On Tuesday’s episode of NCIS (8/7c, CBS), Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and the rest of the team are trying to exonerate a former Navy Hospital Corpsman (guest star Laura Seay) who’s indicted after illegally providing medical aid to the victims of a car crash.

While Good Samaritan laws are in place to protect bystanders who offer aid at the scene of an accident, the legalities become blurry when military personnel are involved. “The idea that you can have this extraordinary training in the field, and yet for whatever reason, that training doesn’t legally and officially transfer back to working in the public in the United States, was interesting to us,” NCIS showrunner Gary Glasberg told TVGuide.com. “I don’t entirely understand the reasoning behind it. But at the end of the day, we all agreed that it’s worth bringing up, and it was the kind of thing that Gibbs would question and … want to do everything he could to help her.”

Adds Seay: “The way that the laws are written, it doesn’t seem to make room for this particular type scenario and even more specifically, people coming from a military medical background. It seems like when you’re in the military, you’re also sort of agreeing to adhere to a whole separate set of legislative things, almost as if you’re going to another country. And when you come out of that country, it’s interesting the way that our judicial system doesn’t really line up or make way for those unusual circumstances and training.”

Producers paired Seay up with a real corpsman to advise on how to approach her character, Anna Dillon, and the issue at large. “Marines, period, but especially corpsmen — because they’re the medics that work with the Marines on the frontlines —hold themselves to a really, really, really high standard. Excellence is key,” Seay says. “After this travesty has happened, even though [Anna] saved two lives, she can’t really get the third one out of her head. … I think that’s actually more what she’s haggling with, at least in the first part of the episode, than any sort of legal aspect of it. And I think Gibbs can see that, and he’s trying to help her contend with both parts — one that’s dealing with it ethically, and the other that, oh yeah, there’s this legal thing too that I guess I’m a part of.”

Of course, the accident isn’t entirely what it seems to be at first, and the team also finds itself immersed in a murder investigation before the episode concludes. But for Glasberg, it was important to shed light on an issue that many are unaware of.

“Coming off the heels of Veterans Day, it’s an important episode for people to watch, and some really lovely performances on everyone’s part, including Laura,” he says. “I hope it opens some eyes and people enjoy it.”

NCIS airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on CBS.

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You’re trained to save lives in war, but when you try to do the same outside the battle ground, you’re persecuted.

That’s essentially the story of NCIS Season 12 Episode 8, which will find Anna Dillon being brought to the attention of our team as she’s detained after helping save the lives of some car crash victims.

However, while Anna is trained in service, she is not licensed to do the same in the real world. Leroy Gibbs to the rescue!

Tonight’s episode is sure to get people talking about what is right and wrong in the laws – but it also features some fine performances by Mark Harmon and guest star Laura Seay. Fans will also be treated to a lighter story involving Abby’s dating life, as the team is concerned about her pattern of dating men.

To get more insight into the installment, I talked with Seay and showrunner Gary Glasberg. Read on for excerpts from our exclusive Q&A…

TV Fanatic: Where did the story come from for this episode?

Gary Glasberg: This was a storyline that came up and was actually written by two of my writers assistants. Scott and Matt Jarrett. It’s their writing television debut and they came to us with a terrific idea, something that we weren’t even aware of. The fact that you can train to be a Navy corpsman but that training doesn’t legally transfer back into the public world back on US soil was of interest to us. We thought that it was the kind of thing that Gibbs would connect with.

TVF: Why was this something that Gibbs responded to so strongly?

GG: I think at the end of the day Gibbs recognizes that there’s a loop hole in the system and this is a woman who dedicated her life to helping people and threw herself into some very dangerous situations and is very qualified at what she does yet she’s persecuted for trying to save lives. We lucked out in finding Laura. Once in a while you open up your casting and people come in and audition. I hadn’t heard of Laura before but there’s a comfort level, there’s a natural ease to how she acts and who she is and she and Harmon hit it off. It just worked. To us, it just felt natural, organic and real.

TVF: I felt the same way and I was waiting for them to say ‘come join the team!’

GG: [laughs] When you find someone like that and everyone gets along as well as they do no set, it wouldn’t surprise me down the road if we find a reason to have her back or maybe we’ll arrive at a crime scene and there’s an EMT and it’s her! We’ll have to see…

TVF: We get a piece of Abby’s personal life with her dating Burt and we also touch on her past dating McGee but why was this the right time to have that be a part of this episode?

GG: The Burt storyline is something that people seem to like and he’s fun to have around and we’ll keep that runner going. But realistically and understandably we couldn’t do it without McGree look out for Abby in a big brother kind of way. It was fun to write those scenes and to have Bishop be the outsider who wasn’t aware of the fact that Abby and McGee had a relationship years ago. It’s a recap for people and reestablish but I was pleased with it. I thought it turned out nicely.

TVF: What’s coming up? I know Jamie Bamber is showing up soon.

GG: We’ve been waiting a long time to meet Bishop’s husband and the Thanksgiving episode is just about finished and we’re polishing it up and we have this terrific mystery at a snowed in airport that has Tony and Bishop and her husband working with the rest of the team back in the office. It’s a fun, light holiday episode. Jamie and Emily have great chemistry together and we look forward to having him back and getting deeper into who they are as a couple and how being an NCIS agent as affected their relationship.

TVF: There’s a mention of Gibb’s father passing in tonight’s episode. Will we get more of that in the holiday episodes?

GG: I don’t think so. It’s the kind of thing that continues to come up but we want to make sure it’s always there, always present and his passing is still a part of what Gibbs is thinking about and dealing with. In classic NCIS fashion, you can touch on the subject and keep him around and understand that he was an important part of Gibbs’ life.
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Next, Laura Seay provided some insight into her character as well as working with Mark Harmon.

TV Fanatic: How did you approach stepping into this role of Anna Dillon?

Laura Shey: There were a lot of things about her that I related to personality wise so that felt like a good way in. She seems very rigid in her physicality because she’s had that training. I’m not going to compare growing up doing sports and being in the military but I was excited about this aspect of her having that as part of her personality and being very rooted physically.

I really related to her on an intellectual and a physical level and the fact that she was also very driven, I really admired that but when it got down to the moral aspect of it and how she’s contending with these really ethical issues…I can’t say that I’ve been in the such a heightened position as she was in this particular episode but personality wise, I did relate to her in a couple ways but in terms of her experiences that was something that took a little extra work.

Honestly, being paired with a real life corpsman that worked with the Marines, Mark Horowitz, one of the producers on the show, was able to facilitate that and that really helped me get in the experience of the character and hear his stories and hear what he’s been through.

TVF: The show says a lot about doing what’s right and what’s wrong with the laws. Did it make you think about that in the context of the show or in general?

LS: Yeah. As far as the issues, I was aware of it in more of a vague way and I knew there were certain laws about if you don’t have the training you shouldn’t attempt to move somebody for fear of paralization and there would be consequences in that way but in terms of the military and the laws of the military someone coming out of service who has a lot of training but it’s not held at the same standards as what the University programs for studying medicine.

I didn’t know how nuanced the issue actually is and how unnuanced the law for the issue actually is. The law doesn’t seem to be written for people in Anna’s situation. She has extensive medical training in the military but for whatever reason she’s not licensed as an EMT to practice in the US. So it’s a very unnuanced law for a very nuanced issue. That’s what I came away with.

TVF: How was working with Mark Harmon? Anna has a really nice connection with Gibbs.

LS: Yeah, he made that real easy. He’s incredibly friendly and he’s also very authentic and sincere. From day one of shooting he made me feel like I’d been on the show a lot longer. It’s hard to be going on as a guest star to a show with people who have been working together for twelve seasons. It’s like where do I sit at the lunch table kind of feeling! He really alleviates that immediately and right away he was taking me under his wing and wanted to get to know me and where I was from. The majority of my scenes are with him just talking so that helped make it a lot easier. It was like there was a shorthand between us, which was great.

TVF: Let’s say they ask you to come back for another episode. Is that something you’re open to?

LS: Yeah! I would absolutely love that. Besides Mark, everyone in the cast was really exceptional and lovely even just the eight days I was shooting and that goes for everyone on the production crew. It was a really fun experience.

NCIS Season 12 airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on CBS.

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Sean Murray of NCIS tweeted that fans would find out why McGee is acting like he isn’t over Abby, if he still loves her. Can you confirm what episode this will be touched on? —Robert
I can confirm that Murray was alluding to this Tuesday‘s episode (CBS, 8.7c), in which McAbby have what I am told is “a very personal conversation.”

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Rocky Carroll is stepping behind the camera for a winter episode of NCIS, EW has learned exclusively.

The actor, who plays NCIS Director Leon Vance, will direct an upcoming episode of the CBS procedural. Details are being kept under wraps, but he’ll follow in the footsteps of costar Michael Weatherly (Tony DiNozzo), who directed episodes in seasons eight and 10.

“I’m honored and humbled by this opportunity to make my directorial debut on NCIS,” Carroll says. “I’ve always believed that my greatest strength as an actor, the thing that has been most important to my success, is my ability to collaborate with others. It has served me well as an actor and I’m going to rely very heavily on it as a director!”

Adds executive producer Gary Glasberg: “Rocky Carroll’s versatility and range of talent never ceases to amaze us. We know how gifted he is in front of the camera. We’re very excited to add the job of director to his impressive resume.”

NCIS airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on CBS.

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Question: Any NCIS spoilers about Tony’s love life? Will any sparks fly between him and his old partner from Philly or the FBI agent he’s partnered with for a case? – Connie
Ausiello: As you’ve seen since sending this in, Tony and G-woman Leia “Hates Star Wars” Pendergast seem mutually keen on each other. And sparks will also fly between DiNozzo’s old Philly PD partner (to be played by 24’s Marisol Nichols) and… McGee? As Sean Murray shared, “She’s slightly insulting to McGee when he first meets her, so he’s not sure how he feels about this woman.”

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This Thanksgiving on CBS’ NCIS, the introduction of Special Agent Ellie Bishop’s husband will be on the menu.

TVLine has learned exclusively that Battlestar Galactica alum Jamie Bamber will appear in a November episode of TV’s most watched drama as the oft-mentioned, yet-to-be-seen NSA attorney Jake Malloy.

“We’ve waited a long time to meet Bishop’s husband, and we’ve found him in Jamie Bamber,” says NCIS showrunner Gary Glasberg. “Jamie is a charming, talented actor, and we’re thrilled to have him on-board for this Thanksgiving episode and some exciting surprises to come.”

In addition to his run as BSG’s Apollo, Bamber’s TV credits include Law & Order: UK, Monday Mornings and Rizzoli & Isles (where he’s currently in the midst of a two-episode arc). He also just this week booked a recurring role on the midseason CW drama The Messsengers.

NCIS airs Tuesdays at 8/7c.

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It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day a few days early on the set of NCIS, at least for one guest actor who is waving a gun in the faces of a handful of hostages aboard a ship that has been commandeered in international waters. Among the captives is one Leroy Jethro Gibbs, taken by surprise while investigating what had looked to be an empty vessel. There’s just enough of an echo of Captain Phillips in this scenario that you can picture the pirate in question suddenly declaring, “I’m the special agent now.”

Instead, the hijacker is on the phone with Michael Weatherly and recurring guest star Diane Neal…or he will be, when the episode airs Oct. 21, at which point editors will have cut in footage of those two arguing on the other end of the line about who’s in charge of the negotiation. Whatever they are or will be saying, the pirate is not impressed, because he barks, “I don’t need a boat. This isn’t a negotiation; it’s a demand! Blood’s on your hands now.” He grabs a woman to take up top and presumably execute, then gives his knee to the groin of a fellow hostage who tries to object. “You want to take her place?” That poor guy doesn’t, but there is some greater gallantry down the row. “I do,” says Gibbs, quietly offering himself in the woman’s stead while staring down the barrel of a trembling semiautomatic.

These are Mark Harmon’s only two words of dialogue in the entire scene, so, along with the baffled pirate, you study his poker face for hints of what TV’s favorite strong-and-silent-type is up to with this seemingly sacrificial bid: Does he have a plan to overtake his captor?
A plan to improvise a plan? Does that noncommittal look in his eyes signify a sniper’s cocky nonchalance, a captive’s hidden nerves, or some unknowable Gibbsian combination of all of the above? You can’t help but want to look deeper into the actor’s baby blues to guess whether he’s in control or worriedly winging it.

Maybe it speaks volumes about how eager we are for something that defies our chatfest-fueled times that the principal character on TV’s highest-rated drama is defined more by his warm but often inscrutable gaze than anything resembling a gift for gab. On a show otherwise populated by garrulous regulars, Gibbs is a “functional mute,” as Weatherly has kidded. If Harmon were being paid by the word, you might even consider him the best-remunerated actor in history.

“We joke about it,” says showrunner Gary Glasberg, “but honestly, every one of us does what we call a ‘Gibbs pass’ at some point in our writing process.” Christopher Silber, who wrote this episode, elaborates: “On other shows, the lead actor is always counting his lines. But I remember when I first got to NCIS [in 2005], figuring out how to write that character was so complicated. You would type what you think is very little, and then you’d get your script back and be told, ‘He can say that with a look, that with a look, and that with a look.'” Silber mimes one line after another being crossed out. “You get programmed to remember that and always think, ‘As few words as possible.’ Or no words, if possible. The best version of a scene would be no words at all for him! Or one word.”

It’s probably not too much of a spoiler to reveal that, at some point in this episode, Gibbs does literally get the upper hand on the shakiest semiautomatic in the west. After Harmon finishes blocking a bit of third-act combat with director Arvin Brown, the actor sits down in the darkness amid the video monitors to talk about not being talky.

“It’s reacting instead of acting,” Harmon explains. “Gibbs is more reactionary. And that’s more fun to play.” So what is his character thinking when he says “I do” to the pirate? “Gibbs always has a plan,” Harmon says. “I don’t know that he’s quite sure how it’s going to work out. That, in its predictability, is very unpredictable.” We can count on him for results, in other words. “The work part of this character I have no worries about: what he does on the job and how he does his job. It’s when he’s alone, away from it, that I think he’s really questionable.”

Questionable how? “It’s not an easy time for him,” says Harmon, alluding to the fact that Gibbs lost both his father and his mentor in recent seasons, on top of earlier personal tragedies. “When this job is gone, if it’s ever gone, keep me away from him.”

Gibbs may be the quintessential patriot, but he’s also the ultimate workaholic, delving into his duties as a constant distraction from the pain of losing his murdered wife and daughter in events long before the outset of the series. “Gibbs is a point leader,” he says. “He’s out in front. So the first person to get shot is going to be him, and that’s the way he’s always been. That’s what he believes and how he was trained. And in not caring as much, maybe, about life, there are freedoms in that. If it ends, it ends. Even though it’s about trying to do the right thing; I don’t think he’s stupid or that he’s got a death wish.”

All those ghosts and flashbacks aren’t incidental to Gibbs’ bravado in taking on “a dangerous job in a dangerous world,” Harmon is quick to add. “A lot has been taken [from him] also. His memory of great loss is not something the writers or I or anybody ever expects him to get over. It’s too deep. It’s also what makes him interesting and more fun to play.”

If it seems slightly incongruous for Harmon to keep using the word “fun” in connection with a stoic character who forever seems to be wrestling inner demons, consider the equal aspect in which NCIS makes seriocomic hay out of Gibbs’s relationships with his non-deceased wives. And Glasberg has promised we’ll meet another ex-spouse, who is yet to be cast, after the holidays.

“Are you talking about somebody we already know, or another one?” Harmon says, sounding surprised at this news. “What are we up to now, six?” He laughs. No, seriously: “Well, what is the number? Is it, like, five?”

Luckily, Silber (who wrote for the show until 2007 and then returned in 2013) is sitting nearby and knows his lore. “Three ex-wives” — living, that is — “and one dead wife. Yeah, that’s it. That’s all.” Viewers previously met the original love of his life, Shannon (Darby Stanchfield), in flashbacks, as well as Diane (Melinda McGraw), the ex he shares with a friend, FBI Special Agent Tobias Fornell (Joe Spano), not to mention Stephanie (Kathleen York).

Gibbs’s wives are parceled out only slightly more sparingly than another recurring element built into the show’s mythos: Gibbs’s rules. It turns out this current season, number 12, will be a red-letter time for those. This very pirate-themed episode ends with the revelation of a previously unheard rule. And Glasberg promises a December episode will deal entirely with Gibbs’s rules, brought on by an encounter with the daughter-in-law of Mike Franks, the crusty mentor who was stabbed to death in 2011 and has occasionally shown up since as a fantasy confidante.

When Glasberg is informed that Harmon seemed surprised to learn that the audience would be meeting another ex-wife this season, the executive producer laughs. “He knows we’ve been playing with it for a while,” he says. But it leaves open a question: As an executive producer alongside Glasberg, just how involved does Harmon get beyond his job as actor?

Not much, you’d think, if you took your cues from listening to Harmon. As for the development of future storylines, Harmon says, “I don’t go up there and talk about it. I try to leave these [writers] alone. I like being surprised, or somewhat surprised, when they say, ‘Hey, we’re gonna do this.’ It’s fun for me to read it, and question it, and play it, and try to make it work” — closer to the actual shoot date.

But Glasberg paints Harmon as a true and extremely involved partner. “We have constant communication that happens multiple times a day,” says the showrunner. “I see him first thing in the morning; I talk to him when he’s home at night. There’s constant discussion of upcoming stories and ideas and of things that I’d like to do with his character and others. And that’s the way we’ve worked since I’ve been here. It’s terrific. I’ve never had that relationship with an actor before.”

If Harmon doth protest too much that he stays out of running the show, Glasberg says, “Isn’t that true of everything about Mark? He’s a very hardworking guy who doesn’t like to take credit. He does his job and does it brilliantly and then gets on his horse and rides off into the sunset.” (Or at least rides off in the Airstream trailer he keeps parked on the set.)

It’s generally well known that Harmon took a firmer hand behind the scenes a few years into the show’s run to try to turn a chaotic set into a steady one. It’s hard to argue with the results, as reflected in NCIS’s becoming TV’s most-watched drama in 2009 and continuing its reign ever since. “It’s more usual,” Harmon says, “for a series to get into Year 4 or 5, and all of a sudden you start seeing things slipping off, or people getting bored.

“And it’s unusual,” he continues, risking understatement, “that we’re 12 years in and still excited about what we’re doing. You look forward to getting up and making that drive in the morning because you’re going to work with friends — and, oh, yeah, by the way, it’s the No. 1 show in the world. This is rare air, where we are, and we know it.”

NCIS’s long run as the seemingly most stable set in Hollywood saw some bumps in 2013 when Cote de Pablo left the show on the eve of production, throwing a whole run of planned storylines into disarray. “Last year we went through a bunch of things in nobody’s control,” Harmon says obliquely. “We had a plan up front and then that plan changed rapidly, so the fact that these writers were able to pull together the season the way they did was a real feat. They worked their asses off.

“This season feels, in some ways, more organic,” he continues, “because the decks are cleared and they know where they’re headed” — with a full complement of stand-alone episodes occasionally being drawn together by an arc involving the Russian villain first caught (and fumbled) in the season premiere.

Others might have followed up a season of panicked Ziva-lessness by lightening their stress loads a little, yet Harmon and Glasberg ensured there would be no coasting by introducing a second spinoff, NCIS: New Orleans. Although no one would doubt it’s primarily creator Glasberg’s baby, you can catch Harmon being uncharacteristically willing to own up to just how involved he’s been in the new series, from casting to reviewing dailies to even weighing in on decisions about the music. The two agreed that the new series should be filmed on location and have a coshowrunner (Jeffrey Lieber) out in New Orleans, but the writers would remain on the NCIS lot in California, so scripts wouldn’t be hammered out via Skype.

Harmon has had no real involvement with the other spinoff, NCIS: Los Angeles, and initial fan hopes for significant character crossover didn’t amount to much after a much-hyped Season 1 appearance by Pauley Perrette. With New Orleans, though, more NCIS stars are putting in cameos than not. “It’s a personal choice,” emphasizes Harmon. “Each actor, that’s their choice. If they can’t, fine, and if they want to, great. Obviously, we have [recurring actors like] Diane Neal and Joe Spano who have come through here and could be a part of [NCIS: New Orleans] for case-driven reasons. Pauley’s character” — forensic scientist and Louisiana State University graduate Abby Sciuto — “certainly has a draw there based on where her character is from.” The NCIS stalwart most likely to regularly cross the 9pm divide onto the new series is Rocky Carroll, who will also be coming back to the Los Angeles edition of the franchise for the first time in three years.

Harmon is too much the TV veteran to make it sound as though NCIS: New Orleans is even guaranteed survival, let alone smash-hit status. “Gary and I will both be glad when it airs,” he says shortly before the series premiere, “and we’ll see if it’s received, and we’ll see how people are liking it or not.” (Turns out the show had the fall’s most-watched new series debut, with 17 million viewers that night, suggesting that the want-to-like factor, at least, is astronomical.) As an executive producer, Harmon used lessons from NCIS’s messier early years to figure out how he wanted to ease New Orleans into its run. “The start of [this show] was very different from the start of [NCIS],” the actor says. “They’re fortunate to have had this footprint.” But with NCIS strolling into its 12th season with 18 million viewers, what rookie series wouldn’t want to walk a mile in its moccasins?

NCIS airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on CBS.

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As NCIS chugs into its 12th season Tuesday (8/7c, CBS), creator Gary Glasberg says he’s taking a back-to-basics approach for the upcoming year. After so many major event episodes last season — the departure of Ziva (Cote de Pablo), the introduction of Bishop (Emily Wickersham), the NCIS: New Orleans backdoor pilot, and a tribute episode to Ralph Waite — Glasberg says he’s excited to be entering a more character-driven run.

“Season 12 is all about bringing the team together and sort of keeping the family going, and really emphasizing the group,” Glasberg — who’s also serving as showrunner on NCIS: New Orleans now — tells TVGuide.com. “We made a deliberate decision at the end of [Season] 11 to really do that.”

With no cliff-hanger to resolve, NCIS gets off to a fresh start on Tuesday’s season premiere, which finds Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and McGee (Sean Murray) heading to Russia to escort an NCIS computer engineer home safely. But they quickly find themselves the targets of a local mercenary group, putting both their lives and classified intel at risk.

What else can fans expect from Season 12? And will Ziva ever be back? Here are seven teases from Glasberg and star Michael Weatherly.

1. Love is in the air: It looks like Dinozzo (Weatherly) is finally ready to put #Tiva behind him — and Weatherly, for one, couldn’t be happier. “I think he’s moved past the wounded bird [phase],” the actor says. “It’s really exciting. I don’t think I’ve been this excited since maybe Season 3. … I think Season 12 is going to be a revelatory year. He’s probably going to have more fun than he’s ever had.” Enter Leia Pendergast (Stephanie Jacobsen), a former U.S. marshal-turned-FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force leader who partners with Tony on a case … and then in real life. Her introduction will happen around Episode 4.” And as for “McGilah,” though Delilah (Margo Harshman) may have accepted a job offer in Dubai, don’t think that’s going to put the kibosh on her and McGee’s relationship for good, Glasberg cautions.

2. A new villain: The villain Gibbs and McGee encounter in their trip to Russia could have a very long reach. “[The premiere] introduces a character that’ll carry through the rest of the season, and [will] even potentially overlap into the New Orleans show as well,” Glasberg teases.

3. We meet Bishop’s husband! Little is known about Ellie Bishop’s personal life, other than the fact that she is married. In Season 12, viewers will finally get a glimpse of Bishop’s husband, Jake, who works with the NSA. It’s likely that he’ll be introduced under the guise of helping out with a case or two, according to Glasberg. “It’ll give us some more insight into her, into her background,” he promises.

4. Abby meets her match? There will be plenty of crossover between NCIS and its newest sibling, NCIS: New Orleans — and one of the episodes will likely feature Abby (Pauley Perrette) meeting her NOLA counterpart, lab assistant Sebastian (Rob Kerkovich). “You will absolutely not only watch them interact for the first time, but there’ll probably be multiple times after that as well,” Glasberg promises.

5. A Duckling story: Episode 3 of the season (airing Oct. 7) will focus on Ducky’s (David McCallum) backstory. Ducky and Bishop head to London to track down a childhood best friend of Ducky’s who has a connection to a case. Adam Campbell will guest-star as a younger version of Ducky.

6. Gibbs gets multiple blasts from the past: The “one unnamed ex-wife of Gibbs” will probably make an appearance in one episode, Glasberg says. At the same time, Gibbs’ father (Waite) may be gone, but he won’t be forgotten. “There’s no doubt that there’s emotional resonance that he carries with him, and those moments will appear throughout the season,” Glasberg says. “I don’t think it’ll affect him day to day at work necessarily, but there’ll certainly be characters and moments that’ll come up that’ll be impacted by what he went through.”

7. The return of Ziva? Tiva fans — all may not be lost. Both Glasberg and Weatherly say they’d welcome a story line that brings Cote de Pablo back to NCIS. With the actress having signed on to the upcoming miniseries The Dovekeepers, she’ll remain in the CBS family — but will Ziva and Tony be reunited? “We didn’t kill her,” Glasberg hints. “So, Ziva’s still out there and she’s still alive. … We’ll just have to see what happens.” Adds Weatherly: ” I am sure they will see each other again, and I’m deeply fascinated by what kind of fireworks would result. I absolutely know that it would not be without some explosive quality.”

NCIS returns Tuesday at 8/7c on CBS. What are you most looking forward to this season?

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Agent Tony DiNozzo will get a very pretty blast from his Philadelphia past, when 24 alum Marisol Nichols guest-stars on CBS’ NCIS.

TVLine has learned exclusively that Nichols will appear in an upcoming episode, titled “Parental Guidance Suggested,” as Zoë Keates, an ATF Special Agent who years ago worked with DiNozzo when both were with the Philly PD.

The pair’s paths cross anew when NCIS and ATF find themselves both tracking the same terrorist.

In addition to her Season 6 run as 24‘s Nadia Yassir, Nichols’ TV credits include GCB, The Gates and, yes, an Oct. 2010 episode of NCIS: Los Angeles (as Callen’s ex-CIA partner).

TV’s most watched drama, NCIS opens Season 12 this Tuesday at 8/7c.

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