As long as NCIS: Origins is airing, there’s going to be fans asking when younger versions of characters from the original NCIS are going to appear. Well, now we finally have one locked in for the prequel’s second season with a little less than two months to go until it premieres on the 2025 TV schedule. Not only is NCIS: Origins Season 2 going to feature young Donald “Ducky” Mallard, this appearance will also include a touching tribute to “honor the memory” of the late David McCallum.
Adam Campbell, who played Ducky in his younger years in four NCIS episodes, is set to reprise his role for an episode titled “The Edge.” The story will see Ducky traveling to Camp Pendleton to show the team as they work a case, which will bring him back into contact with Leroy Jethro Gibbs for the first time in years. Their first meeting was depicted in the NCIS Season 18 episode “Everything Starts Somewhere,” which featured flashbacks set in 1980 and was back when Sean Harmon was playing young Gibbs.
