<P> After living in Thailand for sometime, Alex leaves Ryan without notice and heads to Montepulciano, Italy . Presumably, Ryan returns to the United States after Alex's disappearance . For three years, Alex stayed with a vineyard worker named Andrea and his daughter, Isabella . On a particular night, Alex encountered associates of a mysterious arms dealer known as The Widow, who successfully located her . After disarming the assailants, Alex attempted to escape to Zurich, Switzerland, in order to rendezvous with Ryan . During their conversation, Ryan mentioned that the associates of The Widow kidnapped Shelby Wyatt . Soon afterwards, they chart a plane back to the United States . Moments after their arrival, Alex encounters Owen Hall, who left his position at the CIA for a position at the Bureau as Deputy Director of the FBI . Soon afterwards, Owen with the help of Alex and Ryan, successfully recruits Harry Doyle and Jocelyn Turner (Marlee Matlin) to the team, in order to rescue Shelby and take down The Widow . After succeeding in saving Shelby, Owen offers Alex an opportunity to join a covert black ops team to help out the United States government and states that she is fully pardoned for her past crimes after the success of their operation in retrieving Shelby . </P> <P> Joshua Safran had initially envisioned Alex as the one of the protagonists of Quantico . When he was writing the character, his personal struggle with not knowing whether one of his family members was a pathological liar or involved with a government agency helped Safran build Alex's perception of her own family . Safran wrote his own experience into Alex's struggle to learn the truth about her father . He said "I've always struggled with knowing that I would never know the truth, because there is no real such thing as the truth with regard to somebody who may or may not be telling the truth . That struggle informed the character of Alex ." </P> <P> Priyanka Chopra was cast in the role in February 2015, which was the result of a talent holding deal between Chopra and ABC Studios . The deal required ABC studios to either develop a project starring her or cast her in an existing show for the 2015 network television season . For quite some time, the casting executive at ABC, Keli Lee, had been trying to convince Chopra to do television in the United States, something that Chopra was not sure of . However, when Chopra was first considering the possibility of doing a television series in America, Lee learned that another studio was also trying to sign her, to which she reacted by saying, "No, you can't make this deal elsewhere . You're coming here . And I'm flying to India ." Later, Lee traveled to India and was finally able to convince her to accept the offer . In an interview with Vanity Fair, Chopra revealed the only condition she put forward to Lee for doing a show was that she wanted them to find her a series that would put her in the same position that she currently enjoyed in India . She said "There were TV shows and movies that were offered (to me) before this one as well . But I wanted a part that put me on the same platform as (I had in) India . I wanted to play a leading part . I didn't want to settle for anything less ." </P> <P> Safran on his first meeting with Chopra . </P>

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