[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the NCIS: Origins series premiere “Enter Sandman.”]
Going into NCIS: Origins, we knew that we’d be listening to Mark Harmon‘s voice as he narrated the prequel story of his character, now performed by Austin Stowell. However a pleasant shock was Harmon showing onscreen within the collection premiere.
Harmon sitting by a campfire bookends the episode, as he explains, “My dad used to say, wherever you go, there you’re. I assume he was proper. Irrespective of how arduous you attempt, or in my case, how far you go, you may’t ever depart all of it behind. There isn’t a such factor as a clear slate. They’re all the time right here. They’re all the time with you. The tales you’ve instructed. Hell, even worse, those you by no means may. It is a story I don’t inform.”
“What you noticed is strictly what we wished to do,” co-showrunner David J. North tells TV Insider. “It wasn’t all the time the intention going into this to search out Gibbs in Alaska, however it’s simply conversations between [co-showrunner] Gina [Lucita Monreal] and I, after which lastly we went to Mark and stated, we simply assume it’s necessary. What a deal with for the viewers and in addition for us, for Gina and I ourselves, and going on the market that day and capturing it was a variety of enjoyable.”
North and Monreal each recall seeing Harmon dressed as Gibbs once more.
“He stepped out [of his trailer], and I see Mark each day, however he was within the Gibbs wardrobe with the Alaska Gibbs hat and every part else, and I used to be type of like, whoa. It had been years and years and humorous, simply the subtleties of that actually took me again,” shares North. (Gibbs was final seen on NCIS retiring to Alaska.)
Monreal agrees, “That was actually particular, that second, particularly when he placed on his boots. I feel when he placed on his Gibbs boots, David and I checked out one another and it was simply an sudden surge of emotion for us each.”
After, the three sat in Harmon’s trailer speaking, and North famous he appeared down and noticed the star, govt producer, and narrator sporting Gibbs’ ID bracelet. “He already had it on, and I simply thought, wow, it’s superb the transformation,” he says.
Harmon shall be heard each episode as he tells Gibbs’ story, however may we see him once more? “Gina and I’ve a variety of personal discussions, and clearly Mark is before everything with all of that. We’re leaving any potentialities open,” says North.
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NCIS: Origins, Mondays, 9/8c, CBS
