NCIS: ORIGINS Season 1 Episode 18
Will Gibbs Tell the Truth?
What You Need To Know
In the season finale of NCIS: ORIGINS, streaming on Paramount+, Gibbs’s past catches up to him and the rest of the team when an MP starts asking questions about Pedro Hernandez’s death. Gibbs must decide what matters more: his freedom or the truth.
Episode 18 of NCIS: ORIGINS opens with Cecilia, one of Gibbs’ team members, being approached by Lauren, an MP officer she is friendly with. Lauren tells her she’s looking into the murder of Pedro Hernandez and wants Cecilia to tell Gibbs she wants to talk to him.
She quickly tells Gibbs and the rest of the team, and they try to decide what to do — Gibbs initially wants to tell the truth, but when Mike points out that they will be implicated in the murder, they lie. When Gibbs and Lauren talk, he lies about the murder, but Lauren tells him she has a source who is positive Gibbs shot Hernandez.
Thinking that Flaco, a criminal they’d previously dealt with, might be Lauren’s source, the team questions him, but he tells them he’d never even met Hernandez. As tensions mount between the team members, Gibbs must decide whether to tell the truth and potentially incriminate his friends or continue living with the lie.
The NCIS: ORIGINS finale is well-made, with exciting and dramatic plot lines, excellent performances from the main cast, and a well-executed stunt scene at the end. NCIS fans will love seeing more of Gibbs’ backstory.
NCIS: ORIGINS’ season finale has a light moral worldview, as characters are focused on helping each other, finding out the truth, and delivering justice. However, much of the episode’s plot is devoted to lying, as Gibbs and his team repeatedly lie about Hernandez’s death. In the end, he does confess. There is also some strong language used throughout the episode, as well as intense action scenes, some violent scenes, and a few scenes featuring characters drinking and smoking. Movieguide® advises extreme caution.
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements
Light moral worldview, as characters are focused on helping each other, finding the truth, and bringing a murderer to justice. However, much of the episode is centered around Gibbs and the team’s continued lying about their roles in the death of Pedro Hernandez. Additionally, they feel no remorse for killing Hernandez. By the end of the episode, Gibbs has confessed, with the stipulation that his team is not involved in the MP’s case
Foul Language
10 obscenities
Violence
In one scene, multiple characters point guns at each other and threaten to shoot, but no one ends up hurt, in another scene, a character is in a very serious car accident, and she is shown with blood on her face
Sex
No sex
Nudity
Upper male nudity when a man undresses to get into a pool
Alcohol Use
Two instances of characters drinking alcohol, but not to excess
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse
One character smokes a cigarette in one scene, another smokes a cigar in one scene;
Miscellaneous Immorality
One character repeatedly breaks into a family’s yard to swim in their pool, characters lie throughout the episode, it’s implied that one character is sexually harassing the female employees.
