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MICHAEL WEATHERLY AND COTE DE PABLO REUNITE FOR 'NCIS' SPIN-OFF 'TONY & ZIVA'

- BY YVONNE VILLARREAL

TONY (Michael Weatherly) and Ziva (Cote de Pablo) return with their 12-year-old daughter, Tali (Isla Gie), in tow.

ABSENCE MAKES the heart grow fonder, sure. But catching up with Tony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly) and Ziva David (Cote de Pablo), the on-again, off-again former NCIS agents, will put it through its paces too. It's been more than a decade since the fan-favorite characters from the storied flagship series have appeared together on screen - Weatherly, an original "NCIS" cast member, departed the series after Season 13; De Pablo, whose first appearance was in Season 3, left in Season 11-but "NCIS: Tony & Ziva" reunites the hard-to-define duo and finds them living a relatively peaceful life in Paris as they co-parent their 12-year-old daughter Tali (Isla Gie) - that is, until chaos strikes and they find themselves in the middle of an international espionage saga that sets them on a high-speed race through Europe. The drama premiered Sept. 4 on Paramount + with three episodes; a new episode will drop weekly until the finale Oct. 23. Here, Weatherly and De Pablo discuss revisiting their characters' action-packed lives as parents and how the spin-off compares to the flagship series.

What's it like to be working together again? And how did that first day of shooting together go-notice any new quirks in your scene partner?