Back in late May, NCIS: Origins co-showrunner Gina Lucita Monreal shared that the prequel series was planning to address the Fed 5, the law enforcement group that counted Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Mike Franks and Dwayne Pride among its members. The group’s existence was revealed in the NCIS Season 11 two-parter “Crescent City,” which introduced Scott Bakula as Pride and paved the way for NCIS: New Orleans’ seven-season run. Now word’s come in that Origins is set to bring in the younger Pride, which has me eager to see a big moment between him and Austin Stowell’s Gibbs.
Just a week after Monreal confirmed to me that that NCIS: Origins still planned to “touch on the Fed 5, though not in the way people might think,” TV Insider has learned that the series is casting Pride for an appearance later in Season 2. At this stage of his life, the character, previously a sheriff’s deputy, is a “newly minted Probationary Special Agent” from the NIS Panama office who already has history with Gibbs, and they’ll need to “resolve their past tension as they go undercover on a case.” Monreal and co-showrunner David J. North had this to say about Origins featuring Pride:
