EXCLUSIVE: There’s been so much buzz about who will play a younger version of Scott Bakula’s popular NCIS: New Orleans character Dwayne Pride in Season 2 of CBS ‘ NCIS: Origins , and the wait is finally over.

Shea Buckner ( Only Murders in the Building ) will appear in one episode to air later this season as Pride, who Bakula portrayed across the Louisiana-set show’s seven seasons. A former Sheriff’s Deputy, NIS Special Agent Dwayne Pride, is a newly minted Probationary Special Agent from the NIS Panama office in the prequel series. He has a history with Gibbs (Austin Stowell), and the two must resolve their past tension as they go undercover on a case.

While the episode will focus heavily on Pride, it will also reunite the Fed Five task force, a group of exceptional NIS agen

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