The Season 19 premiere of NCIS is fittingly (and forebodingly) titled “Blood in the Water.”
Dawber, whose real-life husband is NCIS star Mark Harmon, appeared in several episode of Season 18 that set up the plot with the serial killer, and she will appear in the first episode of Season 19.
The NCIS team (which is now missing Emily Wickersham’s Ellie Bishop) will begin a search for Gibbs once wreckage from his destroyed boat turns up.
They’ll learn that he was tracking a serial killer along with investigative journalist Marcie Warren, played by Pam Dawber, who of course wrote the exposé on him.