We’ll admit that we hate to think about the day that someone else is sitting in the chair in Leon Vance’s (Rocky Carroll) office on NCIS, but someone does have to fill the role of director of the agency after he was tragically killed in the milestone 500th episode in Season 23.
The preview for the March 31 episode, the one immediately after, shows the team toasting Vance’s empty desk. So, who will be the next one to sit at it? Whoever it is, that’s part of them moving forward, and executive producer Steven D. Binder told TV Insider that’s part of what comes next.
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