NCIS IN Paradise

Aloha from the NCIS: Hawai'i field office in Pearl Harbor—and meet the magnetic special agent in charge BY JIM HALTERMAN

- JIM HALTERMAN

SOCCER MOMS DRIVE minivans, right? It’s a cliché because it’s true? Jane Tennant (Vanessa Lachey) is on the field coaching 10-year-old daughter Julie (Mahina Anne Marie Napoleon) when her ride arrives: a Black Hawk helicopter. The special agent in charge of NCIS Pearl Harbor is needed on-site were an experimental aircraft has crashed into a cliff, perhaps due to foul play. And just like that, she’s off into the indelibly blue skies over Oahu.

For the actress (and self-described Air Force brat), shooting in the military transport was quite a welcome to NCIS: Hawai'i, the job of a lifetime. “Day 1, Hour 1, I’m in a Black Hawk. I’m going up, I’m landing, I’m walking off, standing tall and proud, [heading] toward a crime scene,” Lachey excitedly tells TV GUIDE