‘NCIS’ Season 16 Latest News & Update, Spoilers: Kasie Becomes a Field Agent? Torres Suffers Effects of Reeves’s Death

Diona Reasonover’s Kasie is the official forensic expert in “NCIS” season 16 but she will also get some work done in the field. Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) will still suffer from the trauma of losing a friend even though it has been months since Clayton Reeves (Duane Henry) died.

“NCIS” season 16 marks one of the biggest changes in the history of the long-running police procedural drama. This is the first installment ever without Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette). But, luckily, HQ got an equally talented and brilliant lab tech in Kasie.

In the previous 15 seasons, Abby rarely went outside of her laboratory or the evidence garage to do her job. When she decided to do an off-site research, she ended up being a hostage. In Kasie’s case, Reasonover revealed recently that the new lab expert will immediately pursue some work in the field during her first year in “NCIS” season 16.

In an interview with TV Insider, Reasonover teased that Kasie is “actually going to try her hand at being a field agent” and will be “out of the lab and onto the street” in “NCIS” season 16. However, the actress admits that her character is definitely “not ready for it.”

Unfortunately, Kasie will realize only at a later time that it is best that she stay in the lab and let the special agents scour the crime scene. “You'll see her stuck in this muddy lake and she's trying to navigate finding evidence,” Reasonover added about Kasie’s mini-adventure in “NCIS” season 16.

While Kasie seems to be up for a funny disaster, the fans will possibly uncover more of Torres’s dark past in “NCIS” season 16, as triggered by Reeves’s death. Some of it might have already been shown in the second episode.

Valderrama told TV WEEK magazine (via MSN), “The death of Clayton is going to trigger [Nick's] past and send him to a bad place.” In “NCIS” season 16 episode 2, viewers saw him in a major screaming contest with Gibbs (Mark Harmon) while in the squad room.

Torres was also dodging Sloane’s (Maria Bello) attempt to make him open up in “NCIS” season 16 episode 2. At the end of the episode, a drunk Torres is waiting outside Bishop’s (Emily Wickersham) house and revealed that he’s been acting up because he misses Reeves.

"He will become more heavy-handed and break the rules in order to deliver punishment to the bad guys,” Valderrama teased about Torres in “NCIS” season 16. “Not even his team members will be able to hold him back."

A new episode of “NCIS” season 16 is released every Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET on CBS. On Oct. 16, fan-favorite Tobias Fornell (Joe Spano) will return and interrupts Gibbs’s vacation.