NCIS | It’ll be a Freaky Tuesday next week when Mark Harmon reunites with Jamie Lee Curtis, who on Feb. 12 and then March 20 is guesting as Dr. Samantha Ryan of the PsyOps Division. Do we sense a possible spark? “Her character is sharp and funny and witty and determined,” series boss Gary Glasberg shares. “They’re going to have a lot of fun together.” Noting that Harmon and Curtis have known each other for years, and costarred in 2003′s Freaky Friday, Glasberg when I spoke to him was “excited about getting them on-screen together and seeing how that chemistry comes across.” The showrunner is quick to acknowledge, though, that since Gibbs has quite a history with redheads, “this is a departure from that — and yet I think people are going to find it engaging and fun.”

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How will Gibbs be different now that he has reflected on his life in NCIS’ 200th episode? — Henry
ADAM: Executive producer Gary Glasberg says Gibbs has perhaps shed some of the guilt he carried over his wife’s death, which may open him up to new relationships. As luck would have it, Jamie Lee Curtis’ first episode is Feb. 21! Her character, psychiatrist Samantha Ryan, “knows how to get inside people’s heads and she knows how to spar with Gibbs,” Glasberg says. “She’s willing to challenge him on a professional level, which will then carry over into other things.” Other things? “You can’t keep [characters] alone forever!” Glasberg teases. I hope Gibbs loves/needs Activia.

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Much like his character on NCIS, Michael Weatherly has a tough time taking things seriously.

So when asked about the arrival Tony DiNozzo’s ex-fiancée Wendy (Perrey Reeves) on Tuesday’s episode (8/7c, CBS), Weatherly can’t help but crack wise. “I like to think they named her Wendy because DiNozzo is Peter Pan,” he tells TVGuide.com.

Joking aside, the episode — which finds DiNozzo & Co. investigating the death of a Navy captain with ties to a secret society of superheroes — is actually part of a much larger and serious Season 9 arc for Tony.

“We went into [this season] with the sense of talking about decisions in the team members’ lives,” executive producer Gary Glaberg says. “It affected the story I wanted to do for [Episode] 200, and there have been elements of things Tony has been reflecting on all season, which is really why we wanted to do a story with Wendy. It really provides some more insight. … I’d like to believe that this arc that we’ve set up for Tony over this season has been enlightening for everybody so we can sort of see what moved him from the frat boy that he was to becoming the special agent that he is now.”

Reeves agrees with Glasberg’s assessment. In particular, she says the way things ended between Tony and Wendy, who is now an investigative journalist looking for details on Tony’s case, provides answers to why Tony is such a jokester. “It sheds some new light on his character,” she says. “He was brokenhearted, and I think he sort of protected himself all this time. … In this episode you see the soft side. He’s super funny, but I think when you see the two of them interact, you realize that some of it is a little bit of a protective device.”

But make no mistake: This duo still has feelings for one another. “It was the most important relationship that he had,” Weatherly says. “And we will find out how that engagement ended. Who left whom? Was it Wendy or was it Peter Pan that flew out the window?” Adds Reeves: “Wendy carries a huge flame for Tony. I think she was afraid [back then]. I think she has been hurt in her past, and here was this person who brought out all these qualities in her and as much as she wanted to go down that road with him, she was too wounded.”

So will Wendy make a play for Tony all these years later? “She realizes that we’re only on this planet for [so] few days really in the end,” Reeves says. “And she has nothing to do but to tell the person that she really, really loves that she really loves him.”

All this portends very bad news for those fans who long for Tony to hook up with his fellow agent Ziva (Cote de Pablo). And Reeves is ready for the backlash. “I’m anticipating it,” she says with a laugh. “I’ve got like a big, huge storage unit right outside of my house. I’ll use it to put the letters in because I think there’s going to be a lot of hate mail.”

But Perrey urges viewers to watch the episode before committing to a letter-writing campaign. “Wendy really likes Ziva,” she says. “As women, we’re very sensitive to the energies of things that are going on, and I think that Wendy can feel and see that there is something there.”

In fact, Wendy may just push Tony and Ziva a little closer together. “She’s actually encouraging Tony to not be afraid,” Reeves says. “She doesn’t say it in so many words directly, but she’s basically saying if there’s someone out there, you need to let them know because life is too short.”

Will the advice stick? “I do think that all of this is leading up to something,” Weatherly says. “This season, there’s been a real maturity to Ziva and Tony and how they are with each other. It’s all having a cumulative effect on him and that changes the nature of his relationships with the people he works with.”

Adds Glasberg: “I think by the end of this season,[Tony and Ziva] are both going to have a better idea of what they want for the future, and that may influence how they interact with each other.”

NCIS airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on CBS.

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‘NCIS’: A LOOK AHEAD WITH EP GARY GLASBERG
There’s been a lot of self-reflection happening on NCIS as of late. (In fact, the show’s entire 200th episode was dedicated to a storyline that found Gibbs on a personal journey unlike any we’d ever seen.) And as you may have guessed, this is all no coincidence. In fact, EP Gary Glasberg tells me that all the threads we’ve seen thus far will weave together for this year’s season finale. Vague enough for you? Maybe he can help elaborate: “There’s definitely a theme to this season about decisions and [about] the roads that people have taken and choices in their lives,” he says. “I hope that has come through; it certainly did in the 200th, But I think that’s been the case — whether we’re talking about realizations, like Abby and her brother or a lot of the things that have come up with Tony and Ziva as well.”

Next week in particular will be another Tony-centric episode as we get a chance to meet Tony’s ex-wife, Wendy. “Not only is the crime story a little light and entertaining and enjoyable, but you get a chance to meet Tony’s ex and there’s still some spark there and still some fun to be had,” he says. “Tony’s had a lot of opportunities to walk down memory lane and this is another path for him to walk down.”

Also on tap for the rest of the season? The arrival of Jamie Lee Curtis and Sean Astin as psychological operations investigators, an episode that will reveal why Tony “became a detective and ultimately an agent,” and a big Ziva episode “where she looks at her life and the path it’s taken.”

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