The success of the franchise NCIS is confirmed with its spin-off NCIS : Origins. In the latest episode broadcast this week across the Atlantic, viewers were treated to a big change in the history of the procedural series.
The diffusion of NCIS : Origins continues in the United States. Launched on October 14 on the American channel CBS, the spin-off of the famous detective series focuses on the past of Leroy Jethro Gibbs in the early 1990s. Years before his brilliant career within NCIS, Gibbs made his debut as a newly graduated special agent at the NIS at Camp Pendleton. His strength and character quickly allowed him to forge a place within a courageous and diverse team led with an iron fist by Mike Franks.
NCIS, Origins : a very unique episode in the history of the franchise
In the tenth episode of NCIS : Originsbroadcast on Monday, December 16 on CBS in the United States, showrunners David J. North and Gina Monreal decided to focus on the bond that Gibbs has with Ruth, whom he had briefly met in the seventh episode of the series titled “One Flew Over”. Above all, this episode marks a major turning point in the history of the procedural saga since, for the very first time in NCISthis is not an investigation. “Gina and I got talking and realized we'd like to see a story with Ruth and Gibbs. We thought it was really a story that fit Gibbs' personality.”declared the producer to the American media Deadline. “He met Ruth when he had no one and couldn't even tell his own father that he had left the Marines. Ruth was there for him when no one else was. In the end, we learn that it was really Ruth who convinced him that this career could be for him. She saved him.” The episode therefore focused on this relationship, rather than staging an investigation.
According to Austin Stowell, NCIS : Origins reveals “the foundations of this fortress that is Leroy Jethro Gibbs”
According to actor Austin Stowell, Gibbs owes his brilliant career in the NIS primarily to Ruth. “He eventually got the job at the NIS. He goes on to this amazing career that we all know about and ends up in Alaska where he seems to be happy and has found peace. His relationship with Ruth must be a direct catalyst for this. This is where we discover the real character.”he explained to the media Deadline. “I thought it was a unique opportunity to play a character before he became a hero. We learn how he got back up. We learn how he built the foundations of this fortress that is Leroy Jethro Gibbs.”
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