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NCIS Season 22 cover art. 😍

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NCIS | 21x02 - The Stories We Leave Behind

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I love (1) old man 🥹🥹🥹❤️❤️❤️

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“But you need to remember you’re not alone in this. You have a partner. You’ll always have a partner in me. I got your six. I’ll do my part.”

- Brighton’s letter to Parker

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NCIS Season 20 Complete ↳ 61,380 1080p logofree screencaps

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My Top 20 Favorite TV Shows - #18: NCIS

Show Premiered: September 23rd, 2003

Started Watching: January 2022

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Thursday, April 11, 2024

Diona Reasonover, Echo Kellum, Doug Benson

Marry Diona, Fuck Echo, Kill Doug

Doug will be too busy with his bears to appear on After Midnight on 4/20, but appropriately this was the show’s 42nd episode.

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On the set of NCIS prepping a scene...

🎥 cred @wilmervalderrama via IG

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NCIS | 21x10 - Reef Madness

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Both @justagibbsgirl and @i-run-with-scissors39 made a really good point about the Gibbs absence in the Ducky tribute episode- if we'd had a funeral scene, we would've gotten a much deeper emotional impact from a eulogy, the camera could've panned the gathered guests to show a myriad of former characters we've missed over the years, AND, they could've shown Gibbs in the back, unseen by the guests, paying silent tribute to Ducky. Brian Dietzen said Mark Harmon didn't come back because of 'scheduling conflicts', but as @i-run-with-scissors39 said, they could've filmed it separately at any time, because it would've just been him.

But none of this happened. In fact, what really happened in that episode that was memorable? Besides Tony showing up. (I'll get back to that in a minute.) McGee had 1 flashback, Vance had 1 flashback and Jimmy had 4. Jimmy also had the most screen time and was given the most emotional scenes. A lot of that is understandable- he was the only one left with the strongest connection to Ducky. But there were other people with connections to him, too. And we didn't get to see that. The only person outside of the regular cast of season 21 to show up was Tony. I mean, think about that, just for a second. No character outside of the current squad showed up. Not even Tobias! Instead, they handwaved the work/money (?) involved to make something more meaningful happen by showing flowers and Polaroids.

Even the Crime of the Day fell flat. So some girl we've never met is getting hassled by her college because her dead dad's getting slandered in the press by a senator. A senator who, I guess didn't get arrested at the end? Just stepped down from his position? Why did the senator pick that Marine anyway? (I know he served with him, but what was the point in naming that particular Marine?) And if I see one more reference to someone gifting someone a scholarship fund, I don't know if I'll be able to unroll my eyes. And yes, I know the MCSF was a big thing for David McCallum, so it made sense in this context, but the fact there's a Leroy Jethro Gibbs Scholarship Fund joke almost undermined the whole thing. (Would've been nice if they'd had a link at the end of the episode to the MCSF.)

Instead of this random girl and her dead dad, how about a cold case Ducky was working on? Maybe Jimmy sees it on Ducky's desk (or finds it in the secret spot behind a picture /eyeroll) and decides he's going to solve it. The team wants to help but are sceptical it can be done, but Jimmy's absolutely determined to do it, to the point of almost obsession. It would be his way of putting off dealing with Ducky's death while also making one last connection with him. They end up solving it because one of the flashbacks gives an indirect clue. You know, like Ducky's cryptic message to the team about where to find the nothing file behind the photo in his office. /eyeroll again

I loved the fact that Jimmy never took off his lab coat, even though he didn't do any lab work the entire episode. Him walking around the bullpen in his lab coat solving a case was just... well, I guess that's where the show is now, yeah? Sean Murray didn't want to step forward as the face of the show, so Brian Dietzen did. And you know what? Good for him. It's a hell of an arc over 20 years for him. But whether he meant to or not, he ended up making this episode about him. Every emotional thread went through Jimmy; every emotional moment was Jimmy's. When Diona Reasonover's voice cracked in the bullpen ("Any suggestions as to how to do that?"), it felt like the only real moment given to anyone other than Jimmy. Probably because 3 of the team didn't really know Ducky, so they could only experience the loss through other characters. It's why we got Knight reading Ducky's journal to bring up a Gibbs flashback, and it's why Torres did the same with McGee. It's why Parker was in charge of the flowers or something. And I try to remember they're new when I hear Knight say, "Dying quietly in your sleep isn't the worst way to go." JFC, lady.

I dunno. Kate was on for 2 years and I felt the show handled her death with so much more emotion. Her loss rippled through the team and we felt it because we saw the characters feel it. The Ducky episode was a lot of telling rather than showing, and what showing they did was through Jimmy instead of a handful of the hundreds of people whose lives Ducky touched in 20 years.

Oh, and Tony. Great to see one of the Originals, and Tony, in small doses, can bring the depth the scene needs. But being tacked onto the end of the episode made it fell exactly what it was- a surprise cameo to wow the fans rather than a true nod of respect to Ducky/David.

It should've been more. It could've been more.

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Really love this little hug

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Your NCIS security clearance has just been upgraded! Executive producer Steven D. Binder gave us a peek at the case file for Season 22 of the military crime procedural — and it’s packed with action, emotion, and a close call with the end of the world.

Read it fast before it gets redacted. (This interview has been edited for length, clarity, and federal government censors.)

What’s the status of Special Agent Jessica Knight (Katrina Law) and Chief Medical Examiner Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen) after he broke up with her in the Season 21 finale after learning she’d been offered a job in California?

Steven D. Binder: It’s months later. Knight’s on the West Coast [in her new job as chief REACT training officer]. They’ve settled into the new normal of not being together. Jimmy is dating. We’re going to learn a little bit about that. He’s been busy as a single man; that will make an appearance in the most inopportune time. [In the premiere] Knight encounters a very serious problem involving her skills as a hostage negotiator. There’s certain things you never do, and that’s what [she] does. As a result, her and Jimmy are going to get a chance to have part two of the conversation that we didn’t see in the finale. There’s a Part 3 to that conversation that we’ll see in Episode 4 when World War III is starting.

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World War III?!

[NCIS is] in charge of a very little thing and that little thing has the potential to become a big thing and we are trying to keep it from becoming a big thing. They’ve got 42 minutes. It’s [an] almost real-time episode. Jimmy and Knight are going to get a chance to have Part 3 of who and what they are and what they’re going to be and what they’re not going to be. There’s huge stakes that can blow up and then very huge stakes for these two in a completely different way. The world is not going to end. We have [forensic scientist] Kasie [Diona Reasonover] to thank.

Did you ask Brian Dietzen and Katrina Law about the direction they wanted their characters’ relationship to take?

With an actor’s character, if [actors] care about what they’re doing — and all of our people do — they’ll be protective. They’ll have stakes, they’ll have thoughts. I took both of their temperatures. What do you guys think? Where are you guys at? They both had very different takes on ways their characters would respond. I was like, this is gold. I’ll blame them if you don’t like it, is what I’m saying. [Laughs]

How are the characters handling it deep down?

In a way that emotionally mature adults should be. That doesn’t mean their feelings aren’t spiking and peaking and confusing, but they’re behaving. Everyone’s putting on their game face. [Jimmy’s daughter] Victoria [Elle Graper] would like them to be back together. That complicates but also crystallizes things. You’re forced to have thoughts because your child is sending you texts every morning [that say] “breakup, Day 54; breakup Day 55.” They are aware they have broken up and have not moved on.

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Will we learn more about the hallucinations Alden Parker (Gary Cole) had in the finale? He saw two children on a ship. One appeared to be him and the other was a girl named Lily.

Parker’s not sure what it all means. He is just as confused as anybody, maybe even more confused. So before the audience just gets a download from Parker about what it is, Parker is going to need to have to go on a little journey and discover “who is this person? What happened? What am I seeing?” He doesn’t know whether it’s a memory or not. it’s historical based. Let’s put it that way.

How does Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) handle losing Knight? Once he gets close to someone, they move on.

Poor Torres. Every time he gets a family member, they leave. So he’s like, “I’m going solo Torres again.” He goes undercover with some bad people and it doesn’t work out well. He gets into a lot of trouble. He’s on this road of undercover loner, not really having relationships. Where does that road lead? We pair him up with a grizzled, hard-boiled private detective who is at the end of that road and is about to leave humanity behind and retire to some beach and drink himself to death. Is this Torres’ future or is he able to bring this guy back from the brink?

Does Knight’s departure affect anyone else?

Knight [leaving] inspired a chain reaction of events. McGee [Sean Murray] applies for a deputy director position in Colorado to move up in the world. A lot of the fans have wondered why he hasn’t done so. It’s an open position and it will be filled by the end of the [premiere] episode. Kasie’s smarting a little bit from Knight being gone. Papa Bird Parker has an empty nest in the squad room. He wants his team back but very quickly gets embroiled in something that Knight gets into trouble with. This case will bring our team back together on one level, not necessarily “yay, we’re all back here in NCIS,” but paths will cross.

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Can you hint about any cases coming up?

We’ve got an odd couple episode with Jessica Knight. She has to do protective custody for this DC socialite. It’s a sort of a Miss Congeniality situation [the 2000 film] where Sandra Bullock was this cop who had to go undercover in the pageant world. Knight’s going to learn that this vacuous housewife/DC socialite world may actually be running things and a lot more savvy than she’s given them credit for. In Episode 2, Vance [Rocky Carroll] is juggling diplomatic talks, bodies, conspiracies, and an old girlfriend who may or may not be keeping some secrets of her own against him. FBI Deputy Director Sweeney [Erik Passoja] reappears and they go head-to-head in a huge and important serious way. There will be cuffs on one of them and fights and some people duct taped to autopsy room tables and stuck into drawers. It goes off the rails. The theme of the season could be, “stuff “happens at the worst time ever.

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Anyone who knows Sam knows he would never not RSVP which means something important must’ve come up OR Callen was the one who was supposed to do it and didn’t. 

NCIS (2003 - PRESENT)  Diona Reasonover as Kasie Hines and LL Cool J as Sam Hanna in Season 20, Episode 10: Too Many Cooks Part 1