NCIS: Origins Can Now Clearly Show When Gibbs Actually Met Fornell
While everyone in MCRT who personally worked on the show's initial case was no longer with the team, NCIS' 1000th episode also brought back Joe Spano's Tobias Fornell. Like Gibbs' first squad, Fornell debuted in "Yankee White" as the FBI agent confronting Harmon's character over jurisdiction. It was perplexing later on when it was discovered that Fornell married Gibbs's second wife since their meeting aboard the grounded Air Force One was apparently the first time they met paths.
NCIS: Origins is ideally positioned to finally clear this uncertainty over Fornell and Gibbs's friendship history as this all transpired before NCIS events. Like young Gibbs's recasting, the presentation can have someone performing a young version of Fornell and highlight their actual meeting. Given everything else Harmon was doing on the show during the period he was still regularly on, the main series never had the opportunity to handle this issue. CBS now has the opportunity to reverse their plot inconsistency going back.
How NCIS: Origins Could Improve the Friendship Between Gibbs & Fornell
Gibbs was notorious for his aloofness and fearlessness, but nobody was as devoted as he was—especially in relation to his relatively tiny social group. Although NCIS couldn't often show his relationship with Fornell, it was among the best friendships in the entire run. All through their joint tenure on the police process, they had each other's backs. Knowing how they first came together in NCIS: Origins would help to shape their collective narrative, much as the dynamic of Gibbs and Ducky Mallard's flashback episode did.
Gibbs and Fornell were clearly kindred souls, even if they bickered in NCIS. Apart from the opportunity to mend their plot hole, it would be interesting to know how their friendship started—that is, if they liked each other right away or if their marriage of the same woman first bound them. NCIS: If the project's creative team wants to, origins can easily do all of that.
The Oldest Plot Hole of Leroy Jethro Gibbs Can Finally Be Fixed in Mark Harmon's NCIS Prequel
NCIS: Origins has the chance to finally close Leroy Jethro Gibbs's oldest plot hole, yet it can also help to explain so many aspects of Mark Harmon's adored character. Gibbs and his squad were first presented in JAG via a backdoor pilot a few years before he met Kate Todd in "Yankee White." Given how popular the flagship series has grown, NCIS's history routinely leaves out this detail. The universe returns in time to address Gibbs' start with the agency, providing fresh facts about his life before to he became Major Case Response Team's (MCRT) chief as it develops beyond a simple expansion.
Gibbs's personal life was often examined over his tenure on NCIS. Originally introduced, he was a mystery with hardly known information about the character outside of his employment life. But sometimes his personal and professional lives coincided to create more fascinating narratives. Based on the chronology, NCIS: Origins can address Gibbs' darkest plot—the horrific death of his first wife and daughter, Shannon and Kelly. After that, though, it can explore what came next with his relationships and provide the franchise an opportunity to correct his oldest story gap.
NCIS: Origins Cast and Release Date: What We Know
Although the basic cast of NCIS: Origins has already been revealed, one more star the CBS Prequel has to have if it is to succeed. Set before the initial entry in the long-running procedural crime-drama series, NCIS: Origins chronicles a youthful Leroy Gibbs at the start of his career in the 1990s. The show will center more on Gibbs's path to become the top investigator he evolved in the first series and his connections with former partners and colleagues.
CBS's 2024–2025 fall TV lineup will feature NCIS: Origins first on screen. Viewers are excited to see how the Prequel explores Gibbs' early years as an NCIS agent and provides insights into the formative events that molded his legendary character.
NCIS: Looking Back at the Franchise
Naval Criminal Investigative Service, or NCIS, emphasizes the sometimes complicated and always entertaining dynamics of a team compelled to cooperate under great pressure. The NCIS team consists of NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee, an MIT graduate with a knack for computers who has lately graduated to senior field agent; the charismatic, unpredictable and resilient NCIS Special Agent Nicholas “Nick” Torres, who has spent most of his career on solo undercover assignments; and sharp, athletic and tough NCIS Special Agent Jessica Knight, a formidable REACT agent specialized in hostage negotiations and high-risk operations. Running the morgue and having progressed from assistant to fully licensed medical examiner, the naive Jimmy Palmer is helping the team; and forensic scientist Kasie Hines, Ducky's former graduate assistant. NCIS Director Leon Vance, a brilliant, highly skilled agent constantly dependable to upend the established quo, is in charge of supervising activities. From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, these special agents look at all offenses involving Navy or Marine Corps affiliation.
For many years, NCIS has been a fan favorite; the show keeps growing. Among the other spin-offs the show has generated are NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans, and NCIS: Hawai'i. Maintaining the essence of the original show, these spinoffs have enlarged the NCIS universe by providing fresh characters, locations, and narratives. NCIS's and its spinoff's success is evidence of the franchise's ongoing appeal to viewers all around and its capacity.
