Warning: spoilers ahead for Episode 8 of NCIS Season 18, called “True Believer.”
NCIS may not kill off every character that leaves, but even those who survive don’t always leave the door wide open behind them.
News broke well before Season 18 premiered on CBS that NCIS would be saying goodbye to Maria Bello as Jack Sloane, but the question was of how the show would write her off.
Jack and Gibbs headed to Afghanistan in “True Believer” for an incredibly dangerous mission to rescue a group of kidnapped schoolgirls, and the episode ended with Jack not coming back to the U.S. with Gibbs.