So long as NCIS: Origins is airing, there’s going to be followers asking when youthful variations of characters from the unique NCIS are going to look. Properly, now we lastly have one locked in for the prequel’s second season with rather less than two months to go till it premieres on the 2025 TV schedule. Not solely is NCIS: Origins Season 2 going to characteristic younger Donald “Ducky” Mallard, this look can even embrace a touching tribute to “honor the reminiscence” of the late David McCallum.
Adam Campbell, who performed Ducky in his youthful years in 4 NCIS episodes, is ready to reprise his function for an episode titled “The Edge.” The story will see Ducky touring to Camp Pendleton to indicate the crew as they work a case, which can carry him again into contact with Leroy Jethro Gibbs for the primary time in years. Their first assembly was depicted within the NCIS Season 18 episode “The whole lot Begins Someplace,” which featured flashbacks set in 1980 and was again when Sean Harmon was enjoying younger Gibbs.
Moreover, “The Edge” can even characteristic David McCallum’s track of the identical identify, which he recorded within the Nineteen Sixties and has beforehand been featured in Grand Theft Auto IV and Child Driver. NCIS: Origins showrunners David J. North and Gina Lucita Monreal mentioned the next about paying tribute in Season 2 to McCallum, who handed away on September 25, 2023:
We wished to do that episode to honor the reminiscence of our expensive pal David McCallum. He was a beloved member of the NCIS household for thus a few years and we’re extremely fortunate to have the gifted Adam Campbell again to carry the youthful model of this iconic character to life as soon as once more. We even acquired to characteristic David’s music within the episode. We’re all very excited and might’t watch for the followers to see it!
This would be the second time the NCIS franchise has honored David McCallum. The NCIS Season 21 episode “The Tales We Go away Behind” noticed Ducky passing away in his sleep and that present’s crew fixing a case that the previous chief health worker had taken on shortly beforehand. The episode aired on February 19, 2024 and likewise featured a shock cameo look from Michael Weatherly’s Anthony DiNozzo.
David McCallum was one of many unique 5 NCIS sequence regulars alongside Weatherly, Mark Harmon, Sasha Alexander and Pauley Perrette. He caught round as Ducky Mallard for the present’s first 20 seasons, though he made decreased appearances beginning in Season 15. It was additionally famous within the NCIS Season 6 episode “Damaged Chicken” that Ducky joined the regulation enforcement company in December 1992, so it appears like NCIS: Origins’ “The Edge” might present him deciding to take action as he’s reconnecting with Gibbs.
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