NCIS: Origins Season 2 premieres on the 2025 TV schedule in October, sandwiched between NCIS Season 23 and NCIS: Sydney Season 3 on CBS. The prequel present’s forged and crew, nevertheless, are already again within the swing of issues, as Season 2 has begun filming. What’s caught my eye at the beginning of this manufacturing, nevertheless, is that there’s already a serious replace to share about Mariel Molino’s character, Lala Dominguez.
Lala crashed her automotive within the NCIS: Origins Season 1 finale to keep away from hitting just a little lady who’d run out into the road, and it was left ambiguous whether or not or not she survived. Effectively, followers can take consolation realizing they’ll at the least get to see Lala at the beginning of Season 2. That’s as a result of Molino shared an image on her Instagram Tales of the world of the Paramount lot the place Origins filmed, with a particular canine pal of hers in body:
Kyle Schmid, who performs Mike Franks on NCIS: Origins, took a video of that very same space of the lot, albeit at evening, and shared it to his personal Instagram Tales. So for these of you who have been apprehensive that Lala Dominguez wouldn’t seem in Origins’ subsequent season in any respect, these worries can now be squashed. The query now’s, how precisely will we see her?
The primary and most obvious reply is that Lala survived the automotive crash. From there, it may be inferred that the NCIS: Origins Season 2 premiere will both choose up instantly the place the Season 1 finale left off and present her within the hospital, or it is going to start a number of months later as she’s nonetheless recovering. However there are a pair holes in that concept.
As Mark Harmon’s older Leroy Jethro Gibbs narrated within the Origins sequence premiere, this story he’s telling within the prequel is about Lala, and it’s not a narrative he’s felt comfy telling till now. It is smart he’d really feel that means if she died, but when she lived and went on to work with Gibbs for a number of extra years, then why would he really feel that means about her? Additionally, if Lala made it by way of the automotive crash, why wouldn’t she have informed Gibbs instantly about how he received Lara Macy to cease going after him? He didn’t study that data till the late 2000s, as seen in NCIS Season 6.
That leaves the opposite choice: Lala died within the automotive crash, and he or she’ll be current within the Season 2 premiere as both a ghost Austin Stowell’s Gibbs sees or by way of flashbacks. If NCIS: Origins goes this route, it’d be harking back to how NCIS killed off Sasha Alexander’s Caitlin Todd in its Season 2 finale, then introduced her again yet another time in numerous visions the opposite characters noticed of her. Nonetheless, if Mariel Molino continues to publish behind-the-scenes Origins photos and movies within the coming weeks, we are able to rule this selection out.
Lala Dominguez’s destiny will likely be absolutely revealed when NCIS: Origins Season 2 premieres on CBS October 14 at 9 p.m. ET. Season 2 may even see Mike Franks reuniting along with his brother, proceed following together with Cliff Wheeler and present Gibbs’ first interrogation.