Alden Parker (Gary Cole) gained’t be the one one grieving after that surprising dying within the NCIS Season 22 finale.
Nancy Travis will likely be visitor starring as Parker’s sister, Navy Vice Admiral Harriet Parker, together with her introduction coming within the Season 23 premiere, TVLine studies. Theirs gained’t be a straightforward dynamic. However how will they deal with their grief?
Parker got here face-to-face along with his longtime nemesis, mob boss Carla (Rebecca De Mornay), on the finish of Season 22, just for her to shockingly not kill him when she may. As a substitute, she hit him the place it actually harm: He arrived residence on the finish of the finale to seek out his father (Francis X. McCarthy) useless. It was clear who was accountable, provided that Carla blamed him for her son’s dying, since he died in a automobile accident after Parker knowledgeable him of his mom’s unlawful actions.
Killing off his father was all about throwing Parker off stability, government producer Steven D. Binder informed TV Insider final Could after the finale. “Whereas the earlier bullpen dynamic was you labored across the clock and by no means stopped and by no means had a life, he’s a extra balanced particular person. Gary’s a really balanced man himself whenever you see him, and also you see that bleed over into the character, and we thought it might be very fascinating to take that character and push him into a spot the place he’s by no means been earlier than,” the EP defined. That change was one thing they’d wished to see all together with the character.
“What’s it going to take to ship this man, flip this man into a person on fireplace?” Binder continued. Then they realized that was the place Carla may are available: “You’ve bought this arch nemesis of Parker’s who blames him for — shedding a dad’s dangerous, however shedding a toddler’s significantly worse, and blames Parker for this and is vindictive and evil sufficient that she doesn’t need to simply kill him and finish that she desires to torture him and that is the particular person she’s chosen to torture him with, or who could be the particular person to torture him with? And it’s actually simply his dad at this level.”
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NCIS, Season 23 Premiere, Tuesday, October 14, 8/7c, CBS