Warning: SPOILERS for the NCIS: Tony & Ziva episode “Wedding ceremony Crashers” are forward!
Though NCIS: Tony & Ziva’s flashback storyline has been exhibiting its title characters getting fairly intimate with one another, final month, showrunner John McNamara knowledgeable CinemaBlend that the rationale they weren’t romantically paired when the current day storyline began is as a result of he “didn’t see sufficient battle in that.” Properly, which may be altering due to the occasions of “Wedding ceremony Crashers.” The latest episode of the Paramount+ collection to air on the 2025 TV schedule ended with Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo’s characters kissing, and the actors/govt producers and McNamara instructed me what this large shakeup means for the remainder of the season.
The plan to apprehend Martine and clear their names with that fake wedding ceremony operation could not have ended the way in which they wished, however Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David did handle to steal her telephone and evade INTERPOL. Then, after Ziva had modified out her wedding ceremony costume on the boat they had been fleeing on, she and Tony (who suffered a large heartbreak simply days earlier) began passionately kissing, solely to be interrupted by Fruzsi. Nonetheless, Tony was proven placing his go well with jacket round Ziva within the episode’s ultimate moments, so the place do issues go from right here with their relationship? Right here’s what Michael Weatherly instructed me after I requested about that:
I suppose the most effective factor I can say is, simply if you assume every part’s okay is when you have to be most cautious. As a result of there are numerous twists and turns that you’ll not see coming.
Cote de Pablo requested that Tony and Ziva get a “comfortable one thing” by the point this debut season of their NCIS spinoff ends (no phrase but on if Season 2 is a risk). So on the naked minimal, we shouldn’t have to fret about tragedy placing these two when this 10-episode run wraps up. That stated, Michael Weatherly is making it sound like simply because these two locked lips once more doesn’t meant imply it can immediately be clean crusing for them.
De Pablo echoed that sentiment after I posed the identical query to her, in addition to famous how wonderful it’s for Tony and Ziva to reconnect in one another on this means amidst all of the adversity they’re going through. As she put it:
I’ll say this: you possibly can acknowledge an emotion. You’ll be able to acknowledge a sense, nevertheless it does not imply that it isn’t gonna come wrapped in a world of problem. And I feel that is what occurs. There’s an acknowledgement of one thing that could be very a lot taking place between them, and it is definitely the start of one thing. It is the promise of one thing. However the place it goes, it is one thing that I feel is even stunning to them as a result of they’re met with simply problem after problem, and I feel that is the fantastic thing about it, is that they maintain preventing.
As for John McNamara, after I requested if the kiss on the boat meant that Tony and Ziva had been formally again collectively or if this simply one other stepping stone of their continued difficult relationship, he answered:
I might say Episodes 5, 6 and seven ship the reply to that query. It is an excellent query, however I actually need the viewers to find that on their very own.
Subsequent week’s NCIS: Tony & Ziva episode, titled “To Be Decided” will observe Tony and Ziva working with their allies to free Jonah Markham, the Secretary Common of INTERPOL, from a supermax jail in Austria. It’ll be their riskiest operation but, as the ability has safety measures like biometric checkpoints, magnetic locks and each prisoner being tracked 24/7, to not point out we don’t know why Markham was immediately thrown in there. But throughout this intense operation, and within the following two episodes, time might be carved out to make clear the place issues stand with Tony and Ziva.
No matter occurs, we all know that these two will all the time be in one another’s lives to co-parent their daughter Tali. For now although, I’m going to remain optimistic and consider that they’ll get their fortunately ever after by the point NCIS: Tony & Ziva’s debut season is over. We additionally realized in “Wedding ceremony Crashers” that Ziva agreed to Tony’s proposal a number of years again, so I’m curious to see what went fallacious there.