NCIS Can Easily Bring a Character From Canceled Spinoff Back: Here’s How

written by Benjamin Patel

July 6, 2024 10:45 am

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There’s still a chance for that major cliffhanger to be explained.

NCIS: Hawai’i has been officially gone for a couple of months now, but one of its lead characters still has a major reason to return to the franchise’s original show.

Canceled in April, NCIS’ most successful spinoff was caught off guard just like its fans and ended on a big cliffhanger that suggested there was something big and important coming in Jane Tennant’s way.

Despite the disheartening ending that still torments the show’s fans, Jane Tennant and whatever she heard as a big news may still have a chance to make a comeback via the original series, though this time the reason for it doesn’t have much to do with her job.

Should the news prepared for her in NCIS: Hawai’i’s season 3 ending concern whatever happens in the head department, Vanessa Lachey’s Jane Tennant may come back mostly due to her desire to give another chance to her relationships with Nick Torres.

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NCIS’ season 19 and NCIS: Hawai’i’s season 1 crossover hinted at a possible romance between the characters since Nick Torres was no longer in a relationship with Ellie Bishop, yet it took a long time for him to recover from the breakup.

Considering that there was indeed some chemistry between them, Jane might seek a position at the MCRT just to get closer to Nick, and it does seem like something she will get since she was the first female team leader in NCIS’ department in Hawaii.

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Bringing Jane back to the screen through her possible romance with the MCRT’s long-standing member Nick Torres and, what’s even more exciting, giving her a position in the head department (this also seems much more feasible in case Jessica Knight does leave the MCRT in season 22) now appears to be the only way to make it up to Jane whose storyline remains abandoned after NCIS: Hawai’i’s cancellation.

There might be no need in making Jane one of the lead characters, but offering her story a proper ending is the least that CBS’ police procedural franchise can do at the moment.

NCIS’ season 22 is set to premiere on CBS this fall.