Warning: SPOILERS for the NCIS: Origins episode “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” are ahead!
Although not a member of the main cast, Patrick Fischler’s Cliff Wheeler is still an important cog in the machine known as NCIS: Origins. In addition to being the Special Agent in Charge of the NIS Pendleton office in the early 1990s, we’ve also gotten some peeks into his personal life, most notably through his secret relationship with FBI agent Noah Oakley. Wheeler’s closeted sexuality played into the latest Origins episode to air on the 2025 TV schedule, and while it resulted in some unfortunate shakeups in his life, I was glad to see at least one good thing come from it.
