[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for NCIS: Origins Season 2 Episode 3 “The Edge.”]

“He always had a way of knowing who I was meant to be.” So says Mark Harmon in the emotional voiceover that caps off the NCIS: Origins serving as a tribute to the late David McCallum , with Adam Campbell reprising his role as the young Ducky.

Ducky has come to Pendleton to determine if they need an in-house ME — Franks ( Kyle Schmid ) is, of course, suspicious — and reunites with his old pal Gibbs ( Austin Stowell ), ultimately leaving him and everyone he encounters better for it. “He comes in sort of as this wonderful magical storm in a way, and everyone is influenced by his presence,” notes executive producer Gina Lucita Monreal , who wrote the episode with Margarita Matthews.

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