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Harmon and Weatherly Reunite on NCIS: Origins
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In Short: Mark Harmon and Michael Weatherly are set to reunite on 'NCIS: Origins' for the first time in a decade.
Mark Harmon and Michael Weatherly are set to reunite on 'NCIS: Origins' for the first time in a decade, with Harmon narrating the series and Weatherly returning as Tony DiNozzo.
Harmon will appear in all episodes of Origins season three, reprising his role as Leroy Jethro Gibbs in a present-day mystery tied to his '90s Camp Pendleton days.
Weatherly's return to the franchise began with the Season 24 premiere of the flagship series, where he was named the agency's new director.
The reunion episode of 'NCIS: Origins' will air on October 10, with Harmon's character, Gibbs, seeking DiNozzo's help after being shot by unknown assailants.
According to showrunner David J. North, the season premiere will see Gibbs returning to NCIS’s D.C. headquarters, where he will encounter ghosts from his past that may pull him out of retirement.
The third season premiere of Origins was the top broadcast show in its timeslot, averaging 4.4 million viewers, up 20 percent from last year.
The series follows a younger Gibbs (played by Austin Stowell) in the early 1990s, years before the events of the original series, and introduces a new team at NCIS: New York, with LL COOL J's Sam Hanna returning alongside a new partner played by Scott Caan.
CBS Entertainment President Amy Reisenbach expressed enthusiasm about the expansion of the NCIS universe, stating, “We are elated and honored to continue the expansion of the NCIS universe in such a unique and unexpected way.”
What this adds
This report adds details about the specific roles and storylines for Harmon and Weatherly, as well as the viewership numbers for the premiere episode.
Background
Mark Harmon and Michael Weatherly are set to reunite on 'NCIS: Origins' for the first time in 10 years.
NCIS: Origins is an American police procedural television series, and the sixth installment in the NCIS franchise. It is a prequel to the original series and follows a younger Leroy Jethro Gibbs during his early career years as a Probationary NIS Agent while still processing the trauma of the murder of his wife and daughter.
What's confirmed
- When I asked North if we can expect to see any other NCIS legends as part of this mystery or potential crossovers, he teased, “I’d say it’s a definite possibility…” NCIS: Origins follows a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Austin Stowell) in the early ‘90s, years prior to the events of NCIS, and is narrated by Harmon.
- Meanwhile, Weatherly returned as DiNozzo on the NCIS flagship series beginning with the show’s season 24 premiere on Oct.
- Harmon — who also serves as executive producer on the series — will appear in all episodes of Origins season three as part of a present-day mystery tied to his ‘90s Camp Pendleton days.
- Mark Harmon and Michael Weatherly will be back on screen together for the first time in a decade.
- We know that Gibbs is going to see Woody ( Bobby Moynihan ) in the present-day in NCIS: Origins Season 3 Episode 2 to run the fingerprint he took off his own neck in the premiere.
- Harmon also narrates the prequel, whose ensemble includes Kyle Schmid, Mariel Molino, Tyla Abercrumbie, Diany Rodriguez, and Caleb Foote.
What's still developing
- Foote will play Special Agent Benjamin "Randy" Randolf. The show will also feature Mark Harmon reprising his role as the older Gibbs, but in voice only, as he's serving as the narrator. Harmon is also executive producing alongside his son, Sean Harmon, who played a younger Gibbs in flashback scenes in the original NCIS. The prequel series picks up in 1991, following Gibbs as he starts his career as a "newly minted special agent at the fledgling NCIS Camp Pendleton office where he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks."
- NCIS fans can officially start counting down the days until the franchise's return on Tuesday nights.
- For one, it's been over ten years since Weatherly left NCIS behind in the Season 13 finale, and the team has changed a lot since, even if some of his old colleagues are still around.
- Longtime flagship lead Mark Harmon is locked in for a season-long arc on Season 3 of the prequel series NCIS: Origins, while the Major Crimes Response Team officially welcomes back Tony DiNozzo himself, Michael Weatherly, following the cancellation of his spin-off, NCIS: Tony & Ziva.
- “When we first see Gibbs in the season premiere, he is still in Alaska with his trusted rescue dog but soon finds that the peace he found there isn’t going to be easy to hold on to. Ghosts from his past are catching up to him, and it may be enough to pull him out of retirement. Over the course of the season, we’ll discover that what’s happening in the present day is directly tied to events that occurred during his ‘90s Camp Pendleton days,” showrunner and executive producer David J.
- North recently told Deadline about Harmon’s story this season.
- “We’re having a ton of fun having him there. It’s working out great. We’ll see where it goes and I’ll blink and it’ll be five years later and he’s been there the whole time,” Binder told TheWrap.
- But he did say that Harmon’s Origins return would be “a huge resonant thunderclap to fans” and called him “the OG.” How do you feel about this upcoming reunion?
- His shooter said, “One down, one to go,” thinking that Gibbs was dead thanks to a Marine breathing technique.
- Harmon and Weatherly last shared the screen in the "NCIS" Season 13 finale, "Family First," which aired May 17, 2016, and saw DiNozzo resign from the agency after learning that he and Ziva had a daughter, Tali.
- North, Mark Harmon, Sean Harmon, Michele Greco and Eric Christian Olsen.