Unsurprisingly, Binder didn’t reveal what’s going to happen, what Tony has to do with Ziva in the present, and if Michael Weatherly is reprising the role in Season 17, but the new hints do suggest that fans (including me) may have been wrong in some of their assumptions about Ziva.
Well, although viewers won’t find out for sure until NCIS returns and starts dropping some details, co-showrunner Steve Binder promised in a chat with TVLine that “answers will be forthcoming” about where Tony is and whether Tony is involved in Ziva staying hidden.