According to Katrina Law, this season of NCIS will rock the team in a way fans have never seen before — so buckle up.
“This entire season is a huge emotional journey for not only Knight but the entire cast,” Law, who plays Special Agent Jessica Knight, exclusively told Us on Monday, November 9.
“This season, you’re gonna watch the cast break and break in a way that you’ve never seen the cast do,” the actress, 41, continued. “But also in a way that’s collective.”
Law added, “Something happens, and it just shatters everybody. It makes us question what we do, why we do it, if there’s a point to what we do, and if we should even continue.”
According to Law, the uneasiness and emotional turmoil makes for an even more intriguing season of the hit CBS series.
“To have everybody be in such a vulnerable state is going to be very interesting for the audience to be a part of,” she said, noting that Scott Williams wrote the upcoming episode and did a “really beautiful job of hitting the emotional depths of our characters.”
Law explained that seeing the team “find a way to go on and find the meaning of what they do again as a collective and as individuals, and find a way to move forward, I think is going to be riveting for the audience.”
While Law didn’t reveal when fans can expect this pivotal episode to air, viewers have already seen a lot of ups and downs during season 24.
For starters, former Special Agent Anthony “Tony” DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly) returned to NCIS, this time as the new Deputy Director of the Washington, D.C. office.
“Having Weatherly back on the show is such a dream come true,” Law told Us on Monday. “I’m an OG NCIS fan, and knowing that he’s back, I geeked out a little bit. And I’m not gonna lie, he’s such a beautiful person to work with and so much fun.”
Special Agent Timothy McGee (Sean Murray), meanwhile, has had to navigate his role as a father to his newfound son Mateo (Patrick Keleher) following his involvement in the kidnapping of the Secretary of the Navy’s daughter.
Mateo was blackmailed into stealing files from NCIS during the October 6 episode. McGee wrote an impact statement on behalf of his son during the Tuesday, November 10, episode, which led a judge to take jail time off the table. Instead, Mateo must enlist in the Navy for a fresh start.
Special Agent Nick Torres (Wilmer Valderrama), was nearly shot by Mateo during the season 23 finale, but dogged it and DiNozzo was grazed instead.
Later this season, Torres came face to face with his former undercover boss, who made him start to doubt if the good guy he’s become at NCIS is who he is deep down.
Knight, meanwhile, has had a relatively smooth road this season. During the latest episode, she helped find a missing Marine, whose daughter Chloe held the secret to finding her and cracking a case involving a murdered Marine.
Chloe was played by Law’s real-life daughter, Kinley, who has always wanted to follow in her mother’s footsteps.
“When I first started working on the show, my daughter was about two or three, and around three years old, she goes, ‘Mommy, I want to be a cop. I want to catch bad guys. I’m going to give them to you,’” Law recalled to Us. “And I thought, ‘Why are you giving me bad guys?’ And then she was like, ‘Well, because you’re a cop.’”
The actress realized that her daughter assumed she was a police officer because of her role on NCIS, so she had to explain she is actually an actress.
“Then she decided that being an actor is infinitely cooler than being a cop, and more in her vein of what she wants to do,” Law said. “So from then on, she wanted to be an actress.”
NCIS airs on CBS Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET.
