9 biggest moments and revelations

Spoiler alert for NCIS: Origins season 1, episode 7, “One Flew Over”In NCIS: Origins episode 7, the Leroy Jethro Gibbs prequel series continues to fill in the gaps for Mark Harmon’s legendary character. The show fully envisions Gibbs’ transition from Marine Corps gunnery sergeant to NIS agent, showing how Mike Franks plays a key role in the agent’s career change. Episode 7, “One Flew Over”, reveals how much Franks cares about the rookie NIS agent after what happened to Gibbs’ wife and daughter in NCIS.

Node NCIS: Origins In its debut, the spinoff establishes Austin Stowell as Leroy Jethro Gibbs and Kyle Schmid as Mike Franks, initially played by Muse Watson in NCIS. THE NCIS: Origins Characters are a significant focus of the series. That being said, Origins also tells the story of Gibbs’ relationship with special agent Lala Dominguez (Mariel Molino), another agent on Franks’ team who fights with Diany Rodriguez’s Vera Strickland to stand out on Franks’ team. In NCIS: Origins In episode 7, the series continues to reveal new stories for the 1990s NIS, while revisiting pivotal moments for Gibbs from the original series.

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Leroy Jethro Gibbs rents an apartment because he can’t enter his family’s home after Kelly and Shannon’s deaths

Gibbs mourns the loss of his wife and daughter on NCIS: Origins

The beginning of NCIS: Origins episode 9 depicts the first time that Gibbs arrives home after learning his wife and daughter are gone. Gibbs is mourning the deaths of Shannon and Kelly after Pedro Hernandez murdered the NIS agent assigned to protect them, with Gibbs’ wife and daughter dying in the accident. In the wake of his tragedy, Gibbs is processing new elements of trauma as he arrives at the house where Shannon and Kelly are supposed to be waiting for him.

Thinking about his wife and daughter, Gibbs can’t go into the house and NCIS: Origins shows how the retired soldier rents a simple one-bedroom apartment to adapt to the change. The bare walls and unfurnished rooms contrast Gibbs’ home, filled with items belonging to his wife and daughter, with Kelly’s room as she left it. Origins reveals that Gibbs needs a transitional space, and its simplicity is reminiscent of Gibbs’ house later in NCIS.

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NCIS: Origins shows Franks and Gibbs’ first meeting

NCIS: Origins builds Franks and Gibbs’ relationship

NCIS: Origins reveals the first time Gibbs meets Mike Frankshis mentor throughout the series. Franks arrives at Gibbs’ apartment, saying he went to his house first. The leasing agent is still in the apartment when Franks arrives, suggesting how recent the transition is. The agent leaves and a moment of tension ensues. Franks tells Gibbs that he would have called if he weren’t out of work hours, and Gibbs is immediately confrontational.

Jethro presses Franks about how he could take a day off when the man who murdered his wife and daughter still lives in the world as a free man. The comment immediately sobers Franks, who doesn’t defend himself but shakes his head to suggest he understands. The moment suggests that although there is tension between them due to the traumatic circumstances Gibbs goes through, the two men understand each other from the beginning of their relationship.

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Gibbs tends to an injured bird as he recovers from the loss of his family

Gibbs finds something to heal

As Gibbs recovers from his physical and emotional injuries NCIS: Origins shows the agent caring for a fallen bird. After Gibbs argues with the representative on the phone about returning the crutches, the bird flies through the window and crashes into the wall. In his narration, the elder Gibbs comments how the bird is just one more interaction in a series of reminders that, not so long ago, he should have been dead.

Gibbs makes a home for the flightless bird by making a nest in a shoebox and feeding it birdseed. Furthermore, when he hears about this, Franks becomes deeply interested in the bird, checking with Gibbs about the bird’s representation in the NIS bullpen. Franks even visits the bird as Gibbs builds a wooden house that can stand in the open windowallowing the bird to fly away when it heals. At the end of NCIS: Origins episode 8, the bird is well again, representing Gibbs’ healing journey.

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Franks’ team investigates the murder of an 80-year-old Jane Doe with dementia

The motive for the murder is unclear

As Franks discusses Gibbs’ bird in the bullpen, he receives a call from Randy about a local Jane Doe dead near the side of the road. Lala shows the group a white bag painted in blood, filled with a variety of items, but no wallet. Gibbs goes to work and immediately finds blood on the road guardrail. He follows the trail into the woods, where they discover an 80-year-old woman dead in the woods, about to be consumed by a coyote.

An autopsy reveals that Jane Doe suffered dementiaand her family confirms the report when they arrive at the NIS in search of her. The team discovers that the woman lived with her family on the military base, which they did to take care of her. However, the case takes a devastating turn when Franks’ team discovers that the woman’s daughter-in-law was responsible for her horrific death, unable to deal with her mother-in-law’s confused and emotional state.

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NCIS: Origins revisits crucial NCIS flashbacks

NCIS: Origins revisits NCIS season 3

Based on what started in NCIS: Origins Season 3, one of the best seasons of NCIS, the prequel series features key flashbacks that defined Harmon’s Special Agent in Charge character. In NCIS season 3, episodes 23 and 24, “Hiatus Part I” and “Hiatus Part II”, the franchise begins to unravel Gibbs’ tragic backstory. While in a coma after surviving an explosion on a Navy ship, Gibbs experiences a series of flashbacks to 1991.

“Hiatus” flashbacks reveal all the key moments that NCIS: Origins expands on the prequel, visualizing key moments between Gibbs and Franks. Episode 6 revisits vital scenes, replaying the scene when Gibbs sees the van that crashed and killed Shannon and Kelly. It also shows the moment when Franks leaves Gibbs alone with the briefcase containing the whereabouts of Pedro Hernandez, first shown in “Hiatus”, allowing him to avenge the deaths of Shannon and Kelly.

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Gibbs fought hard to get Pedro Hernandez’s location

Gibbs and Franks are at odds

NCIS: Origins does more than redo or revisit the flashbacks of “Hiatus”, one of the best episodes of NCIS. The prequel series expands on the flashbacks, adding context to the moments, particularly when Franks shows Gibbs Shannon and Kelly’s NIS file. The prequel explains that Franks didn’t decide to show Gibbs the briefcase that allows him to murder Pedro Hernandez lightly. Franks only shows Gibbs after the ex-Marine attacks the NIS with calls and confronts him several times.

NCIS: Origins clarifies that getting justice for his family’s killer wasn’t an easy path for Gibbs to travel, even when dealing with someone who understood him as well as Mike Franks. Ultimately, Franks decides to show Gibbs the folder because he, too, investigates with his heart. After Gibbs pleads with Franks on the floor of his apartment, the supervising agent gives up and Franks repeats the scene where he leaves the folder on the table for Gibbs while he allegedly uses the bathroom.

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NCIS: Origins Episode 6 Shows Mike Franks Is Vital to Gibbs’ Recovery

Gibbs struggles to recover from his tragedy

When Franks arrives at Gibbs’ apartment, it shows how vital he is to the rookie agent’s recovery. Gibbs is furious on the phone, apparently talking to Mary Jo (Tyla Abercrombie), and is drinking a bottle of vodka on the floor when Franks breaks into his apartment. Gibbs still uses crutches and wears his leg in a cast, suggesting that all of his trauma is new and that he’s not dealing with it well. The moment shows how much Franks was indeed Gibbs’ rock when no one else was there for him.

Instead of blaming Gibbs for his vicious behavior, Franks forcefully tells the agent to stop harassing his secretary while he understands. As they confront each other, Gibbs reaches his breaking point, punching Franks for failing to protect his family. When Franks takes control of the ex-Marine, they fall to the ground and Franks holds Gibbs as he starts to cry. Gibbs reveals that he tried to escape and that he cannot continue living as long as Hernandez is alive.

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Lala Dominguez is taking space from her boyfriend after a rough patch

Lala cheats on her partner in episode 6

After a breaking point NCIS: Origins episode 6, Lala Dominguez reveals to Mike’s partner, Tish (Tonantzin Carmelo), that she and her boyfriend, Eddie (Ektor Rivera), have taken a step back from their relationship. We know that Lala’s boyfriend should move in with herwhich she reveals to Gibbs as they develop photos of the crime scene. Lala has no enthusiasm for the deal and treats the development as a burden.

The situation falls apart when Lala goes to the bar with Vera and Mary Jo to celebrate Vera getting funding for her profiling program. When a man seduces her in his car outside the bar, the moment is unpredictable, and the NCIS agent ends up hooking up with the stranger in his car. The situation illustrates the struggles of female NCIS agents in their work and in their lives. Lala’s problems continue NCIS: Origins episode 7, where she has conflicting impulses about her relationship with Gibbs.

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Franks is working on a case involving Tish with the help of Vera’s profile

Franks also works on a personal case

Franks is working on a mysterious case in NCIS: Origins and episode 7 finally reveals what Franks is working so hard to solve. The case involves Mike’s partner Tish, who finds a blue file in her house. Tish first asks Lala about the file, hoping the case isn’t about something devastating that happened to her. When Tish confronts Mike about the affairsuggests that Mike is investigating a sexual assault she suffered, making up for the failures of local authorities.

So with Tish’s painful experience, NCIS: Origins continues to tell the story of Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Mike Franks and the women in their lives, who face some obstacles due to their femininity. Unfortunately, all the tragedies for women in NCIS: Origins worsen the abrupt cancellation of NCIS: Hawaii, which tells several stories about women who stand out in NCIS. The narrative suggests that tragedy lies ahead for Gibbs and Lala in NCIS: Origins.