Mark Harmon formally ended his run as a collection common on CBS’ long-running procedural drama “NCIS” Monday.
The newest episode acted as a goodbye for Harmon’s character, Particular Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, who has been with the collection for the previous 18 years after first being launched on the present “JAG” in 2003.
Based on Deadline, Monday’s episode, “Nice Huge Open,” noticed Gibbs and Particular Agent Timothy McGee, performed by Sam Murray, enterprise to Alaska to discover a contract killer who was employed by a neighborhood firm. Within the aftermath of the case, Gibbs abruptly knowledgeable his accomplice and NCIS director, Vance (Rocky Carroll), that he wouldn’t be returning to regulation enforcement. As an alternative, he opted to remain in Alaska, noting that he had discovered a “sense of peace” within the north and wasn’t prepared to offer it up simply but.
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Mark Harmon ended his run on ‘NCIS.’ (Cliff Lipson/CBS)
The transfer comes as no shock to followers who had been speculating for months that Harmon’s time on the present may be coming to an finish. The Hollywood Reporter beforehand revealed that he signed a deal to return to the present in Season 19, however at a restricted capability. Though he’ll stay with the franchise as a producer, it appears his time in entrance of the digicam on the present is at an finish as of Monday.
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Thankfully, the present will go on with present cast members comparable to Murray, Carroll, Katrina Regulation, Gary Cole, Brian Dietzen, David McCallum, Wilmer Valderrama and Diona Reasonover. In the meantime, showrunner Steven D. Binder famous that Harmon’s Particular Agent Gibbs remains to be on the market on this planet of the present and welcome to return ought to the actor resolve to reprise his position.
Mark Harmon will stay on ‘NCIS’ as an govt producer. (Cliff Lipson/CBS )
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“As an govt producer and expensive good friend, Mark continues to be an integral a part of the material of the present,” Binder mentioned in an announcement (by way of The Hollywood Reporter). “Our north star has at all times been staying true to our characters, and that fact has at all times guided the tales we inform and the place these characters go. So concerning the way forward for Gibbs, as long-time followers of the present could have observed through the years … by no means rely Leroy Jethro Gibbs out.”
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