[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for NCIS: Origins Season 1 Episode 7 “One Flew Over.”]
NCIS: Origins has featured some firsts and moments fan anticipated for Gibbs (Austin Stowell)—similar to stopping an elevator and even some woodwork, making a birdhouse on this episode—and within the newest episode, it recreates a significant a part of his previous: what units him on the trail to kill the person who murdered his spouse and daughter.
On NCIS, we noticed briefly the second that Franks (Muse Watson on the mothership) left the file on Pedro Hernandez (Shannon and Kelly’s killer) on his desk for Gibbs (Mark Harmon, who now narrates and govt produces the prequel) to learn. NCIS: Origins expands that scene in “One Flew Over.” There have been “loads” of discussions about recreating that, Stowell advised TV Insider when he just lately stopped by. Watch the complete video interview above.
“We had been attempting to do precisely what they did in order that followers of the present get what they’re in search of. I really feel like it’s our responsibility to pay homage to the present that was on for 20 years earlier than us and definitely with a second as huge as this. I imply, that is the knowledge that—that is every thing to Gibbs. That is what he thinks at this level would be the key to the remainder of his life, to fixing himself, to unwinding all of those knots which are inside him,” he mentioned.
“This episode is chock-full of them, the place we’re attending to see the van the place Shannon and Kelly had been killed. We’re attending to see the folder for the primary time. We’re witnessing the second that Mike Franks [Kyle Schmid] meets Gibbs. All of those firsts. I imply, that’s what’s a lot enjoyable about this present is attending to play out these moments that I hope are actually particular for the fanbase.”
Stowell was fast to remind us that “it is a reminiscence of Gibbs, that every one of it is a diary entry and that there are a cause why witnesses are questioned instantly after a criminal offense as a result of your mind begins to play methods on you. And so the reminiscences won’t at all times be precisely as they had been the primary time. And you’ll inform I’m being diplomatic with my phrases proper now as a result of there could also be issues coming down the highway the place vital occasions will play out in a approach that perhaps isn’t precisely like followers remembered it, however perhaps how Gibbs remembers it.”
Would possibly that embrace Gibbs killing Pedro? We all know that’s coming, and on the finish of the flashbacks on this episode, Gibbs now has a cause to begin his restoration. Stowell promised that we are going to see that huge second.
“What I do know has been a really small second, flashes nearly from the mothership, followers will lastly get to see the followers will lastly get to see a extra full model of that extremely vital occasion in Gibbs’ life,” he shared.
Watch the complete video interview above for rather more from Stowell on Gibbs’ restoration, the origins of Gibbs and Franks’ bond, what makes his youthful model very completely different from Harmon’s, exploring Gibbs and younger Tobias Fornell’s (Lucas Dixon) friendship, and extra. Plus, which facet of Gibbs is he most trying ahead to exploring the origins of?
NCIS: Origins, Mondays, 10/9c, CBS