Showrunners Gina Lucita Monreal and David J. North discuss creating the backstory for Mike Franks on tonight's 'NCIS: Origins.'

Origins, titled Flight of Icarus, unveils a crucial part of Mike Franks' past, played by Kyle Schmid. Through flashbacks, viewers of the CBS crime series discovered new details about his family and his decision to join the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War era.

Origins episode “Flight of Icarus” are ahead! Last month, NCIS: Origins spent its midseason finale wrapping up its Gibbs-centric flashback storyline, showing the final sequence of events that led to Austin Stowell’s character joining the Naval Investigative Service.

And the focus turns to Franks in the January 27 midseason return, with a pivotal part of his past involving his family revealed. “What we’re really excited about is that this is really a character-driven show,