‘FBI: Most Wanted’: Alexa Davalos Won’t Be Back for Season 5
The Fugitive Task Force is losing another one of its members.
Alexa Davalos will not be returning as Kristin Gaines for FBI: Most Wanted Season 5, according to Deadline. The outlet also reports that a producer told her she wouldn’t be returning after she finished filming for Season 4 and that it was “amicable.”
We’ll have to wait until the new season premieres — a date for which is unknown, with the ongoing writers and actors strikes — to see how she’s written out (and if she returns as part of that); the Season 4 finale didn’t suggest that anyone, including Davalos, could be leaving the CBS drama.
Davalos joined FBI: Most Wanted in the Season 3 premiere, “Exposed,” and since then, we’ve gotten to know a bit about Kristin outside of work at home and her history. One of those could possibly be used to explain why she leaves the task force.
Davalos is far from the first cast member to be written out of FBI: Most Wanted. Nathaniel Arcand, who played Clinton Skye, was written out in the third episode of Season 2 (with a special assignment), but his exit wasn’t announced until between seasons. Davalos joined the show just as Kellan Lutz left, with his character, Special Agent Kenny Crosby, shot (but he survived). Lutz shared that he was leaving the show after heartbreaking losses. Dylan McDermott came in as Remy Scott and took over as team leader after Julian McMahon‘s Jess LaCroix was killed in the line of duty.
Other cast additions over the years include Miguel Gomez as Special Agent Ivan Ortiz in Season 2 — he left after Season 3 — and Edwin Hodge, who joined as Ray Cannon at the beginning of Season 4. Will someone new come in to replace Davalos’ Kristin on the Fugitive Task Force, or might it just consist of Remy, Sheryll Barnes (Roxy Sternberg), Hana Gibson (Keisha Castle-Hughes), and Ray in Season 5? We’ll have to wait and see.
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I don’t think she ever really jelled in the role. Would love to see Jaeger from FBI international join the team. Thought she was great
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I've enjoyed the Dylan McDermott era of the show, but I can see how it wouldn't be for everyone. I don't even consider it "FBI: Most Wanted" anymore, and generally refer to it as if it's an entirely different show called "FBI: McDermott." The LaCroix years had a "soulful" quality, while the Remy episodes try to be more "flashy" and sometimes take odd turns (him undercover as a priest... a very creepy priest) or play out as him being some version of Jack Bauer, with old-school action movie like dialogue ("I hope they gut you like a spring trout!"), and on occasion it's been as easy to laugh at it as take it seriously (the Hana abduction episode was particularly harrowing, though), but it has been entertaining in big ways the other two FBI shows often aren't. I thought the FBI crossover event last season seemed to show that the original's John Boyd (Scola) meshed better with the Remy Scott character -- he seemed to see a bit of himself in Scola, and in one scene they ran down a corridor shoulder-to-shoulder like Batman & Robin -- more than he has any of the other characters on MW other than Hana. Maybe Davolos' exit, as well as Scola's storyline last season on FBI, might open a door for him -- or, as Green Olive suggested, someone from the large FBI:I cast -- to move over?
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So agree with Searcher911! I'm sorry to see Alexa go, though, as she was really the only reason I started watching that show again after I wasn't grabbed by the first few episodes. But I do find the whole cast on this show problematic. And obviously they have had a lot of trouble finding the perfect combo! I much prefer the International version now. On FBI #1 I miss OA and Maggie's genuine connection and agree with the "political correctness" overlay now making the writing more clunky. I loved the first season and, since I rarely watch ultra-formulaic episodics much anymore (because I can always tell who the bad guy/girl is as soon as they appear), I really liked the feeling that there was a real relationship (I was fine with just a close friendship, too -- I didn't need it to get romantic!) between the two main characters, instead of a cardboard cut-out interplay they share more now, as the writers move the FBI chess pieces around the script. I still really like most of the cast on the show and so I still do watch it but I don't love it the way I did in the first season or so. I laugh when at around 10-12 minutes in, like clockwork, they either start running on foot (mostly) or give chase in a car. So predictable! I feel as though the original had to water down its creative quality when they launched not just one, but two more iterations. So they could compete with the "Chicago" trio of shows -- of which I have never even watched one episode.
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I wish that they would stop getting rid of characters. I liked the Miguel Gomez character. Also, I would like to know why some of the actors have left the show, especially Julian McMahon.
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We saw this coming. Towards the final third of the seasons episodes we noticed a distinct distaste by her acting. She was different and it was obvious. No passion. Very short. No enthusiasm. We figured she would be killed off by the time the final episode of the season and were actually surprised when she wasn’t. We’ve pretty much given up on Most Wanted since Julian left. He brought a passion to the show that has fizzled since his departure. Dylan is nowhere near leader material. By his third episode we were channel surfing for the time slot to see what else was out there. Too loud. Too much attitude. Too much Dylan. Like so many cast members of Most Wanted, we’ve now officially departed ourselves. That leaves us with FBI. But if they keep up with the politics we’ll wash our hands of the franchise. After Season 3, Episode 1 premiered, we were half way out the door. Couldn’t really be titled FBI after that. And that was a shame. It started out nice and got better. Then not so much. Actually, hardly at all.
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