‘NCIS’: Sean Murray & Gary Cole Break Down Parker ‘Over the Edge’ & McGee’s Concerns (Video)

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the NCIS Season 23 premiere “Prodigal Son (Part I).”] Parker (Gary Cole) wants revenge after his longtime nemesis, mob boss Carla (Rebecca De Mornay), murdered his father — using his own gun(!) as we learn in the NCIS Season 23 premiere — and even with the team going against Director Vance’s (Rocky Carroll) orders, he still tries to do it on his own. “Everything is heightened then maybe from, if there’s such a thing as normal for this show,” Cole tells TV Insider in the video interview above with him and Sean Murray (McGee). “It keeps pushing Parker to the extreme, even though we think he’s reached a boiling point when the show begins.