NCIS: Sydney is placing the strain on the crew — NCIS and AFP brokers working collectively — in its second season, so what higher manner than to bond two of them collectively in a brand new manner first? Such is the case with Mackey (Olivia Swann) and JD (Todd Lasance), after she opened as much as him and revealed she has a son again in the US, within the premiere.
“The primary season of the present was about constructing this blended household, bringing these sort of disparate misfits collectively, and seeing if we may in some way discover a bond that may really maintain them collectively underneath stress. And I feel by the tip of the primary season, we bought to that time the place we actually felt like virtually unexpectedly these guys had bonded into what’s a crew, a household. So the second season is all about placing that household underneath strain, underneath seismic strain to see whether or not these bonds can maintain,” govt producer Morgan O’Neill tells TV Insider.
“One of many issues that we wished to do was to guarantee that a part of the jeopardy in that household was that we be taught extra about one another as a household. And it was vital to us that Mackey and JD particularly share a secret that they and solely they maintain,” he continues.
Mackey’s confession about her son got here when each she and JD have been on their outs with their respective companies and persevering with to work the case at hand. She then says she wouldn’t have advised him if not for what was occurring on the time. The manager producer guarantees that we’ll see her son sooner or later but additionally reminds us how lengthy it took to seek out out who Kelly was to Gibbs (Mark Harmon) on NCIS: “Within the very first episode of the very first present, we discover Gibbs within the basement engaged on a picket boat, and also you see the identify tag on the picket boat, and it’s not till a number of seasons later that you simply understand the identify tag is the identify of his useless daughter.”
For O’Neill, this was about digging deeper into the character of Mackey and utilizing the analysis he did into girls within the army and their “distinctive sacrifice”: The time frame after they’d hit their strides of their profession is after they’d usually have kids (25-40).
“It’s a very tough juggle,” he says. On the subject of Mackey particularly, “It simply humanized her for me in a manner that few different revelations may. What I like about the truth that she’s bought a child is that we will then return and watch their first season once more and understand so many nuances concerning the choices that she was making as a result of she’s doing it as a mom. I like TV when issues deepen and also you’re allowed to rewind the clock and return and reanalyze issues and take a look at issues afresh and understand that there’s a complete bunch of stuff that’s occurring underneath the floor that you simply weren’t aware of the primary time ’spherical.”
Now that she’s advised JD, that “actually provides a layer to their relationship that didn’t exist beforehand, and hopefully at that time you watch the whole lot that they do, all of their interactions, the entire subtleties about main this crew with a distinct lens,” he says.
As is the case with procedurals and companions, there’s all the time the query of whether or not or not they’ll get collectively. “It’s a problem,” O’Neill admits. “Anybody who’s ever labored in a office or an workplace has confronted the precise scenario Mackey and JD are in. He’s popping out of a divorce, he’s residing in a good friend’s storage. She’s single in another country. They’re each working 60 hours per week shoulder to shoulder. They’re each frankly sizzling.”
Nevertheless, he says, “The problem is you may’t go there. It ruins the whole lot. One in all you has to depart the workplace, somebody will get fired, who is aware of what. So the problem of that blossoming right into a romantic relationship could be very actual. Does that cease them doubtlessly from discovering moments that spark? In all probability not. Is there a possible for it to be greater than that? I suppose we’ll have to attend and see, however I’d counsel that no matter is simmering underneath the floor of their relationship undoubtedly has the potential to spark up into one thing that’s harmful inside the context of a company just like the one they work in they usually’ll in all probability do the whole lot they will to keep away from it. To not be too coy about it, however we’ll simply must see how good they’re at ignoring it.”
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