'NCIS' Season 18 Episode 1 Release Date, Spoilers: Is Mark Harmon's Character In Danger? Jimmy Palmer Is In Pain

Bill Wheatley from Los Angeles, CA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Here are all the things we know so far about the upcoming "NCIS" Season 18 Episode 1.

WARNING: This article contains major spoilers and predictions for NCIS Season 18 Episode 1. Read at your own risk.

NCIS Season 18 Episode 1 will hit the small screens very soon. Fans could not wait to see what is up for Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and the rest of the gang.

So, what should avid followers of the American action police procedural television series expect in the eighteenth installment’s premiere?

NCIS Season 18 Episode 1 spoilers and predictions

Cheat Sheet reported that NCIS Season 18 Episode 1 will jump back in time. This, according to the publication, is the show’s way of giving the viewers a hint as to how Special Agent Gibbs and Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard (David McCallum) knew each other.

The forthcoming installment, as per the showrunners, will also reveal important details about Gibbs’ special mission during the NCIS Season 17 Episode 8, which was titled “Musical Chairs.” The first few episodes will give answers to the Season 16 storyline about FBI agent Tobias Fornell (Joe Spano).

TV Insider, also, shared new snaps for the NCIS Season 18 Episode 1. In the said photos, Dr. Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen) appeared to be hurt and is trying to alleviate the pain in his head. The entertainment news outlet even suggested that avid followers of the show could expect Special Agent Gibbs to sport a black eye in one of the episodes of the upcoming new installment.

NCIS Season 18 Episode 1, according to reports, will feature Gibbs and Fornell working together as they try to hunt the leader of a drug ring that provided the FBI agent’s daughter counterfeit opioids.

NCIS Season 18 official cast

Aside from Mark Harmon, Joe Spano, David McCallum and Brian Dietzen, other personalities expected to appear on the American series’ imminent new installment include Sean Murray, Wilmer Valderrama, Emily Wickersham, Diona Reasonover, Maria Bello and Rocky Carroll.

Though Cote de Pablo, whose character (Ziva David) flew to Paris to reunite with Tony () and their daughter, could make another comeback, Parade suggested that she is very unlikely to appear on NCIS Season 18.