When evidence reveals an NCIS team member is a hitman's latest target, the team must search through old case files to determine who is seeking vengeance. Sara Gilbert, Producer: Roseanne. Barbara was previously married to the late Paul Gilbert. Looking over Reeves's dead body in the autopsy room, Abby vows to carry on his wish to start a charity in his native London, deciding to leave NCIS to do so. The season premiere was watched by 17.42 million viewers, picking up two months after Gibbs and McGee were last seen fighting a group of rebels in Paraguay and focused on the aftermath of those events. Sara Gilbert was born on January 29, 1975, as Sara Rebecca Abeles at St. John's Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica, California, to Barbara Cowan and Harold Abeles. The fifteenth season of the American police procedural drama NCIS premiered on September 26, 2017, in the same time slot as in the previous seasons, Tuesdays at 8 PM. The mugger was hired by Robert King (see episode 6x21 "Toxic"), who held a grudge against Abby since his arrest, and Abby privately brings him to justice. Reeves dies from injuries sustained in the gunfight with the mugger; he instinctively protected Abby, who ends up in the hospital.