This will be the first time Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo appeared together in 12 years since Naval criminal invesgation service (2003) season 11 episode Past, Present, and Future (2013).
With Naval criminal invesgation service (2003) Season 22 episode The Stories We Leave Behind (2024) and this spinoff, Michael Weatherly is the second original NCIS cast member to reprise their role, after Mark Harmon who reprises as Gibbs in both voiceover and briefly live action form in NCIS: Origins (2024).
Will premiere in September 4, 2025, around the time of the 20th anniversary of Kill Ari (Part I) (2005) (originally aired in September 20, 2005), where Cote de Pablo made her debut as Ziva.
Second NCIS spinoff to have one of the Naval criminal invesgation service (2003) characters as the main lead(s), after NCIS: Origins (2024) which featured Mark Harmon reprising as Gibbs mainly serving as a narrator and briefly cameoed in the first two episodes.
Will premiere five years after Naval criminal invesgation service (2003) season 17 episode In the Wind (2020), in which Cote de Pablo (Ziva) made her last appearance.