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Here's a recap of what took place to Alexandra Quinn, played by Jennifer Esposito, on 'NCIS,’ including how the agent left the sequence. Details inside.

The long-running NCIS is making a much-awaited return for its 17th season. Like any show that's been round for over a decade, fans who're binging thru reruns in anticipation of the newest episodes are questioning about some long forgotten characters' storylines.

On one of our favorite presentations, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, even the most die-hard fans struggle to remember how Detective Elliot Stabler left the NYPD, for instance.

In this example, many excited viewers are wondering what exactly happened to Quinn on NCIS and the way she left the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

Keep studying to determine.

So, what took place to Quinn on NCIS?

Special Agent Alexandra "Alex" Quinn — performed by way of Bradley Cooper's ex-wife Jennifer Esposito — is the best member of the NCIS Major Case Response Team to have left the main solid after just one season.

We first meet her in the Season 14 premiere, after Ziva's child daddy, Agent Tony DiNozzo, resigns to deal with his baby, Tali, in France. While she's a Federal Law Enforcement Training Center instructor, her old friend Leroy Gibbs persuades her to go back to the field, a life she thought she'd left in the back of.

She finally ends up joining Gibbs' NCIS Major Case Response Team, and becomes a powerhouse fan favorite over the course of Season 14's 24 episodes. But round the center of the season, we learn that Agent Quinn's mother, Marie (played through visitor famous person Mercedes Ruehl) is struggling with dementia.

And all the way through the season finale, she receives an emotional call — probably from her mother, who is doing increasingly more worse and even believes that her dead husband remains to be round — that causes her to leave the Service with out such a lot as looking back. She is going directly to be discussed as soon as in Season 15, but that's as far as Quinn's adventure takes her.

Though the display doesn't spell it out, it's presumed that Quinn leaves NCIS with the intention to take care of her sick mom, and is incapable of juggling full-time care with NCIS' difficult hours. After all, she had already discussed her fears about work getting into the method of her being there for her mom to colleagues Gibbs and Torres during the season.

Why did Jennifer Esposito leave the crime sequence after only one season?

While lovers of the show had been devastated to lose their cherished Special Agent Quinn, it sounds love it was once actress Jennifer Esposito's decision to step down, and no longer the display's. "Turns out, there was no drama with the network or her co-stars," Closer Weekly reported at the time of her go out.

According to Deadline, Jennifer's time on NCIS used to be "a great experience." "I could not have asked for a better opportunity to work with the NCIS cast and producers," she stated. Following her exit, Jennifer labored on Speed Kills, a film in accordance with the true tale of speedboat racing champion Don Aronow's double lifestyles.

She went on to writer two bestselling books: Jennifer's Way and the cookbook, Jennifer's Way Kitchen. Today, she simply finished filming Awkwafina's newest Comedy Central challenge, Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens, alongside the inimitable B.D. Wong.

Watch Season 17 of NCIS when it returns to CBS Tuesdays at 8 p.m.

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