NCIS: Sydney Season 3 Is Quietly Wasting Its Best New Character (& Fans Are Losing Patience)

Four installments into NCIS: Sydney Season 3, Bluebird “Blue” Gleeson (Mavournee Hazel) still isn’t back on the team, and the International-themed Navy procedural needs to stop wasting time with its best character. The team’s forensic scientist is officially out of commission but unofficially still working, as seen in “The Truth Is Outback.” Michelle Mackey’s (Olivia Swann) team delves into the world of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in Episode 4, and, as always, Blue gets the AFP/NCIS Sydney task force the intel they need.

Notwithstanding Bluebird, every member of Mackey’s team has officially returned. Jim “JD” Dempsey (Todd Lasance), Dr. Roy “Rosie” Penrose (William McInnes), Evie Cooper (Tuuli Narkle), and DeShawn Jackson (Sean Sagar) are all back for another installment in the Outback. Still, the series hasn’t answered what’s next for Blue. She became the task force’s go-to intel provider in NCIS: Sydney Season 1, earning her a permanent gig with the team. However, NCIS: Sydney Season 3, Episode 2, revealed more about Gleeson’s past, complicating her route back to NCIS Sydney.