Origins Three Episodes To Break Canon In A Big Way – TheShockNews

Accommodates spoilers for “NCIS: Origins” Season 1, Episode 3 — “Bend, Don’t Break”

“NCIS: Origins” has positioned itself in a tough place. Tasked with rigorously weaving the pre-“NCIS” origin story of Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Austin Stowell) via and round what followers already know of him, it’s already made a big continuity error that even the least observant fan of the franchise would discover.

Throughout “Bend, Don’t Break,” Gibbs’ father, Jackson (Robert Taylor, Ralph Waite on “NCIS”) stops in to go to Mike Franks (Kyle Schmid, Muse Watson on “NCIS”). The tone of the dialog strongly signifies that they’ve met earlier than and know one another fairly properly via their navy connections and since Franks investigated the murders of Gibbs’ spouse Shannon and daughter Kelly. Franks tells Gibbs about Jackson’s stop-off journey afterward the episode, whereas they’re investigating the disappearance of one other little woman who reminds Gibbs all an excessive amount of of his daughter. 

There’s one massive drawback with that — Episode 1 of “NCIS” Season 8 makes a really massive deal about how Gibbs Sr. and Franks have by no means met. As a matter of reality, when Gibbs introduces his dad to his former boss, there’s a particular lack of familiarity between them. Maybe it’s the grief they had been collectively subjected to; in any case, as “Bend, Don’t Break” establishes, Gibbs isn’t over his household’s decimation, both.

All through “Bend, Don’t Break,” Gibbs continues to be haunted by the deaths of his household, however Franks additionally has a hand in mourning Kelly and Shannon. Referred to as on the carpet for chasing Kelly and Shannon’s killer to Mexico, themes of revenge proceed to hold heavy over the story.

Jackson proves to be the voice of purpose, refusing to let Gibbs spoil his life due to his thirst for revenge. “That sonuvabitch killed Shannon and Kelly and runs to Mexico, and also you’re simply gonna let that go? No. You didn’t be part of NIS to grow to be a cop, you joined to hunt him down — and never simply to cuff him and stroll away. I’m not going to allow you to throw your life away simply to place that bastard down. It’s not value it.”

Time will finally show that drug vendor Pedro Hernandez (Thomas Rosales Jr.) had Kelly and Shannon killed — Shannon as a result of she witnessed him killing a marine and was set to testify in opposition to him, Kelly seemingly as a result of she was in the best way. Gibbs does finally kill him — and as his father predicted, the loss of life won’t give him satisfaction or peace of thoughts. Time will inform if “NCIS: Origins” remembers the way it all went precisely — or in the event that they toss a brand new wrinkle into Gibbs’ previous.