In 1991, years prior to the events of NCIS, Leroy Jethro Gibbs starts his career as a newly minted special agent at the fledgling NCIS Camp Pendleton office, where he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks.
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After trusted K-9 agent Gary Callahan is critically injured at a crime scene, NIS hunts for the perpetrator while an unexpected chapter from Franks' past before Pendleton comes to light.
Young Ducky is sent to Camp Pendleton to shadow the team while they work a case and, in the process, he reconnects with Gibbs after the two crossed paths years earlier.
With the Camp Pendleton office in danger of being shut down, the team confronts an uncertain future.
Gibbs goes undercover for the first time with Lala as NIS works the case of a dead Navy seaman who may have been sharing top-secret intel that poses a threat to national security. Also, Lala struggles with her place on the team and an unexpected development in her personal life.
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