
Wilmer Valderrama as Nicholas “Nick” Torres and Katrina Legislation as Jessica Knight Sonja Flemming/CBS
NCIS followers are nonetheless reeling from Jessica Knight and Jimmy Palmer’s break up — however their romance isn’t the one one to deal with in season 22.
Katrina Legislation, who performs Knight, solely advised Us Weekly earlier this month that Wilmer Valderrama’s Nick Torres goes to fire up hassle together with his love life. “His romance is gonna trigger some drama,” she teased. “It’s gonna be superior.”
Torres revealed throughout episode 3, which aired on October 28, that he was pushing for the workplace to get a brand new exercise room partly as a result of he’s “making an attempt to get my thoughts proper.”
Torres confided in Knight on the time that he desires to “get again on the market, again within the recreation.” He clarified he meant the “love recreation” after getting his coronary heart damaged by Ellie Bishop (Emily Wickersham) three years prior when she abruptly left the crew and terminated her budding relationship with Torres. (Wickersham exited the sequence in 2021 after eight seasons.)
“It’s been too lengthy since I’ve had a particular individual in my life,” he confessed, explaining that if he’s to search out somebody new, “I’ve to place my finest self on the market.”
Brian Dietzen, who portrays Palmer, hinted that Torres’ courting life is simply the tip of the iceberg in the case of new flames for the NCIS crew.
“There’s some romance that’s occurring — I can’t give away an excessive amount of — however not simply with Torres,” Dietzen, 46, solely advised Us in a joint interview with Legislation, 39. “There’s gonna be another folks on the crew as properly which may discover some [romance].”

He identified that followers have already seen that with Leon Vance (Rocky Carroll), who revealed throughout season 22, episode 2, that he wished one thing extra severe together with his long-distance accomplice, Lena Paulsen (Marem Hassler). “He has one thing that he’s exploring,” Dietzen mentioned of Vance.
“That’s what I like a lot about our present is that, you realize, there are different TV reveals or different procedurals that [are] the rip from the headlines form of stuff and actually deal with the case of the week, which our present does properly,” Dietzen mentioned. “But additionally, our reveals are ripped from the characters. And we get to see how these instances have an effect on the folks which are fixing them.”
He added: “The heavy focus and character growth [we have], it’s what retains me coming again to work. I believe it’s what retains folks watching this factor.”
With regards to their characters’ relationship, Legislation and Dietzen advised Us that Knight and Palmer haven’t “slammed” the door on romance, but it surely’s “gently closed for the time being.”
Through the November 4 episode, Knight and Palmer lastly talked after breaking apart on the finish of season 21. Whereas Knight hinted that she was open to getting again collectively, Palmer reminded her that they aren’t at the moment what the opposite individual wants.
“There’s undoubtedly nonetheless appears between Jimmy and Knight. The attraction continues to be alive, and you realize, these two are nonetheless sort of checking one another out,” Legislation teased of the pair. “It’s not gone.”
Dietzen famous that viewers should wait and see if their break up is “set in stone” or in the event that they’ll “pattern again there once more.”
NCIS airs on CBS Mondays at 9 p.m. ET.

