[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for NCIS Season 23 Episode 2 “Prodigal Son (Part II).”]

NCIS gives Parker ( Gary Cole ) the closure he needs with Carla ( Rebecca De Mornay ) after she killed his father , but in doing so, it also set up two new mysteries for Season 23 with the Tuesday, October 21, episode.

An explosion on board the ship onto which Parker followed Carla seemingly kills them both — but it’s quickly revealed that not only was Parker not on board (he left “51” so the team would know, referring to Gibbs’ rule, “Sometimes you’re wrong,” and hid out at Gibbs’ cabin) but neither was Carla. She faked her death. Instead, she makes off for Cuba with her granddaughter, with whom she’d painted herself as a nice grandmother. Parker, of course, wants to track her dow

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