NCIS: Hawaii: Last News

LL Cool J will join season 3 of as a recurring guest star after making a surprise cameo appearance in Monday's sophomore finale. The 55-year-old star just wrapped up a 14-season run on with Sunday's series finale.In the finale of , Jane Tennant (Vanessa Lachey) and Kate Whistler (Tori Anderson) are attacked under fire in Venezuela and they receive assistance from Sam, who made his way over from Morocco, where he was last seen with his crew.In the scene, Sam tells Tennant she has «people looking out for her» as he goes on overwatch.

NCIS: Hawaii.The two-part season 2 finale kicks off Monday with the first hour, «Past Due,» which puts the focus squarely on Jane Tennant (Vanessa Lachey) and her CIA past when the discovery of a dead former MI6 agent leads to questions about her dealings years earlier. With the tables turned, Tennant — who becomes a prime suspect in the death of the MI6 agent — is forced to go to extreme lengths to track down who’s responsible and potentially put her team in danger.«The cool thing about is it can go very highbrow, CIA, action.

star Vanessa Lachey sat down with ET's Kevin Frazier on the soundstage Friday to discuss the recent return of her procedural, which airs Mondays on CBS.«We literally kicked off the season premiere with a two-hour crossover event with one storyline,» she said, looking back on the Sept. 21 season opener that began with longtime flagship series, . «It's really amazing that we can do that.»Next week's episode, «Blind Curves,» finds the team, led by Lachey's Special Agent in Charge Jane Tennant, investigating the world of illegal street racing after a Marine staff sergeant's body is discovered in a junkyard.«It's like meets.

and kick off new seasons on Monday with a special crossover, and only ET was on the set of the upcoming premiere event. star Noah Mills takes over the ET mic as he goes from actor to interviewer, chatting it up with the casts of both CBS dramas.

. But sometimes, long days at work bring out the goofy side for the stars of the CBS drama. ET exclusively premieres a sneak peek at the season 1 gag reel, as featured in the upcoming season 1 DVD release, and the cast — led by leading lady Vanessa Lachey — sure knows how to have a laugh when they flub their lines or get the case of the giggles in the middle of a scene!From Lachey struggling to say her lines during a windy afternoon by the beach to co-star Tori Anderson delivering a piece of dialogue in a hilariously suggestive way, prompting her scene partners to laugh, the minute-long first look is definitely a mood booster to kick-start the week.

Vanessa Lachey is enjoying the success of . ET spoke to the star of CBS' hit TV drama at the Paramount+ upfront event, about the show, and having her big career moment in her 40s.«I was just driving here with my friend and agent, Logan, and we were talking about, 'Wow, I’m in my 40s, I have worked my whole life doing what I love, and now it's come to a place where it gets to be what I love in a place I love — Hawaii, with the people I love,» Lachey gushed. «My family moved there, doing other things, like, hosting other shows for Netflix, or being able to finally write the book that I wanted to write, have the show -- it all just feels very surreal, but like, all the hard work has come to fruition.»While it's definitely a pinch-me moment for the host and actress, Lachey said she's just trying to live in the moment and «relish in it.»She continued, «I'm just really trying to live in the moment. I just recently saw, I think it was Tom Hanks who said — he gave an analogy about how when you're on top of the world, you're on top of the world, but that also, it will pass, so, just take in the moment, live in the moment and just relish in it.»The latest spin-off of the  franchise sees Lachey as Jane Tennant, NCIS' first female special agent in charge of NCIS Pearl Harbor.

crossover! But this time, it's virtual.On Monday's episode of NCIS, titled «The Brat Pack,» Alden Parker (Gary Cole) and Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen) bring in 's intelligence specialist, Ernie Malik (Jason Antoon), for help on ancient metals after their own forensic expert, Kasie Hines (Diona Reasonover), is stumped by the latest case involving century-old shrapnel.As Jimmy brings Ernie — reporting virtually from the Pearl Harbor field office -- into the fold, the metallurgist (aka someone who's expert in various metals like steel, iron and copper) can't help but excitedly pipe in when he hears Jessica Knight's name, with whom he developed a crush after she recently paid a visit to the islands.«Wait, what did Knight say about me?» Ernie asks, wanting an answer about anything she might have said to the team about him. While Jimmy isn't interested in giving Ernie any rope, Parker teases the counterpart. «I think she said that he was the smartest guy she's ever met,» he says with an amused look in his eye.