Within the NCIS Season 21 finale, Gary Cole’s Alden Parker skilled an odd imaginative and prescient involving a younger woman named Lily whereas he was gravely injured. Though some mild was shed on this thriller throughout Season 22, there are nonetheless a handful of questions left to be answered when Season 23 begins working on the 2025 TV schedule. Fortunately, NCIS showrunner Steven D. Binder has cleared up that this explicit storyline received’t overlap with one other one.
For these of you questioning if the Lily thriller would find yourself tying into Parker’s battle with Kanas Metropolis Mob boss Carla Marino, whom he believes killed his father within the NCIS Season 22 finale. Binder knowledgeable TVLine that this isn’t the case, saying:
We’ve finished quite a lot of enthusiastic about this, and it felt like these must be separate tales.
I’m so glad Steven D. Binder and the remainder of the NCIS inventive crew reached this resolution. There have already been sufficient twists and turns with the Lily storyline that having Carla Marino instantly concerned with it in some way could be too convoluted. Apart from, the Carla storyline is ready to be wrapped up fairly early into Season 23, with Timothy McGee, Nick Torres, Jessica Knight, Kasie Hines and Jimmy Palmer wanting like they’ll assist Alden Parker in monitoring down this lady who’s been a thorn in his aspect stretching again to his FBI days.
The Lily thriller, alternatively, nonetheless has a methods to go earlier than it’s resolved, although Steven D. Binder didn’t make clear if it will occur in NCIS Season 23 or if it might even stretch into a possible Season 24. The final main replace on this woman got here within the episode “Moonlit,” the place Parker discovered that she wasn’t one thing purely created from his creativeness, however quite somebody in actual life who was photographed on the website the place his mom, Eleanor Parker, died in a drunk driving incident. Moreover, Palmer obtained ahold of Eleanor dying certificates within the Season 22 finale and informed Knight that “one thing doesn’t add up with it, however we’ve but to study what that’s.
So the place do issues go from right here with this facet of NCIS? Effectively, Steven D. Binder additionally mentioned that the strangeness of Eleanor’s dying certificates will “unfold rapidly” in Season 23. We will additionally count on to see extra flashbacks to Alden Parker’s youth and meet his sister Harriet, who might be performed within the current day by Nancy Travis. As for the Carla Marino storyline, Binder added that the brand new season will “open with quite a lot of warmth, quite a lot of motion — and we’re hoping to not let up.”
NCIS Season 23 will kick off on Tuesday, October 14 at 8 pm ET. It will likely be adopted that very same evening by the premieres of NCIS: Origins Season 2 and NCIS: Sydney Season 3, and the brand new spinoff NCIS: Tony & Ziva is at the moment releasing new episodes on Thursdays to followers who’ve a Paramount+ subscription.