NCIS: Origins continues to reunite the aging Leroy Jethro Gibbs with friends and colleagues who have accompanied him over the decades during the events of NCIS – Naval Criminal Investigative Service. After reunions with Tony DiNozzo and Ellie Bishop, portrayed again by Michael Weatherly and Emily Wickersham, the spin-off’s third season will also feature the franchise’s other veterans Muse Watson, Roma Maffia, and Joe Spano, portraying the older versions of Mike Franks, Vera Strickland, and Tobias C. Fornell.
NCIS: Origins: three more reunions in the third season of the spin-off
All three will interact with Gibbs, as played by Mark Harmon, returning to the screen on a regular basis with a storyline that has fans on the edge of their seats. They will not appear together but each in a separate episode, airing in the United States on CBS between November 17 and December 8. The network has also released a photo preview, which you can see below.
The third season of NCIS: Origins opened—spoiler alert!—with an attack on Gibbs’s life, shot in the chest by a gunshot while he was at his Alaska cabin. When the two masked men approached his body, one checked his wrist, saying: “One down, there’s one left.” But Gibbs managed to outsmart the attackers using a Marine breathing technique learned years earlier, capable of slowing the heartbeat. He stood up, retrieved the sniper rifle, and set out to pursue the culprits.
In the subsequent episodes, Gibbs returned to Washington, to the NCIS headquarters he had left five years earlier, and he met DiNozzo, who had meanwhile become the agency’s new director, telling him that he needs his help to uncover who tried to kill him. He immediately involved Bishop, considering her perfect for the case: after leaving NCIS, she works for a clandestine organization and conducts undercover operations. She can therefore move without leaving official traces.
Franks, Strickland, and Fornell will also appear within Gibbs’s present-day storyline, linked to events from his past, providing key elements to shed light on the truth. The arc concerns a case apparently closed in 1992 at Camp Pendleton that had devastating consequences on Gibbs’s life. A mystery that seems to center on the figure of Lala Dominguez. These are three characters already involved in the prequel spin-off, portrayed in their younger versions respectively by Kyle Schmid and Diany Rodriguez, regularly, and by Lucas Dixon in an episode of the first season. Furthermore, Watson had already reprised her character in an episode last year.
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