{"id":2356,"date":"2025-03-29T18:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T18:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2025-03-29T18:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T18:03:07","slug":"the-mystery-surrounding-parkers-visions-of-lily-in-ncis-just-got-creepier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=2356","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery Surrounding Parker\u2019s Visions of Lily in \u2018NCIS\u2019 Just Got Creepier"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At the heart of a long-running police procedural series like NCIS is the importance of family and how it affects us, for better or worse. While the show typically follows a formulaic case-of-the-week narrative structure throughout the season, what keeps audiences coming back is its characters. Even though beloved characters have come and gone, the main cast is always given the space to embody fleshed-out three-dimensional characters. When the lead star of the franchise, Mark Harmon\u2019s Leroy Jethro Gibbs departed NCIS in Season 19, fans were worried about the show\u2019s longevity. But the series has gone on for three more seasons and has already been renewed for Season 23. In addition, Harmon made his return for a prequel show, NCIS: Origins, that focuses on Gibbs\u2019 (Austin Stowell) start as a federal agent, which has also been renewed for another season.<\/p>\n

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With Gibbs no longer featured on NCIS, Gary Cole\u2019s Alden Parker took on the NCIS Supervisory Special Agent title and became a new fan-favorite character in the series. Instead of trying to fill the gap left behind by Gibbs, the NCIS creative team has constantly shown that Alden is his own person. In the Season 21 finale \u201cReef Madness,\u201d when Alden gets trapped on a Navy ship and loses a large amount of blood, he starts having hallucinations of his mother, Eleanor Parker (Mackenzie Firgens), and a mysterious little girl who he calls Lily (Kensie Mills). Jessica Knight (Katrina Law) asks who Lily is after hearing Alden call her name, but he claims he doesn\u2019t know. Since then, Lily has popped up a couple of times in Season 22, with Episode 15 \u201cMoonlit\u201d pushing a chilling theory forward.<\/p>\n

Lily\u2019s Connection to the Parker Family May Not Be What You Think<\/h3>\n

Considering that Lily appeared in a vision featuring Eleanor, fans believed that Lily might be a long-lost sister of Alden\u2019s. But in an interview with TV Insider, executive producer Steven D. Binder claims, \u201cIf it\u2019s a theory, it\u2019s probably wrong. This is not his sister, and I wouldn\u2019t even say her name is Lily necessarily.\u201d In NCIS Season 22, Episode 15, Alden continues the search for answers by having Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen) sketch her from Parker\u2019s descriptions. He shows the picture to his dad, Roman Parker (Francis X. McCarthy), but he doesn\u2019t recognize the girl. Even though he\u2019s hesitant to discuss the past, especially surrounding Eleanor, Alden\u2019s relentless questioning causes Roman to reveal the truth behind Eleanor\u2019s death. Roman initially told Alden and his sister their mother died from a stroke a few years after she left them, but the real answer is much more tragic.<\/p>\n

Roman reveals that Eleanor would drive drunk, and one of those times included Alden in the car. She claimed he was with friends, even though Alden has no memory of who he could\u2019ve been with. Roman accused Eleanor of cheating and yelled at her to leave and never come home. These were ultimately his last words to her as Eleanor\u2019s car was found a few towns over, wrapped around a tree, where she died instantly. At the end of the episode, Alden is searching for articles that cover the accident. When he finds the right one, he recognizes one of the bystanders in the photo: none other than Lily, who then appears right next to him, looking sad but not saying anything. It\u2019s a spine-tingling moment for NCIS, which very rarely deals with the supernatural.<\/p>\n

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\u2018NCIS\u2019 Just Raised More Questions About Who Lily Is<\/h3>\n

The plot is starting to get creepier surrounding Lily. When Alden calls Dr. Grace Confalone (Laura San Giacomo) in NCIS Season 22, Episode 8 to help him find answers about Lily deep within his memory, she is right in trying to have him focus on Eleanor instead. Now we know Lily has some connection to Alden\u2019s mother, but how deep does it go? Alden claims he\u2019s never seen Lily before, but he\u2019s able to blurt her name out like he knew her.<\/p>\n

In Alden\u2019s initial vision back in Season 21, Episode 10 a young version of him was seen playing hide and seek with Lily before his mother appeared and told him that he\u2019s always playing around. Since Eleanor mentioned that Alden was playing with friends before she died, Lily is more than likely that friend. At the end of NCIS Season 22, Episode 8, \u201cOut of Control,\u201d Alden sees Lily writing a note that eerily says, \u201cYou can\u2019t tell anyone.\u201d Something traumatic must have happened for Alden to repress all memories of Lily because it seems he doesn\u2019t even know what she could be referring to. Although he now learns the truth about Eleanor\u2019s death, he still has lingering questions: how is Lily connected to his mother, and why is he still having visions of a person he doesn\u2019t know? The suspense is building up for this ongoing mystery, which is what NCIS does best after all these years.<\/p>\n

Alden Parker Is More Than Just a Gibbs Replacement<\/h3>\n

NCIS Season 22 has been giving Alden a lot more storylines, from the introduction of a new villain to a potential love story. The story with Lily is the most intriguing so far, and it shows that he\u2019s more than just a substitute for Harmon\u2019s Gibbs. Although it also took three seasons for Gibbs\u2019 mysterious past to be revealed, the seeds of Alden\u2019s past have been sown throughout his three seasons on the series. In Binder\u2019s same interview with TV Insider referenced above, he notes that this specific story was part of \u201cthe original pitch to Gary Cole\u201d when he signed on for NCIS.<\/p>\n

Even with 22 seasons of this show, the creative team has continually injected compelling storylines for the main characters. Their stories are even more relatable with the inclusion of their family members. With the huge cast of main characters throughout the series, audiences have seen a good blend of different family dynamics they could relate to. This mystery about Lily and Eleanor has been going on for quite some time and, hopefully, the answers will be worth the wait for Alden\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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