There were a lot of surprises in tonight’s episode of NCIS, starting with the fact that on her first NCIS: Elite mission, Jessica Knight (Katrina Law) was given orders to hunt down and arrest Eleanor “Ellie” Bishop (Emily Wickersham) after the former member of the NCIS team was designated a wanted cyber-terrorist.
We knew that when Ellie left NCIS to take on a long-term undercover assignment in Europe, in order to do so, she had to sully her reputation, so it was revealed that she had leaked NSA documents, but we never really believed she had gone over to the dark side.
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But on tonight's midseason premiere, "Her," there was proof that pointed to Ellie as the culprit, especially after two of her teammates were dead. So she had to scramble to prove she was being set up, and she turned to Nick Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) for help, and in so doing, it was revealed that prior to her departure from NCIS, the two of them had been intimate and we got to see it in a newly created flashback. A definite shocker – at least to me.
“I was and I wasn’t [surprised],” Wickersham exclusively told Parade. “Wilmer, were you?”
“I tell you what I was surprised about,” he responded. “I was surprised that they actually not just implied it but went ahead and had a whole scene. That was pretty unexpected. We don’t do those things on the show. So, the fact that they were able to push the show to do different things was really cool to see that the show can actually go to places that the fans will want to discover. I think that scene in many ways felt as unexpected [for me] as it was for Emily when we read the script.”
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It was definitely a context that viewers had never had previously, but it made for an interesting twist. That said, it also explained why Ellie felt she could turn to Torres for help, knowing he would believe her, but also why he would see her as a victim, not a potential NCIS target for the REACT Team and be willing to give that help.
“I think that what that scene really was about was to show fans that [these two] have gone beyond that trust, that they had a rapport with one another that the rest of the team will never know,” Valderrama continued. “I think having that explains why she felt comfortable coming back saying, ‘I’m going after Torres for the task at hand.’”
Wilmer Valderrama as Special Agent Nicholas “Nick” Torres and Emily Wickersham as Eleanor “Ellie” BishopPhoto: Robert Voets/CBS
Even so, Torres did approach the task cautiously. At the end, when Ellie had been taken, he was able to locate her because he had put a tracker in her clothes. As he said, “Trust but verify.”
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“In many ways, he saw beyond whatever looked confusing for the rest of the team,” Walderrama adds. “For the rest of the team, they didn’t want to believe that she could be the bad guy. Right? For them, it was like, ‘Wait a minute, can someone turn?’ We’ve heard of agents turning on the agency before, right? We’ve had those moments before, but not Bishop. And it was way too close for comfort. So, there was always a little bit of reasonable doubt.”
As always, it all worked out in the end, and Bishop’s name was cleared when it turned out that one of her teammates, Patricia, who everyone thought was dead wasn’t, and was the actual cyber-terrorist.
In addition to the surprising scene with Ellie and Torres in bed, the high point of the episode was when Ellie revealed why she had to leave NCIS in the first place, and for Wickersham, it was like “life imitating art and art imitating life.”
“When I left NCIS as me, I had been there and I loved it there, but I had to take a different step in my life, I wanted kids [and she now has two], whatever,” she says. “I think Bishop at the same time was having the same things happen. She just needed to go down this other path. And it was like a path that wasn’t going to go away in her brain, and she had to do it. You live once and you got to kind of go after the things that ignite you.”
The ending did leave the door open for further appearances by Ellie, and Wickersham says she’s open to “popping in” from time to time if asked.
NCIS airs Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. Streams next day on Paramount+.
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