{"id":2428,"date":"2025-04-01T15:16:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2025-04-01T15:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:16:50","slug":"ncis-origins-star-opens-up-about-mary-jos-heartbreaking-past-knows-it-is-going-to-touch-a-lot-of-women-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=2428","title":{"rendered":"NCIS: Origins Star Opens Up About Mary Jo\u2019s Heartbreaking Past, Knows \u2018It Is Going to Touch a Lot of Women\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week on CBS\u2018 NCIS: Origins, viewers got to know a lot more about Field Operation Support Officer Mary Jo Hayes \u2014 both on a professional and a personal level.<\/p>\n

Running NIS\u2019 Camp Pendleton office as the \u201cHSIC\u201d (Head Secretary in Charge), Mary Jo was shown to have keenly absorbed over the years how the Special Agents (namely, Mike Franks) think. She has developed a second sense about when a witness or POI will be brought back in for questioning, and how to keep opposing parties from sharing the same waiting area air. We saw her labor to impart a fraction of that wisdom on a new secretary, with less help than she would have liked\/hoped from her current underling. Mary Jo knows that the promise of free food will lure anyone to a dry sales pitch on profiling. And at episode\u2019s end, we saw how her strong opinion on a thing can trickle up to Franks, and then down to the rest of the team \u2014 whether she knows it or not.<\/p>\n

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This week on CBS\u2018 NCIS: Origins, viewers got to know a lot more about Field Operation Support Officer Mary Jo Hayes \u2014 both on a professional and a personal level.<\/h3>\n

Running NIS\u2019 Camp Pendleton office as the \u201cHSIC\u201d (Head Secretary in Charge), Mary Jo was shown to have keenly absorbed over the years how the Special Agents (namely, Mike Franks) think. She has developed a second sense about when a witness or POI will be brought back in for questioning, and how to keep opposing parties from sharing the same waiting area air. We saw her labor to impart a fraction of that wisdom on a new secretary, with less help than she would have liked\/hoped from her current underling. Mary Jo knows that the promise of free food will lure anyone to a dry sales pitch on profiling. And at episode\u2019s end, we saw how her strong opinion on a thing can trickle up to Franks, and then down to the rest of the team \u2014 whether she knows it or not.<\/p>\n

On a personal level\u2026 this week\u2019s episode was set in motion by Mary Jo being served divorce papers, from the husband she\u2019s been estranged from so long, the likes of Lala and Vera assumed the marriage was dissolved years ago. A flashback to a younger Mary Jo and Marcus showed them in a warm, if slightly melancholy, hug. When Mary Jo came to believe that Marcus was seeking \u201chalf\u201d of everything she had in the divorce, she confronted him. Turns out, it was just a misunderstanding caused by a sus lawyer. During that face to face, Mary Jo made mention of their house, which Marcus had moved out of because it \u201chaunted\u201d him.<\/p>\n

At episode\u2019s end, we revisited that hug flashback once more, and realized that Mary Jo was holding between them a knit baby bonnet. They had lost a daughter, named Georgia. Mary Jo wanted to never forget what almost was, so Marcus cued her to write Georgia\u2019s name on the wall of their home.<\/p>\n

Cut back to 1991, where Mary Jo pushes aside some boxes on that wall to reveal there wound up being four names, four lost souls, in all: Georgia, Isaiah, Dawn, and Marcus Jr.<\/p>\n

Here is what NCIS: Origins\u2018 Tyla Abercrumbie shared with TVLine about the assorted reveals in \u201cTo Have and to Hold.\u201d<\/p>\n

TVLINE | There were four names on that wall. What was your reaction when you read through that closing part of the script for the first time?
\nIt was definitely a shocker because I thought, just as a woman, \u201cWhat must that be like to try to bring four lives into the world, and it be unsuccessful?\u201d Watching that, seeing her writing the names on the wall to \u201cnot forget,\u201d was very moving.<\/p>\n

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You know when you have a moment where you\u2019re just a little bit quiet, because you\u2019ve got to let it all land\u2026? I remember feeling that when we did the first read-through. For me, it was like, \u201cWow, this is really going to touch a lot of women, and a lot of families that have lost [pregnancies].\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the things I asked, that I needed to be clear on is, that when women have a baby that gets to like five or six months [in utero], they usually have to have that child, through childbirth, which makes that thought even more unsettling, that you would get this far and still it\u2019s unsuccessful. It was very hard, and very moving, and it was an emotional scene. It was very emotional.<\/p>\n

TVLINE | Talk about the casting of Mary Jo\u2019s husband.
\nHis name is Guy Lockard (Chicago Med). Guy is a really amazing young man to work with. A gentleman, I should say. I mean, he\u2019s a young man, too \u2014 if he ever heard this, he\u2019d be like, \u201cWhy did you throw the \u2018young\u2019 away?\u201d \u2014 but he\u2019s a wonderful, wonderful actor, out of New York. He was very emotionally available and willing to surrender and be in that backstory with Mary Jo, which is really beautiful when you\u2019ve just met someone. He did a wonderful job. I loved working with Guy.<\/p>\n

TVLINE | The other part of the closing act was also powerful, because you saw the \u201cripple effect\u201d of Mary Jo expressing her point of view to Franks, about how the case wasn\u2019t in fact over. He relays it along, using a lot of her words, and it trickles down, and you later see Randy saying, \u201cI was really inspired by what Franks said!\u201d That, coupled with the early scene where Mary Jo knows Franks won\u2019t want the husband crossing paths with the people his wife swindled, really showed how she has her fingers on the pulse of this operation.
\nAbsolutely. It shows how important she is to the dynamic and that you don\u2019t necessarily have to hear her saying it. You see how important she is to others, that what she says matters. She has the ability to penetrate the \u201cwall\u201d of Franks, and he gives that to his agents, and his agents take that out into whatever they do. You see how in life, really, we\u2019re consistently being inspired by people who don\u2019t even know they\u2019ve inspired us. In the world of Origins, Mary Jo doesn\u2019t know that he says that to the agents. Therefore, that person\u2019s voice is constantly being given and serving others without them ever even knowing how many people they\u2019ve touched.<\/p>\n

TVLINE | And by nudging them to hunt down the missing money, Mary Jo \u201csaved some lives\u201d in her own way.
\nShe saved some lives, she helped them rebuild \u2014 which she clearly had to do. It also helped her. Don\u2019t forget how important living their stories, hearing and typing up their stories, helped her with moving forward, as well. We\u2019re consistently giving to each other. Just as in life, we don\u2019t know who we\u2019re touching and what makes inspiration for each other.<\/p>\n

TVLINE | Lastly, what are you hearing about the first season finale? How are we going to be feeling at 10:55 pm that night?
\nYou\u2019re going to feel good. You\u2019re going to feel good because you will be like, \u201cI had 18 episodes of a show that I thought I was going to know [how it goes], and it turns out I don\u2019t know anything.\u201d That\u2019s how you\u2019re going to feel. And as a TV watcher myself, there\u2019s nothing like leaning into something and going, \u201cI\u2019m so glad this show is on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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