The show’s (resident hottie) Michael Weatherly tells USA TODAY’s Andrea Mandell he’s shooting the finale as we speak – and it’s explosive.

“We’ve got agents getting shot, chaos, mayhem and super intrigue,” teases Weatherly, who plays Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo.

OK, so who gets shot? “I can tell you that more than one person gets killed,” he says of the Season 8 ender. “It’s epic. It feels to me like old-school NCIS. We’ve been on the air so long I can say that,” he says with a laugh. “To me the season finale evokes the stuff we were doing in Seasons 2 and 3.”

The happily married actor, 42, credits the stability of the show for “a strong relationship with my son and my beautiful wife,” Bojana, a medical resident at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.

Weatherly tells us he plans on using his summer hiatus to take his son August, 15 (from his first marriage to Amelia Heinle), to Europe. “He kind of hates his name right now, but the first time he hears a French teenage girl pronounce his name, ‘Augoost,'” Weatherly says, noting how in French the name makes lips “pucker out like you’re getting ready to kiss somebody – I think he’s going to be very happy. I had a plan 15 years ago. I wanted to set him up!”

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