For those who need a refresher, Season 1 wrapped up with AFP Liaison Officer Sergeant Jim “JD” Dempsey (Todd Lasance) having to release international assassin Ana Niemus (Georgina Haig), who he and NCIS Special Agent Captain Michelle Mackey (Olivia Swann) had captured and were held in a cell at the NCIS office. Then Ana killed the Russian kidnapper, who was also an assassin, but she let JD live. This took place miles from civilization in the desert, so JD had to use the dead kidnapper’s phone to get transportation back to civilization, and when he dialed the only number in the phone, it rang in Colonel Rankin’s pocket.
Everyone turned and looked at Rankin. Mackey put her hand on a gun, and she said, “You going to get that, Colonel?” and then it was fade to black.
“We tossed around a whole bunch of different places about where we could start, but I couldn’t find a more interesting, more exciting one than to literally start with the next intake of breath,” NCIS: Sydney showrunner Morgan O’Neill tells Parade. “And so, we roll straight into what happens next. Without spoiling it, within about 30 seconds, the train has left the tracks, and we are careening down a very different, very unexpected pathway that will ultimately lead us to a much larger geopolitical set of stakes that will occupy us for the second season.”
Todd Lasance, Olivia SwannPhoto: Daniel Asher Smith/Paramount+
“We wanted to make sure that we get to the end of Season 2 and the audience has peeled back the skin on each of our six characters in a way that allows them to lean in further, but also in a way that is really unexpected,” O’Neill continues. “This show, at its core, in my view it’s a police procedural obviously, but more subtly and maybe even more importantly, it’s a family drama and a workplace comedy. It’s the combination of those three key elements that underpin the entire show.”
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The assassin Ana is back. Let’s talk about JD’s emotions when he sees her. On the one hand, she was involved in the kidnapping of his son, but on the other hand, she saved his life, so there’s a push-pull kind of thing going on there.It’s a really complicated emotional state for JD being face to face with this woman. We can’t forget she was quite happy to kill Mackey and Evie and Blue in the bunker in the second last episode of the first season. She was more than willing to watch them all asphyxiate, so she’s got baggage. But as you point out, she also negotiated the only way that JD could ever hug his son again, and for that, he can’t help but have conflicted emotions towards her.I feel like there’s a weird friction between them, too. Maybe that’s just me, but there’s a weird psycho-sexual chemistry that goes on between them that I find really intriguing. I’m putting myself in JD’s shoes, as I do a lot of the time of every day, it’s a pretty complicated emotional terrain to navigate, isn’t it?
Todd LasanceCredit: Daniel Asher Smith/Paramount+
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Is it the dollar-to-dollar ratio? Is it that they get paid American money, but they’re living somewhere else? Because I thought living in Australia was very expensive.I think it’s expensive for Australians, but I do think if you’re taking American dollars in here, your American dollars go a long way in this country. But in any case, Mackey doesn’t hire that place; that place gets booked out well in advance by the people in the government that run all those things, and she just moves in.What’s interesting, though, when you go into Mackey’s apartment, is that it’s kind of spare, and there are lots of boxes and lots of stuff that doesn’t look like it’s unpacked, and the only things that are unpacked are some photographs. And so, we get the sense of someone who’s kind of caught betwixt and between, she doesn’t know whether this is home. Where is home? Do the photographs represent home, or do the people that she’s starting to form this really profound bond with, is that home? Is that her family too?Part of Mackey’s journey in Season 2 is to work out where exactly she fits and what Sydney and what her colleagues at NCIS Sydney mean to her and whether they rise to that level of family. And spoiler alert, I think they do.
Olivia SwannPhoto: Daniel Asher Smith/Paramount+
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His wife probably isn’t too happy with him. On the one hand, yes, he did get their son back, but on the other hand, it’s his job that made him be kidnapped in the first place.That’s exactly right, and his marriage is very rocky as a result. We get a pretty clear indication of that at the end of Season 1. So, he’s a guy who’s been emotionally exposed, I suppose, and as you say, there’s a pretty big revelation very early in Season 2 in terms of Mackey’s personal story as well. And when those two things come into contact with one another, there’s a reaction and it’s pretty exciting to watch, I think.
Sean Sagar, Tuuli NarklePhoto: Daniel Asher Smith/Paramount+
NCIS: Sydney premieres its second season tonight at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. Streams next day on Paramount+.
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