NCIS’ Jessica Knight was “comfortable” in California to start out off season 22, however actress Katrina Regulation revealed the pull of being “dwelling” in Washington, D.C. was too robust to maintain her there.
Warning: Spoilers forward from NCIS season 22, episode 1.
“Knight is a really formidable particular person, and for any particular person with ambition, you are taking the job,” Regulation, 39, solely instructed Us Weekly of her character’s selection to maneuver to California’s Camp Pendleton and grow to be the Chief REACT Coaching Officer following a job provide on the finish of season 21.
Knight in the end took the gig as a result of she “determined to step out of the shadow of her very high-powered father, who she loves and adores,” Regulation defined. She famous that Knight additionally realized that she couldn’t make her father or then-boyfriend Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen) “comfortable” at that cut-off date, so she moved “solely based mostly on my desires and wishes.”
Katrina Regulation. Artwork Streiber/CBS
When season 22 kicked off on Monday, October 14, Knight had been in California for six months already and she or he and Palmer had been damaged up. (The 2 had a struggle in the course of the season 21 finale, which aired in Could, hinting at their cut up.)
“When she acquired to California, she was comfortable. She actually cherished the job, she cherished her REACT staff. She cherished every thing about it,” Regulation stated. “However I believe there was one thing that was in the end gnawing at her that didn’t come to gentle till she noticed [Alden] Parker’s face, stroll into the REACT clubhouse.”
Throughout the episode, Knight takes a foul man hostage at Camp Pendleton in hopes to avoid wasting Nick Torres’ (Wilmer Valderrama) life, since he’s undercover with a drug crew and goes lacking.
Knight’s former boss, Parker (Gary Cole), is on website in California to assist her remedy the thriller of the place Torres is — and their rekindled work relationship pushes Knight to see what she actually desires.
“All of it grew to become crystal clear to her. ‘Sure, I like the place I’m at proper now, however in the end I wanna go dwelling.’ And house is in D.C.,” Regulation instructed Us of Knight’s resolution on the finish of the episode to forgo one other promotion to move again to the NCIS staff in D.C.
The actress defined that seeing Parker paired with saving Torres (sure, he’s protected and sound) made her notice she’s higher as a discipline agent.
Regulation referred to as Knight an “adrenaline junkie” who likes getting “achievement out within the discipline, chasing dangerous guys, bringing them down and, and discovering justice.”
Transferring ahead, Regulation instructed Us, Knight is “not on my dad’s profession path and I’m not attempting to fret about my boyfriend’s emotions, I’m simply going to do what feels proper on this second, not essentially what’s finest for the profession path.”
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Knight goes to throw her “utterly structured standpoint” out the window when she returns to D.C. after studying to embrace her lighter aspect in California.
“She’s simply going to let free a bit bit extra,” Regulation stated, noting that Knight has let go of considering she ought to make others “comfortable” as an alternative of herself.
Regulation revealed that Knight goes to be a “little little bit of a wild card” for the foreseeable future.
“[Knight] began taking part in it protected for [her] dad, began taking part in it much more protected for Jimmy,” Regulation defined, confessing, “It was type of squashing her a bit bit. Now she’s mainly going, ‘I’m free, I’m simply gonna do what I need’ and Lord is aware of what that’s gonna be.”
On the subject of Knight and Palmer’s future, Regulation teased that their reunion in D.C. shall be “attention-grabbing and awkward.”
NCIS airs on CBS Mondays at 9 p.m. ET.
