Warning: SPOILERS for the NCIS episode “Killer Intuition” are forward!
NCIS has had a number of multi-episode storylines working throughout Season 22, one in every of them being the thriller surrounding Gabriel LaRoche, the company’s new deputy director. We haven’t seen Seamus Dever’s suspicious character since final December, however he lastly returned tonight on the 2025 TV schedule for “Killer Intuition,” and man, was it a doozy. The brand new NCIS episode delivered some main twists for its LaRoche storyline, and I used to be stunned to be taught that one in every of them really tied again to a storyline revolving round Gary Cole’s Alden Parker.
What We Realized About Gabriel LaRoche On NCIS
“Killer Intuition” began with the arrest of an murderer named Paul Morton, a.ok.a. The Poet, who murdered Lieutenant Commander Ryan Willis and was subsequent set to kill Chief Warrant Officer Ian Garza. Thankfully, NCIS was in a position to arrest Morton earlier than that occurred because of an nameless tip, however he poisoned himself throughout interrogation earlier than divulging any details about who employed him and any of his different targets. It turned out that Willis and Garza each labored safety on a prepare known as the Atlas, which transports tons of spent nuclear gas for the Division of Vitality.
The staff was in a position to monitor down Gemma Wooden, Morton’s dealer, and Nick Torres posed as Morton with a purpose to sneak into the workplace within the jewellery retailer Wooden labored out of to obtain information off her laptop. In the meantime, McGee, who was nonetheless obsessive about uncovering the reality behind LaRoche, reluctantly went together with his spouse Delilah to the Deputy Director’s home for dinner with him and his spouse. To say McGee was not having an excellent time can be an understatement, and it solely obtained worse when he snooped in LaRoche’s workplace and located a file about him. It seems LaRoche knew McGee had been wanting into him and determined turnabout is truthful play.
Proof was quickly found at Wooden’s jewellery store that LaRoche was one other goal. So regardless of his adverse emotions in the direction of LaRoche, McGee did his obligation to guard his boss from the brand new murderer who was despatched after him. Within the midst of this, LaRoche admitted that McGee was initially alleged to get the Deputy Director place, however that modified as soon as he despatched a report criticizing NCIS for appearing extra like a household than an company. However LaRoche now realized he was flawed about this, so meaning he and McGee are on good phrases with one another now, proper?
Not fairly. After NCIS’ predominant characters realized that it was the Nexus Cartel that wished LaRoche lifeless, McGee additionally realized that the nameless tip about Paul Morton was despatched from a authorities server created by the DOD known as Nocturne. Remembering that Gabriel LaRoche had a pink pocket book in his workplace that had “Nocturne” and a sequence of numbers and letters written on an hooked up sticky word, McGee realized that LaRoche despatched within the tip. So now he’s extra decided to reveal the Deputy Director’s shadiness, and made the person conscious of it proper to his face.
How The LaRoche Storyline Ended Up Being Tied To The Kansas Metropolis Mob
Chances are you’ll recall that in NCIS Season 22’s fifth episode (which you’ll stream with a Paramount+ subscription should you want a full refresher), we realized that Alden Parker had spent years on the FBI attempting to nab Carla Marino, the pinnacle of the Kanas Metropolis Mob. Showrunner Steven D. Binder assured me in December that there was a “flight plan” for Carla and the Kanas Metropolis Mob, and positive sufficient, they surprisingly factored into the occasions of “Killer Intuition.” As a result of because it seems, Carla was additionally one in every of Gemma Wooden’s shoppers.
Whereas it initially appeared like Carla could have ordered the hits on Willis and Garza, and thus in flip may have been focusing on LaRoche too, Wooden assured Torres and Knight when she was being interrogated that this wasn’t the case. Nonetheless, Wooden refused to say the rest on the topic, as she’s petrified of Carla. So for now, it stays unclear if Carla and the Kansas Metropolis Mob are instantly linked to the Nexus Cartel or if they only shared the identical dealer. And the way does the Atlas prepare match into all this?
On condition that the NCIS Season 22 finale is titled “Nexus,” we could get solutions to those questions in just some weeks time. In any other case, since NCIS has been renewed for Season 23, don’t be stunned if the complete scope of those storylines don’t come into focus till the subsequent TV season.