NCIS: Origins: See Photos Of The Cast And The CBS Spinoff's Very 1990s Set
Who's excited for NCIS: Origins? In anticipation of the CBS prequel spinoff (launching Monday, Oct. 14 at 9/8c with a double-episode premiere), TVLine presents more than a dozen photos from the Television Critics Association's July 17 tour of the set at Paramount Studios.
Set in the year 1991, NCIS: Origins follows a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs (played by Austin Stowell) as a new agent at the NIS Camp Pendleton office. The show will chronicle Gibbs' early career as he forges his own path on a team led by the legendary Mike Franks (Kyle Schmid).
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The series-regular cast also includes Mariel Molino (Promised Land) as Special Agent Lala Dominguez, a former Marine with a dark sense of humor (and whose dynamic with Gibbs is "filled with sparks"); Diany Rodriguez (The Blacklist) as Special Agent Vera Strickland, "a no-nonsense, sharp-witted Brooklynite who's tough as nails" (a character originated by Nip/Tuck's Roma Maffia in the Season 11 NCIS episode "Under the Radar"); Tyla Abercrumbie (The Chi) as Field Operation Support Officer Mary Jo Hayes, a "mama bear" who has wryly dubbed herself "HSIC" — Head Secretary in Charge; and Caleb Foote (Made for Love) as Special Agent Benjamin "Randy" Randolf, the agency's all-too-lovable "golden boy" tasked with showing the newly minted Agent Gibbs the ropes.
Here now, a photographic introduction to the cast plus a virtual tour of the NCIS: Origins set....
Welcome to the NIS Camp Pendleton office!
Do we spy formica? Must be the kitchen
Break room -- who's got some quarters?
Tyla Abercrumbie, who plays Field Operation Support Officer Mary Jo Hayes, shows the reception area
The bullpen (Gibbs' desk is on the back right, by the lone computer that no agent quite knows how to operate)
No high-tech smart tables here! Got a new clue? Grab a thumbtack.
Also, have Wite-Out handy....
The stairs from reception up to the second floor/SAC Wheeler's office
EP Sean Harmon and co-showrunner David J. North field press questions in the interrogation room
Caleb Foote, who plays Special Agent Benjamin “Randy” Randolf, and a prop master explain the autopsy room
Foote then led us to the low-tech forensics lab where Bobby Moynihan's Woody works
The styles of the (1990s) times!
TVLine's Matt Mitovich arriving at NIS with a clue that just might break the case wide open!
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Austin Stowell as Leroy Jethro Gibbs
Photo: Art Streiber/CBS
Caleb Foote as Bernard “Randy” Randolf
Photo: Art Streiber/CBS
Diany Rodriguez as Vera Strickland
Photo: Art Streiber/CBS
Tyla Abercrumbie as Mary Jo Hayes
Photo: Art Streiber/CBS
Mariel Molino as Cecilia “Lala” Dominguez
Photo: Art Streiber/CBS
Kyle Schmid as Mike Franks
Photo: Art Streiber/CBS
Austin Stowell as Leroy Jethro Gibb
Photo: Evan Mulling/CBS