New York’ After Guest Starring in ‘NCIS’ Tonight
It might have been the best-kept secret of the upcoming fall season when C.B.S. introduced it was including a brand new NCIS sequence to the franchise. NCIS: New York will see the return of LL Cool J reprising his position as Sam Hanna, which he performed on NCIS: Los Angeles for 14 seasons.
But first, he’s going to visitor star on two episodes of the mothership, starting tonight with the “Reboot” episode, in which Kasie (Diona Reasonover) and a skeleton crew are left in the darkened NCIS constructing in which the mainframe has been shut down for a midnight improve, when somebody begins looking from inside. What begins as a routine reboot turns into a high-stakes sport of cat and mouse via powerless hallways till an unexpectedly, Sam Hanna, steps into the struggle.
“The episode will involve Kasie in a big way,” showrunner Steven D. Binder completely tells Parade on the CBS Fest on the Paramount lot. “The character who embodies technology also has a human side to her, as Abbey (Pauley Perrette) did. In this episode, you see those two things in conflict: A lot of action and a lot of fun.”
Diona Reasonover as Kasie HinesPhoto: Robert Voets/CBS
Parade additionally spoke with LL Cool J about his look on tonight’s episode of NCIS, in which Sam explains that the dying of Director Vance (Rocky Carroll) has him performing some severe pondering, and which may be what leads him to maneuver to the New York area workplace.
“There will be a little bit of a tease of that, just enough,” he says. “You’ll feel it.”
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That stated, New York City Sam shall be very a lot the identical Sam as we have watched over time.
“Sam Hanna is Sam Hanna, but the thing that’s different is the context,” LL Cool J explains. “You’re going to be surrounded with New York energy, put him in a New York environment with the New York electricity and you get a different guy. It’s like 1 + 3 is four, and 5 − 1 is 4, and 3 + 1 is 4, but it’s still 4, so you’re still going to have Sam, just in a different situation.”
Nothing has been filmed but, in reality the present continues to be casting the remainder of the group, nevertheless it was additionally introduced that the opposite main participant shall be Scott Caanwho LL Cool J labored with years again on the NCIS: Los Angeles and Hawaii Five-0 crossover occasion. He will not be taking part in Danny “Danno” Williams, however a brand new character.
“We’re still in the process of casting everybody,” LL Cool J says. “We’re getting it together, bringing the team together. We’ve got some good names on the list.”
The two-time Grammy Award winner can be completely satisfied that the sequence shall be filmed in his native New York.
“I get to go coast to coast,” he says. “I get to go back home. I’m from New York, born and raised. For me, what’s better than going home?”
NCIS airs Tuesday nights at 8 pm ET/PT on CBS. Streams subsequent day on Paramount+
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This story was initially revealed by Parade on Apr 21, 2026, the place it first appeared in the TV part. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
