One NCIS: Origins’ Casting News Can Make Harmon’s Most Painful Loss Sadder

A piece of NCIS: Origins casting news can worsen a sad story for Mark Harmon’s Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Tackling the origins story of the former MCRT leader with the agency, the new CBS spinoff has tapped Austin Stowell to take over the role. Still, Harmon will provide the narration for the series. Since some of Gibbs’ backstory is known, the ’90s-set NCIS: Origins will build on critical moments for him. It can bring more depth to Gibbs’ flashbacks in the flagship NCIS and introduce moments of his life that the original series never showed.

NCIS: Origins will have some devastating twists, especially when setting up the rest of the character’s life. Picking up in 1991, a disastrous year for Gibbs, as NCIS season 3 revealed the death of Gibbs’ wife and daughter, the new expansion series can properly show the aftermath of the incident. Aside from that, however, there’s another heartbreaking development that NCIS: Origins is expected to tackle. A casting update reveals that the prequel will also show how Gibbs lost someone dear to him around the same time that his wife and daughter were murdered.