NCIS: New York(2026)

Sam Hanna coming home to New York means the show gets to play both cards at once: the familiarity of a seasoned agent who already knows how to read a room and the friction of a new city office with its own personalities and chain of command. Cases move fast, resolutions land within the episode, and the port setting keeps the threats concrete, smuggling routes, maritime access, the kind of vulnerabilities a city this size actually has.

His pairing with a roguish partner is where the scene-to-scene energy lives. Hanna brings weight and read-the-room authority; the partner brings a looser, more combustible approach. That gap produces banter that sharpens under pressure rather than softening it, and the physical action sequences feel earned by the personality clash rather than bolted on.