‘NCIS: Sydney’ Explains Why It’s Hard to Go There With Mackey & JD

NCIS: Sydney is putting the pressure on the team — NCIS and AFP agents working together — in its second season, so what better way than to bond two of them together in a new way first? Such is the case with Mackey (Olivia Swann) and JD (Todd Lasance), after she opened up to him and revealed she has a son back in the United States, in the premiere.

“The first season of the show was about building this blended family, bringing these kind of disparate misfits together, and seeing if we could somehow find a bond that would actually hold them together under stress. And I think by the end of the first season, we got to that point where we really felt like almost unexpectedly these guys had bonded into what is a team, a family. So the second season is all about putting that family under pressure, under seismic pressure to see whether those bonds can hold,” executive producer Morgan O’Neill tells TV Insider.