Overview
- Shea Buckner will portray a young Dwayne Pride in one Season 2 episode slated to air later this season.
- The episode focuses on the formative Fed Five task force, introducing 1990s versions of Dan McLane and Felix Betts, with casting for those two roles underway.
- According to the official description, Pride is a former sheriff’s deputy and newly minted probationary NIS agent from the Panama office with a prior connection to Gibbs.
- Pride and Gibbs go undercover in the storyline, which is intended to shed light on how their initially tense dynamic evolved into a close bond years later.
- Producers currently plan the Fed Five reunion as a single‑episode event, and it is not yet known whether the Privileged Killer case will be revisited.