NCIS’ Wild New Gibbs Lore Fixes a Decades-Old Mistake About Mark Harmon’s Character

The NCIS franchise added a wild new piece of lore to Leroy Jethro Gibbs’ expansive story, making a profound and needed alteration to Mark Harmon’s character. Harmon played Special Agent-in-Charge Gibbs on the original NCIS series for nearly two decades, until Season 19, when Harmon exited, with Gibbs settling and retiring in Naktok Bay, Alaska

However, Harmon has passed the torch to Austin Stowell, who plays a younger version of his character in the 1990s NCIS prequel, NCIS: Origins. While touching on Gibbs’ most formative stories in the spinoff, NCIS: Origins has rewritten or reworked vital elements of the SAC’s story, but nothing tops the twist in “End of the Road.”