
NCIS: Origins Season 2 premieres on the 2025 TV schedule in October, sandwiched between NCIS Season 23 and NCIS: Sydney Season 3 on CBS. The prequel show’s cast and crew, however, are already back in the swing of things, as Season 2 has begun filming. What’s caught my eye at the start of this production, however, is that there’s already a major update to share about Mariel Molino’s character, Lala Dominguez.
Lala crashed her car in the NCIS: Origins Season 1 finale to avoid hitting a little girl who’d run out into the street, and it was left ambiguous whether or not she survived. Well, fans can take comfort knowing they’ll at least get to see Lala at the start of Season 2. That’s because Molino shared a picture on her Instagram Stories of the area of the Paramount lot where Origins filmed, with a special canine friend of hers in frame: