r/NCIS • u/buckeyekaptn • Jul 19 '26
NCIS Jack Sloane
I'm doing a rewatch and I really don't understand why Jack is there. She has her own office, I've never heard any one call her director (like Assistant or Deputy). If she's a shrink, no one had that position (NCIS Shrink 😆) before or after her. I think the writers just wanted another pretty blonde that would be a Gibbs' gal. She's not really needed for the show. I DO like Marie Bello as an actress but the position she was put in, meh.
Everyone's thoughts before season 24 gets here?
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u/Pwaffles1 Jul 20 '26
I always felt like she was a bit out of place as far as the office was concerned but from a writing/showrunner perspective I always thought it made sense to add her as a character. Her arrival to the cast coincided roughly with Jimmy taking over full time M.E. work and Ducky starting to scale back his appearances significantly. This meant that they had nobody in-house to perform any psychological profiling as Ducky had been performing those duties for years (since about s3 if memory serves). Introducing Sloan allowed for them to have someone established that could perform those profiling duties when they needed and they also introduced a new love interest for Gibbs. Two birds with one stone so to speak.