Is Sean Murray’s Timothy McGee Leaving In NCIS Season 22? Why I’m Worried About MCRT’s Most Veteran Cast Member

Sean Murray’s story in NCIS season 22 is seemingly setting up Timothy McGee’s exit, and now I’m worried. There was no more original character in NCIS season 21 with the passing of Ducky Mallard. That said, long-time viewers of the CBS police procedural like me still have a couple of veteran characters serving under the Major Case Response Team (MCRT) in Navy Yard, including McGee. Despite not being an inaugural member of Leroy Jethro Gibbs’ team in Washington DC, Murray has been part of NCIS since season 1, starting as a recurring character, and then promoted as a series regular.

I appreciate the fact that, throughout NCIS’ biggest character departures, it has been able to move forward. That said, as much as I enjoy watching the new MCRT under Alden Parker, there is something so special about the earlier years of the series with Gibbs at the helm. It has been two years since Mark Harmon left NCIS — a loss that I thought would have spelled the end of the project. As it has usually done, however, it continued. Now that it may be facing another massive exit with McGee, I’m already dreading its potential fallout.