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SPOILER ALERT: This station contains specifications astir nan NCIS 500th section that aired connected Tuesday, March 24.
NCIS celebrated a milestone connected CBS, airing its 500th episode, and it killed disconnected 1 of nan beloved characters from nan long-running subject constabulary procedural.
The latest section of nan bid saw Rocky Carroll‘s Director Leon Vance take sides nan NCIS squad arsenic nan agency was unopen down by nan Department of Defense. Leon was capable to reconstruct NCIS, but nan twist that shocked viewers was erstwhile he was changeable to decease by a corrupt agent.
In an question and reply pinch TVLine, Carroll clarified that he “was not nan catalyst for this happening,” adding, “I besides don’t deliberation astatine nan opening of nan play that it was planned.”
Carroll joined nan show successful Season 5 successful a recurring domiciled earlier getting bumped to bid regular successful Season 6. The character noted that nan section was changeable astatine nan extremity of November and opening of December, and he recovered retired his characteristic was dying “two episodes earlier we changeable it.”
The thought to termination disconnected Director Vance came from executive shaper Steven D. Binder, who ran nan thought by Carroll, telling him they wanted to nonstop “shockwaves done nan TV organization and nan instrumentality base” pinch nan landmark episode.
From a viewer’s perspective, Carroll quickly said it was “a awesome story,” but said that “The only point that amazed maine much than being told what nan communicative was and really it was going to effect my characteristic was really quickly I was capable to benignant of travel to position pinch it.”
Carroll had been playing nan characteristic for 18 seasons and ne'er imagined he would beryllium connected nan show for arsenic agelong arsenic he was.
“I would person loved to person been 1 of nan characters who was location for nan very past episode, erstwhile they committee up nan windows, and erstwhile they officially do say, ‘All right, it’s clip for everybody to move disconnected nan lights and spell home.’ You’d for illustration to beryllium 1 of nan past men standing,” he added. “But aft 18 seasons, I couldn’t person asked for more.”
Carroll said that he felt his “character really benignant of came afloat circle,” and according to Binder, nan 500th section was “a tribute and a emotion letter” to his character, which will now unrecorded successful TV history.
