Origins premiered on the 2024 TV schedule, lead actor Austin Stowell said that Leroy Jethro Gibbs and Mariel Molino’s Lala Dominguez would not have a “romantic vibe” between them. And yet, six episodes into the CBS prequel series,

Origins is building up to Lala's death - but Austin Stowell has another guess. "I had a theory that I had expressed to people on set - and it's kind of been proven wrong already," Stowell, 39, exclusively told Us Weekly about his thoughts on where Mariel Molino‘s character

Austin Stowell thinks his character Leroy Jethro Gibbs created Rule 12 because of his personal feelings. The NCIS: Origins actor is playing a young Gibbs, who was originally portrayed on the first show by Mark Harmon.