New episodes of NCIS: Origins air Mondays at 10 pm ET on CBS, and can be streamed afterwards with a Paramount+ subscription. Austin Stowell’s co-stars include Kyle Schmid, Mariel Molino, Diany Rodriguez and Tyla Abercrumbie, and Gina Lucita Monreal and David J. North created the series.

Does a weekly procedural need lore? No. No it doesn’t not. But lore you will be served. The “NCIS” spinoff set in 1991 about young Gibbs functions as one long flashback