BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT: Answer Man: Explaining Curtis' role on 'NCIS'
By ROGER SCHLUETER
January 12, 2013
Q. During "NCIS" last season, Jamie Lee Curtis was almost a regular. What happened to her and her character? She has not appeared this season, and there has been no mention of her, either.
-- Jane, of Germantown
A. Fortunately for Special Agent Gibbs, Dr. Samantha Ryan is not playing hard to get. For her own safety, she's now simply trying not to be found.
As you know, Jamie Lee Curtis entered the "NCIS" universe last year as the head of the Department of Defense's Psychological Operations Division. In what was supposed to be a brief two-episode stint, the lovely Dr. Ryan was called on to investigate the alleged suicide of Navy reservist and psychiatrist Dr. Robert Banks.
But Curtis' appearance set ratings ablaze, so they wrote her into three more episodes and let the romantic sparks fly between her and the once-widowed and apparently thrice-divorced Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon), who heads the NCIS' Major Case Response Team.
... But no arrangements were made to write Ryan into season 10, so her and Gibbs' budding romance came to a tragic end -- at least, temporarily -- during that explosive final episode of season nine last spring.
At the time, Ryan was probing the mind of Harper Dearing, a wealthy venture capitalist-turned-terrorist who blamed the NCIS for the death of his son aboard a ship that proved to have a faulty hull.
Like most terrorists, Dearing didn't appreciate the attention, so he began playing dirty. First, he contacted Ryan and implied that he knew her son was living nearby and that he would abduct him if she didn't back off his case.
As an additional threat, Dearing managed to have a judge release her ex-husband, a well-known felon, on a technicality. Fearing for their safety, Ryan grabbed her son and ran and has not been seen since.
... For now, though, you'll have to be satisfied following the show's ins and outs at the NCIS Database at ncis.wikia.com and www.cbs.com.
NCIS airs Tuesday at 8/7C on CBS. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE EPISODE TRAILER FOR NCIS' 'SHIVA' AIRING JANUARY 15, 2013.
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