Warning: SPOILERS for the NCIS: Tony & Ziva episode “We’ve Acquired Firm” are forward!
Final yr, Michael Weatherly, who each stars in and govt produces NCIS: Tony & Ziva alongside Cote de Pablo, stated that Tali, Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David’s daughter, would play an necessary function within the story. Though the youthful Tali has been a frequent presence within the present’s flashbacks, we haven’t spent a lot time with Isla Gie’s current day model of the character because the first episode. That modified with the premiere of “We’ve Acquired Firm” to Paramount+ subscription-holders on the 2025 TV schedule, and now I think I understand how she factored into her dad and mom breaking apart.
Current-Day Tali And Sophie Ended Up In Hazard
With Tony and Ziva being pressured to journey round Europe to clear their identify, Tali has been sorted by Sophie, her nanny who was once an MI6 agent. The cabin the place they stayed didn’t have a Wifi connection, and Sophie didn’t permit her to make use of a telephone for concern that this might result in the dangerous guys monitoring them down. Finally the pill Tali used to play an offline recreation ran of energy, and whereas discovering methods to deal with the boredom, she discovered a smartwatch her father left behind through the household’s final go to to the cabin (extra on that later).
Sadly, Tali merely turning on the watch to play a distinct offline recreation linked it to the telephone community, and it didn’t take lengthy for goons working for Martine and Jonah Markham (whom we now know is a villain) to seek out her and Sophie. These two endured rather a lot from there, together with Sophie almost dying from a hornet sting (there was a nest close to the home) and them being pressured to flee from the panic room, however finally they got here out of this intact. Sophie dispatched most of those goons together with her fight coaching, Tali managed to neutralize considered one of them utilizing a taser she grabbed from a secure room, and Claudette arrived simply within the nick of time to shoot the person who was about to kill her girlfriend.
Tony and Ziva pulled as much as the cabin quickly after, and with the secure home now not, properly, secure, Tali and Claudette are actually with them and the remainder of the gang. Whereas Ziva believes that Tali will now be safer if she stays with them, Tony, who’s grappling with the dying of his buddy Henry, doesn’t agree. I believe we are able to safely assume Tali’s not going to get killed off too, however I additionally doubt that is the final time she’ll be in peril.
Flashback Tali Had A Shut Name With A Gun
The flashback storyline in “We’ve Acquired Firm” confirmed Tony and Ziva taking Tali to the cabin for the primary time in August 2020. Upon coming into the holiday getaway by herself, Tali found a gun caught beneath one of many tables and began inspecting it. Tony and Ziva understandably panicked as soon as they got here in and snatched the firearm away from her. It turned out this was considered one of Ziva’s previous secure homes, and he or she’d forgotten to remove the gun throughout her final sweep.
With tensions operating excessive in that second, Tony and Ziva received into an argument about what occurred, as they’d beforehand agreed they didn’t need their daughter to have the identical sort of upbringing that Ziva did. Ziva later defined to Tali that though she retains weapons round the home to really feel secure, she didn’t need Tali to have the identical mindset. Nonetheless, I can’t assist questioning if that shut name with the gun performed into Tony and Ziva’s choice to finish their engagement years again.
I’m not saying Tali herself was answerable for her dad and mom separating. Reasonably, I ponder if Ziva nonetheless coping with the trauma she skilled over her life, plus her sophisticated relationship with Tony, made her understand that she wasn’t in the precise headspace to make it work with him in a romantic manner. Let’s additionally not neglect that Tony wasn’t being trustworthy with Ziva through the remedy getaway with Dr. Lang, which means there was a basis of lies in her relationship.
In fact, with Tony and Ziva having kissed one another a couple of weeks again within the current day, maybe these two loopy youngsters are lastly on their solution to getting again collectively. I do know Tali would love that, and Cote de Pablo did request that her and Michael Weatherly’s characters get a “completely happy one thing” earlier than agreeing to affix NCIS: Tony & Ziva. Nonetheless, I stay up for studying precisely the place issues went fallacious with the title characters as new episodes drop on Paramount+.