By Mallory Mattingly
NCIS’ Wilmer Valderrama and NCIS: ORIGINS star Austin Stowell just teased a potential crossover episode.
“Our season is going to bring these two shows together again in an interesting way,” Valderrama told TV Insider. “And we have a major crossover with NCIS: ORIGINS that I think is not only clever, but brilliant in how it deepens how we communicate and how we coexist on the same screen together, which people think like, oh, well, I’m sure it’s a cold case that starts there and it gets solved there.”
Stowell added, “You’re going to have to break out the tissues for this one because it is, it’s heartbreaking, that when you read the news about stories every now and again like this, you can’t imagine what it would be like. And that’s the beauty of storytelling is that we’re the ones who bring it to life, that you get to see what you couldn’t imagine.”
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“The audience experience is going to be a wild ride on this one that it’s going to be stormy at times and going to be fearful, and it’s going to be heartbreaking,” he continued. “But the NCISes also has this wonderful formula of giving you something every week that allows you to feel fulfilled, allows you to feel some sort of completion, that life moves in these cyclical ways.”
NCIS Season 23 and NCIS: ORIGINS just started airing on Tuesday, Oct. 14, and Valderrama shared what fans can expect from the season.
“What’s different this year is that we are going to know what our season finale is going to be really, really early,” he said. “We’re working on the season finale now, and we are going to make sure that our characters, to meet the season finale, go through their personal journeys to get them psychologically and physically to where they need to be for this finale.”
“So expect some really important to follow character arcs, a lot of nostalgia because we’re back on our Tuesday nights,” he continued. “So anybody who experienced that Tuesday night may or may not be making very strategic appearances to continue to push the show to where it needs to be. There is existing characters, there is old school characters. There’s legacy characters all coming in to celebrate the Tuesday night return. And these are not going to be just fun cameos. They’re going to be strategic chess moves on where we’re going with the season.”
CBS stacked Tuesday nights with all three NCIS shows, something Valderrama believes will play in the series’ favor.
“So, we’re building something that I feel procedural shows tend to not have the luxury of having, and because we have the luxury of understanding we’re going to go, it’s given us so much more of resources to play with,” the NCIS star shared. “And that which leads us into what is our relationship with our lineup — 8 o’clock NCIS, 9 o’clock NCIS: ORIGINS, 10 o’clock NCIS: SYDNEY — how are we all going to behave together when we want the fans to stick it with us for three shows? So we’re finding really, really exciting, clever ways in which television had kind of flirted with, but we’re deepening the roots of how these shows can coexist in the same universe.”
After new episodes debut on Tuesdays, they will be available to stream on Paramount+.
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