{"id":1858,"date":"2025-02-19T17:34:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T17:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2025-02-19T17:34:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T17:34:57","slug":"ncis-origins-kyle-schmid-shares-the-big-part-of-mike-franks-life-he-wants-the-prequel-to-explore-and-this-makes-me-even-more-hopeful-for-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=1858","title":{"rendered":"NCIS: Origins\u2019 Kyle Schmid Shares The Big Part Of Mike Franks\u2019 Life He Wants The Prequel To Explore, And This Makes Me Even More Hopeful For Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As longtime fans of the original NCIS know, Mike Franks, played in that show by Muse Watson, was killed by Jonas Cobb, a.k.a. the Port-to-Port Killer, in Season 8\u2019s \u201cSwan Song.\u201d So we know how his story ends, but NCIS: Origins, which is currently airing on the 2025 TV schedule, is providing the opportunity to flesh out the character as it tells the story of Leroy Jethro Gibbs\u2019 first years working for NIS. In an interview with CinemaBlend, Kyle Schmid, who plays the younger Franks, shared with us the big part of his mustachioed lawman\u2019s life that he hopes the prequel will cover. I\u2019m hoping this provides a little more incentive for Origins Season 2 to be greenlit.<\/p>\n

After chatting with Schmid about the NCIS: Origins episode \u201cMonsoon,\u201d where we saw flashbacks of Franks in 1982 and a massive blow being dealt to the character\u2019s relationship with Tish, I asked him if there was a big event about Franks\u2019 life that was mentioned in NCIS that he\u2019s looking forward to exploring later down the line in Origins (which you can stream with a Paramount+ subscription). He started off by telling me:
\nSo Mike has a kid\u2026 I\u2019m so excited to see where Mike goes from tomorrow to where we see him in that world. I feel like Mike would be a great father. He\u2019s a very hard man, but\u2026 we see how much Mike loves his team and his family, we see how much Mike loves Tish. I\u2019m so curious to know about the origin story of the family and where he goes and who he falls in love with next, who that might be. I\u2019m curious to see how someone like Mike gets back into that world of being open to finding perhaps love again.<\/p>\n

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Mike Franks\u2019 son, Liam O\u2019Neill, was introduced in the NCIS Season 4\u2019s \u201cIceman,\u201d although he didn\u2019t stay alive for long. Viewers learned that Franks and Liam\u2019s mother, Mary O\u2019Neill were together in 1982 for six months, but then Franks walked out on her, unaware she was pregnant. Like his father, Liam joined the Marines, and while he was serving in Afghanistan, he met a woman named Leyla Shakarji and got her pregnant. Liam sought out his long-lost father for his help in getting Leyla and their daughter, Amira, out of Afghanistan, and the two got to know each over during their brief time together before Liam died.<\/p>\n

Given the aforementioned \u201cMonsoon\u201d flashbacks, the first of which showed Mike Franks leaving the woman he was with behind when he agreed to transport drugs to California, I think we can safely assume this is Liam\u2019s mother. I would certainly be intrigued to see how NCIS: Origins would handle Franks discovering he\u2019s a father, perhaps with Mary O\u2019Neill coming back into his life to let him know about Liam, who would be turning 10 in 1992. The trick is furing out whether it would retcon anything from NCIS (which has already been done with how Franks met Jackson Gibbs), meaning Franks couldn\u2019t be that present in Liam\u2019s life for long. Still, I\u2019d be game to see how Season 2 handles this.<\/p>\n

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As Kyle Schmid mentioned, he\u2019s also interested to see what\u2019s next for Mike Franks on the romantic front, because as of \u201cMonsoon,\u201d he and Tish are no longer together (although I\u2019m skeptical that they won\u2019t get back together). Schmid also told me he\u2019s eager to see his character\u2019s relationship with Gibbs, played in this series by Austin Stowell, become more fully developed, saying:
\nThere\u2019s a lot of story to be told between Franks and Gibbs. I\u2019m really excited to see them on the road together. I\u2019m excited to see them have some good one-on-one bonding experience, you know, that relationship is so strong in the mothership, You know, I just, I just can\u2019t wait to see all the spokes on that wheel that bring it together.<\/p>\n

There are five episodes left to go in NCIS: Origins Season 1, so hopefully we\u2019ll learn in the coming weeks whether Season 2 is on the way or not. Meanwhile, I\u2019ll be looking forward to seeing more of Mike Franks bonding with Gibbs the \u201cprobie,\u201d and seeing their relationship move closer to what we saw between the two of them in NCIS, as the prequel airs episodes at 10 pm ET on CBS.<\/p>\n

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