'NCIS: Origins' Boss Explains Why They Skipped a Weekly Case for Winter Finale Episode

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NCIS: Origins changed things up in the latest episode and didn’t have a weekly case that needed to be solved.

Showrunners David J. North and Gina Monreal are opening up about the decision to not have Gibbs solve a case in the show’s winter finale, which aired on Monday night (December 16).

The episode featured Gibbs forming a bond with his landlord Ruth and how that unexpected friendship affected the rest of his life. Keep reading to find out more… “I’ve always been fascinated by the fact that in the NCIS canon, we know Gibbs kills Pedro Hernandez and then suddenly he’s an NIS agent,” North told Deadline. “Gina and I just talked a lot and realized we’d love to see a story with Ruth and Gibbs.

We think it’s really a story that matches who Gibbs is. He met Ruth when he had no one and he couldn’t even tell his own father that he had left the Marines.