‘NCIS’: LL Cool J Returns as Sam Hanna (PHOTOS)
Welcome back, Sam Hanna! LL Cool J‘s NCIS: LA character returns to D.C. in the Monday, April 21, episode of the mothership.
LL Cool J reprising his role was officially announced in March, with him sharing in a video, “Back on set, baby. NCIS. Let’s get it.” (He previously appeared on NCIS in the backdoor pilot ahead of LA‘s premiere and the three-show crossover with Hawai’i.) However, TV Insider did know that someone from the past would be showing up after talking to Brian Dietzen earlier in the season. “I just worked with [someone playing a returning character], and I’m not allowed to tell you, but I’ll tell you it’s someone from NCIS‘s past, and it’s going to be fantastic, and I think people are really going to lose their s**t,” he said at the end of February.
So what brings Sam back? In “After the Storm,” when a trio of combat vets are found murdered in a D.C. motel room, NCIS tracks down a suspect who refuses to talk to anyone but Sam Hanna. Watch the promo above, then check out the photos below to see Sam with the NCIS team.
“I think that’s the one time that I’ve been nervous because he’s so cool. And I am just so not, and every time I feel like I’m just looking at him and playing his songs in my head and he’s talking to me and I’m like, ‘I’m sorry, what?’ I’m going, ‘Mama said knock you out, what?'” Diona Reasonover (who plays Kasie) shared with us about working with LL Cool J again. “But he’s so nice and he’s so funny and such a good presence on set. It’s really very fun to be working with him.”
Scroll down to check out the photos from Sam’s return, then let us know what you’re hoping to see in this episode in the comments section.
NCIS, Mondays, 9/8c, CBS
Knight (Katrina Law) sits down with a cup of coffee. Who else is at the table?
LL Cool J reprises his role as Sam Hanna. After the end of NCIS: LA, he appeared throughout NCIS: Hawai’i‘s final season.
Parker (Gary Cole) and McGee (Sean Murray) look into a room … of suspects maybe?
Kasie and Palmer (and Diona Reasonover and Brian Dietzen) are going to be happy to see Sam (and LL Cool J)
McGee at his desk in the bullpen — let’s hope he and Sam don’t end up in an interrogation room on opposite sides of the table again.
Welcome to NCIS, visitor Sam Hanna.
Sam and Parker team up in the field.
What’s Vance (Rocky Carroll) holding? Is it connected to the case?
Sam stops by to see the director. How will Vance feel about having to let Sam work the case with them?
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LL cool j his bad omen for NCIS shows.you better not get rid of Parker he makes the show.NC
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Hawaii was trash to begin with. That's why they brought him in. They wanted him to save a sinking ship
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Parker will stay because he carries the show. Without P, the rest of them are walking in circles around the office with their beige folders. Boring.
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Fire LL “COOL J” he ruined two NCIS shows already don’t let him ruin the flagship; please
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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A has been or a never was , enough of this woke
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He ruined two shows, he only yells and is only out for his own ego, don’t keep him on the show pleasr
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He definitely showed up for his own ego. As though his appearance is a little Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson action. Lmao!
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Can't abide the man he was just so arrogant in la he thought he was the best one there well to me that was hetty.
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Yes!!! Please bring LL Cool J back to NCIS team missing Sam Hannah♥️
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Welcome back sam
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there better be a Hetty mention
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