FBI: Most Wanted boss talks Julian McMahon exit

Variety

"The conversation had been going on as the season started," says showrunner David Hudgins following McMahon's final episode on Tuesday. "Once it sort of reached a place where, 'OK, this is going to happen,' we started, in the writers’ room, trying to figure out what this would look like, how would he leave the show? We had multiple conversations about it with every option on the table, and we just kept going back to this idea that the premise of the show is that we chase the worst of the worst — the most dangerous fugitives that are out there. And inherent in that premise is the idea that it’s risky, it’s dangerous and there’s always the chance that you could get injured or killed in the line of duty. We felt like that was the exit we wanted to have for Jess."