At the beginning of the story, the agency finds itself under attack from an unknown enemy. As the NCIS agents work to uncover the identity, viewers are treated to “a lot of heavy nods to that [first episode], a lot of characters that we haven’t seen and people that were in the first episode, such as Joe Spano as Fornell,” Sean Murray, who plays Timothy McGee, told Parade.
“Without giving anything away, the whole team is together trying to stop something from happening with Air Force One. We did a lot of fun things when we filmed where we put in a lot of references visually and dialogue-wise to a lot of things that the longtime fans will appreciate. Little Easter eggs hidden around the episode.”
Diona Reasonover, who plays Kasie Hines, revealed fans will be treated to “a lot of the NCIS locations” and get to see how they all come together.
“That’s something that we’ve seen before, but it just feels special now because it feels like such a big case. It’s something that has never happened in NCIS before.”
Daniela Ruah from NCIS: Los Angeles and Vanessa Lachey from NCIS: Hawai’i will both make an appearance during the 1,000th episode, though neither will be in the NCIS Washington D.C. office.
