‘NCIS’ season 13 spoilers: Cote de Pablo may not return for Michael Weatherly farewell
We hate to be the ones to throw some cold water on hopes to see Cote de Pablo again on “NCIS” before Michael Weatherly’s departure, but it is not looking particularly great at the moment.
Speaking (per TVLine) while at the TCA Winter Press Tour, CBS programming head Glenn Geller said that there were no plans at present to have Cote reprise her role as Ziva David later this season, something that we know the majority of CarterMatt readers want to see. One thing that should be noted here though, as Geller notes, is that the show is still in the process of planning this out:
“They are working on how Michael’s character is going to be written out. [Showrunner] Gary [Glasberg] and the producers are working on that right now … I will definitely miss — as I’m sure the fans will, as well as my mother — Special Agent Tony DiNozzo. [Weatherly’s] decision was his. It was a creative one. He had been in the role for 13 years, and I completely understand it, and I wish him well.”
So while there may not be a reason for great optimism at the moment regarding a potential Cote return, there’s still one reason that we’d hold out even a glimmer of hope: If producers do decide to bring her back within the next several weeks, this wouldn’t be the sort of news we’d announce in advance. Knowing how Tony would be written out of the show would ruin some of the surprise.
Ultimately, we’ll give you some more updates as this situation unfolds, but our stance remains pretty clear: It only seems right to at least give Cote a small cameo (if not more) for Weatherly’s final episode, given the history of Tony and Ziva. You can still make the episode more about Tony while offering fans of the two something to discuss in the weeks that follow.
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Jean-charles Tillmann
January 12, 2016 @ 9:52 pm
If Cote de Pablo is not back for Michaels farewell are two things given. The new next noble prize for stupidness goes to GG MH and co. and second CBS lose all rest of respect for decades.
LSilvaxx
January 13, 2016 @ 11:11 am
Are you seriously saying that if your princess doesn’t want to be back you will blame everyone exept for her? And calling them stupid doesn’t make you or your opinion look smart or important at all.
FLCheesehead
January 13, 2016 @ 9:18 pm
“Nobel”, not “noble”.
Barbydarby
January 12, 2016 @ 7:56 pm
No matter how Tony leaves, if Glasberg has anything to do with it there wont be anything worth watching. It should be left up to Michael how he wants to end his time on NCIS & whether he wants to share the sendoff with Ziva/Cote.
FLCheesehead
January 12, 2016 @ 8:09 pm
Maybe it is. And maybe he doesn’t.
Joan Diane Elizabeth Asselin
January 13, 2016 @ 11:44 pm
Maybe he does…you realize he has not been happy or for that matter had any sort of decent storyline since she left right ?
FLCheesehead
January 14, 2016 @ 5:46 pm
No … I didn’t realize he hasn’t been happy. I don’t know him, though — have never met him. He looked & sounded pretty happy in the photos & tweets I’ve seen from the set, from vacation, with his family, etc. But that’s obviously my interpretation.
As to whether he’s had a decent storyline, that’s also in the eyes of the beholder. I don’t think he’s had a decent story arc since Jeanne Benoit. He had some great meaty episodes before Ziva left, but none of those were Tony’s stories. They were Ziva’s or they were Tiva’s. For all the screen time he got, he was rarely the focus. Over the last three years, though? He’s had some good stuff.
An episode like The Admiral’s Daughter? That was all Tony. Saviors? Tony. Once a Crook. Stop the Bleeding. Grounded. Cadence. Patience. All great episodes that let us see Tony on his own … smart, strong, brave, and funny. PLUS … we got Blame it on Rio — perhaps the best Tony episode since Chained or SWAK. I don’t know that he’d have ever gotten to do NCIS:LA if Ziva was still there, and that would have been a shame. We got a lot of great stuff from Tony over the past couple of seasons. If he hasn’t been happy, it doesn’t show.
BetweentheTVLines
January 12, 2016 @ 6:26 pm
NCIS needs to bring her back and not just for some quick cameo. The character Tony Needs to be happy and it needs to be Ziva centered episode and I am sic k of people acting like Tony should have some type of Gibbs like life. Where he stays alone and becomes a bitter jerk with nothing but the job. Tony deserves a family and a real shot at being happy and Gibbs should be the one to tell him. Don’t be like me. Go live a fulfilled life. Go have 3.2 kids with Ziva . I want more for you than what I have and unless Gibbs does that I will lose any respect I have left for the character and believe me it’s not that much. He claims this group is like family yet he wants to turn them all into lonely and unhappy just like him. Real parents would want more for their kids.
FLCheesehead
January 12, 2016 @ 8:03 pm
The problem I have with that, though, is the implication that Tony can’t possibly be happy without Ziva. Just because he doesn’t end up with Ziva doesn’t mean he’ll stay alone and become a bitter jerk and be unhappy forever. He can walk out of the squad room without a woman on his arm and still be moving forward. Let the man have a little freedom to explore what his options are. Maybe he hops on a plane to Israel. Maybe he gets his own team in Europe. Maybe he sails the world with his father. He can do a myriad of things and be happy. It doesn’t have to be “Ziva or nothing”.
LSilvaxx
January 13, 2016 @ 11:10 am
It is not Gibbs responsibility to take care of Tony’s love life or other aspects of his personal life. Only Tony can do that. But of course Ziva fans need to blame Gibbs just like they need to blame Harmon for CdP’s departure. Stupid.