NCIS Just Gave Gibbs The Perfect Legacy After Mark Harmon’s Exit
The hit CBS series NCIS has given Gibbs the perfect legacy after Mark Harmon’s exit. Having portrayed the taciturn special agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs for more than 18 seasons and 400 episodes, Harmon finally left the show following the season 19 episode “Great Wide Open”, which sees the beloved NCIS agent finally find peace in retirement in Alaska. Some audiences assumed that Gibbs’ exit from NCIS meant they’d seen and heard the last of him until a later episode created the ideal callback to his character.
In NCIS season 19, episode 10, Special Agent Timothy McGee (Sean Murray) and Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen) receive mysterious deposits of $10,000. Given their line of work, the two are naturally suspicious until the end of the episode when Director Leon Vance (Rocky Carroll) calls them into his office to explain. He informs McGee and Palmer that they are the latest recipients of the Leroy Jethro Gibbs Scholarship Fund, a trust initially set up for Gibbs’ own daughter before she tragically died, and which he has grown over the years to aid numerous agents’ families including Vance’s own children.
