{"id":3231,"date":"2025-07-30T23:03:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2025-07-30T23:03:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:03:25","slug":"ncis-origins-season-2-has-begun-filming-and-theres-already-a-major-lala-update-to-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=3231","title":{"rendered":"NCIS: Origins Season 2 Has Begun Filming, And There\u2019s Already A Major Lala Update To Share"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NCIS: Origins Season 2 premieres on the 2025 TV schedule in October, sandwiched between NCIS Season 23 and NCIS: Sydney Season 3 on CBS. The prequel show\u2019s cast and crew, however, are already back in the swing of things, as Season 2 has begun filming. What\u2019s caught my eye at the start of this production, however, is that there\u2019s already a major update to share about Mariel Molino\u2019s character, Lala Dominguez.<\/p>\n

Lala crashed her car in the NCIS: Origins Season 1 finale to avoid hitting a little girl who\u2019d run out into the street, and it was left ambiguous whether or not she survived. Well, fans can take comfort knowing they\u2019ll at least get to see Lala at the start of Season 2. That\u2019s because Molino shared a picture on her Instagram Stories of the area of the Paramount lot where Origins filmed, with a special canine friend of hers in frame:<\/p>\n

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Kyle Schmid, who plays Mike Franks on NCIS: Origins, took a video of that same area of the lot, albeit at night, and shared it to his own Instagram Stories. So for those of you who were worried that Lala Dominguez wouldn\u2019t appear in Origins\u2019 next season at all, those worries can now be squashed. The question now is, how exactly will we see her?<\/p>\n

The first and most logical answer is that Lala survived the car crash. From there, it can be inferred that the NCIS: Origins Season 2 premiere will either pick up immediately where the Season 1 finale left off and show her in the hospital, or it will begin several months later as she\u2019s still recovering. But there are a couple holes in that idea.<\/p>\n

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As Mark Harmon\u2019s older Leroy Jethro Gibbs narrated in the Origins series premiere, this story he\u2019s telling in the prequel is about Lala, and it\u2019s not a story he\u2019s felt comfortable telling until now. It makes sense he\u2019d feel that way if she died, but if she lived and went on to work with Gibbs for several more years, then why would he feel that way about her? Also, if Lala made it through the car crash, why wouldn\u2019t she have told Gibbs right away about how he got Lara Macy to stop going after him? He didn\u2019t learn that information until the late 2000s, as seen in NCIS Season 6.<\/p>\n

That leaves the other option: Lala died in the car crash, and she\u2019ll be present in the Season 2 premiere as either a ghost Austin Stowell\u2019s Gibbs sees or through flashbacks. If NCIS: Origins goes this route, it\u2019d be reminiscent of how NCIS killed off Sasha Alexander\u2019s Caitlin Todd in its Season 2 finale, then brought her back one more time in various visions the other characters saw of her. However, if Mariel Molino continues to post behind-the-scenes Origins pictures and videos in the coming weeks, we can rule this option out.<\/p>\n

Lala Dominguez\u2019s fate will be fully revealed when NCIS: Origins Season 2 premieres on CBS October 14 at 9 p.m. ET. Season 2 will also see Mike Franks reuniting with his brother, continue following along with Cliff Wheeler and show Gibbs\u2019 first interrogation.<\/p>\n

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