NCIS Showrunner Shares Big Twist About That Parker Mystery From Season 21’s Finale, And Now I’m More Puzzled About What This Means For Season 22

NCIS Showrunner Shares Big Twist About That Parker Mystery  From Season 21's Finale, And Now I’m More Puzzled About What This Means For Season 22

As a dedicated fan with over two decades of watching and analyzing every intricate detail of NCIS, I must admit that the latest revelation about Alden Parker‘s mysterious past has left me utterly bewildered and intrigued. The enigma surrounding Lily, the little girl Parker hallucinated during his traumatic accident, seems to be more complex than I initially assumed.


In the final episode of NCIS Season 21, Katrina Law’s character, Jessica Knight, quit her job at the agency to train as a REACT instructor at Camp Pendleton. However, Gary Cole’s character, Alden Parker, remains intriguing with unresolved mysteries. For instance, in “Reef Madness,” he mentioned learning about ships from his father but kept secretive about his mother. Moreover, Parker had a hallucination of a child named Lily, who appears to have been part of his past. The upcoming NCIS Season 22 (airing on the 2024 TV schedule) will delve deeper into this plot point, and surprisingly, the showrunner has disclosed an unexpected detail about this mystery that only adds to the confusion.

Although much about Season 22 of NCIS remains uncertain, Wilmer Valderrama hints that upcoming episodes will delve deeper into personal and emotionally intense stories for his character Nick Torres. Intriguingly, when TVLine inquired whether the next season would offer more insights into Lilly and Parker’s mother, co-showrunner Steven D. Binder dropped a fascinating piece of news: it might just do so!

It’s uncertain to him who the girl from the flashback/hallucination is. Some buried truth from his past seems to be resurfacing, and he himself might not even realize it yet.

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Intriguing! Initially, upon viewing “Reef Madness,” I thought Lily might have been an old friend of Parker’s, a memory that lingered from their shared past. However, thanks to Steven D. Binder, it’s now clear that Parker doesn’t recognize Lily at all. Could this be a suppressed memory, or is there a chance that Lily isn’t real and serves as a stand-in for someone else? Given that Parker encountered her while struggling with a heavy pipe pinning his legs, it’s plausible that the mind can play tricks when one is in intense pain.

With two more months until NCIS Season 22 begins, we’re left pondering how Lily fits into Alden Parker’s backstory. We’ve already delved into his past when we discovered he served time in juvenile detention and was married to Vivian Kochak up until 2005. Gary Cole joined the main cast of NCIS since early Season 19, assuming the role of Supervisory Agent from the departing Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

Beginning Monday, October 14th, catch the start of Season 22 for NCIS on CBS, and on this very day, the prequel NCIS: Origins will make its debut. To revisit all the NCIS shows, consider subscribing to Paramount+ as it’s essential if you plan to watch the upcoming spinoff NCIS: Tony & Ziva, which is exclusive to streaming platforms.

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2024-08-15 17:07