NCIS Season 21 premiere: What happened to Nick Torres?

At the end of the NCIS Season 20 finale, Torres was left in a questionable position. What would happen to him in the NCIS Season 21 premiere?

Caution: This post contains major spoilers for the NCIS Season 21 premiere.

Would Torres be willing to give up everything to get revenge for his past? That certainly seemed like it would happen when we ended the 20th season of NCIS. Well, the 21st season is finally here, and it’s time to find out what would happen to Torres.

The team ad to rally together to save him as the FBI arrested him for murder. Did he do it?

What happened to Torres in the NCIS Season 21 premiere?

Torres was arrested for murder, but the team refused to believe that he did it. Then Torres waved the right to an attorney and pled guilty. He even asked to be moved to the prison he was recently undercover. That decision would be suicide.

It was clear that Torres wanted something in particular. It all connected back to his past and a recent victim of Mauri: Reymundo De Leon.

De Leon was in that same prison. Torres happened to be in the same prison as a boy who believed Mauri had been trying to get him out. However, it turned out that Mauri was the reason Reymundo was in the prison.

Who actually killed Reva in the episode?

Palmer was the key to proving Torres’s innocence. The team was then able to put everything together that Torres’s sister had killed Reva. His sister had left a voicemail to say her codeword of “one day” to Torres, and he believed that his sister had killed the man. The question was whether she had or not. Was it possible that this was all a mistake?

It turns out that it wasn’t. After an attack in the prison, Torres’s sister made it clear that she didn’t kill the man, and neither did Torres. Torres admitted that he couldn’t kill him in the end. So, who did it, and what happened?

The FBI helped to figure out the situation. Tech genius Curtis got to the bottom of the situation, finding out that Reva had used an alias. Someone else had gone after him due to his fraud. It turned out that it was Reymundo’s mother, who went to talk to Reva that night and she ended up killing him in self defense. She wrote a full confession to the Torres family, which was enough to clear Torres of all charges.

At the end, Torres came to turn in his badge and gun. However, Alden Parker refused to accept them. He pointed out that not everyone is cut out for the job (and that’s why the Head of Cyber Security quit), but everyone has Torres’s back. Torres also has their back. He’s still on the team.

The episode did end with Parker getting some bad news from Palmer, and I think we all know what that is considering what the next episode is all about. The team is about to find out about Ducky’s death.

NCIS Season 21 airs Mondays at 9/8c on CBS. Catch up the following day on Paramount+.