'NCIS' Shocker: McGee Has a Secret Son!

The cases on NCIS are always worth tuning in for, lots of twists and turns, but what really makes the show worth watching is the episodes where we learn something new about one of the characters – and tonight’s episode has a doozy!

The NCIS team is called out when Martin Hodges turns up dead in the park, and no one is more surprised than McGee (Sean Murray) when the photo of an ex-girlfriend of his – Olivia Garcia (Elena Goode) – is found on the body.

When the team tries to track down Olivia, they discover that she’s been missing for six weeks and the police have no leads. McGee and Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) head to the company where she works, which is located in a secure underground bunker, that is allegedly developing biofuels, and when they check her office, the mystery increases when they learn that her files have been erased.

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To try to get at the truth of the matter – could someone at the company have kidnapped her?, McGee befriends an intern, but then it turns out that the intern lied about his identity, and he is really Olivia’s 18-year-old son Matteo (Patrick Keleher), and that it was Matteo who hired Hodges to try to locate his mother.

It also turns out that Matteo doesn’t know who his father is, which puts McGee into a tizzy. He dated Olivia just over 18 years ago. Could he be Mateo’s father? Off-camera, Delilah calms McGee down and tells him to take a DNA test before he jumps to any conclusions.

Even as that is in the works, Matteo tells McGee, “I’ve been OK without a father for 18 years.”

But McGee knows that kids say things like that in anger, so he doesn’t let it get to him and he promises to do his best to bring Olivia home. He also tells Matteo that it was Olivia that broke up with him, not the other way around. And, if he Matteo’s the father, he never knew that Olivia was pregnant.

As far as solving Olivia’s disappearance, at first, it looks as if Olivia’s boss might be responsible for her disappearance, but that turns out to be a red herring. Yes, he and Olivia had a fight, but they worked out the issue, and, in fact, he admits she was right and she kept him from making a mistake.

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So, then the team looks to her past and they discover that one of her past companies was responsible for several deaths by releasing a drug product too soon, and that the chef at her company is the man responsible for her kidnapping, because he lost someone in the drug trial.

Olivia is discovered and McGee turns out to be the father.

“I didn’t even know I was pregnant until after we split up,” Olivia tells McGee when confronted. “I was young, scared and I know if I told you, you would have asked me to marry you. And that would have been a mistake. We had some wonderful times together but I think we knew, we weren’t each other’s soulmates. I knew you were destined to be happier with someone else and I was right, wasn’t I?”

“You still should have told me,” McGee said. He’s bothered because the most important thing to him since his twins were born has been to be a good father, and he missed 18 years with Matteo. “You denied Matteo and me the chance to have a relationship for 18 years.”

“I know,” she responded. “I’m sorry, and I thought about telling you all the time, but the more time that passed, the harder it got. Tim, you have to know, I never meant to hurt you. Either of you.”

They left it with McGee telling Olivia that he would like to be a part of Matteo’s life if Matteo will let him.

The other big news in the episode is that the rumors have been wrong. The budget cuts that are coming that were supposed to shut down Army CID and fold it into NCIS have been false. And Vance (Rocky Carroll) tells Alden Parker (Gary Cole) – they made up in this episode in some funny scenes that need to be seen – that it’s actually NCIS that’s being shut down!

NCIS airs Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. Streams next day on Paramount+.

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