Did NCIS: Origins' Austin Stowell Just Confirm Lala's Fate Ahead Of Season 2 Premiere? Watch Video

Heading into NCIS: Origins Season 2, which premieres Tuesday, Oct. 14, at 9/8c, there's only one thing on our minds: Is Lala alive?!

For those who need a refresher, the Season 1 finale of the CBS spinoff saw Lala (played by Mariel Molino) on her way to find "probie" Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Austin Stowell) and deliver the news that she had convinced MP investigator Lara Macy to not arrest him for the murder of cartel boss Pedro Hernandez. When a small girl darted out into the road, Lala steered sharply to miss the child, and flipped her Jeep several times in the process. Lala was last seen dangling upside down in the driver's seat, bleeding profusely.

Since that cliffhanger ending, Molino confirmed she was on set in July during production of Season 2, but there has been no official confirmation of whether Lala will return in flashbacks after her death, or whether she'll be back in a full capacity. Naturally, TVLine hoped to get answers from Stowell himself when I spoke with him and NCIS' Wilmer Valderrama earlier this month ahead of the show's fall return.

"Lala will be back in some capacity," Stowell reported. "She went through a terrible accident and anybody who would go through something like that, there are going to be adjustments and baby steps coming back into the workplace."

There "are going to be adjustments" coming back into the workplace?! Did Stowell just accidentally confirm Lala's fate? When I pushed Stowell on this point, doth the man protest too much? (Watch video above.) He — and Valderrama, for that matter — both maintained that those were hypothetical adjustments, should Lala survive.

Click PLAY on the video above to watch the full Q&A, where Stowell also teases how Gibbs will cope with Lala's accident and how his relationship with Diane will progress in Season 2. Then, hit the comments with your thoughts: Will Lala survive on NCIS: Origins?