‘NCIS’ Moves Into COVID Times as McGee Returns to the Field (PHOTOS)
While getting to March 2020 on NCIS meant revealing just why Gibbs (Mark Harmon) shot McGee (Sean Murray) — to save his life — it also means that the CBS procedural is now moving into COVID times.
And the agents are being safe — wearing masks at crime scenes — as seen in the photos for the February 9 episode, “The First Day.” (They’re not wearing them in the office, however.) They’ll be investigating the murder of a Navy officer killed while driving a recently released inmate home.
Also glimpsed in the images below, McGee is back in the field after helping the team from home in the previous episode while he recovered. Meanwhile, Palmer (Brian Dietzen) looks happy about something, but the logline also warns us that Gibbs helps him “deal with a personal trauma.” Uh-oh?
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Bishop (Emily Wickersham) and Torres (Wilmer Valderrama)
Doesn’t Palmer (Brian Dietzen) look excited about something?
Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and McGee (Sean Murray)
What’s in the bag?
Who’s on the phone?
Back to work!
Bishop’s staying safe.
The team at a crime scene — note the masks.
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It’s a fictional TV show, why do we have to watch what we live everyday? If I want to see people wearing masks I can just open my door in real life. I just don’t understand why people like reality TV, I like to watch TV to escape from this place. Watching TV is entertaining but watching the same thing as we have to live, is not! As long as the actors are made to feel safe and they’ve been tested then let them use their skills to entertain us in a fictional world without masks if they want!
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I fully agree.
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O
It's propaganda. The TV has always been used for such. Just this week two of the shows I watch have included mask wearing. I'm not watching any show that starts this mask wearing and paranoia crap.
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No more masks, please! That's not entertainment. I loved this episode ("The First Day")! Anthony Fernandez, who played as the ex-con Luis Carter, is an excellent actor. Wonderful facial expressions! He was so funny when he didn't know how to work the new technology that he missed while in prison. I'd like to see him in more episodes--perhaps working undercover from his own food truck! Of course, it was impossible not to wipe away at least one tear at the end during Jimmy's memorial for is wife. The scripts, actors and character developments are what make "NCIS" so great!
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they have to wear masks cos its mandatory and illegal not to, grow up ~
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My husband and I were catching up on NCIS episodes. When this episode began with Torres and Bishop removing masks as they exited the elevator, I was disgusted. I got up from the couch and told my husband I was not going to watch this garbage. My husband, who believes the whole narrative surrounding COVID, asked me why I was so angry. I told him it's bad enough that we are forced to live through this COVID nonsense, on a daily basis, but I refuse to watch this propaganda on TV. I class it the same as porno, at this point. This is the second TV show that has started this trend and I am not going to watch that one any further, either.
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If tv is all propaganda, stop watching idiot
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i’m skipping all the covid episodes. we don’t need to see covid stuff on tv shows.
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it may be about the actors safety not about the audiences satisfaction with viewing, they will have people they care about in real life who may be vulnerable or they may be so it may be about personal safety
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Masks .Doesn't matter.Whatever choices producers make as far as acknowledging the virus situation,or what it was when this episode was actually made,isn't that important .You shouldn't be making choices about your personal safety based on fictional TV shows.TV is behind anyway because things change and episodes take months to make it to air.Chicago Med is better about acknowledging covid but because the episodes are months old it isn;t acknowledging variants that might be increasing spread,it's taking the attitude that the worst is behind us which we all know now is at best uncertain.
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Soooo... the characters are going to simply CARRY their masks? I guess that's at least a (small) step in the right direction, but--still, not the best message. I think we've all seen enough news reporters wearing masks--not to mention medical TV shows, with doctors/nurses in masks--to know that people can be heard and understood just fine while wearing masks. (And besides, you'd think that masks would be LESS important at outdoor crime scenes than indoors, when people are in closer proximity.)
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