By Kayla DeKraker
NCIS: ORIGINS will feature a character from NCIS: LOS ANGELES in its Season 1 finale.
The procedural drama’s character Lara Macy, a Military Police investigator in the LA show, will appear in ORIGINS as the Office of Special Projects in Los Angeles.
NCIS: LOS ANGELES introduced Macy, first played by Louise Lombard, in Season 6, but according to TVLine, the character was replaced by Linda Hunt’s Operations Manager Henrietta “Hetty” Lange.
Macy will be played by Claire Berger in ORIGINS. The character is described as “an ambitious investigator with sharp instincts and a relentless drive for justice. She is hoping to advance her career and isn’t afraid to challenge the status quo, especially in a male-dominated world.”
In the episode, Macy will “have a tough call to make,” given “he deplorable things that Pedro Hernandez did to cause Gibbs to avenge the deaths of his wife Shannon and daughter Kelly.”
Berger is known for her role in EX-BFF, THE MIDNIGHT CLUB and MIND, BODY, & SOUL.
Movieguide®’s review for ORIGINS 1.1 and 1.2 notes that the show takes on a “more serious” tone than its predecessor:
NCIS: ORIGINS is an exciting prequel to the popular NCIS series airing on CBS. The first episode is a two-parter. It follows Jethro Gibbs on his first day at NIS, the Naval Investigative Service (the Pentagon added the C in 1992, a year after the fictional Jethro joined). Jethro is fresh out of Marine Corps and still reeling from the murder of his wife and daughter. Jethro barely has a chance to settle into the new team before they’re called out to investigate a dead body found in a burned down house.
Movieguide® says that “The prequel makes it clear that ORIGINS will be a more serious program. Gone are the moments of absurdist humor from the side characters.”
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This series has more intense content that previous NCIS shows.
The review continues, “Also, the two-part opening episode is marred by some crude foul language, references to drug abuse and possible occultism, and a bedroom scene between the team leader and his wife. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution.”
The darker tone isn’t a surprise, though.
“It’s a little edgier and grittier than previous NCIS’s, it’s got a serialized element of it that we’re really excited about,” Amy Reisenbach, President of CBS entertainment, previously said of the new series. “And whereas I would say NCIS: SYDNEY too really had its own identity, it was very uniquely Australian and told stories that can only be told in Australia, so I feel like they’re both opportunities to gain new audiences while also being true to the DNA and loyal fan base of those shows.”
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