The following incorporates spoilers from the Jan. 9 NCIS 3-way crossover event-palooza.
When the brokers of NCIS, NCIS: Hawai’i and NCIS: Los Angeles banded collectively to uncover a killer conspiracy, they acquired a reasonably surprising however solely welcome help.
The 3-way crossover occasion noticed an meeting of Parker, Torres, Palmer, Tennant, Tara, Callen, Blye and plenty of others canoodle their noodles to unravel a beloved FLETC teacher’s surprising suicide. Long, three-hour story brief: Said prof was aware of top-secret details about “Simon Williams,” a Carlos the Jackal- (or, Dread Pirate Roberts!)-like community of CIA assassins who years in the past operated underneath that one pseudonym. Now, a rogue faction was aiming to resurrect “Simon,” for even much less scrupulous causes.
In the crossover’s closing NCIS: LA episode, whereas attempting to attract out the dangerous guys (and in doing so hopefully find a kidnapped Rountree and MIA Kilbride), Callen and Sam every acquired cryptic texts that, when put collectively, unlocked an audio message — from a garbled however distinctive voice.
“Sounds like you’ve got yourself in a bit of a pickle,” Hetty famous. “I warned Hollis that his Simon Williams days would come to chunk him in the ass.
“You are all quite capable, and far be it for me to tell you what to do,” she continued. “But you might want to contact an old friend, Gwen Johns….”
In addition to noting that Alden nonetheless owes her $600 for “the Monaco fiasco,” Hetty’s message led the brokers to a Hollywood casting agent who years in the past discovered a ringer for Kilbride, to double because the admiral on quite a few events. Callen & Co. in flip used that actor to lure the baddies to the boat home and take down a few of ’em, ultimately main NCIS to a distant airfield the place Rountree was being held — and the place Kilbride was laying in wait, able to take a case-closing sniper shot on the rogue group’s chief.
Speaking about Hetty’s shock, audio cameo, NCIS: LA showrunner R. Scott Gemmill (who wrote Part 3 of the crossover), tells TVLine, “The triple crossover was such an necessary occasion for all of our NCIS households that it was necessary to have Hetty (performed by Linda Hunt) be part of it, even when she was bodily unavailable.
“In true Hetty fashion, she proved not only to be on top of what was going on,” Gemmill added, “but she even offered some cryptic advice to help get them out of a jam.”
Another enjoyable truth concerning the NCIS universe’s first-ever 3-way crossover? The ending was filmed in the beginning… and the start was filmed on the finish.
“We shot it backwards, which really made for ‘interesting’ acting choices,” NCIS: Hawai’i entrance lady Vanessa Lachey shared with TVLine.
“We shot the end first, then we shot Hawai’i, and then we shot the OG, the mothership,” Lachey defined. And due to that inverted order, the solid members of the totally different exhibits typically have to remind themselves whether or not their characters have been assembly for the primary time or not!
“Literally, we got here into one of many workplaces and I used to be like, ‘Have we met yet, at this point?’ And [NCIS:LA‘s] Chris O’Donnell was like, ‘I don’t suppose so….’ We had already shot the finale, however I used to be like, ‘OK, but this is the point where I’m first seeing you.’
“And when Todd [LL Cool J] came to Hawai’i, I said, ‘This is your first time in our bullpen,’ so he changed his acting when he walked in. He made sure to take it all in. We just had to kind of remind ourselves, ‘Have we met yet at this point?’ Since we shot it backwards.”
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