Though Mark Harmon briefly appeared in NCIS: Origins’ opening episode and narrates the prequel collection, it stays to be seen if we’ll ever his older Leroy Jethro Gibbs onscreen once more. Austin Stowell’s Gibbs journey, alternatively, isn’t ending anytime quickly. We’ll see him again because the youthful model of the correct procedural character when NCIS: Origins Season 2 premieres on the 2025 TV schedule this fall, and co-showrunner David J. North how the prequel collection will discover the youthful Gibbs evolving from a “probie” right into a extra assertive NIS agent.
Probie, in fact, is brief for probationary agent, i.e. when a newcomer joins NIS/NCIS. Timothy McGee was incessantly known as that by Tony DiNozzo on the flagship collection, and he discovered that time period from Gibbs, who was known as that by his mentor, Mike Franks. Gibbs earned that nickname when he joined NIS in 1991, mere months after his spouse and daughter have been killed. However can we anticipate to see him converse up extra in Season 2 and have extra of an lively position on the group? Right here’s what North, who co-runs the collection with Gina Lucita Monreal, advised TVLine:
We’re inching our manner there, undoubtedly, in a manner that we expect is trustworthy for the character. I imply, simply take the truth that in Season 1, we all know Gibbs’ intestine was churning a little bit bit about Bugs and considering, ‘Perhaps there’s extra to this story?’ However Gibbs didn’t go down that path, he didn’t gnaw at Franks and say, ‘Hey, my intestine…’ — and he discovered ultimately he was proper. These are all stepping stones towards turning into the Gibbs that we met in 2003.
Clearly we’re a good distance off from in NCIS: Origins from this youthful Leroy Jethro Gibbs turning into the skilled chief we met over 20 years in the past in NCIS’ backdoor pilot on JAG. He wasn’t even a full yr into his legislation enforcement profession by the point the occasions of the NCIS: Origins Season 1 finale unfolded. Nonetheless, I’m glad that North and Monreal are giving this facet of Gibbs’ characterization some thought, because it might want to absolutely addressed in some unspecified time in the future.
Relying on how lengthy NCIS: Origins runs for, I’ve a good suggestion about when Gibbs will make the transition into management. Within the authentic NCIS, it was revealed that Mike Franks left NIS in 1996 and moved to Mexico following america’ authorities’s failure to cease the Khobar Towers bombing. If every season of Origins chronicles roughly one yr, then Kyle Schmid would want to depart the collection both by the top of Season 5 or early in Season 6 to remain true to continuity. That may pave the way in which for Gibbs to both take over the Origins group or resolve to maneuver throughout the nation and begin working the one we all know and love from NCIS.
I’m getting manner forward of myself, as NCIS: Origins Season 2 doesn’t also have a particular premiere date but. What we do know is that it’s being moved to Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. ET on CBS’ 2025-2026 fall TV lineup, sandwiched between NCIS and NCIS: Sydney. So I’ll simply maintain ready for the following batch of episodes and take into consideration how what the following stage of the youthful Gibbs’ evolution will seem like.