NCIS continues to be staying robust on the 2025 TV schedule, with Season 22 returning with extra Ok.C. mafia drama on January 27. Throughout its 20-season run to date, the CBS procedural has welcomed a great deal of nice visitor stars, together with Jamie Lee Curtis, Abigail Breslin, Bob Newhart, Zac Efron, Glen Powell, Millie Bobby Brown, and lots of extra. Social gathering of 5 vet Scott Wolf can also be included in that listing, and after the actor opened up about working alongside Mark Harmon, I can’t recover from his candy ideas.
Wolf guest-starred in three Season 9 episodes as Jonathan Cole, a particular ops workforce member and a killer who practically snuffed Michael Weatherly’s Tony DiNozzo. He wound up sacrificing himself within the season finale after a bomb was delivered through automotive to the Navy Yard. Whereas Wolf can have a good time loads of film and TV roles all through his profession, he nonetheless can’t assist however look again fondly at his villanous flip. He spoke to TV Insider about his transient look and the way a lot he liked taking part in a nasty man, saying:
NCIS was nice. Mark Harmon, salt of the Earth, beneficiant, actually made me really feel welcome there. They instructed a really cool story with my character. Oftentimes, while you are available and play a personality like I did — he was a villain, he was like this rogue ex-Navy Seal who needed to shoot folks and hurt folks. However they wound up form of redeeming him in the long run.
Wolf recalled his ultimate episode, “Until Loss of life Do Us Half,” the place Cole and Harmon’s Gibbs have been arguing over diffusing the aforementioned automotive bomb. After Gibbs realized that the explosive was proper subsequent to the lab the place Abby (Pauley Perrette) was nonetheless located, Cole instructed Gibbs to go and save her whereas he stayed behind with the bomb. That selection is definitely Wolf’s favourite half concerning the character, particularly since Cole was fairly the dangerous man when he was first launched. As he defined:
In the long run, time’s working out, and he has this second with Mark Harmon the place he’s like, ‘You bought to get out,’ and he’s like, ‘No, no, no, I’m staying.’ And he smiles, and he’s actually martyring himself. He’s going to die to avoid wasting folks. And for a present like that that doesn’t do this with characters fairly often, it’s sort of unimaginable.
Contemplating Wolf solely popped up for a couple of episodes, he nonetheless made fairly an influence, which reveals simply how necessary his character was to the general storyline. And never simply because he may’ve simply taken out a most important character along with his very first look. It isn’t on a regular basis that somebody will get to avoid wasting Gibbs, versus the opposite manner round.
Plus, there’s additionally a really particular purpose why Wolf loves the redemption storyline a lot, even when it did finish along with his character making the last word sacrifice. In his phrases:
I did three episodes, I don’t even know the way way back, and I would get stopped for that in airports as a lot as anything. It’s a very fashionable present, clearly. However there was one thing about the truth that they made a bit of arc out of that character, and he wasn’t a one-off, shoot folks and go away [character].
Though it could have been enjoyable to have Scott Wolf return to NCIS for followers to see that redemption play out, it feels like he’s fairly glad with the grave manner issues ended for his character. That redemption additionally gave viewers a very nice second between Harmon and Wolf that the latter will keep in mind for years to come back. And that is perhaps the most effective factor about all of it.
On the very least, Wolf has but to decelerate in the case of performing and may at the moment be seen in Fox’s new collection Doc. He additionally beforehand loved a Social gathering of 5 mini-reunion with Lacey Chabert, and I am excited for what may very well be subsequent for his profession. Within the meantime, followers with a Paramount+ subscription can watch his Season 9 episodes of NCIS anytime a fast dose of adrenaline is required.