When NCIS returns for its 22nd season, there's one question everyone wants answered: Where is Jessica Knight (Katrina Law)? The finale ended with her accepting the job of Chief REACT Training Officer on the West Coast, but something has to bring her back to D.C., her team, and Dr. Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen), right?
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Well, she's in photos for the Oct. 14 premiere of "Empty Nest." Along with the images, CBS released a logline: "NCIS searches for a missing undercover agent amid an active hostage situation." The photos offer a look at Knight in the field, as well as Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) somewhere and McGee (Sean Murray), Vance (Rocky Carroll) and Kasie (Diona Reasonover) in the forensic scientist's lab, looking pretty serious.
That hostage situation seems like just the right thing to reconnect Knight with her former team, and give her a chance to convince herself where she belongs (with them). Something tells us that will happen, or at least we see the beginnings of it in the premiere. But will that first episode of Season 22 also set things right between her and Palmer? We think that will take a while, and that we may have to wait until they are reunited and solid as they once were.
Season 22 also needs to explain who “Lily” is. Parker (Gary Cole), while injured in the Season 21 finale, hallucinated a young girl he seemed to have known as a child, but when Knight later asked who she was, he claimed he didn’t know. Will that be revealed in the premiere, or will we have to wait for that answer?
