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Former NCIS Actor Reflects on ‘Incredible’ Character Arc

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Former NCIS Actor Reflects on ‘Incredible’ Character Arc

By Movieguide® Contributor

Actor Scott Wolf is reflecting on his “great” time working on NCIS, as well as his experience acting alongside Mark Harmon. 

Wolf played Jonathan Cole, a member of a special ops team, in a three-episode Season 9 arc. Cole was a killer who tried to take out one of the NCIS team but ultimately saved them all from a bomb threat. 

“NCIS was great,” he told TV Insider. “Mark Harmon, salt of the Earth, generous, really made me feel welcome there. They told a very cool story with my character. Oftentimes when you come in and play a character like I did — he was a villain, he was like this rogue ex-Navy Seal who wanted to shoot people and harm people. But they wound up sort of redeeming him in the end.”

Wolf continued, “In the end, time’s running out, and he has this moment with Mark Harmon where he’s like, ‘You got to get out,’ and he’s like, ‘No, no, no, I’m staying.’ And he smiles, and he’s literally martyring himself. He’s going to die to save people. And for a show like that that doesn’t do that with characters very often, it’s kind of incredible.”

Wolf shared that, despite his many other onscreen roles, he “gets stopped for [his three episodes of NCIS] in airports as much as anything else.”

“It’s a very popular show, obviously,” he said. “But there was something about the fact that they made a little arc out of that character, and he wasn’t a one-off, shoot people and go away [character].”

NCIS fans are now anxiously awaiting new episodes of the show, as the Season 22 midseason finale left off on a bit of a cliffhanger. Torres, played by Wilmer Valderrama, was revealed to be in a relationship — but with who?

“I can tell you that we’ve seen this person before,” executive producer Steven D. Binder told TV Insider. “This will be a character who has been on the show before and will be back again and it’s going to cause some issues with some of his team members — one in particular, may or may not be related.”

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There might be a bit of a wait for new episodes, though. Deadline reported that, due to the wildfires raging in the Los Angeles area, many sets have been shut down for the foreseeable future. 

“Sony Pictures Television’s dramas S.W.A.T. and SPIDER-NOIR are the latest Los Angeles-based TV series to temporarily shut down production as wildfires continue to ravage areas of the city,” the outlet wrote. “All series, which paused production yesterday, including Warner Bros. TV’s ABBOTT ELEMENTARY, 20th Television’s GREY’S ANATOMY, CBS Studios’ NCIS and Universal Television’s HACKS, as well as late-night shows JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! and AFTER MIDNIGHT, remain dark today.”

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