NCIS: Origins solved an previous mystery of season 1 while deepening a tragic background history, but the last about Gibbs and Lala put a loop
WARNING: Spoilers for the NCIS: Origins The “touchstones” episode is ahead!
In it NCIS: Origins Episode where we learned that Leroy Jethro Gibbs did it after learning that his wife and daughter had been killed the main story revolved around Gibbs and her team of Nis looking for a missing girl named Mildred and trying to discover why someone was trying to kill her (If none of this is playing a bell, I suggest you transmit “it is not lost” with its paramount+ subscription.) Although most of the loose ends of that episode were tied, there was a thread of the unresolved plot hanging … until tonight.
Latest Origins Episode for air at the TV schedule 2025 “Touchstones”, finally responded to this persistent mystery as a byproduct of this week, which also provided the opportunity to deepen the tragic background story of Dick Kowalski, custodian of tests of Nis . As if that were not enough, when the “touch stones” ended, things also took an unexpected turn (at least in my opinion) with the dynamics of Gibbs and Lala Domínguez.
A NIS traitor was discovered when we learned about Kowalski’s past
Tonight NCIS: Origins The episode focused on Nis’s evidence room that breaks, something that hit hard Kowalski. The only thing that was stolen was $ 41,000 seized of a cocaine sting operation, but with the room and its ruins, that was enough for Kowalski to write a renunciation letter. This left his assistant, Herm Daniels, in charge of taking care of the evidence, although Mary Jo Hayes was skeptical that she could handle the job.
It turns out that Kowalski’s reaction was rooted in a trauma that extended for decades, since he had been taken prisoner during the Korean war. He entered the war as chaplain, but lost his faith during the two years that he spent in a field of prisoners of war, and the only thing that gave him an appearance of hope during that time was a stone of the guards inadvertently that kicked him. It was the only thing he could call his, and he still had it in 1991. When the evidence room broke, Kowalski was so disturbed by this because that had been his main approach in life for decades and losing everything he brought back those back horrible memories.
Fortunately, Kowalski did not stay out of NIS for a long time, since it was revealed that the culprit behind the evidence was Nis Roger Murphy’s agent. He stole the money (although he stood cold and ended only by hiding it in another part of the office) because he had a game problem and was being threatened if he did not pay his debts. But that was not his greatest offensive, since he also revealed that he had left the location of Mildred to Jesse Hatcher, the hired killer of “All’s Not Lost”, in exchange for $ 25,000.
Gibbs and Lala’s relationship reached a setback
During the investigation of Lala and Gibbs on the theft of the evidence room, Lala met that guy who put himself out of that club some episodes, which happened while he was still with his then boyfriend Eddie. Lala told Gibbs that she has cheated her boyfriend when she confused the boy with Eddie, whom she described as “incredible.” In turn, Lala learned that the reason why Gibbs had been in the office so early in the morning Kowalski discovered that the torn room was because he had been waiting to meet her while doing paperwork.
But in a blow of bad luck for Gibbs, among her problems not solved with Eddie and still reach an agreement with the learning that Gibbs killed Pedro Hernández, Lala told her that it would be better if she and he did not arrive early in the early. the same days. He also called Eddie, indicating that he wants to return with him or simply give adequate closure to that relationship. Considering him NCIS: Origins Showrunners recently told me that Lala is interested in Gibbs on two fronts I will admit that this development surprised.
Even so, with six episodes to enter NCIS: Origins Season 1, there is still time for this to be said and for these two to approach. It is possible that he does not become one of Gibbs’s former wives, but we know that Lala will become someone important in his life taking into account that the greatest Gibbs said that the story he is telling Origins It’s about her.
