‘NCIS: Origins’ Recap: Why It Was Time To Explain How Gibbs Found The Man Who Killed His Family

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SPOILER ALERT! This story contains plot points from Monday’s episode of NCIS: Origins on CBS. In the December 9 episode titled “Vivo o Muerto,” a case of a missing woman who disappeared after a night of clubbing with a Navy seaman ends up answering some burning questions about Leroy Gibbs’ past.

Here, Executive Producer David J. North explains why he and co-showrunner Gina Lucita Monreal decided it was time to explain how and when Gibbs’ exacted revenge on Pedro Martinez, the drug dealer who killed Gibbs’ wife Shannon and daughter Kelly. DEADLINE What did NCIS fans think they knew about Leroy’s past? DAVID J.

NORTH Most of the hardcore fans know, of course, that Gibbs killed the man who killed his family, Pedro Hernandez. And many of ’em may have known that he did it before he started at NIS.

But I think Gina Lucita Monreal and I really wanted to dig in and get to the reality of it. What would’ve happened? It’s not as simple as Frank showing him that folder with the name and then suddenly, Gibbs goes and kills Pedro.