As Jessica Knight spent with the show, Katrina Law has created a great legacy and her character will be much loved. Knight confirmed her heroics by saving Alden Parker's life in the season 21 finale. After saving Parker's life, Knight chose to follow something different from what her team suggested since she understood that life was limited and that she had to seize the opportunity for a greater calling. Returning on that choice would seem like a cheap action and throw the series from the momentum it has acquired backwards.
The Character Should Remain To Follow Her Choice (& Likewise The Series)
NCIS should follow its guns and send Jessica Knight off; her leaving arc will come out as a phony bid for attention. The narrative revolved on Knight's changing vision for her future, and it would be inexpensive to step back from. Fans would naturally want to see Knight remain another season, but NCIS season 21 does not set up season 22 in that manner. Knight must keep to her choice and dedicate herself to her promotion.
TV Line asked NCIS showrunner Steven D. Binder a cryptic question about Katrina Law's place in NCIS season 22. With Knight's season 21 narrative, when the showrunners ask themselves what major event would cause a character to be pulled away from the core of the series and then deliver that, he said NCIS was following something he called "the Tony DiNozzo departure". The show has to follow suit and say the character farewell.
Jimmy Palmer and Jessica Knight Should Call off Their NCIS Relationship
Jessica Knight's leaving means that she and Jimmy Palmer have to call off their relationship. Although it would be unfortunate to see the couple split ways, NCIS season 21 stated that Jessica Knight was seeking other prospects. For the sake of her relationship with Jimmy, Jessica would be stepping back by not turning in her profession. There is finally a gulf between what Jessica Knight expects of herself and what Jimmy provides even though she finally stood up to her father when he declared Jimmy was not good enough for her.
Jimmy needs to start small even if it would be interesting to watch him follow his fiancée to Camp Pendleton to solve Jessica Knight's absence. Jessica shouldn't give up a promotion that truly speaks to her. Jimmy shouldn't forgo a strong future for his daughter Victoria for a relationship lacking the necessary basis either. Jimmy needs time to digest the loss he went through following the season finale. If Jess declines the REACT job, she will have additional chances and it will keep disturbing the couple's equilibrium.
How the team should proceed past Agent Knight?
With Jessica Knight's departure and Katrina Law filling in for a strong female lead, the show should carry on its 19-year tradition. From NCIS season 3, Jessica Knight has been a superb performance of a legacy handed down. Sasha Alexander originally played Law, but Caitlin Todd's death at the end of NCIS season 2 marked a change in direction. The part went formally to Cote de Pablo as Ziva David in NCIS season 3. Then, until season 18, Emily Wickersham's Eleanor Bishop served as the link between Ziva David and Jessica Knight, covering the part opposite Tony DiNozzo and Nick Torres.
Should NCIS carry out the departure at the start of season 22, a fresh agent should take front stage to replace Knight. Many NCIS characters can replace Jessica Knight, therefore the bullpen desks would get new dynamics and priorities. Rose, an FBI agent apparently joining the squad in season 21, episode 1, "Algún Día," would be a fantastic addition—a familiar face like Tammy Gregorio from NCIS: New Orleans. Returning Jessica Knight to the bullpen unceremonistically, as if nothing had transpired, will not help the series to make the dramatic season 21 conclusion a cliffhanger for nothing.
Although it is heartbreaking to say goodbye to Special Agent Jessica Knight, NCIS has prepared Katrina Law for leaving the show. It ought to follow that. With the NCIS season 21 cliffhanger, showrunner Steven D. Binder proposed they ask "What's this look like now?" instead of "What's it going to be?" Showrunners today must provide the audience a sufficient response to the question they posed.
