NCIS Finale Continues a Feminist Trend That Has Lasted For 17 Seasons

Summary:

• NCIS ’ season 21 finale proved that there will be some major plot twists in the next season with one character’s possible departure from the entire show for good.
• While there’s still nothing to say about this character’s future in the show’s next installment, their disappearance from the screen isn’t quite a bad option considering new opportunities that it opens.
• If the character was to leave the series, NCIS has good chances to follow its successful trend that started back in season 3.

NCIS’ season 21 has finally arrived in full, proving that there will be some major changes in the upcoming season 22. The show’s latest episodes showed one of NCIS Special Agents Jessica Knight, portrayed by Katrina Law, accepting an offer to be promoted to REACT Chief Training Officer at Camp Pendleton, the position that will eventually and inevitably transfer her to the other side of the country.

Knight’s possible departure from the Major Case Response Team may come as a difficult thing to process for many as the character became fan-favorite throughout the three last seasons of the show. However, by leaving the team for good, Jessica seemingly paves the way for NCIS’ 19-year-old trend that proves that the series was ahead of its time all along.

Though it’s not yet confirmed whether Jessica Knight will in fact leave the whole show or will still make her appearance in the future episodes, what’s clear for now is that she leaves her current position making it vacant for another character to take over.

The chance that the team will remain a bit short-staffed for long is actually quite low, so the upcoming season 22 may indeed introduce someone else who will join the MCRT and thus will take over Knight’s duties. Given how well a similar situation worked out back in season 3, the next season may follow the suit by hiring another female character.

Back in 2005, NCIS’ main cast also endured some major changes when Sasha Alexander’s Caitlin “Kate” Todd was brutally killed while carrying out the team’s mission. Caitlin’s shocking death would’ve left a much bigger hole in her colleagues and the show’s fans’ hearts if it hadn’t been for Ziva David, portrayed by Cote de Pablo, who became a new NCIS Special Agent taking over Caitlin’s position.

Ziva later on paid homage to Kate’s legacy by tracking down her killer thus protecting NCIS Supervisory Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs and the whole team which made her worthy of her place in everyone’s eyes.

Now that some big changes coming in Jessica Knight’s way will probably send her away for good, NCIS has in fact quite many options of how to refill the character’s position.

The easiest one is still finding some other female character while the fans would be definitely shocked (in a good way) if NCIS was to bring someone from its canceled spinoff NCIS: Hawaii to the main screen given that the latter’s characters now have no job to do.