Warning: SPOILERS for the NCIS: Origins episode “To Have and to Maintain” are forward!
NCIS: Origins has resumed its run on the 2025 TV schedule after being away for roughly a month and a half, and the grand return spotlighted Tyla Abercrombie’s Mary Jo Hayes. Earlier immediately, CinemaBlend shared an unique Origins clip that exposed Mary Jo had been served divorce papers from her estranged husband, Marcus. Now that the episode has aired, we lastly have extra particulars about this side of her backstory, though it was fairly heartbreaking.
Whether or not it’s via her skilled duties as Area Operation Help Officer, a.okay.a. the “Head Secretary in Cost,” for NIS’ Camp Pendleton workplace, or taking care of the folks in her private life, Mary Jo Hayes is somebody who cares for others, oftentimes in a motherly manner. Her selflessness is admirable, which made it all of the extra upsetting when a messenger stopped by the workplace to ship the divorce. It bothered her sufficient that after work, she hit up a bar with Lala Dominguez and Vera Strickland to vent about what occurred, notably the way it bothered her Marcus didn’t give the papers to her himself.
This led to Mary Jo recalling how regardless of that Marcus was a “know-it-all ass” once they met in highschool, she nonetheless ended up being taken with him, particularly when, whereas unusually asking her to Sadie Hawkins, he included the Ray Charles track “Hit the Street, Jack!” However the cause that they’re separated in early 1992 isn’t as a result of Marcus did one thing to Mary Jo that resulted in her hating him. Reasonably, she initially simply stated that, “Issues change. We grew aside.”
Issues then took a flip for the more severe when Mary Jo found that the divorce papers that Marcus was asking for alimony, particularly half of all the things, together with her home. Happily, when she went to confront him, Marcus assured her that this wasn’t his intention and that there was some form of mixup in communication together with his lawyer. It was clear these two nonetheless revered each other although they hadn’t been collectively in three years.
By the top of “To Have and to Maintain,” the flashback that had been peppered all through the episode of Mary Jo and Marcus dancing collectively was put into full context and revealed why these two drifted aside. Mary Jo suffered 4 miscarriages, and the names of the unborn kids have been Georgia, Isaiah, Daybreak and Marcus Jr. With such heartbreaking losses, it is smart why Mary Jo and Marcus didn’t keep collectively. Her incapacity to have kids along with her soon-to-be-ex-husband additionally provides a merciless component of irony given her maternal nature
This exploration of Mary Jo Hayes’ private life occurred as Mike Franks’ staff was investigating the dying of an funding adviser lately free of jail who was discovered lifeless in her yard pool. Stream the episode with a Paramount+ subscription when you’d like the complete context. There are 4 episodes left to go in NCIS: Origins Season 1, however followers can look ahead to Season 2 airing on CBS this fall.