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‘NCIS: Origins’ Showrunners Break Down Premiere, That Different Abbreviation & What To Expect From Young Gibbs


NCIS: Origins writers break down much-anticipated prequel after its debut

The origin story of Leroy Jethro Gibbs has finally begun: CBS kicked off its much-anticipated prequel Monday from veteran NCIS writers-producers Gina Lucita Monreal and David J. Here, Monreal and North breakdown the two-part premiere that follows a young Gibbs ( Bridge of Spies ‘ Austin Stowell) as he starts his career as a newly minted special agent at the fledgling NIS Camp Pendleton office. It can be challenging in that you don’t have those crutches of just saying, ‘oh, okay, well we will run through fingerprint analysis and find our guy.’ It makes us go back and look at the characters and use our agents and their skillsets in order to solve these cases.

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