When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they'll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. Sign up fornow for the biggest moments from morning TV The 16th season of crime series NCIS is premiering on US network CBS tonight (September 25). Season 16 is set to have a total of 24 episodes like the majority of previous years. There is no UK air date announced yet, but it won’t hit Sky One until next year most likely. Here’s a look at the cast of the popular series.<doc-sep>It’s finally time to find out where Vance is and whether he can be saved. Check out what to expect and how to watch NCIS Season 16, Episode 1. NCIS left us with a lot of questions. Most importantly, there was fear. Would Director Vance be safe? Now we’ll get to find that out in NCIS Season 16, Episode 1, titled “Destiny’s Child.” The last we saw of Vance he’d been kidnapped by the man who was definitely responsible for Jack’s torture when she’d been captured. When we return to the show, we’ll be four weeks on from that. Gibbs is Acting Director, so Vance has certainly not been found. In fact, the whole team is looking for him. Based on promos and spoilery tidbits show us that Torres is of searching for Vance in the field, while the others run point from the office. Watch your favorite shows on fuboTV: Watch over 67 live sports and entertainment channels with a 7-day FREE trial! This is certainly going to feel like an odd season. It’s the first without Abby and I’m still not sure how I feel about that. She’s been one of my favorites since the beginning, but I’m going in with an open heart for Kasie to give her a chance. Great news about this season is Ducky will be back. He will be in a reduced number of episodes again, which is David McCallum’s choice. It’s just good to know that we’ll get some of the brilliant M.E. on our screens. Before we get into the live streaming options, it’s important to get ready for NCIS Season 16, Episode 1. Here are the promo and synopsis for the episode, “Destiny’s Child.” Gibbs is assigned the role of acting director while the team searches worldwide for Director Vance’s whereabouts. Now you have all that, it’s time to make sure you catch NCIS Season 16, Episode 1 live tonight. Here’s all the information you need, whether watching on TV or online. Date: Tuesday, Sept. 24 Start Time: 8:00 pm EST Episode: Season 16, Episode 1 “Destiny’s Child” TV Channel: CBS Live Stream: Stream 1 | Stream 2<doc-sep>NCIS S 16 E 1 Close this dialog window Streaming Options NCIS’s 16th season — 16! Old enough to drive a car! — wastes no time in dropping us back into a world of action, plots and counterplots, quips, and Gibbs’ stoicism. Let’s do this. Vance, last seen at the mercy of Sloane’s tormenter, Hakim, is being held captive in a tastefully appointed house. Hakim is in favor of torture, but his mother, Zaiyema, believes Vance can be incentivized to come around to their way of thinking. As Vance killed her sons in Afghanistan years ago, I suspect those incentives won’t be of the “cash back” variety. Four weeks later, a dusty and dispirited Torres checks in via video chat to say that his month in Afghanistan convinced him that Vance isn’t overseas. This hypothesis is confirmed when a breaking news report about a local bank heist shows that one of the robbers is Vancey Hearst himself. Kasie (Hi, Kasie! Welcome to the lab full time!) suggests a perfect Vance clone, but McGee and Bishop check out the bank in case the clone thing doesn’t pan out. The irritated bank manager explains that Vance had ordered all of Hakim’s charity assets frozen and consolidated at this branch. That’s what Hakim stole, along with a good portion of gold bullion. So did Hakim snatch Vance because he knew where the money was? And why did he trust Vance with a gun during the robbery? At a strategy session with Gibbs, Sloane, and Vice Admiral Halsey, we learn that all the security codes were changed after Vance’s kidnapping. We also learn that Sloane’s spent the last four weeks blaming herself for not keeping her cool with Hakim. His former colleague, British Deputy Ambassador Rigg, speaks calmly and slowly to Sloane, and I kind of hate her. Speaking of Gibbs, the world’s most reluctant acting director of NCIS has his meal of skillet sausages interrupted by the arrival of Kayla Vance. Despite the fact that she’s been assigned a protective detail, she’s still attending college because her dad didn’t raise her to be a quitter. And then an explosion rocks Chez Gibbs. The target was a Navy recruitment center at a nearby strip mall, and a second one in Salt Lake City was also bombed. And then a robe-wearing Vance turns up on television, speechifying about “Brother Hakim” and “American oppressors.” Kasie quickly sorts the situation out. First, she notices that Vance fired three warnings shots in the bank, and they each hit the eyeballs of people pictured on bank posters. Next, she determines that Vance only blinked five times during his hostage message, on the words “avalanche,” “apple,” “lifeless,” “karma,” and “yearning.” What’s that mean? She and Gibbs aren’t sure — yet. At Vance’s luxury prison, Hakim gloats about the chaos their attacks have caused, but his threats against Vance’s children fall flat. “You missed the window, Chuck,” Vance says, tipping them off about his video blinking code. Zaiyema’s furious and orders her henchmen to kill Kayla, who’s currently on campus chattering about her Sociology of Taylor Swift class with her bodyguard. (For the record, I’d sign up for that class.) Then an armed man charges them and kills her guard; poor guy dies with the word “Taylor” on his lips. Quick-thinking Kayla grabs the gun off his body and returns fire. She misses, but Gibbs and McGee, having successfully unscrambled Vance’s on-the-fly acrostic to spell “Kayla,” pop up and save her life. Morgue time! Palmer chats with the shooter’s body, and when Gibbs arrives, Ducky declares, “We already know the cause of death: You.” Blunt, but true. Also, we didn’t have nearly enough time with this duo in the premiere. Just as Kacie discovers that the shooter was an Iowan named Rafi Paiz who worked in the custodial department at a local tech firm, a Hakim-connected suicide bomber attacks an Ohio movie theater. (Next page: Torres smash) Rafi’s coworker at the tech company Glowbeam is shocked to hear that he was a terrorist and explains that her company uses lava lamps to randomize encryption numbers for Fortune 500 companies and governments. Torres admits to nursing a grudge against lava lamps after he burned himself on one and was forced to sit out of his Little League regionals game. Naturally, he’s the agent assigned to stay with the Glowbeam people and their lava lamps. Sloane, meanwhile, has gone off the grid to interrogate Rigg, whom I still don’t trust. Sloane cuffs her and repurposes kitchen implements as interrogation instruments as Rigg begs for mercy, pleading, “Are you trying to find your monster, or become one?” This stops Sloane in her tracks — but of course, it’s a trap, and Rigg turns Sloane’s own gun on her. Oh, Sloane. This … this wasn’t a great move. Vance, meanwhile, finds unexpected help in one of Hakim’s henchmen, an impossibly handsome fella who reveals that he’s CIA agent Nazy Rickman (Keon Alexander). He sneaks Vance a burner phone and shuts off the cell phone jammer, allowing Vance to make a quick call to Gibbs. When Vance reaches Gibbs, he explains that he met Rickman and warns them about Hakim’s interest in the Bethesda nuclear station. The top brass agree to go into Operation Lockdown, which will keep any outside actors from infiltrating the facility. Then, in a total curse-your-sudden-but-inevitable-betrayal move, Rickman reveals that he was on Hakim’s side all along, and Operation Lockdown was their end goal. Say it ain’t so, impossibly hot henchman! Oh, it’s so. Rickman, whose real name is definitely not Rickman, created a Trojan horse in the lockdown codes, which can only be activated by the federal government. As Vance is absorbing this, a bound Sloane is delivered to the house so she and Vance can have a front-row seat to the irradiation of the area. At the nuclear facility, a supervisor assures Gibbs, McGee, and Bishop that nothing can possibly go wrong during Operation Lockdown, but naturally, everything goes wrong. They get locked in the facility and the system spirals toward meltdown. McGee discovers not-Rickman’s Trojan horse in the coding but realizes that it’s actually coming from Glowbeam’s encryption off-site. Thankfully, Torres is still there, bored out of his skull. “Oh, we’re having different days,” he says when Bishop explains that she’s locked in a nuclear facility on the brink of meltdown. With 20 seconds to act, Torres gets revenge for his missed regional baseball game by tossing a stool into the gleaming wall of lava lamps. It makes a wet, colorful mess on the floor, and more importantly, it shuts down the Trojan horse programming. When Hakim gets the news, he destroys a perfectly nice TV and starts threatening Sloane, who openly laughs at him. You see, she and Gibbs hatched Operation Cuckoo’s Nest, which involved her convincing Rigg that she was unraveling, and then having a satellite track her to Hakim’s location. And OH THANK GOD because otherwise, her actions this week would’ve been unpardonably foolish. Gibbs and company come charging in, taking out the bulk of the baddies but leaving Hakim alive. (Please note: Torres shoots impossibly handsome not-Rickman because there can be only one impossibly handsome guy.) Hakim tries to make Sloane feel bad about his pending torture at a black ops site, but Sloane says nuh-uh. The U.S. are the good guys, so he’ll get a fair trial. In the end, a thrilled Kayla is reunited with her father, who holds her close and tells her how proud he is of her, while Sloane visits her fallen Wingo comrades at Arlington Cemetery and lays her box of memories to rest in the soil next to them. Stray Shots For the record, lava lamp encryption is absolutely a thing, and you can, in fact, Google it, as many characters insisted tonight. Not to tell the NCIS writers how to do their jobs, but could we have more of chop shop snitch Joey (the always delightful Chad Linberg) in upcoming episodes? Just snippets of him in interrogation, singing like a canary? So, uh, did Gibbs ever sign the paperwork to fix the AC?<doc-sep>
Pauley Perrette as Abby Sciuto in NCIS Rocky Carroll and Mark Harmon star in NCIS season 16 WARNING: This article contains spoilers from NCIS season 15 CBS will be airing NCIS season 16 tonight (Tuesday, September 25) in the US a new cycle kicks off. Season 16 will consist of 24 episodes which will see the team dealing with brand new cases but first they will have to try and find one of their own after Director Vance (Rocky Carroll) was kidnapped. NCIS will see most of the cast returning for the new series however forensics expert Abby Sciuto (played by Pauley Perrette) won’t be among them. Why did Pauley Perrette leave NCIS? NCIS actress Pauley Perrette announced last year that she was leaving the series as forensic scientist Abby Sciuto after 16 years. Perrette had been part of the show since the first episode and her character had become iconic due to her gothic style. In a message to her 750,000 Twitter followers last year, she wrote: “So, it is true that I am leaving NCIS after this season. “There have been all kinds of false stories as to why (NO I DON’T HAVE A SKIN CARE LINE AND NO MY NETWORK AND SHOW ARE NOT MAD AT ME!). NCIS SEASON 16 RELEASE DATE, CAST, TRAILER, PLOT Pauley Perrette as Abby Sciuto in NCIS Pauley Perrette as Abby Sciuto in NCIS “It was a decision made last year. I hope everyone will love and enjoy EVERYTHING ABBY not only for the rest of this season but for everything she had given all of us for 16 years. “All the love, all the laughter, all the inspiration… I love her as much as you do.” Abby will be replaced by a new forensic scientist called Kasie Hines (Diona Reasonover) but it will take the team a while to adjust. At one point during season 16, one of the team will accidentally call Kasie “Abbs”, showing that she may be be gone but she’s not been forgotten, according to star Reasonover. HOW TO WATCH NCIS SEASON 16 ONLINE In an interview with Newsweek, the actress explained: “[I]t’s not about warming up to her so much as it’s a shift, it’s a new person.” She went on to say: “We’re going to have to watch the team, just like we saw Sean have that really beautiful moment where he realized that his friend wasn’t necessarily working there anymore.” Kasie had a recurring role in season 15 working with chief medical examiner Ducky (David McCallum) and serving as an assistant before she got promoted to a series regular for the forthcoming run. We're going to see her take on a more pivotal role in season 16. WHERE IS NCIS SEASON 16 FILMED? Pauley Perrette as Abby Sciuto in NCIS