@Graci My wife loves #NCIS for the same reason I hate it. It's cliché-ridden, follows a predictable formula, and is entirely unrealistic.
Most of the time, the true killer shows up about eight minutes into the show. The person is typically someone incidentally contacted and then not seen again until we circle back to them at the end of the hour.
It's not 100% true, but I'd guess at least 2/3 of the time.
@Graci They're making a prequel now with young Jethro Gibbs. 😴
@WordsmithFL Yeah. Wife likes it because it's predicable, relatively low-key, and solvable.