![]() Cheesy as it might be, I just feel like if you’ve invested that much time in watching a show, you want leave in a satisfied state. As a fan myself, when a series ends that I really enjoyed, I really prefer that it ends in a “happily ever after” sort of way. For us, it was really about trying to leave the fans in a really good place and not trying to be splashy or fancy or clever, but really leaving the characters knowing that they’re going to be OK - that they’re happy going forward. Especially a show that’s been on for 14 seasons, there’s so much story that you’ve done, characters that have gone through life-changing events, and now you have to bring it all to a close. Writing a pilot is very difficult, and I think the next hardest thing is writing the finale of a series. Since this is a show designed around weekly stories, along with ongoing character arcs, did you have to shift your thinking some as you brought the series to an end? It was a little bit pressed for time, but this is what we do. So then we had to rethink, again, in terms of what it means to have a two-parter. We originally planned it as one finale episode, and then CBS was nice enough to give us two episodes. And also, we didn’t know if we were going to have one or two episodes. ![]() How much ahead of the public announcement that the show was ending did you find out about it? Gemmill spoke with THR about why he likes a happy ending, putting together the reunion scene - and how one character got a “stay of execution” when COVID shut down production three years ago. “What do you say, gentlemen? Are you ready for your next adventure?” Nell asks. The series ends not at the wedding, however, but with Callen and Hanna traveling to Morocco to search for Hetty (Linda Hunt) - and reuniting with old colleagues Nell (Renee Felice Smith), Nate (Peter Cambor) and Sabatino (Erik Palladino). “And what is the hopeful version of that, and I think we did our best doing that for every one of the characters.” “It was just about going character by character and figuring out what they’ve been through, what they deserve and what we’d like to see for the future,” Gemmill, who wrote the series finale with Kyle Harimoto, told The Hollywood Reporter. Terrence O'Hara, 'NCIS' and 'NCIS: Los Angeles' Director, Dies at 76
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