NCIS: Origins casts a younger version of Scott Bakula's character Dwayne Pride

NCIS: Origins has cast a younger version of Dwayne Pride, the character played by Scott Bakula in NCIS: New Orleans.Shea Buckner takes on the role and will soon appear in an episode of the CBS prequel series. In this version of the story, Dwayne Pride is a former deputy sheriff and a newly-minted probationary special agent at the NIS office in Panama. He shares a past with Gibbs (Austin Stowell), and in the episode, the two must resolve their mutual tensions while going undercover for a case.


Shea Buckner

The episode strongly focuses on Pride but also reunites the Fed Five task force — a team of exceptional NIS agents once known for exposing serial killer Spencer Hanlon in season eleven of the original NCIS.

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Scott Bakula as Dwayne Pride in NCIS: New Orleans

The Fed Five consists of Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Michael Franks, Dan McLane, Felix Betts, and Pride. Young versions of Gibbs and Franks are already part of NCIS: Origins, played by Stowell and Kyle Schmid, respectively.

NCIS: Origins airs every Tuesday night on CBS.