• NCIS prequel NCIS: Origins debuts on Tuesday, Oct. 14.
• The season 1 finale ended on a cliffhanger that left the destiny of Mariel Molino's Lala up within the air.
• A synopsis for the season 2 premiere guarantees that "Lala's destiny is revealed."

The story of Leroy Jethro Gibbs rolls on…

If you happen to thought 19 seasons with Mark Harmon's NCIS particular agent was sufficient to unpack his story, suppose once more. Set in 1991, NCIS: Origins' debut season launched viewers to a youthful Gibbs, serving as a prequel to his future on the long-running CBS procedural. Now, season 2 is quick approaching.

Audiences are hungry for it, too — in accordance with Paramount, the mother or father firm of CBS, the 18-episode prequel collection drew 9.2 million viewers on streaming alone.

Harmon haunts the collection as its narrator, whereas Austin Stowell (Bridge of Spies) performs the youthful Gibbs. Starring alongside him are youthful variations of NCIS favorites like particular brokers Mike Franks (Kyle Schmid) and Vera Strickland (Diany Rodriguez).

After which there's Cecilia "Lala" Dominguez (Mariel Molino), a particular agent who we study is dearly necessary to Gibbs, regardless of her by no means being talked about on the flagship collection.

There's a motive for that, after all, and it has one thing to do with that season 1 finale cliffhanger. So, will there be an NCIS: Origins season 2? When is it popping out? Who will seem in it? Learn on as we reply these questions and extra with insights from the solid and creators.

Will there be an NCIS: Origins season 2?

Sure, there will probably be a season 2 of NCIS: Origins. CBS mother or father firm Paramount International introduced the renewal in February 2025.

What’s NCIS: Origins season 2 about?

The NCIS: Origins season finale units up a number of storylines that, in accordance with the solid and creators, will probably be unpacked in season 2.

At the start would be the aftermath of the messy enterprise involving Gibbs, Franks, Lala, and the homicide of Pedro Hernandez. Throughout the finale, we noticed Gibbs initially come clean with the homicide of Pedro, as he didn't wish to drag his complicit colleagues into the filth with him. Later, nonetheless, Lala leverages her personal friendship with Lara Macy (Claire Berger), who's investigating the case, to brush it underneath the rug, lest Lala discover her total life ruined alongside Gibbs and Franks.

Her gambit works, and the season ends with Macy telling Franks that there's inadequate proof to pursue the case. Franks is aware of one thing occurred to set off Macy's change of coronary heart, and Schmid informed Entertainment Weekly that they'll probably be confronting it subsequent season.

"Franks is an clever man," the actor mentioned. "He can learn between the strains. That's why he’s such interrogator. I believe there's extra to that story to be informed."

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Whereas we're on the subject of Franks, the finale additionally reveals the supply of these mysterious cellphone calls he's acquired all season. Seems it's his older brother, Mason, and he desires to speak about what occurred to them throughout their time combating abroad within the Vietnam Struggle. (As a reminder, episode 11 of the collection centered on a flashback about how Franks was drafted and his brother volunteered to go battle alongside him.)

"There's a complete season of buried secrets and techniques for Franks and his household," Schmid informed us. "That could be a dialog that I'm very a lot trying ahead to exploring in season 2. There's a lot left on the desk that followers are going to only eat up."

One other main storyline to play out in season 2 issues Randy (Caleb Foote), who's discovering himself burnt out and wanting a desk job. If the thought of the present's comedian aid being chained to a desk is bumming you out, enable co-creator David J. North to ease your thoughts.

"Randy's had so many alternative shut calls and he's fascinated by Randy Junior and his household," he informed EW. "However I don't know that Randy, as soon as he's caught to a desk, would discover that as interesting as he thinks. So we'll see the place it takes us."

Lastly, the finale additionally introduces us to a key determine in NCIS lore: Diane (Kathleen Kenny). Followers of the unique collection know that Diane is a future ex-wife of Gibbs, that means that season 2 may very nicely reveal the origins of their (in the end doomed) love story.

However that, after all, will probably be difficult by his relationship with Lala. Talking of…

Did Lala die on the finish of season 1?

We requested creators North and Gina Lucita Monreal straight-up whether or not or not Lala survives the climactic automotive crash on the finish of the season 1 finale. Their response? “We’ll neither affirm nor deny.”

A synopsis for the season 2 premiere, nonetheless, guarantees that "Lala's destiny is revealed," so that you'll actually wish to tune in.

Gibbs and Lala's relationship is nothing if not loaded. The pair danced round one another all season, and practically kissed within the finale. What's extra, Lala broke the principles to save lots of him from a jail sentence, and as Stowell famous whereas discussing the story with EW, she was racing to his home when she bought into the accident.

“This may have gigantic ramifications on him,” he informed us. “Is she lifeless? Is she in a coma? Is she paralyzed? I don't know any of this stuff. I do know this a lot. He's going to seek out out that she was in a automotive accident after it looks as if she was on the best way to his home, so the guilt will solely construct.”

“This can be a story I don’t inform,” Harmon says within the episode's closing narration. “I can’t discover the phrases. But it surely by no means stops working by my head. The story of her.”

Talking with EW following the finale, North emphasised that "the story that older Gibbs is referring to remains to be being informed.” Monreal, in the meantime, added, “We don't totally perceive that but as a result of we haven't seen the aftermath of what occurs within the finale. We don't see his response to it but. We don't know all the intricacies of all the pieces occurring round it. We are able to't totally comprehend but what he's that means by that as a result of we haven't seen it in totality.”

Who's within the NCIS: Origins season 2 solid?

The solid for season 2 of NCIS: Origins has but to be confirmed. Based mostly on remarks made by the solid to EW, although, we are able to safely say that Stowell's Gibbs, Schmid's Franks, and Foote's Randy will all return for one more spherical.

Molino's Lala, alternatively, stays up within the air. The identical goes for this youthful iteration of Macy, a personality who seems in each NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles. After we requested if she'd return to Origins, Monreal mentioned, "We by no means say by no means. She's in our world now, so may very well be."

One other character we'll positively be seeing extra of is Kenny's Diane. "We positively will persist with canon," Monreal mentioned when requested about Diane's future on the present. "We're very conscious of Gibbs' relationships which have been established on the present and are excited to determine the way to painting them in Origins."

Followers of NIS head Wheeler (Patrick Fischler) may even be glad to know that the showrunners have plans for him following the character's suspension. "We love Wheeler," Monreal informed TVLine. "We left him in a spot the place there are numerous questions surrounding his story, and we’re tremendous excited to dig deeper into his story, so we will probably be seeing Wheeler in Season 2 for positive."

Is there an NCIS: Origins season 2 launch date?

Certainly, season 2 of NCIS: Origins will premiere on Tuesday, October 14 at 9 p.m. ET.

The premiere, titled "The Funky Bunch," will discover Gibbs and Franks investigating "the disappearance of a younger Marine linked to a mysterious compound with a charismatic chief," per a synopsis.

Is there a NCIS: Origins season 2 trailer?

EW completely debuted the trailer for NCIS: Origins season 2 in September.

Whereas reintroducing followers to the crew, it turns into clear that not all is nicely amongst our heroes. "I would like this crew again to the best way it was earlier than I lose my rattling thoughts," shouts a pissed off Franks.

A voiceover from Harmon's Gibbs, in the meantime, hints on the destiny of Lala. "The job wasn't proper with out her," he says.

However obligation calls. The clip juxtaposes loads of motion and comedy as Gibbs, Franks, and firm bust heads out within the subject and again within the workplace.

The place can I watch NCIS: Origins?

NCIS: Origins airs on CBS and streams on Paramount+.

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