By Mallory Mattingly
After a recent voiceover occurred at the end of the NCIS: ORIGINS episode 7, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” many questions have been raised for fans.
One question: “Is anyone joining Gibbs in Alaska?
“I spent a lot of my time alone. Alone in my kitchen, eating dinner. Alone in my basement, building a boat. [When] you spend a lot of your time alone, you get used to it. If you’re not careful, it starts to become a habit. Things are simpler when you’re alone. You got nothing to lose. So you push people away until they leave. Or you go someplace no one can follow, like the middle of Alaska,” Gibbs said in the episode. “I learned to like being alone, or maybe that’s just the thing I tell myself until someone shows up to share a steak by the fire.”
TV Insider spoke with the executive producers of NCIS: ORIGINS, Gina Lucita Monreal and David J. North, who hinted that someone may be joining Gibbs in Alaska.
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“Could be,” North said. “A little behind the scenes: When I was in the sound studio with Mark while he was recording that voiceover that Gina wrote, Mark asked me the same thing.”
Austin Stowell, who played Gibbs in the prequel, was asked who he’d prefer to join him in Alaska.
His response was, “Other than Randy [Caleb Foote]?”
“He would have everybody down the line: Mary Jo [Tyla Abercrumbie], Franks [Kyle Schmid], Lala [Mariel Molino], of course, Randy, his dad, his mom, [his late wife and daughter] Shannon and Kelly, of course,” he added. “Gibbs gives all of himself to the people that he chooses to align with. Once he gives his allegiance, he’s there all the way.”
When Stowell first read that part of the script, he thought it was such a “sad” moment for Gibbs.
“But it’s so sad,” Stowell said. “It’s so tragic as our leading guy, that where Mark’s version of Gibbs ends up, and that monologue is so poignant because he says it’s easier, but at the end of the day, he is alone. And that it would be nice if somebody — the fact that he even thinks about that means that deep down he would like someone there. And because I don’t know about the future of — I know about the future of Diane [Kathleen Kenny, playing Gibbs’ second wife], I don’t know about the future of Lala. I don’t know what that is. I really don’t. I’m not saying this with any kind of coy smile. I know that she grows on Gibbs by the day and his admiration for her is certainly not going anywhere.”
No matter what someone may endure, no matter how tough they may act on the exterior, deep down inside, we all long for community. The same is true for Leeroy Jethro Gibbs. Stay tuned to see if anyone does join him in Alaska.
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