Rizzoli & Isles Boss on "Satisfying" Series Finale and a Possible Reboot

The following story contains spoilers about Monday's series finale of Rizzoli & Isles.

The TNT drama signed off Monday after seven seasons with a literal farewell party for Jane (Angie Harmon), who was about to depart Boston for her teaching job at Quantico.

Jane surprises Maura in the final moments by announcing she's going to spend her extra vacation days with her in Paris, where Maura's moving for a month to finish her novel.

Jan Nash: [Laughs] As we thought about this season -- they ordered 13 episodes and we had a feeling this would be the end -- what we really did think about was [not only] how to best say goodbye to the show but also give the actors the chance to say goodbye, the characters to say goodbye.

[...] we came up with this idea to basically have a party that would be a goodbye party that would essentially encompass a lot of them and then using these goodbye videos as a way for the actors to articulate their feelings, obviously through the characters, but it's their own feelings about what it's been like to have done this for so long.

We came to the conclusion that it should have some sort of a crime in it -- a very small crime -- but it gives a little bit of a story to hang these more emotional elements on.

There was a lot of closure in the episode and I don't think anything that happened comes as a surprise.

The 100th became the linchpin on which we built a lot of these character decisions that would play out the rest of the season.

The nature of finales of long-running shows, they have passionate audiences and those audiences intensely like or intensely don't like the way the show ends.

Did you get any pushback from network or higher-ups when you pitched the ending?

Was it difficult writing the final scene knowing you wanted to honor their relationship?

The truth is it wasn't hard only because more than any other person involved with the show, I had been living with the ending of the sho