‘NCIS’ Reveals Major Shocker About Parker’s Mother — What He Learns About Lily
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[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for NCIS Season 22 Episode 15 “Moonlit.”]
NCIS finally gives Parker (Gary Cole) answers about the little girl he’s been seeing since the Season 21 finale, and it involves a heartbreaking revelation about his mother’s death.
Parker has Palmer (Brian Dietzen) do a sketch of Lily. He describes her expression as “bright, innocent, full of hope,” as well as “like an old soul.” Palmer, at first, thinks it’s case-related, but Parker says she’s “just an old friend.” His sketch is great. “You nailed it,” Parker says as he sees her standing behind the ME.
Parker then has a video call with his father, Roman (Francis Xavier McCarthy), who’s on a trip in Vegas with his seniors group. He’s already asked him more than once if he remembered a girl named Lily, but he’s hoping a visual (Palmer’s sketch) will help. It doesn’t ring any bells, Roman says. Parker wonders if someone else might have known her, like… his mother, Roman realizes, asking if it’s just a ploy to get him to talk about her. Parker’s not picky; he’ll take answers on either. After all, both his mother and Lily were in that first dream he had on the ship. Roman doesn’t want to talk about his late wife, but Parker argues that what he wants should take a backseat to what he needs. Roman insists that he blocked out those years, and Parker’s better off not knowing what he does remember. He hangs up.
But then Roman shows up at Parker’s, ready to talk. He didn’t see what good it would do for him and his sister to know the truth about how their mother really died. Roman told them it was a stroke a few years after she ran out on them, but that was just so Parker wouldn’t be as traumatized as he would’ve been over what really happened. His mother came home drunk one day, dragging Parker behind her, and said he’d been visiting friends. Roman thought she’d been having an affair, but he was a lot madder about her driving drunk with their son. Roman says it’s a blessing Parker doesn’t remember any of that. They fought like crazy, it got ugly, and when she drove off, Roman yelled at her to never come back. Those were the last words she heard him say.
An hour or so later, the sheriff came and took him a few towns over to where his wife’s car was wrapped around a tree. The sheriff told Roman she was killed instantly. With them moving so much due to Roman’s Navy transfers, there wasn’t a funeral, and he wanted to protect his kids from the shame of it all.
Later, Parker tells Knight (Katrina Law) that the conversation with his father was like no talk they’d had before and a “be careful what you wish for” kind. And executive producer Steven D. Binder was certainly right when he told TV Insider that Parker has “an interesting sort of messed up history.”
The episode ends with Parker at home looking up articles online to find the one about his mother’s death, the sketch of Lily hanging next to his computer. Then, he does: Eleanor Parker, 38, in a violent crash. Witnesses didn’t report any screech of the brakes, leading the police to believe her speed exceeded the limit upon impact. She was killed instantly. When Parker clicks into the full article, he sees that Lily is one of the bystanders in the photo accompanying it. He then turns and sees Lily standing next to him.
What did you think of the Lily reveal? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Lily should be the same age as Parker. She shows up as a little girl. Is she dead ? And is that her spirit image in the photo? Good episode, still a little confusing.
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I don’t remember Parker having a sister and that could’ve been his mother‘s pregnancy from her affair and from that point, I’m not too sure what’s the deal but if it was his mother‘s pregnancy, she’s a spirit now and he wants to know who the father of his stepsister would be I love this show, Margie
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Parker's father did say something about "you and your sister" when he was talking about whether he handled things right.
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Could it be his sister? I don’t think this episode is the end of her.
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That’s what I have Ben thinking. I think Parker’s mother had another family
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Parker wasn’t in the car with his mom. He had been earlier and she had already been drinking. She left angry and the implication is that Parker is at home with his dad. I think there’s a very strong connection between Lily and Parker. Perhaps she is a sister he didn’t know he had. Was she in the car and survived the accident? I like the idea that his mom swerved to miss her. That would be a lot easier to take. Either way, she had been drinking and who knows what they outcome may have been had she been 100% sober? Clarify please…does Parker remember Lily from when he was younger or has he just seen her in visions?
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I think I’m confused! I sure hope they clear it up in this season and don’t leave us hanging until next season.
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We still don't know who lily is
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Perhaps the little girl IS Parker’s mother’s spirit. That what it seems like to me.
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It's very confusing.
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It is definitely still confusing and the little girl was SHOWN as being in the picture of the newspaper article that was about his mother, then she was shown standing beside him at the end of the show, I would wager the possibility of her being the one that caused the car crash inadvertently (the mom should not have been driving obviously) but being she hit the tree without any reduction of speed no screeching or tire marks would indicate either she swerved immediately to completely avoid hitting someone or she was committing suicide. Hopefully future episodes will provide clarification.
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Lily is a nickname for Eleanor which is Parker's mother's name. Although I'm not sure what that means.
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We still don't know who Lilly actually is. Only that she was at the scene of the accident.
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His mom swerved to avoid hitting the little girl. The little girl grew up and died recently and her spirit wanted Parker to know what really happened to his mother.
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What if because Parkers mum was drunk Parker was trying to get his mum to stop and not paying attention to the road, and he saw the girl and swerves to miss Lily
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I think his mother was pregnant with lily and she didn’t want to tell anyone about it.
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Omg I am now obsessed with Lily! I need more info!!
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Still don't know Lily is.
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Parketr’s mother swerved and hit tree in order not to hit Lilly
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I agree this seems likely. Lilly has now died and is trying to have Parker find out the truth.
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NCIS has "Jumped the Shark"
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What if young parker was driving as his mum was drunk and trying to stop parker from driving fighting over the stearing wheel and he turned the car to miss the girl
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I'm not sure why this show is doing this 'ghost'-like storyline. Just seems to kind of cheapen the show a little. NCIS-LA had the mysterious ninja-like Hetty, and now the mothership is doing this silliness.
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