[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoiler for NCIS: Origins Season 1 Episode 4 “All’s Not Lost.”] NCIS: Origins dives into a dark part of Gibbs’ ( Austin Stowell ) past, when he learned of his wife and daughter’s murders while overseas in Kuwait in flashbacks. It’s at this point that you see, Stowell tells TV Insider, “he’s trying to take his own life.
He’s seen how fragile life is and of course, he knows that just taking himself out wouldn’t solve anything, that there has to be more out there. We’re all doing that all the time, and it doesn’t have to be circumstances like this. It can be that we’re working a job that we’re not so happy with or we’re in a relationship that we’re not sure if we’re in love with the person and we’re looking for more and it’s okay.
That’s just the part of life, the journey to find more.” But it’s in the present for Gibbs in the prequel that he begins taking steps to reach out to those around him, with the major one being showing up at Franks’ ( Kyle Schmid ) for dinner. “For Gibbs, he has these agents who know what he’s gone through around him, this new team, this kind of found family and it’s going to take time,” says co-showrunner David J.
North. “But certainly that was a big step is just him putting himself out there and showing up for a dinner with Franks. And it’s a big step for Franks as well, letting Gibbs into his personal life.
” Adds co-showrunner Gina Lucita Monreal, “I thin.