NCIS Bloodbath: Season 22 Premiere Threatens to Kill *at Least* One Agent
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The highly anticipated NCIS Season 22 premiere is fast approaching, but should fans prepare themselves for the worst? With a new trailer released ahead of the first episode, fans are already looking for clues about who might die in NCIS Season 22.
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Who Dies in NCIS Season 22’s Premiere?
The NCIS Season 22 trailer dropped this week and there’s so much going on — it’s hard to wrap your head around it all. The synopsis for the first episode of the season seems to indicate someone may make an exit in the premiere: “NCIS searches for a missing undercover agent in the midst of an active hostage situation.”
Jessica Knight (Katrina Law) leaves the team to train the NCIS REACT agents and the first episode of Season 22 picks up months after the Season 21 finale. In the trailer, FBI agents put McGee (Sean Murray) and Parker (Gary Cole) in handcuffs, Parker punches an FBI agent, and there’s a dead body in Vance’s (Rocky Carroll) office. (He explains, “No one can know this man was here.” Yikes.)
Mention of a mole, of course, sets the stage for something interesting to play out. “We got a problem. There’s a mole within NCIS,” Parker says. “Too many secrets, dishonesty. We’ve got to stop that mole without starting a war.”
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The trailer also shows Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) in a very dangerous situation. “If you want me to kill one of my own, I need a good reason,” he says.
Parker later says to a tied up Torres, “You’re a prisoner,” to which he responds, “By choice.”
Given what the trailer teased, it seems likely that Torres is in the most danger, but will the character die? In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Valderrama discussed how fans worry about his character. “I think they always worry. The fans are so passionate about NCIS,” he said.
He couldn’t reveal too much about his character’s fate, but he did offer up a bit of what to expect in the upcoming season. His mention of “major danger” will certainly have fans on edge.
“I would say this: That in season 22, the contribution these writers have done to the show is just invaluable. We’re playing a lot more with personal journeys for our characters,” he explained. “This season will be a little bit more humorous, definitely a lot more emotionally driven for our lead characters, and perhaps — perhaps — they’re going to be in major danger.”
Despite the worrisome tease, however, Valderrama confirmed, “Yeah, no. I’m OK. I’m in the season.” In April, Valderrama told TV Insider, “NCIS has been and will be my home for a while.”
Earlier this month, executive producer Steven D. Binder gave TV Insider some scoop on what to expect for the characters in Season 22 and there’s definitely cause for concern about Torres.
“[Torres] goes undercover with some bad people and it doesn’t work out well. He gets into a lot of trouble,” Binder shared. “He’s on this road of undercover loner, not really having relationships. Where does that road lead? We pair him up with a grizzled, hard-boiled private detective who is at the end of that road and is about to leave humanity behind and retire to some beach and drink himself to death. Is this Torres’ future or is he able to bring this guy back from the brink?”
NCIS Season 22 premieres October 14 at 9 p.m. on CBS.
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