After months of ready, NCIS: Tony & Ziva is lastly obtainable to followers with Paramount+, however these fan-favorite characters’ return doesn’t imply they’ll be roping their previous colleagues into the journey instantly. Even setting apart the reasonably sizable story brewing in NCIS season 23, characters like Gibbs and McGee have good causes for not displaying their faces simply but.
Understandably, many followers might make complete want lists of NCIS cameos in Tony & Ziva that may be enjoyable to see. Regardless of the inherent nostalgia hook of seeing Tiva collectively once more, NCIS: Tony & Ziva nonetheless has its personal separate story to inform aside from the flagship sequence. That’s very true after the occasions of the NCIS season 22 finale.
Gibbs Is In Alaska & McGee Is In The Navy Yard With MCRT Throughout NCIS: Tony & Ziva
The Spinoff’s European Setting Isn’t Precisely A Quick Drive Away
As a result of NCIS: Tony & Ziva’s timeline fills within the gaps for the reason that characters have been final seen, the whereabouts of different NCIS characters are topic to alter. Nonetheless, the primary storyline will nonetheless comply with David and DiNozzo’s adventures within the current, which complicates bringing in characters from the flagship who not look comparable sufficient to look within the flashback timeline.
Though NCIS episode 200 recommended that isolation could be a destructive end result for Gibbs, Jethro retired to Alaska to benefit from the first sense of actual peace he’s felt since his household’s deaths. He’s recently been spending his retirement narrating essentially the most miserable components of his life by NCIS: Origins, but it surely’s good to see him embrace a pastime moreover boats.
In the meantime, Tim and the remainder of the MCRT are nonetheless engaged with their work on the Navy Yard, the place they should be brief on assets since the actual NCIS moved to Quantico reasonably various years in the past. Which means that seemingly no characters who know Tony and Ziva are literally in shut proximity to them through the current storyline.
Even when the actors look totally different now, it’s arguably price a minimum of considering whether or not they might present up early in NCIS: Tony & Ziva when the story is filling in blanks from previous years. However that timeline nonetheless locations the primary NCIS forged abroad from Tony & Ziva’s European setting. And so they can’t simply drop all the things to assist their buddies.
Gibbs Has Been Retired & McGee Is Busy With His Official Work Throughout Tony & Ziva’s Disaster
This Is Mockingly The Worst Time For NCIS To Stage A Reunion
Due to NCIS: Tony & Ziva’s launch window overlapping with the community sequence’ premieres, a first-ever franchise-wide NCIS crossover is a really actual chance. Sadly, crossing over Tony & Ziva with the flagship wouldn’t make an excessive amount of sense proper now. Not solely does the spinoff have to develop its personal id, however there are additionally related story points.
Gibbs’ NCIS season 3 retirement ended on Ziva’s behalf, so it appears affordable that she and Tony might rope him into their story once more. However Gibbs’ earlier return allowed him to make up for failing to stop catastrophe in his final mission. Now that he’s retired on his personal phrases, Tiva wouldn’t presumably really feel comfy pulling him out of it.
Maybe they’d really feel extra comfy contacting somebody like McGee or Palmer for assist, however that may show tough as effectively. With NCIS season 23’s Carla Marino storyline about to hit the bottom operating, Parker’s requesting all palms on deck to assist deliver his father’s killer to justice. Until Carla bounces off to Europe, no person will probably be crossing paths with Tiva.
Moreover, each sequence’ narratives are transferring rapidly. NCIS: Tony & Ziva season 1 will solely have two episodes left when NCIS season 23 premieres, so the MCRT must catch Carla instantly to make time for a European reunion. And if Tiva haven’t requested their buddies’ assist by then, there gained’t be a lot time left for that to occur.
Will Any Of The Major NCIS Characters Present Up In Tony & Ziva?
There Are Higher Arguments Towards It (However Nothing’s Been Dominated Out)
Placing apart numerous story conflicts, the opportunity of a minimum of a number of MCRT colleagues displaying up in NCIS: Tony & Ziva isn’t far-fetched. In actual fact, it was revealed on the 2025 NCIS panel at San Diego Comic-Con that Jimmy’s been maintaining in contact with Tony and sending him presents to offer to Tali. He’d be a shoo-in for a cameo.
Michael Weatherly himself hinted at one other cameo he would possibly prefer to see in a latest TV Guide interview. Sadly, Weatherly additionally hints in that very same interview that there seemingly gained’t be any significantly main NCIS cameos in Tony & Ziva for a minimum of the primary season. As Weatherly explains fairly fairly, the spinoff must finds its personal legs first:
“I feel within the preliminary outing of [NCIS: Tony & Ziva], it was actually necessary that it felt like they have been in their very own world and that we would have liked to form of construct and perceive that world. As a result of it is extra grounded in a means. There’s much less music telling you the best way to really feel. There are fewer propulsive plot gadgets, like we have got to get to the factor and discover them. And simply if you find yourself lacking that, then swiftly, we’re doing that. Just like the present does do it.
They simply do it in a distinct type of vitality and sample, and pacing. And so, I feel we needed to determine what the present was, as a result of it could be bizarre if all of the sudden Abby reveals up. By the way in which, I really like Pauley Perrette, simply from the second I bumped into her. Pauley Perrette is a improbable human. However we would have liked to essentially create the world. After which later, anybody who comes into it, we must make it acceptable to the way in which it feels. And to offer anyone a way of, they must watch it and go, ‘Oh, I get it.’”
His ideas are laid out pretty stream-of-consciousness, however the fundamental abstract of his foremost level is that NCIS: Tony & Ziva is simply too tonally totally different from the flagship to hold over characters with out some adjustment. If even Tony’s earlier characterization is simply too over-the-top for the spinoff, every other actors crossing over must adapt their performances as he did.
It could be enjoyable to see Mark Harmon’s NCIS return or a brand new three-way journey starring McTiva. For now, nonetheless, NCIS: Tony & Ziva has just one job, and that’s to succeed effectively sufficient that followers would possibly see these tales play out sooner or later once they can happen extra naturally. Till then, the spinoff’s personal characters should take precedence.
Supply: TV Guide
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