‘NCIS: Origins’ Bosses Explains Why Big Gibbs & Lala Moment Didn’t Happen

Mariel Molino as Cecilia “Lala” Dominguez and Austin Stowell as Leroy Jethro Gibbs — 'NCIS: Origins' Season 1 Finale
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[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the NCIS: Origins Season 1 finale “Cecilia.”]

The NCIS: Origins Season 1 finale, which aired on Monday, April 28, ended with a shocking cliffhanger: the possible death of one of the NIS agents! It also introduced a character who will play a significant role in Gibbs’ (Austin Stowell) future.

We see what we knew about from NCIS: Lara Macy (Claire Berger on Origins, Louise Lombard on the mothership) investigating Pedro Hernandez’s murder and Gibbs’ role in it. But Lala (Mariel Molino) uses her friendship with Macy to convince the other woman to drop her case, with the fact that she knew — and lying about how much and when she did. On her way to tell Gibbs what she did, she’s in a crash, with her car flipping over. She “was coming to tell me she had saved me. I would only find out later what she did for me. But that’s not what made me love her. I loved her all along. I still do,” Mark Harmon‘s Gibbs says in voiceover. Meanwhile, Gibbs is at his old house, packing up, when the real estate agent walks in … and it’s none other than his future ex-wife, Diane (Kathleen Kenny)!