NCIS: Origins Adds 2 OG Characters Replacements to Its Cast

NCIS: Origins is still months away from hitting CBS in October, but more exciting details are coming in even now, and it seems like Gibbs’ team is getting two more members who may have a major impact on the character’s future at NCIS.

With the production already being in full swing, the upcoming show has just welcomed two more actors to its ensemble cast, and their entrance may finally explain yet another compelling detail about Leroy Jethro Gibbs’ relationships with his team members.

As Variety reported, NCIS: Origins has a major update on its lead character’s professional surroundings since Lori Petty and Bobby Moynihan have recently joined the cast as Dr. Lenora Friedman and Woodrow “Woody” Browne respectively.

Not much has been revealed about how both characters will collaborate with Austin Stowell’s Gibbs, but so far the franchise’s fans can make their own guesses based on brief descriptions.

As the reports also revealed, Dr. Lenora Friedman is “a seasoned pathologist at the San Diego Medical Examiner’s Office. As comfortable around the dead she is the living, her passion for the job is infectious” while Woodrow Browne will come as “the wildly overworked senior chemist and director of the NIS Forensic Lab, who compensates for his lack of sleep with an offbeat sense of humor.”

Though NCIS: Origins will now have a completely new take on Gibbs’ story with more of new faces surrounding him (except for Gibbs’ mentor and friend Mike Franks who also showed up in the original series), the upcoming spinoff still has a huge potential to give a sneak peek into its lead character’s relationships with those who he will eventually form a tight bond in the future.

It surely didn’t take long for NCIS’ long-standing fans to connect the dots realizing that NCIS: Origins’ recently introduced characters are nothing but a mere replacement of David McCallum's Ducky Mallard and Pauley Perrette's Abby Sciuto from the original series.

Considering that Gibbs got attached to those two at some point, and the reasons for it were never given neither by Gibbs himself nor by the show’s storyline, the spinoff’s newcomers are a perfect opportunity to address this matter. It may be true that Gibbs still kept seeing Friedman and Browne in his NCIS colleagues years after having started as a Special Agent.

NCIS: Origins will premiere on CBS on October 14.

Source: Variety