‘NCIS: Sydney’ Episode 2 Photos, Cast, Plot and “Snakes in the Grass” Promo

Episode two of CBS’s latest addition to the popular NCIS franchise, NCIS: Sydney, finds the team attempting to track down a poisonous snake. Directed by Shawn Seet from a script by Michael Miller and Morgan O’Neill, season one episode two – “Snakes in the Grass” – will air on Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 8pm ET/PT.

Season one stars Olivia Swann (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) as NCIS Special Agent Michelle Mackey, Sean Sagar (The Covenant) as NCIS Special Agent DeShawn Jackson, and Todd Lasance (Spartacus: War of the Damned) as her 2IC AFP counterpart, Sergeant Jim “JD” Dempsey. The cast also includes Tuuli Narkle (Mystery Road: Origin) as AFP liaison officer Constable Evie Cooper, Mavournee Hazel (Shantaram) as AFP forensic scientist Bluebird “Blue” Gleeson, and William McInnes (The Newsreader) as AFP forensic pathologist Dr Roy Penrose.

“Snakes in the Grass” Plot: When a Navy compliance officer is found dead in a waterhole from a snakebite, the team works to uncover the origin of the rare deadly taipan that is uncommon to the area where the officer was discovered.

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William McInnes as Doc Roy, Mavournee Hazel as Blue and Olivia Swann as Mackey in ‘NCIS: Sydney’ episode 2, season 1 (PHOTO CREDIT: Daniel Asher Smith / Paramount+ © TM & © 2023 CBS Studios Inc.)

Series Description, Courtesy of CBS:

With rising international tensions in the Indo-Pacific, a brilliant and eclectic team of U.S. NCIS agents and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) are grafted into a multinational taskforce to keep naval crimes in check in the most contested patch of ocean on the planet.

Led by NCIS Special Agent Michelle Mackey and her 2IC AFP counterpart, Sergeant Jim “JD” Dempsey, our team of Americans and Aussies must quickly learn to trust each other, overcoming and harnessing their differences to solve each case. Though jurisdictional tussles and culture clashes make for a rocky start, Mackey will eventually come to respect JD’s nose for the truth, as he does her maverick style.

Meanwhile, sassy AFP Constable Evie Cooper and endlessly curious Special Agent DeShawn Jackson form a fast friendship, while curmudgeonly forensic pathologist Doctor Roy Penrose meets his match in the brilliant young forensic scientist Bluebird “Blue” Gleeson. Together, our team becomes NCIS’ first-ever internationally blended family.

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William McInnes as Doc Roy, Todd Lasance as JD and Olivia Swann as Mackey in episode 2 (PHOTO CREDIT: Daniel Asher Smith/Paramount+ © TM & © 2023 CBS Studios Inc)
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Tuuli Narkle as AFP Liaison Officer Constable Evie Cooper and Sean Sagar as Special Agent DeShawn Jackson in episode 2 (PHOTO CREDIT: Daniel Asher Smith/Paramount+ © TM & © 2023 CBS Studios Inc)
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Olivia Swann as Mackey, Mavournee Hazel as Blue and Todd Lasance as JD in episode 2 (PHOTO CREDIT: Daniel Asher Smith/Paramount+ © TM & © 2023 CBS Studios Inc)
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Todd Lasance as AFP Liaison Officer Sergeant Jim ‘JD’ Dempsey, Mavournee Hazel as Forensic Pathologist “Bluebird ‘Blue’ Gleeson, William McInnes as Forensic Pathologist Dr. Roy Penrose and Olivia Swann as NCIS Special Agent Captain Michelle Mackey in episode 2 (PHOTO CREDIT: Daniel Asher Smith/Paramount+ © TM & © 2023 CBS Studios Inc)
NCIS Sydney Episode 2
Olivia Swann as NCIS Special Agent Captain Michelle Mackey and Todd Lasance as AFP Liaison Officer Sergeant Jim ‘JD’ Dempsey in episode 2 (PHOTO CREDIT: Daniel Asher Smith/Paramount+ © TM & © 2023 CBS Studios Inc)