Heading into NCIS: Origins Season 2, which premieres Tuesday, Oct. 14, at 9/8c, there’s only one thing on our minds: Is Lala alive?!
Since that cliffhanger ending, Molino confirmed she was on set in July during production of Season 2, but there has been no official confirmation of whether Lala will return in flashbacks after her death, or whether she’ll be back in a full capacity. Naturally, TVLine hoped to get answers from Stowell himself when I spoke with him and NCIS’ Wilmer Valderrama earlier this month ahead of the show’s fall return.
“Lala will be back in some capacity,” Stowell reported. “She went through a terrible accident and anybody who would go through something like that, there are going to be adjustments and baby steps coming back into the workplace.”
There “are going to be adjustments” coming back into the workplace?! Did Stowell just accidentally confirm Lala’s fate? When I pushed Stowell on this point, doth the man protest too much? (Watch video above.) He — and Valderrama, for that matter — both maintained that those were hypothetical adjustments, should Lala survive.
Amid much cross-talk, as the two attempted to walk back what Stowell said, Valderrama concluded: “Technically, until an episode airs, we haven’t really confirmed whether she made it or not.”
Click PLAY on the video above to watch the full Q&A, where Stowell also teases how Gibbs will cope with Lala’s accident and how his relationship with Diane will progress in Season 2. Then, hit the comments with your thoughts: Will Lala survive on NCIS: Origins?
