Since its announcement, NCIS: New York has been billed as a homecoming for both the fan-favorite agent Sam Hanna and the actor who plays him, LL COOL J. Season 1 was filmed in New York City itself to add to the authenticity, and the first two episodes have been filled with New York energy, with the premiere even closing out to “Empire State of Mind.” Yet, the circumstances for Hanna’s return were less than ideal to start. The death of his friend and a Navy reservist caused him to put a pause on his covert ops work and link up with the local NCIS team to investigate. However, the incident has given him a new home within the NCIS world at CBS alongside other New York-born and bred agents, and now, he’s about to properly get reacquainted with his roots.
Episode 4, “Homecoming,” follows the team on the hunt for a sniper behind a deadly armored truck robbery near the Naval Corps Credit Union. Their investigation points to several veterans who slipped through the cracks and had the skills to pull off such a brazen attack. The trail leads Sam and Nick (Scott Caan) to Sam’s old neighborhood in Queens, where memories are bound to come flooding back, and the two may get the chance to learn a bit more about each other’s stories of growing up in the City That Never Sleeps. Before it airs, Collider can share three exclusive images that take the partners on a stroll through the streets and into the businesses that define the locale.
Our first shot finds the agents on the sidewalk, walking by houses, cars parked on the side of the street, and trash bags brought out to the road for pickup. It gives a lived-in feeling to Sam’s old stomping grounds, which carries over as they enter the local businesses. They’re primarily searching for any leads, but that doesn’t mean they can’t stop to enjoy themselves a bit. Another image swings by the real-life Nettie’s Restaurant in Queens Village, where Sam sits down for a drink with a friend, played by guest star and New York Undercover and Cop Land alum Malik Yoba. Nettie’s is a pillar of the community and will add a little more of that authentic New York DNA to LL’s new spin-off.
Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz Which Action Hero Would Be Your Perfect Partner? Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt
Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.
🎖️Rambo
🍸James Bond
🏺Indiana Jones
🔧John McClane
🎭Ethan Hunt
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You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner? The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.
02
You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel? How you get there is half the mission.
03
You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do? This is when you find out what someone is really made of.
04
The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest? Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.
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How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission? Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.
06
Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them? The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.
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Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do? Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.
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What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace? A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.
09
Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with? No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.
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It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now? The last question is the most honest one.
Your Partner Has Been Assigned Your Perfect Partner Is…
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Rambo
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
James Bond
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
Indiana Jones
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
John McClane
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Ethan Hunt
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
‘NCIS: New York’ Is Off to a Red Hot Start
LL COOL J and Scott Caan walking up the sidewalk in NCIS: New York Episode 4Image via CBS
LL COOL J sitting down for drinks with a friend at Nettie’s restaurant in NCIS: New YorkImage via CBS
LL COOL J and Scott Caan enter a business in NCIS: New York Episode 4Image via CBS
In addition to LL and Caan, NCIS: New York‘s new team also features Jennifer Beals, Jacqueline Byers, Devin Druid, and Shane Harper. So far, they’re the hot new squad of law enforcers on the block this year, premiering with 5.62 million viewers tuning in on October 6. That was good for a 52% audience increase over last season, when NCIS: Origins Season 2 filled the slot. The entire NCIS franchise is feeling hot right now, in fact, with the flagship’s Season 24 kicking off with 6.45 million viewers as it welcomed back Michael Weatherly and Origins Season 3 racking up 4.39 million with the return of Mark Harmon.
NCIS: New York Episode 4 airs on October 27 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. Check out our exclusive images above.
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