Parker’s (Gary Cole) search to uncover the identity of the mysterious Lily continues on tonight’s NCIS episode. Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen) makes an artist’s rendering of what the young girl looks like based on Parker’s description of Lily from the dream and/or hallucination he had on the ship when he was near death.
In this exclusive sneak peek, Parker confronts his father, Roman (Francis Xavier McCarthy), via a video call from Las Vegas and shows him the sketch of Lily, but Roman doesn’t recognize the girl. Then Parker tries to get his father to talk about his mother, but his father refuses to do so as he has for years.
“Is this just another ploy to get me to talk about her,” he says, referring to Parker’s mother. There’s real tension between the two men, which will get resolved. Then, at the end of the episode, there’s a bit of a reveal, but not the whole story.
“The mystery is going to keep unfolding and revealing what I hope are very interesting twists that make you go, ‘Oh shit,’” showrunner Steven D. Binder tells Parade. “Not just like, ‘Oh, so Lily’s his sister or whatever.’ That’s not too terribly interesting.”
We already saw what happened after Dr. Grace (Laura San Giacomo) suggested to Parker that the next time he has a dream or a vision of her, he go towards her and embrace her. And that had a shocking result.
“She basically writes in blood, ‘I know what you did last summer,’ on the wall. And you’re like, ‘Wait a minute, what?’ Binder continues. “So that’s going to be Lily’s journey. Lily’s going to take us down a magical mystery tour for a little bit. Each time, we will learn something about it.”
According to Binder, there’s something dark going on. Lily isn’t just any little girl, nor is she a representation of Parker’s mother.
“There’s something that this guy needs to work on. That’s why he screamed at Grace when she poked the sore spot,” Binder added. “That’s not like him to behave like that. For him, it’s a big deal to lash out like that.”
Although it was the near-death experience on the ship that triggered this memory for Parker, it is something that has long been there. But he needed something like that event to jog his memory.
“This has been there, and it would have come out eventually,” Binder concludes cryptically.
Tune into NCIS tonight at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS to discover the secret connection between Lily and Parker’s mother.
