Viewers have seen Gibbs in his basement working on his boat. They’ve glimpsed Sam Hanna’s home life. What if they got a full-on look at NCIS team members where they live?
That’s one of the distinctions of “Red,” the name of an NCIS mobile unit — and the episode title of a potential spin-off series that gets a two-part audition on NCIS: Los Angeles Tuesday and March 26 (CBS, 9 ET/PT).
In “Red,” home isn’t exactly what one might suspect; it’s an NCIS unit on wheels.Team members travel around the country and the world, taking their home and workplace with them: two tractor-trailers that convert, Transformers-style, into a single living/working environment.
‘NCIS: Los Angeles’ executive producer Shane Brennan gives a tour of ‘Lavern and Shirley,’ the NCIS: Red Team’s mobile command center. ‘Red: Part One,’ a two-part episode of ‘NCIS: Los Angeles,’ airs Tuesday, March 19.