The Leroy Gibbs prequel collection NCIS: Origins has been airing on the 2024 TV schedule and giving followers an early-‘90s have a look at the newly-minted NIS agent simply weeks after dropping his spouse and daughter. Viewers are additionally studying extra about characters each acquainted to the NCIS franchise, in addition to new ones. After the collection teased “the story of her” within the premiere, implying a a lot greater story at play, Austin Stowell has a idea about why followers have by no means heard of it within the mothership drama.
Mark Harmon stepped again into the footwear of Gibbs largely off-screen, serving because the narrator on Origins, although he did seem within the collection premiere. In direction of the top, he was saying that this can be a story he’s by no means informed, which has been the premise of the teasers and the posters previous to the premiere, however then quipped “That is the story of her,” seemingly in reference to Mariel Molino’s Lala Dominguez. So why are we solely simply now listening to about it after 19 years of NCIS tales?
Austin Stowell, who performs younger Gibbs on the prequel, informed TVLine his personal private idea, and I can actually see it being a legit cause to maintain that story quiet, even when the actor thinks they’re past it now. As he put it:
I had a idea going for the primary few episodes that she was really Pedro Hernandez’s daughter. I assumed that they is likely to be associated someway. That may do it. However I believe these hunches have been quelled at this level. I believe it’s off the desk.
In case anybody wants a fast refresher, Pedro Hernandez was a Mexican drug supplier who was accountable for murdering Gibbs’ spouse, Shannon, and their daughter, Kelly. Gibbs ended up killing Hernandez in 1991, so it could actually be fascinating if that was the case. It could make sense why Gibbs hadn’t informed the story earlier than, nevertheless it feels like that concept has since been shot down, and Stowell is simply as clueless as anybody else.
Whether or not it was an epic romance, she turned out to be a traitor, or somebody that’s the exact opposite of who she is, it feels like followers might not know the explanation, at the least for now. Origins is, after all, a prequel centering on Gibbs, and to date, it’s largely specializing in Gibbs’ story, however because the collection goes on, we are going to doubtless be digging deeper into every character. The story of “her” is only one of many that also must be informed, and for now, it looks as if nobody is aware of simply what that’s or why we’ve got waited for thus lengthy.
In the meantime, because the story of her continues to be a thriller to many, the story of Gibbs continues to shed extra gentle on his backstory. Origins just lately launched one more acquainted character essential to him when it introduced a younger Agent Fornell into the combo. The collection additionally lastly confirmed how Gibbs and Franks met, and there may be nonetheless rather more to be informed.
With Origins nabbing a full-season order, that signifies that followers will have the ability to dig even deeper into these characters, and there’s no telling what can be discovered. It needs to be fascinating to see what else is uncovered and hopefully discover out why these tales are solely simply being informed. New episodes of NCIS: Origins air on Mondays at 10 p.m. ET on CBS.