Diona Reasonover’s Kasie Hines was launched in NCIS Season 15 because the graduate scholar whom the late Donald “Ducky” Mallard employed his assistant whereas he was writing his guide. Then when Pauley Perrette left the CBS collection, Reasonover was upgraded from recurring participant to collection common, with Kasie taking up Abby Sciuto’s place as Forensic Specialist. She’s remained in that place ever since, and forward of NCIS Season 22 concluding its run on the 2025 TV schedule, Reasonover gave a considerate reply to CinemaBlend about feeling “possession” over enjoying Kasie in these early years.
As well as the actress discussing her expertise engaged on the latest NCIS episode, “Girls Evening,” which may be streamed now with a Paramount+ subscription, she additionally had this to say after I requested her through the interview when she began to really feel like enjoying Kasie and working within the area the place Perrette as soon as resided was “her personal”:
Not like Diona, I believe the character of Kasie was snug straight away. There have been a few moments the place she was like, ‘Oh, I’m unsure,’ however she has a a lot greater character than I do actually, generally. So she was not afraid to sort of get in there and inform Ducky… for instance, that one scene the place she’s like, ‘It’s worthwhile to write your guide’ and he or she shoves him away. Persons are like, ‘Oh, Abby would by no means…’ I used to be like, ‘I do know, I do know, however Kasie would.’
Kasie Hines is a special sort of quirky than Abby Sciuto, so if there have been any NCIS viewers who had been hoping that the previous’s character would intently resemble the latter’s, they had been mistaken. Like Diona Reasonover stated, the place Abby would have handled Ducky with a softer hand, Kasie pushed Ducky to deal with ending his guide. She wasn’t overly forceful about it, nevertheless it was clear she meant enterprise. Reasonover continued:
So I believe that possession got here on fairly shortly. I believe for me, it took some time to regulate to filling such massive platform boots, and I am nonetheless actually grateful for all of the work that Pauley, and plenty of these characters which are not across the present, did to endear this present to folks’s hearts.
Kasie might not blast music in her lab or drink massive portions of Caf-Pow, however with practically a decade having handed since she was launched in NCIS, she stays a integral a part of the staff fixing crimes for the Naval Prison Investigative Service week after week. And it’s not simply by means of her skilled work. Earlier in Season 22, we acquired to fulfill her sport night time mates (and that episode amusingly jogged my memory a The Huge Bang Concept joke), and in “Girls Evening,” Kasie had a flirtatious second with a server at a wine bar.
In order NCIS Season 22 winds down and Season 23 is about for CBS’ 2025-2026 programming block, followers will get to maintain seeing Kasie Hines doing what she does finest: scientifically analyzing proof, having her mates’ again and being assertive when needed. The procedural airs Mondays at 9 pm ET.