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[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for\u00a0NCIS<\/a><\/em> Season 23 Episode 4 \u201cGone Girls.\u201d]<\/strong><\/p>\n NCIS<\/em> gives us two blasts from the past in the Tuesday, November 4, episode: mentions of a past team member (now starring on his own spinoff<\/a>) and McGee\u2019s (Sean Murray<\/a>) nom de plume.<\/p>\n Near the beginning of the episode, Dr. Palmer (Brian Dietzen<\/a>) walks into the bullpen with a tux. McGee remarks on the \u201cfancy clothes \u2014 don\u2019t tell me it\u2019s picture day.\u201d Palmer wishes, still hung up on the piece of kale he thinks you can see in his teeth in his. \u201cBarely,\u201d McGee assures him. Palmer asks about the \u201cstash of shoe polish in Tony\u2019s secret desk compartment,\u201d since McGee took over Tony\u2019s (Michael Weatherly<\/a>, now starring on\u00a0NCIS: Tony & Ziva<\/em> on Paramount+) desk when he left and the once probie became the senior field agent.<\/p>\n \u201cNo, HR cleared that out years ago,\u201d McGee says. \u201cAll I got here is some allergy medication and nasal spray. I\u2019m not sure Tony would approve.\u201d<\/p>\n This mention of Tony comes after the Paramount+ spinoff listed McGee and other\u00a0NCIS<\/em> characters on Tony and Ziva\u2019s wedding guest list<\/a> in a flashback in its first season; ultimately, none of them were seen onscreen, nor was there even a wedding. But with\u00a0Tony & Ziva<\/em>\u2018s first season ending with the pair solidly back together, who knows what\u2019s possible in the future (if it\u2019s renewed)?<\/p>\n \u201cI would love some kind of a crossover. I really would. I think the whole franchise is wonderful. I got to know Brian a little bit at Comic-Con. He just seems like he\u2019s a riot. I think as both a showrunner and a fan, I think that\u2019d be fun if we can work it out,\u201d\u00a0Tony & Ziva<\/em> showrunner John McNamara<\/a> told TV Insider<\/a>. \u201cPart of the challenge, though, is, I don\u2019t see a universe in which this show is not shot in Europe and they\u2019re in LA or New Orleans or Sydney or Hawai\u2019i. So, that\u2019s a little bit of a challenge just in terms of scheduling, but things can work out. You never know.\u201d<\/p>\n Then, during the course of the investigation, McGee and Torres (Wilmer Valderrama<\/a>) encounter a book club and one of the members recognizes McGee. \u201cI\u2019m sorry, you\u2019re him, aren\u2019t you? Thom E. Gemcity,\u201d she asks, referring to the name under which McGee writes. She never forgets an author\u2019s photo. But when McGee offers to sign a copy, she reveals, \u201cI\u2019ve never read one. Those kinds of pulp thrillers aren\u2019t really my cup of tea.\u201d It gets even more awkward when she remarks that their person of interest is \u201clike a real-life character from a spy thriller,\u201d McGee comments on her not reading thrillers, and she tells him, \u201cI didn\u2019t read your<\/em> thrillers.\u201d When he later finds out the book club is an underground railroad for abused women, he says that explains why she hadn\u2019t read his books.<\/p>\n This mention seems to be setting the stage for an upcoming episode that Murray teased for us<\/a> at the start of the season.<\/p>\n \u201cMcGee is also a writer and he writes his Deep Six<\/em> novels that he bases his characters on, people around him, and has a little writing career. And we actually have a really fun episode that we\u2019re gearing up to do where we dive deep into basically one of those books and characters that McGee is working on,\u201d Murray said in October. \u201cWe get to meet McGee\u2019s characters and we get to see him asking his characters for advice. It\u2019s a really cool episode we have coming up.\u201d<\/p>\n