NCIS Season 22 Hints At Alden Parker’s Dark Fate After New Lily Mystery Reveal

NCIS hinted at a dark moment for Gary Cole’s Alden Parker in the season 21 finale. After a large piece of metal trapped Parker while investigating a murder aboard a Navy ship, Parker’s physical health began to decline. The supervisory agent suffered a cut to his leg that continued to bleed after Katrina Law’s character freed him from the impairment. As such, Parker began to lose consciousness and experienced hallucinations while both agents remained locked in the ship’s engine room. Parker went in and out of consciousness while Knight prepared for their rescue, seeing an NCIS mystery girl named Lily.

Lily first appeared to Parker as a hallucination projected onto the ship’s engine room of a girl playing hide-and-seek. Then, Parker’s visualization of Lily turned into a repressed memory of his past, which showed Lily playing the same game aboard a ship with a young boy she called “Aldie.” Context suggested that the boy playing hide-and-seek with Lily was Alden Parker, Lily’s brother, and the woman who scolded them was their mother. When Parker woke up and couldn’t remember Lily in the NCIS season 21 finale, it suggested Alden Parker experienced a dark and repressed fate.