What To Know
- Michael Weatherly returns as Tony DiNozzo for a major arc in NCIS Season 24.
- CBS has released the first photo of him back in character, in his former workplace.
Well, there’s something very familiar about seeing Michael Weatherly with that Most Wanted wall behind him. He returns to NCIS for its 24th season (premiering on October 6) for a major arc, and CBS has now released the first photo of him back on the mothership as Tony DiNozzo. See it above.
But as you can see in the photo, something is very different this time around: Look at that Visitor badge! It’s to be expected; after all, Tony is no longer an NCIS agent. But still, doesn’t he look right at home?
Weatherly’s Tony was part of the series since the beginning, going back to the two JAG episodes that served as a backdoor pilot for it. He was then a series regular through the Season 13 finale, at which point Tony left NCIS to raise his and Ziva’s (Cote de Pablo) daughter after her “death” (three years later, we learned she faked it). Weatherly and de Pablo then went on to star in their own spinoff, NCIS: Tony & Ziva, which released one season on Paramount+. Weatherly has said that what happened on there will not be retconned when he returns to NCIS.
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Last we saw Tony on the spinoff, he and Ziva were not only back together, but his name had also been cleared, meaning he could get back to work at his security company (hence being a visitor at the agency where he once worked). We’ll have to wait to see what he thinks of the friends and coworkers he knows and how they’ve changed, Tim McGee (Sean Murray) and Dr. Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen), and what they think of the Tony he’s become in the years since he left and with what he and Ziva went through in Europe.
Plus, it’ll be interesting to see what his dynamics are like with those he doesn’t know — Nick Torres (Wilmer Valderrama), Jessica Knight (Katrina Law), Alden Parker (Gary Cole), and Kasie Hines (Diona Reasonover) — and what they think of him, based on what they may or may not have heard around the office.
What do you think of this first look at Michael Weatherly back on NCIS — and at NCIS — as Tony DiNozzo? Let us know in the comments section below.
NCIS, Season 24 Premiere, Tuesday, October 6, 8/7c, CBS