By the time Mark Harmon exited NCIS early on in Season 19, his character, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, had said goodbye to some of the CBS show’s other important characters, most notably Timothy McGee in Alaska. But Jimmy Palmer wasn’t among them, much to the chagrin of his actor, Brian Dietzen. However, Dietzen did inform CinemaBlend what he’d like to see if Gibbs and Jimmy reunited, be it sometime during NCIS’s run on the 2026 TV schedule or further out.
Having asked Sean Murray back in November what he’d like to see if Gibbs and McGee came face to face again, I posed that same question to Brian Dietzen when I spoke to him earlier this month. The actor, who debuted as Jimmy Palmer in the NCIS Season 1 episode “Split Decision,” shared his thoughts on the subject as follows:
