Warning: SPOILERS for the NCIS episode “Dangerous Blood” are forward!
The NCIS franchise hit its 1,000th episode final 12 months with “A Thousand Yards,” the seventh episode of NCIS Season 21, which you’ll be able to stream with a Paramount+ subscription. Along with that includes some stable cameos and a cool tie to the very first NCIS episode, “A Thousand Yards” additionally launched Fletcher Voss, the creator of Bandium, the app used to alert the group at any time when they’re known as to against the law scene. Nicely, Fletcher got here again onto play for the NCIS episode that simply completed airing on the 2025 TV schedule, “Dangerous Blood,” however what was much more pleasing for me was seeing how NCIS: Sydney and a lot of the franchise’s different spinoffs had been subtly referenced within the story.
Why Fletcher Voss Returned To NCIS
“Dangerous Blood” noticed the group investigating the homicide of a Navy lieutenant who was attempting to subdue a drugged-out man named Fred Sammons who’d destroyed quite a few blood samples at a cell blood financial institution to masks him stealing a particular pattern. The pattern belonged to Lauren Hawthorn, who was shortly discovered at her house… or somewhat, her few skeletal stays had been present in a barrel of acid.
Lauren had simply began working at an organization known as Life Sequence that tailors well being plans to an individual DNA. It was quickly revealed that Fletcher Voss began the corporate with the cash he comprised of promoting Bandium, and he’d solely served three months in jail for his inadvertent function within the assassination try on Director Leon Vance. He had additionally been romantically concerned with Lauren, and she or he was pregnant with their youngster earlier than she was killed.
Initially the group suspected Fletcher killed Lauren as a result of he was in the course of a divorce, and if his soon-to-be-ex-wife came upon Lauren was pregnant, he’d lose his $20 million settlement. Nonetheless, Fletcher didn’t know in regards to the being pregnant till Alden Parker instructed him. Oh, and mere moments later, he had a hemorrhagic stroke, which got here from hint quantities of warfarin, a blood thinner, that had been spiked into the six smoothies he drank every day.
Holly, one among Life Sequence’s key staff, was first thought to have poisoned Fletcher Voss after it was found that she created the corporate, however bought over the rights to Fletcher so he’d fund it in what turned out to be a poor deal. Because of the contract, if Fletcher died, she’d get Life Sequence again. Solely, she didn’t need that as a result of it turned out nothing on the firm labored.
The true offender was Life Sequence’s chief physician, Donovan, whose title was on all of the research. As soon as Life Sequence’s program went stay, he’d be outed as a fraud, which is why he began poisoning Fletcher. He didn’t imply to kill Lauren within the course of, however she’d drank a few of Voss’ smoothies, and the warfarin reacted badly with medicine she was taking. So he labored to rid any hint oh her, which included melting her physique within the acid and having her blood pattern stolen. However because it often goes on NCIS, Donovan was arrested, and as a pleasant bonus, a very remorseful Voss was saved when he obtained a blood transfusion from Timothy McGee, who’s a common donor.
Different NCIS Places of work Bought In On McGee’s Fundraiser
As this investigation was taking place, McGee was promoting espresso across the workplace for a fundraiser at his children’ faculty. He drummed up a number of curiosity, however Kasie Hines had the nice thought of promoting the espresso to different NCIS workplaces. The extra money that they raised, the higher McGee stood an opportunity of beating Brendan Banks, a fellow mum or dad who all the time took first place with these faculty fundraisers.
This resulted within the first acknowledgement of NCIS: Sydney on NCIS, as Kasie bought 20 luggage of espresso to a “Michelle” from the company’s Sydney workplace, a reference to Olivia Swann’s Michelle Mackey. Whereas that was the obvious tie to the broader NCIS-verse in “Dangerous Blood,” Kasie additionally arrange a white board protecting observe of her espresso gross sales on the different workplaces. Along with Mackey, it additionally listed Kensi Blye and G. Caleb from NCIS: Los Angeles, Dwayne Satisfaction from NCIS: New Orleans, and Jane Tennant and Ernie Malick from NCIS: Hawai’i.
With all these different NCIS reveals having both ended on their very own phrases or, in Hawai’i’s case, been cancelled, it was good to have the flagship collection tip its proverbial hat to them in a means that didn’t interrupt the movement of the story. It’d be even higher if one or just a few of those characters may cease by so we may study straight how they’re doing as of late, however I’ll take what I can get. In fact, the one NCIS present that was unnoticed of the enjoyable was NCIS: Origins was as a result of, you recognize, it’s a prequel set within the early ‘90s.
New episodes of NCIS air Mondays at 9 pm ET on CBS. This collection, in addition to Sydney and Origins, will all be again for the subsequent TV season, and Paramount+’s NCIS: Tony & Ziva is anticipated to premiere someday this 12 months too.