{"id":2469,"date":"2026-02-16T23:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/giantnews.us\/?p=2469"},"modified":"2026-02-16T23:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:00:29","slug":"goodbye-abby-sciuto-the-heart-of-ncis-has-stopped-beating-md20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/giantnews.us\/?p=2469","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye \u201cAbby Sciuto\u201d: The heart of NCIS has stopped beating md20"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Goodbye \u201cAbby Sciuto\u201d: The heart of NCIS has stopped beating md20<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n
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It\u2019s a good time to be a fan of the\u00a0NCIS<\/em>\u00a0franchise right now. Not only is the\u00a0Paramount+-exclusive series\u00a0NCIS: Tony & Ziva<\/em>\u00a0arriving in a few weeks, but\u00a0NCIS<\/em>,\u00a0NCIS: Origins<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0NCIS: Sydney<\/em>\u00a0will\u00a0all air on CBS the same night this fall\u00a0on the\u00a02025 TV schedule. The flagship show that\u2019s been airing since 2003 will kick off this procedural block, and I\u2019m looking forward to seeing how the first new character who\u2019s been cast for\u00a0NCIS<\/em>\u00a0Season 23 will shake things up for Gary Cole\u2019s Alden Parker.<\/p>\n

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Nancy Travis, best known on the TV front for shows like\u00a0Last Man Standing<\/em>,\u00a0Mr. Mercedes<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Kominski Method<\/em>\u00a0has been tapped to play Navy Vice Admiral Harriet Parker, Alden Parker\u2019s sister. She\u2019ll first appear in the two-part\u00a0NCIS<\/em>\u00a0Season 23 premiere, and her presence will shed light on Alden\u2019s past and how he became the man we\u2019ve been following since early Season 19.\u00a0TVLine\u00a0also learned from\u00a0NCIS<\/em>\u00a0showrunner Steven D. Binder that when Alden and Harriet reunite, their childhood dynamic will quickly reignite, which will in become problematic for their respective jobs:<\/p>\n

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They\u2019re going to relive that between the two of them. She\u2019s this super squared-away Navy admiral, and then you\u2019ve got Alden Parker, who\u2019s got this \u2018bad kid \u2018seed. Those two are going to come to a head, and what\u2019s funny about that is it\u2019s one thing to have it happen over Thanksgiving dinner, it\u2019s a whole other thing to happen in the middle of a global crisis! The bickering is, I might say, very NCIS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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We\u2019ve known that Alden Parker has a sister for years now, so it\u2019s good to know we\u2019ll finally meet her on\u00a0NCIS<\/em>. I\u2019m already braced for the sibling bickering that will erupt between Harriet and Alden, although it\u2019s unfortunate that it comes in the midst of unfortunate circumstances, And I\u2019m not just talking about this \u201cglobal crisis\u201d that Binder teased, for which he did not reveal any specific details.<\/p>\n

At the end of\u00a0NCIS<\/em>\u00a0Season 22, Alden Parker came home to discover that\u00a0Roman Parker, his and Harriet\u2019s father, had been murdered\u00a0by Kansas City mob boss Carla Marino. She did this as revenge for the role she believed Alden Parker played in her son dying in a motorcycle accident years earlier. While there was no mention of Roman in the report of Nancy Travis\u2019 casting, I find it hard to believe that Alden and Harriet won\u2019t discuss their father\u2019s death. That\u2019s too big an event to just gloss over and have Alden grapple with on his own at a later date.<\/p>\n

If Alden Parker does indeed end up\u00a0going outside the bounds of the law\u00a0to take down Carla Marino, like Gary Cole speculated to me back in May, it may take his sister working with the other members of the team to pull him away from the darkness. We see what awaits Alden, Harriet and everyone else when\u00a0NCIS<\/em>\u00a0Season 23 premieres Tuesday, October 14 at 8 pm ET on CBS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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