NCIS: Origins Risky Timeline Has Unique Chance to Bring Beloved Gone Character Back

Though things have recently been quiet about NCIS and its season 21 finale, CBS’ police procedural giant isn’t going anywhere and in fact is coming back soon, seemingly stronger than ever.

The original show will not only bring its brand new season this fall, but will arrive back at CBS with two more promising spinoffs one of which will focus entirely on NCIS’ biggest figure Leroy Jethro Gibbs, following his story ever since the start of his career.

Though the upcoming series is already boycotted by some fans having doubts about the whole idea’s benefit to the franchise, NCIS: Origins seems to have a special opportunity that all other NCIS shows couldn’t handle anyway.

Once it lands on CBS later this year, NCIS: Origins will become the franchise’s first ever spinoff to take its viewers back in time. The show is set to find Gibbs as NCIS’ new Special Agent back in the 1990s, something that still has the original series’ lovers speculating about Gibbs’ accurate portrayal by the franchise’s new actor Austin Stowell.

Still, NCiS: Origins’ time-traveling feature may indeed become helpful when it comes to the flagship show’s original characters who were gone just too soon, with Caitlin Todd being one of them.

Introduced in NCIS’ first season, Caitlin was quick to conquer the fans’ hearts, but soon tore them apart when she was shot dead during a mission in season 2 finale. The character could’ve stayed around for a much longer time if it hadn’t been for Caitlin’s actress, Sasha Alexander, who back in the day decided to quit the show due to her tight schedule.

Now that NCIS’ brand new series is adapting a completely different approach by taking its viewers to the past, chances are that Caitlin Todd may indeed show up at some point given that throughout her short time in NCIS she was working closely with Gibbs.

With this theory in mind, fans will be keeping their fingers crossed right until NCIS: Origins hits CBS this fall.