NCIS Season 22 is simply days from concluding its run on the 2025 TV schedule, and this previous Monday’s episode (which you’ll be able to stream with a Paramount+ subscription) left us with fairly the lingering plot thread. After months of Timothy McGee suspecting Deputy Director Gabriel LaRoche to be every kind of shady, this was lastly confirmed in “Irreconcilable Variations,” although Seamus Dever’s character claimed that what he’s been as much as has by no means been about cash. As if that wasn’t sufficient to prepare for, Nick Torres actor Wilmer Valderrama is teasing that there might be a significant dying within the Season 22 finale. Frankly, now I’m involved about three particular NCIS characters, and I’ll be actually mad if both of them chunk the mud.
Valderrama teased the forthcoming dying whereas showing on CBS Mornings, making it abundantly clear that this won’t simply be the usual sort of sufferer that the primary solid of characters offers with week after week. As he put it:
Anyone dies, and it’s not the homicide of the week. It’s someone, sadly, very near us, and it’s going to be very earth-shattering and actually heartbreaking for us.
Now, earlier than I heard Wilmer Valderrama say this, I simply assumed that the large dying within the NCIS Season 22 finale, titled “Nexus,” might be Gabriel LaRoche. No matter whether or not or not he’s a real unhealthy man, I don’t suppose he’ll stick round for for NCIS Season 23, and it’s additionally straightforward sufficient to examine him sacrificing himself to atone for his unlawful actions. However Valderrama stated it’s some “shut” to the primary characters, and LaRoche doesn’t match that invoice. So now, fearing the worst, I’m fearful about these three males going into “Nexus.”
Alden Parker
Gary Cole’s Alden Parker took over main the workforce early on into NCIS Season 19 after Mark Harmon’s Leroy Jethro Gibbs determined to remain in Alaska. Season 22 has been notably eventful for Parker, as he’s not solely been coping with the Lily thriller and studying new issues about his childhood, he’s additionally needed to take care of Carla Morino, head of the Kansas Metropolis mob, coming again into his life. Are we going to see Parker killed off as he lastly learns the complete Lily story and/or crosses paths with Carla once more within the midst of this LaRoche enterprise? I’m not ruling it out.
Leon Vance
Rocky Carroll’s been enjoying Leon Vance since NCIS Season 5, with the tip of that season seeing him turn out to be director of the legislation enforcement company following Jenny Shepard’s dying. At this level, it’s exhausting to think about the present with out him being round, however even Vance isn’t invincible. As we pull again the curtain on Gabriel LaRoche’s actions, it’s fully attainable that occasions will unfold that result in Vance being put in peril as soon as once more, and in contrast to when he was shot within the NCIS franchise’s 1,000th episode, this time he gained’t make it out alive.
Tobias Fornell
Okay, I do know this looks as if a random pull, however hear me out. Joe Spano has been recurring on NCIS for the reason that starting, having debuted as Tobias Fornell within the very first episode and showing in each season apart from Season 17, and that was solely as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic shut down manufacturing early. We haven’t seen Fornell in Season 22, however maybe he’s been saved for a shock visitor look within the finale. He would additionally qualify as somebody near the workforce, so whereas the possibilities of him dying occurring are slimmer than with Parker and Vance, it’s not an impossibility.
We’ll discover out who’s off to fulfill their maker when the NCIS Season 22 finale airs Monday at 9 pm ET on CBS. No matter finally ends up occurring, you possibly can ensure that the aftermath will proceed to be explored when NCIS Season 23 airs within the fall.