"You've Got To Honor Everything": NCIS Star Responds To 1000th Episode Ending

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Warning: SPOILERS ahead for NCIS season 21, episode 7, the 1000th episode of the franchise!

Summary NCIS star Brian Dietzen explains how the 1000th episode honors the series since the beginning with many Easter eggs and ties to the flagship series.

The episode's ending features clips from all the spinoffs, honoring the time and effort it took to reach 1000 episodes.

Brian Dietzen reflects on the episode, highlighting how it honored past characters and storylines in an emotionally resonant way.

NCIS star Brian Dietzen has opened up about the ending of the franchise's 1000th episode, describing how it honors the whole series since the very beginning. The episode featured many Easter eggs to the whole series, alongside a case that had ties to the start of the flagship series. At the end of the episode, a short series of clips play out from all the spinoffs the series has ever had, honoring all the time and effort it took for it to reach 1000 episodes.

Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Dietzen, who has portrayed Jimmy Palmer from season 1, explained how NCIS' 1000th episode honored the legacy of the franchise. The actor revealed what it was like to know the series has been going on for so long, while also reflecting on how the ending honored everything that had come before. Check out what Dietzen had to say below:

Well, I think you’ve got to honor everything. There are a lot of people. Those 1,000 episodes don't happen without over 1,000 people working behind the scenes over the course of these 21 years, not just on our show, but on our sister shows as well. So I was really, really happy when I was reading this script to see some shout-outs to past characters that are no longer on the show and also past storylines that meant a lot to the fans and meant a lot to us as NCIS family members. The ending, it just got me. It’s one thing to read it in script form, but then when you get to see it, and see how visually it all comes together with the music swelling and you're showing some of these seminal moments from the history of NCIS and also simple moments like Gibbs helping a kid build a tree house. You know, the stuff that made NCIS what it is for two decades. And you're reminded that this is how we got here. Yeah, it definitely got me.

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Source: EW