Wilmer Valderrama as Nicholas “Nick” Torres and Katrina Law as Jessica Knight Sonja Flemming/CBS
NCIS fans are still reeling from Jessica Knight and Jimmy Palmer’s split — but their romance isn’t the just one to concentrate on in season 22.
Katrina Law, who plays Knight, exclusively told Us Weekly earlier this month that Wilmer Valderrama’s Nick Torres goes to fire up trouble together with his love life. “His romance is gonna cause some drama,” she teased. “It’s gonna be awesome.”
Torres revealed during episode 3, which aired on October 28, that he was pushing for the office to get a brand new workout room partly because he’s “attempting to get my mind right.”
Torres confided in Knight on the time that he desires to “get back on the market, back in the sport.” He clarified he meant the “love game” after getting his heart broken by Ellie Bishop (Emily Wickersham) three years prior when she abruptly left the team and terminated her budding relationship with Torres. (Wickersham exited the series in 2021 after eight seasons.)
Katrina Law loves the “Knight and shining Palmer relationship” on NCIS — but fans of the pair are in for a bumpy ride this season. “I believe there may be real love there,” Law, 39, exclusively told Us Weekly of her character Jessica Knight’s reference to Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen), noting that the considered a […]
“It’s been too long since I’ve had a special person in my life,” he confessed, explaining that if he’s to seek out someone latest, “I even have to place my best self on the market.”
Brian Dietzen, who portrays Palmer, hinted that Torres’ dating life is just the tip of the iceberg with regards to latest flames for the NCIS team.
“There’s some romance that’s happening — I can’t give away an excessive amount of — but not only with Torres,” Dietzen, 46, exclusively told Us in a joint interview with Law, 39. “There’s gonna be another people on the team as well which may find some [romance].”
He identified that fans have already seen that with Leon Vance (Rocky Carroll), who revealed during season 22, episode 2, that he wanted something more serious together with his long-distance partner, Lena Paulsen (Marem Hassler). “He has something that he’s exploring,” Dietzen said of Vance.
“That’s what I like a lot about our show is that, you recognize, there are other TV shows or other procedurals that [are] the rip from the headlines kind of stuff and really concentrate on the case of the week, which our show does well,” Dietzen said. “But additionally, our shows are ripped from the characters. And we get to see how these cases affect the folks that are solving them.”
He added: “The heavy focus and character development [we have], it’s what keeps me coming back to work. I believe it’s what keeps people watching this thing.”
In the case of their characters’ relationship, Law and Dietzen told Us that Knight and Palmer haven’t “slammed” the door on romance, nevertheless it’s “gently closed in the intervening time.”
In the course of the November 4 episode, Knight and Palmer finally talked after breaking up at the top of season 21. While Knight hinted that she was open to getting back together, Palmer reminded her that they aren’t currently what the opposite person needs.
“There’s definitely still looks between Jimmy and Knight. The attraction remains to be alive, and you recognize, these two are still type of checking one another out,” Law teased of the pair. “It’s not gone.”
Dietzen noted that viewers may have to attend and see if their split is “set in stone” or in the event that they’ll “trend back there again.”
NCIS airs on CBS Mondays at 9 p.m. ET.
