“In this finale, we've got detail after detail about what actually happened. And, of course, now injecting this other character Lala, who we've never known about [in NCIS], and we learn that she actually was the one to save Gibbs,” North tells Parade. “Really at the end of this, my takeaway is, if it weren't for Lala, the world would have never met Leroy Jethro Gibbs. He wouldn't have been an agent; he would have been looking at a life in prison and Gibbs wouldn't have ever gone to prison.”
We already knew Gibbs had considered taking his life once before. So we have Lala to thank for his continued existence and his longtime career as a NCIS agent, who married three more times after the death of his beloved wife Shannon.
“You should not assume that, but the fact is, going into this project, Gina and I knew we wanted to take big swings,” North says. “The cast knew that, Mariel, all of them, knew that. The network has been incredibly supportive in letting us do this more as streaming-for-broadcast and everybody knows that anything can happen in any given week. “
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We all know about Gibbs’ women: wives Shannon, Diane, Rebecca and Stephanie, and his lady friends Samantha Ryan and Hollis Mann. But we never heard about Lala before the beginning of Origins. Why is that?Gina Lucita Monreal: We're not done getting to know him yet. So I think that as we see him progress, we're going to see other sides of his character and all of these things that he's saying in the voiceover and that we're seeing in present day in 1992 will start to converge and come together and become the Gibbs that we know and love from the mothership.
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A year has passed since Origins started in 1991. Lala and Gibbs have an almost kiss in the pool in the finale, but he pulls back. Did he pull back because it's still too soon, even though he's been a widower for a year?Gina: No, in my mind, I feel like he was ready. He wanted to kiss her, and she wanted to kiss him. But it was this big piece of news that is there between them like a wall. The fact that he turned over his rifle and, basically just sacrificed himself and his life as a free man. So, I think for him to go through with that kiss, it would have been disingenuous. She wouldn't have had all the information. And, I think, in his heart of hearts, he knows that she's not going to react well to that, and so because of the man he is, because of the morality that is true to that character, he had to tell her that first.
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Since we’re in 1992 now, it seems Gibbs is healing a little bit. When his father comes, he's actually OK about selling the house. Is it the vet group that he's going to? What do you think has mellowed him out to get him to this point?Gina: I think with the vet group, we're seeing the groundwork of why he doesn't like therapy, why he doesn't believe in it, why he's so against it in the mothership. It was starting to work for him; he was starting to really let that in, and then the rug gets pulled out from under him. So, in the beginning of the finale, we see him looking for that inner peace in another way, and that's when you see him trying to do the puzzles as he did with Ruth (London Garcia), then, ultimately, going to bring those planks of wood in. So, we're laying the groundwork again for the Gibbs that we know from the mothership, how he internalizes things, how he deals with things.
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The little girl Grace that causes Lala to crash, does she play a role later on?Gina: No. The whole story is about lives colliding. These things that happen that are out of our control and out of our line of vision. So she's just a little girl that was playing with her dog and threw her ball in the street, and her life collided with Lala. The same happens with all of us.
Mike Franks’ (Kyle Schmid) brother calls him with this cryptic message: “This is not an olive branch. I need to talk to you about Nam.” We met the brother earlier in this season. Will he be coming back for Season 2, and is there a mystery here to unpack?Gina: We don't know what happened between these two brothers who went off to Vietnam close as can be and came back, and now Franks says he doesn't even have a brother. So, something happened there that came between them. We definitely owe that story, and we're excited to tell it.
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Another cliffhanger is Cliff Wheeler. He's on suspension. Will we at least see Cliff again to find out what's happening with him?David: Absolutely. We've not seen the last of Cliff Wheeler. We've loved that character. We adore Patrick Fischler, who plays Wheeler. And we are going to dig much, much more into Wheeler's character and his relationship with Noah Oakley (DaJuan Johnson), all of that.
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NCIS: Origins airs Monday nights at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. Streams next day on Paramount+ and has already been picked up for its second season.
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