NCIS is formally on hiatus.
The CBS procedural stated goodbye to 2020 earlier this month, leaving followers with a whole lot of questions.
However the largest query is:
When the heck will the collection return?
CBS introduced on Thursday that NCIS can be again with recent episodes Tuesday, January 19, 2021.
The excellent news is that two episodes will air on that evening, making the six-week hiatus rather less irritating.
The collection may also welcome again Margo Harshman as McGee’s spouse, Delilah, within the first of the 2 episodes.
As if that wasn’t thrilling sufficient, NCIS Season 18 Episode four will probably be directed by Rocky Carroll, who performs Leon Vance.
However what is going to go down on this first episode again?
“McGee and his spouse Delilah’s (Margo Harshman) Bahamian trip turns right into a high-stakes mission when a case NCIS is monitoring of a useless escape room supervisor has ties to the island,” reads the official logline from the community, however there’s additionally this:
Gibbs fears the worst when his seek for Fornell results in blood.
Sure, it should be a protracted wait, however the logline seemingly confirms the motion will nonetheless be going down in a pre-COVID world.
A artistic determination was made earlier this yr to have the primary batch of episodes happen with out the pandemic on the forefront earlier than taking the characters right into a modified world later into the season.
Given how serialized current storylines have been for NCIS, it is smart.
What’s going to the second episode be about?
“Gibbs and Fornell’s campaign to seek out the top of the drug ring answerable for Fornell’s daughter Emily’s overdose involves a climax,” the logline reads, including:
Gibbs and Vance lastly let the crew in on a case that has harmful implications.
Maybe the damaging implications could possibly be that we lastly study why Gibbs shot McGee within the season premiere?
NCIS stars Mark Harmon (NCIS Particular Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs), Sean Murray (NCIS Particular Agent Timothy McGee), Emily Wickersham (NCIS Particular Agent Eleanor “Ellie” Bishop), Wilmer Valderrama (NCIS Particular Agent Nicholas “Nick” Torres), Maria Bello (NCIS Particular Agent Jaqueline “Jack” Sloane), Brian Dietzen (Medical Examiner Jimmy Palmer), Diona Reasonover (Forensic Scientist Kasie Hines), Rocky Carroll (NCIS Director Leon Vance), and David McCallum (Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard).
What do you suppose will occur in these new episodes?
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NCIS airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on CBS.
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