It’s a very good time to be a fan of the NCIS franchise proper now. Not solely is the Paramount+-exclusive sequence NCIS: Tony & Ziva arriving in just a few weeks, however NCIS, NCIS: Origins and NCIS: Sydney will all air on CBS the identical evening this fall on the 2025 TV schedule. The flagship present that’s been airing since 2003 will kick off this procedural block, and I’m wanting ahead to seeing how the primary new character who’s been solid for NCIS Season 23 will shake issues up for Gary Cole’s Alden Parker.
Nancy Travis, greatest recognized on the TV entrance for reveals like Final Man Standing, Mr. Mercedes and The Kominski Methodology has been tapped to play Navy Vice Admiral Harriet Parker, Alden Parker’s sister. She’ll first seem within the two-part NCIS Season 23 premiere, and her presence will make clear Alden’s previous and the way he grew to become the person we’ve been following since early Season 19. TVLine additionally realized from NCIS showrunner Steven D. Binder that when Alden and Harriet reunite, their childhood dynamic will shortly reignite, which is able to in develop into problematic for his or her respective jobs:
They’re going to relive that between the 2 of them. She’s this tremendous squared-away Navy admiral, and you then’ve acquired Alden Parker, who’s acquired this ‘dangerous child ‘seed. These two are going to come back to a head, and what’s humorous about that’s it’s one factor to have it occur over Thanksgiving dinner, it’s an entire different factor to occur in the course of a worldwide disaster! The bickering is, I would say, very NCIS.
We’ve recognized that Alden Parker has a sister for years now, so it’s good to know we’ll lastly meet her on NCIS. I’m already braced for the sibling bickering that can erupt between Harriet and Alden, though it’s unlucky that it comes within the midst of unlucky circumstances, And I’m not simply speaking about this “international disaster” that Binder teased, for which he didn’t reveal any particular particulars.
On the finish of NCIS Season 22, Alden Parker got here dwelling to find that Roman Parker, his and Harriet’s father, had been murdered by Kansas Metropolis mob boss Carla Marino. She did this as revenge for the position she believed Alden Parker performed in her son dying in a bike accident years earlier. Whereas there was no point out of Roman within the report of Nancy Travis’ casting, I discover it laborious to consider that Alden and Harriet received’t focus on their father’s demise. That’s too massive an occasion to simply gloss over and have Alden grapple with on his personal at a later date.
If Alden Parker does certainly find yourself going outdoors the bounds of the legislation to take down Carla Marino, like Gary Cole purported to me again in Might, it could take his sister working with the opposite members of the workforce to tug him away from the darkness. We see what awaits Alden, Harriet and everybody else when NCIS Season 23 premieres Tuesday, October 14 at 8 pm ET on CBS.