‘NCIS’ Moves Into COVID Times as McGee Returns to the Field (PHOTOS)

While getting to March 2020 on NCIS meant revealing just why Gibbs (Mark Harmon) shot McGee (Sean Murray) — to save his life — it also means that the CBS procedural is now moving into COVID times.

And the agents are being safe — wearing masks at crime scenes — as seen in the photos for the February 9 episode, “The First Day.” (They’re not wearing them in the office, however.) They’ll be investigating the murder of a Navy officer killed while driving a recently released inmate home.

Also glimpsed in the images below, McGee is back in the field after helping the team from home in the previous episode while he recovered. Meanwhile, Palmer (Brian Dietzen) looks happy about something, but the logline also warns us that Gibbs helps him “deal with a personal trauma.” Uh-oh?

NCIS, Tuesdays, 8/7c, CBS