NCIS: Origins Season 1 answered crammed in fairly a number of gaps in Leroy Jethro Gibbs’ previous, from the two-part premiere displaying how he developed his style for bourbon, to the Season 1 finale depicting him assembly Diane, his future second spouse, amidst the surprising Lala twist. However there’s nonetheless lots extra facets of the unique NCIS lead’s life pre-2003 left to be crammed in for Origins Season 2, which is able to premiere on the 2025 TV schedule this fall. Fortuitously for followers, a tie-in to NCIS: New Orleans is already being formulated, which co-showrunner Gina Lucita Monreal shared whereas discussing the significance of honoring canon within the CBS prequel.
Monreal, who shares showrunning duties David J. North, knowledgeable TVLine that NCIS: Origins will ultimately deal with the Fed 5, i.e. the staff of legislation enforcement officers that consisted of Gibbs, Mike Franks, New Orleans’ Dwayne Pleasure, Felix Betts and Dan McLane. It’s one other instance of Origins making the trouble to acknowledge historical past established by the procedural franchise’s flagship present, with Monreal saying:
We all the time have our eye on canon. We’ve got a giant enormous timeline within the writers room and we’re actually strict about sticking to it. The canon issues to us, and we by no means need to ignore it. So, all of the issues that we’re seeing in canon, we’ll deal with a method or one other.
Similar to NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans was arrange in a two-part backdoor pilot on NCIS, with “Crescent Metropolis” airing throughout Season 11. In these episodes, we met Dwayne Pleasure, the Particular Agent in Cost of NCIS’ New Orleans Workplace who was performed by Scott Bakula. Pleasure and Gibbs reunited when McLane, who’d been in command of the Fed 5 and later turned a Congressman, was discovered murdered within the Large Simple. Betts additionally appeared within the second a part of the backdoor pilot, which will be streamed with a Paramount+ subscription.
The Fed 5 was shaped 20 years previous to the occasions of “Crescent Metropolis,” a time when Gibbs and Pleasure had been nonetheless probationary brokers. These 5 males apprehended Spencer Hanlon, a.okay.a. the Privileged Killer, who focused lively and former members of america Marine Corps. After “Crescent Metropolis” (by which level Mike Franks was already useless), NCIS: New Orleans premiered in fall 2011 and ran for seven seasons on CBS.
NCIS: Origins has already bent canon a number of occasions, like when it was proven that Mike Franks and Jackson Gibbs already knew one another, regardless that their first assembly had been depicted within the NCIS Season 8 premiere. However for essentially the most half, as Gina Lucita Monreal laid out, this prequel takes NCIS historical past significantly, and that is the purpose within the timeline the place the Fed 5 got here collectively. So whereas we don’t know when particularly this NCIS: New Orleans tie-in will occur, it’s undoubtedly coming. Now I’m trying ahead to seeing who will play the younger Dwayne Pleasure.
NCIS: Origins Season 2 will air Mondays at 9 pm ET on CBS’ 2025-2026 fall lineup, sandwiched between NCIS Season 23 and NCIS: Sydney Season 3. NCIS: Tony & Ziva will even premiere completely on Paramount+ across the identical time.