NCIS Season 12 Premiere: To Russia, Without Love

On the NCIS Season 12 premiere, Gibbs and McGee will be leaving on a jet plane.

Their plan is to be back again quickly, as the agents head to Russia to bring back a computer engineer with connections to important information... but what kind of season premiere would it be if everything went according to plan?

CBS has released the following photo from the opener, titled "Twenty Clicks," along with the official description.

First, a look at the image:

Now, with the obligatory SPOILER WARNING in effect for NCIS Season 12 Episode 1, here's an idea of what viewers can expect on September 23:

Gibbs and McGee travel to Russia to safely escort home an NCIS computer engineer connected to classified intel, but their mission is compromised and they are forced to go off the grid while hunted by a Russian mercenary group.

Meanwhile, the team in D.C. frantically uses every asset and inter-agency contact they have in an attempt to locate their missing team members.

NCIS Cast: Before They Were Stars

1. Mark Harmon (Leroy Jethro Gibbs) - NCIS

Mark Harmon was a star long before he signed up for NCIS. Die hard fans might remember him from the primetime soap Flamingo Road, Dr. Caldwell for St. Elsewhere, or the third wheel in the Dave and Maddie triangle on Moonlighting. However, we're still mourning his untimely death as Agent Simon Donovan, CJ's romantic interest on The West Wing.