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Adam Holmes

NCIS And NCIS: Origins Are Crossing Over This Fall, And I’m Excited By The Premise For This Decades-Spanning Event

Side-by-side pictures of Wilmer Valderrama on NCIS and Austin Stowell on NCIS: Origins.

Did you think there was never going to be a way for NCIS and NCIS: Origins to cross over because one show is set in the present day and the other takes place in the early ‘90s. Well, you’d be wrong. It’s just been announced that these two series from the popular procedural franchise will cross over on the 2025 TV schedule this fall, and I’m excited by the premise that brings them together.

No, time travel doesn’t suddenly exist in the NCIS-verse, allowing Austin Stowell’s younger Leroy Jethro Gibbs to leap forward to 2025 and meet the people he’ll one day work alongside in Washington DC. Instead, this crossover, which will happen Tuesday, November 11, will see the Origins team in 1992 investigating the small-town death of a naval officer, and then that case will be reopened more than 30 years later for the NCIS team to look into. Watch Stowell and Wilder Valderrama, who plays Nick Torres on NCIS, announce the big news:

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