Warning: SPOILERS for the NCIS episode “Fleeting” are ahead!
A new episode of NCIS has premiered on the 2026 TV schedule, but frankly, I know I’m not alone in still recovering from what happened last week. The death of Rocky Carroll’s Leon Vance was one of the biggest shakeups in the CBS procedural’s history, with showrunner Steven Binder saying it was necessary to once again show NCIS’s “real stakes.” So now we’re waiting to see who will permanently replace Vance as NCIS Director, though if some dialogue in “Fleeting” is any indication, it may be a long time until we meet them.
