After a behind-the-scenes picture from NCIS: Origins appeared to spoil season 1’s main Lala cliffhanger, a showrunner has stepped in so as to add clarification concerning Lala’s destiny. Though her horrific automobile crash on the finish of season 1 seemingly left the NCIS: Origins forged one member brief, it’s solely been lately that affirmation of Lala’s survival standing appeared to have surfaced.
In an installment of TVLine’s Girls to Watch, co-showrunner Gina Lucita Monreal addressed Mariel Molino’s behind-the-scenes NCIS: Origins picture, which seemingly spoiled Lala’s survival by revealing Molino’s return to set. However, whereas confirming Molino’s look in NCIS: Origins season 2, Monreal hints that Lala is probably not returning in exactly the style that followers anticipate. Take a look at her feedback under:
“I can confirm that Mariel has been on set with us. I think it’s fair to say you will see her in the show, but how you will see her remains a mystery. And what her fate actually is remains a mystery.”
Lala carrying sun shades in NCIS: Origins season 1, episode 18
The pure assumption that Lala wouldn’t survive the crash in mild of Gibbs’ heavy narration framing the scene fueled loads of hypothesis, together with the truth that it might arrange Mark Harmon’s NCIS return. Nevertheless, the obvious spoiler that Lala survivs cheapens the cliffhanger whereas rendering Gibbs’ narration much less significant.
Monreal’s feedback present a way of cautiously optimistic reduction, as she and TVLine focus on quite a few different causes Molino may very well be referred to as to set. Lala might simply seem within the hospital whereas the opposite characters watch for her destiny to be decided, or she might even seem briefly at a funeral along with her destiny having been very a lot determined.
And these are solely the choice prospects that contain Lala showing in corporeal type. If Lala really does perish after the NCIS: Origins season 1 finale, visions of her ghost might hang-out Gibbs in a lot the identical manner Lily haunts Parker in NCIS season 22. She might additionally seem in flashbacks, exploring her historical past with colleagues like Franks and Randy.
Lala and Gibbs in season 1, episode 6, taking a look at somebody
Every of those prospects would require Molino to look on set, and her picture of a canine cocking its ear on an in any other case empty backlot leaves the door extensive open for hypothesis in all method of instructions. That stated, spoiling that Lala reveals up in NCIS: Origins season 2 in any respect takes the suspense out of ready for her look.
Followers who wished to see her survive wouldn’t solely have been doubly happy to see it occur had been Molino’s look unconfirmed, however even those that really feel her loss of life is true for the story might have been pleasantly shocked by seeing her in different methods. Now, NCIS: Origins season 2’s Lala reveal can’t repay as satisfyingly in both route.
Fortunately, there’s ample room to drive curiosity by way of the encircling storylines. How different characters reply to the crash will undoubtedly play a large function in NCIS: Origins season 2’s storylines, and this might at all times have been the case whether or not Lala lived or died. Monreal’s feedback merely act as a reminder that the most important surprises might nonetheless be proper across the nook.
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