'The Closer' Finale: How Did Brenda Leave Major Crimes? (2024)

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How was Brenda written out of The Closer? ›

In the end of The Closer, due to her efforts to capture Phillip Stroh leading her to assault him, Brenda, knowing she will lose her job, leaves the LAPD and gets a new job as Chief at the District Attorney's Office's Bureau of Investigation.

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Sedgwick's only regret as her show ends is that they never found a way to give her a female friend. The move to Major Crimes means losing J.K. Simmons as Chief Pope (he co-stars in ABC's new comedy The Family Tools debuting this fall) and Corey Reynolds' Detective David Gabriel (he has a talent deal with NBC).

Brenda Leigh Johnson, the main character in the television series "The Closer," had a major surgery to remove an ovarian cyst that was causing her health problems and affecting her ability to conceive a child.

She dies near the end of Season 7 after asking to tell Brenda something that she dies before she can express. Brenda is left devastated by her death and the fact that she brushed her mother off and so would never know what she had wanted to say.

In season 7, it is revealed that Gabriel's girlfriend is the mole feeding inside information about Major Crimes to defense attorney Peter Goldman.

It just felt like time, mostly for me as an artist, time for me to do something else. There really wasn't an epiphany. It was just the idea of doing a Season 8 I think felt daunting to me and overwhelming, and sort of just didn't feel right.

Brenda doesn't have a place to live — she and her fiance, FBI agent Fritz Howard (Jon Tenney), are living in a cramped apartment, having sold their old house before they bought a new one. Even the pair's new cat is homeless; Brenda brings it to work so their anti-cat landlord won't see it.

It's no secret that Brenda Leigh Johnson loves a celebratory (or stress-related) snack when she's hard at work. The drawer she keeps stocked with sweets and treats comes in handy when times are tough. Her first choice? The classic, chocolatey treat by Hostess, the Ding Dong.

Kyra Sedgwick stars in this series that is, all at once, a crime drama, comedy, and psychological profile of America. Although her southern accent slips a bit at times, Kyra is originally from New York, she does a remarkable job bringing her character to life.

What happened to Brenda and Fritz after The Closer? ›

Brenda and Fritz later become involved and eventually marry. In 2012, Deputy Chief Johnson retires from the LAPD and takes a job as Chief of the Los Angeles County District Attorney Bureau of Investigation.

Sedgwick is best known for starring as Brenda Leigh Johnson in the television series The Closer. She played this role from 2005 to 2012. In 2007, she began earning approximately $300,000 per episode on The Closer.

Dialogue in later episodes shows that the two remain married and that Brenda remained in Los Angeles with Fritz.

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Corey Reynolds is one of the few to appear in every episode of The Closer but not transfer to Major Crimes, mainly because his character David Gabriel got moved to the Da's office Bureau of Investigation as their liaison. He inadvertently became a leak within the department,...

Throughout the investigation, Rayder was convinced that there was an information leak in the department, something that Brenda refused to accept despite the overwhelming evidence. After the case was resolved, it was revealed that leak was- indirectly — Sgt. Gabriel (Corey Reynolds).

It just felt like time, mostly for me as an artist, time for me to do something else. There really wasn't an epiphany. It was just the idea of doing a Season 8 I think felt daunting to me and overwhelming, and sort of just didn't feel right. I think as an actor you really kind of just have to follow your instincts.