The next accommodates spoilers from the Jan. 9 NCIS 3-way crossover event-palooza.
When the brokers of NCIS, NCIS: Hawai’i and NCIS: Los Angeles banded collectively to uncover a killer conspiracy, they obtained a slightly surprising however fully welcome help.
The three-way crossover occasion noticed an meeting of Parker, Torres, Palmer, Tennant, Tara, Callen, Blye and lots of others canoodle their noodles to resolve a beloved FLETC teacher’s stunning suicide. Lengthy, three-hour story brief: Mentioned prof was aware of top-secret details about “Simon Williams,” a Carlos the Jackal- (or, Dread Pirate Roberts!)-like community of CIA assassins who years in the past operated below that one pseudonym. Now, a rogue faction was aiming to resurrect “Simon,” for even much less scrupulous causes.
Within the crossover’s closing NCIS: LA episode, whereas making an attempt to attract out the dangerous guys (and in doing so hopefully find a kidnapped Rountree and MIA Kilbride), Callen and Sam every obtained cryptic texts that, when put collectively, unlocked an audio message — from a garbled however distinctive voice.
“Sounds such as you’ve acquired your self in a little bit of a pickle,” Hetty famous. “I warned Hollis that his Simon Williams days would come to chunk him within the ass.
“You might be all fairly succesful, and much be it for me to inform you what to do,” she continued. “However you would possibly wish to contact an outdated good friend, Gwen Johns….”
Along with noting that Alden nonetheless owes her $600 for “the Monaco fiasco,” Hetty’s message led the brokers to a Hollywood casting agent who years in the past discovered a ringer for Kilbride, to double because the admiral on quite a few events. Callen & Co. in flip used that actor to lure the baddies to the boat home and take down a few of ’em, ultimately main NCIS to a distant airfield the place Rountree was being held — and the place Kilbride was laying in wait, able to take a case-closing sniper shot on the rogue group’s chief.
Talking about Hetty’s shock, audio cameo, NCIS: LA showrunner R. Scott Gemmill (who wrote Half 3 of the crossover), tells TVLine, “The triple crossover was such an necessary occasion for all of our NCIS households that it was necessary to have Hetty (performed by Linda Hunt) be part of it, even when she was bodily unavailable.
“In true Hetty vogue, she proved not solely to be on high of what was occurring,” Gemmill added, “however she even supplied some cryptic recommendation to assist get them out of a jam.”
One other enjoyable reality concerning the NCIS universe’s first-ever 3-way crossover? The ending was filmed at first… and the start was filmed on the finish.
“We shot it backwards, which actually made for ‘attention-grabbing’ appearing decisions,” NCIS: Hawai’i entrance girl Vanessa Lachey shared with TVLine.
“We shot the tip first, then we shot Hawai’i, after which we shot the OG, the mothership,” Lachey defined. And due to that inverted order, the forged members of the completely different reveals typically have to remind themselves whether or not their characters had been assembly for the primary time or not!
“Actually, we got here into one of many places of work and I used to be like, ‘Have we met but, at this level?’ And [NCIS:LA‘s] Chris O’Donnell was like, ‘I don’t assume so….’ We had already shot the finale, however I used to be like, ‘OK, however that is the purpose the place I’m first seeing you.’
“And when Todd [LL Cool J] got here to Hawai’i, I stated, ‘That is your first time in our bullpen,’ so he modified his appearing when he walked in. He made positive to take all of it in. We simply needed to sort of remind ourselves, ‘Have we met but at this level?’ Since we shot it backwards.”
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