The loss of Director Vance has sent shockwaves through NCIS, and fans are reeling from the heartbreak. What was once a tight-knit, loyal team is now teetering on the brink of destruction. 
We’ll admit that we hate to think about the day that someone else is sitting in the chair in Leon Vance’s (Rocky Carroll) office on NCIS, but someone does have to fill the role of director of the agency after he was tragically killed in the milestone 500th episode in Season 23.
The preview for the March 31 episode, the one immediately after, shows the team toasting Vance’s empty desk. So, who will be the next one to sit at it? Whoever it is, that’s part of them moving forward, and executive producer Steven D. Binder told TV Insider that’s part of what comes next.
“The team will be grieving, of course. But we felt it important that, at the end of the [500th] episode, the team is just as focused on Vance’s sacrifice as they are their loss. Vance died to protect them all. And they are going to honor that by putting one foot in front of the other, and just continuing on their mission to protect and safeguard their country,” he said.
Below, we take a look at four possibilities for who will be the next NCIS director.
