Mark Harmon’s Gibbs Returns as ‘NCIS’ and ‘NCIS: Origins’ Collide for a Decades-Spanning Mystery in Crossover Trailer [Exclusive]
NCIS is heading back to the future, no wait, back to the past, or is it both? The long-running CBS franchise will premiere a crossover that transcends decades. The flagship NCIS and NCIS: Origins will take part in their first crossover event since Origins premiered. The crossover will take place on November 11, Veterans Day, and feature the Origins episode, “Funny How Time Slips Away,” and the flagship episode “Now and Then.” Collider is exclusively unveiling an extended promo for the crossover event that also features the return of Mark Harmon as Leroy Jethro Gibbs.
In the promo, while the team in Origins solves the original murder, the team in NCIS is after an escaped convict, the killer they eventually catch in Origins. Gibbs is also looking back on the case while at his home in Alaska, but as showrunner David J. North has confirmed, Gibbs is “no longer alone” (though the promo does not reveal who is with him). Another familiar face returns, as the team in NCIS brings in retired special agent Vera Strickland (Roma Maffia) to help them on the case. The synopsis for “Funny How Time Slips Away” is a follows:
