NCIS season 22
The twenty-second season of NCIS was announced on April 9, 2024 and premiered on October 14, 2024, and concluded on May 5, 2025, and contained 20 episodes. The series aired alongside NCIS: Origins and NCIS: Sydney. This is the third season to not premiere in the usual September, delayed by the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, and the second season to not feature Joe Spano as Tobias Fornell. In February 2025, NCIS was renewed for 23rd season, which will premiere in October 14, 2025, coinciding with Origins and Sydney.
Premise
NCIS revolves around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the United States Navy and Marine Corps. Based at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., the NCIS team is led by Supervisory Special Agent Alden Parker, an ex-FBI Special Agent and a skilled investigator.Cast and characters
Main
- Sean Murray as Timothy McGee, NCIS Senior Special Agent, Second in Command of MCRT
- Wilmer Valderrama as Nick Torres, NCIS Special Agent
- Katrina Law as Jessica Knight, NCIS Special Agent
- Brian Dietzen as Dr. Jimmy Palmer, Chief Medical Examiner for NCIS
- Diona Reasonover as Kasie Hines, Forensic Specialist for NCIS
- Rocky Carroll as Leon Vance, NCIS Director
- Gary Cole as Alden Parker, NCIS Supervisory Special Agent of the Major Case Response Team assigned to Washington's Navy Yard and former FBI Special Agent.
Recurring cast
- Rebecca De Mornay as Carla Marino, the mob boss of the Kansas City Mob.
- Laura San Giacomo as Dr. Grace Confalone
- Meredith Eaton as Carol Wilson, CDC immunologist and friend of Abby, McGee, and Palmer
- Seamus Dever as Gabriel Laroche, an Inspector General at the Department of Justice who Vance appoints NCIS Deputy Director
- Mary Cole as Aubrey the barista
- Lilan Bowden as Robin Knight, Knight’s sister
- Elle Graper as Victoria Palmer, Jimmy Palmer's daughter
- Zane Holtz as Dale Sawyer, NCIS Special Agent
- Francis X. McCarthy as Roman Parker, Alden's father
- Margo Harshman as Delilah Fielding-McGee, DoD Intelligence Analyst and McGee's wife
Notable guests
- Donna Mills as Wanda Prescott, widow of billionaire Gavin Prescott.
- Justin Bruening as Marine Lieutenant Bryce Prescott, Wanda’s grandson.
- Sara Paxton as Amber Carnahan
- Sam McMurray as Harold
- Melina Kanakaredes as Eleni Kostakis; Parker's crush, owner of Parker's favorite bakery Kostakis Bakery
- Matthew Lawrence as Danny Butler
- Shari Belafonte as Professor Annabelle Davis, Kasie's forensic professor
- Erin Hayes as Wendy
- T. J. Thyne as Fletcher Voss, former CEO of Bandium
- LL Cool J as Sam Hanna, NCIS Senior Field Agent, Second in Command
Episodes
Production
This season was announced by CBS on April 9, 2024, and began filming in July 2024.Production for this season was temporarily shut down from January 9, 2025 due to the January 2025 Southern California wildfires. Production resumed on January 13, 2025, with filming constrained to closed soundstages due to safety concerns and closely monitored by CBS's security and health and safety teams.
Filming wrapped up in late March 2025.