‘NCIS’ Season 23 Premiere Photos: How Will the Team Help Parker After His Father’s Murder? md24

Will the team be joining Parker (Gary Cole) in finding the person responsible for his father’s (Francis X. McCarthy) murder when NCIS returns for Season 23? It certainly looks like that will be the case, but as executive producer Steven D. Binder told TV Insider as part of our Fall Preview, there’s more to it.

“The team is specifically told to make sure [Parker] doesn’t go anywhere and do anything,” Binder shared. When it comes to the choice they make, “You’ll like the answer,” he added.

Season 23 kicks off with the premiere, “Prodigal Son (Part 1),” on Tuesday, October 14, at 8/7c (the drama returns to its old time slot after airing Mondays for several seasons). According to CBS’s logline, “Reeling from his father’s murder, Parker goes to extreme lengths to hunt down the woman he holds responsible, mob boss Carla Marino [Rebecca De Mornay], jeopardizing not only his own future but the team’s.”

This is also the episode that will introduce Nancy Travis as Parker’s sister, Navy Vice Admiral Harriet Parker. We’ll have to wait to see how the siblings’ dynamic is, especially since both will be dealing with their grief, and Parker will also be busy trying to hunt down Carla.

It was in the Season 22 finale that Parker came face-to-face with his longtime nemesis, Carla, and she revealed that she blamed him for her son’s death since he got into a car accident after the agent informed him of his mom’s less-than-legal dealings. But killing him would have been too easy, and instead, Parker found his father had been murdered I the finale’s final moments. It was clear who was responsible.

Now, the photos (above and below) shows Torres (Wilmer Valderrama), McGee (Sean Murray), and Knight (Katrina Law) with Parker in his apartment, which was where he found his father. What’s on the laptop screen? Is it something that will lead them to Carla? And does Parker know about what Palmer (Brian Dietzen) found in his mother’s original birth certificate at this point yet? Plus, Torres and Knight meet with a man in the diner.

What are your predictions for the Season 23 premiere? Check out the photos below, then let us know in the comments section.

NCIS, Season 23 Premiere, Tuesday, October 14, 8/7c, CBS