Blacklist: Why Samar Navabi (Mozhan Marnò) Left After Season 6
NBC’s American crime thriller The Blacklist returned for season 7, but fans were shocked to discover that Mozhan Marnò left her role as Agent Samar Navabi after season 6 — so what caused her departure? Marnò had played a crucial member of the task force since The Blacklist season 2, but her fate had been uncertain since the beginning of season 6 after it was revealed that Samar never fully recovered from the car accident that left her submerged in water for several minutes.
After being kidnapped by Lawrence Dane Devlin, a «fixer» sent to kill Samar, she managed to escape but the incident left her in a coma. The Blacklist's season 5 finale saw Samar survive the coma and tell Aram she will marry him. The Blacklist creator Jon Bokenkamp hinted in a TVLine interview that her health problems would “change the landscape of the show in a great way.” The two-hour season 6 finale ofThe Blacklist saw a rift form in the relationship between Samar and Aram after she is cleared by doctors to return to the task force. However, Mossad saw Samar’s declining health as a liability for the agency and put out a hit on her life.
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Unwilling to let Aram’s life be ruined for her problems, she made her daring escape with the help of Red (James Spader), leaving on a plane to an undisclosed location. Her final words to Aram were that she loves him and will never forget him. However, it was Marnò who chose to leave The Blacklist, and producers graciously granted her request by writing her out of the show.
Samar was written off of The Blacklist because Marnò wanted to leave the series. In a lengthy Instagram post, Marnò expressed how grateful she was for the opportunity to play
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