Keep in mind when Victoria Palmer was born on NCIS? Nicely, now, in Season 22, she’s getting concerned in a case! Oh, how the time flies.
Elle Graper returns for her second episode as Victoria, Dr. Jimmy Palmer’s (Brian Dietzen) daughter within the March 3 episode of the CBS drama, and this time, she’s the one who brings the case to the staff. In “Near Dwelling,” Victoria texts Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) when she discovers a big sum of cash close to the naval library, and the staff investigates.
Beneath, Dietzen previews the episode, Palmer’s potential new love curiosity (Erinn Hayes‘ Wendy), going undercover, and extra.
It’s so wild Victoria’s sufficiently old to be engaged on instances. Discuss constructing that father-daughter dynamic, particularly the way it’s modified and the way we’re seeing it on this episode.
Brian Dietzen: We hear Jimmy speak about his daughter so typically within the present. She’s his household, clearly since Breena handed away, that’s his instant household and he loves her completely greater than something within the planet. So once we received to satisfy her, what was it now, three years in the past, three, I assume, 4 years in the past now, it was the primary episode that I co-wrote with Scott Williams referred to as “The Helpers,” and we discovered Elle within the midst of Covid casting and all that kind of stuff. She was so fantastic and we have been so fortunate to have her out on our set and he or she made such an impression on us. We knew that we needed to have her again, and it’s very nice to see this character who’s naturally progressing into her early teenage years and the issues that each one fathers undergo with a teenage daughter, the struggles but in addition the connection and the fantastic thing about it. I actually appreciated that our writers weren’t making an attempt to fall again on like, oh, right here’s the pissed off dad with {the teenager}. Loads of it was actually primarily based in how shut they’re and the way a lot they love one another despite having a few of these household dynamics.
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However whereas they’re shut, Victoria reaches out to Torres, to not father. How does he deal with that?
I’m going to say Jimmy’s tremendous proud that he’s such dad, that she feels comfy reaching out to different relations. [Laughs] as a result of let’s be trustworthy, Nick is Uncle Nick. He’s the man that’s at all times there for Victoria it doesn’t matter what. So I feel it’s fairly nice, man. That’s the one factor I simply love about this present is that if this staff ever feels prefer it’s a household, it’s as a result of it’s. And I like that about it.
However there’s the matter of Jimmy and Knight’s breakup, and the present made clear Victoria was upset about that. However Victoria and Knight have their very own relationship, too. So what are you able to say about that and the way Jimmy feels about that?
Nicely, I feel that’s the identical factor, too, is that the very last thing that Jimmy and Jess stated to 1 one other concerning their relationship is that they love each other. And till they are saying that they don’t anymore, I feel that’s nonetheless there. And that love could have turned into one thing completely different, or perhaps it’s the identical after they’re protecting it up or making an attempt to maneuver ahead from it. I don’t know. However I feel that from Jimmy’s perspective, you may’t actually discover an individual with character that’s extra admirable and form of a greater feminine function mannequin than Jessica Knight for his daughter. And I feel that whereas they might not be collectively romantically proper now, he’s good sufficient to know, hey, this can be a actually nice relationship for my kiddo and in addition nonetheless for me. I feel selfishly, he in all probability loves nonetheless having Jess in his life.
We see a special facet of Jimmy with regards to the investigation on this episode as a result of he does undercover work. How does that problem him?
Nicely, it’s enjoyable to at all times see any character get outdoors their consolation zone. Jimmy’s wheelhouse is certainly crime scenes, autopsies, that kind of factor, our bodies that aren’t transferring. And so when he’s round our bodies which are transferring and making an attempt to determine learn how to get issues going, that’s extra Torres’ realm going undercover or McGee [Sean Murray] or Jess. So it was actually enjoyable to have the ability to shoot that. And after a pair a long time on the job, there’s nonetheless stuff that Jimmy has not finished earlier than, and seeing him out of his factor, I feel is basically enjoyable to do. What’s form of good is that first time he does that, it’s nonetheless a house recreation as a result of he has this complete staff behind him ready for him and serving to him behind the scenes. So it was a enjoyable dynamic.
There’s additionally this new potential love curiosity that we meet on this episode, Wendy. What are you able to say about her and Jimmy’s dynamic? It’s additionally in the midst of this case, in order that complicates issues.
Proper. Yeah. Nicely, okay, first off, I can’t say sufficient good issues about Erinn Hayes. I’ve identified Erinn since I used to be about 18 years outdated. We went to school collectively and we first performed reverse each other when in a manufacturing of Antigone, I used to be Haemon and he or she was Antigone. So we go means again to Greek tragedies and he or she’s completely terrific. She’s a hilarious comic, and he or she’s additionally a beautiful dramatic actress. So I used to be actually blissful once I noticed there’s this character arising. I stated, you bought to get Erinn to come back on. And she or he’s clearly been on numerous CBS exhibits, in order that they have been blissful to have her. However I like that what we see right here is we see Jimmy actually making an attempt to be blissful is what it comes right down to. We see that it didn’t work with Jess, his spouse has handed away. He’s nonetheless making an attempt. He’s nonetheless looking for one thing. He isn’t an outdated man. He’s nonetheless middle-aged man with a teenage daughter. He doesn’t need to grasp it up but. So he’s making his efforts, nevertheless tough it could be within the midst of her probably, I don’t know, perhaps being a assassin. We’re unsure. I don’t know. However I wish to see that they’re giving Jimmy his photographs at it.
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