To be clear, Austin Stowell said he doesn’t actually know if NCIS: Origins will show how Rule 12 came to be, but he did acknowledge that Gibbs’ attraction to Lala “has as much to do with who she is as a person as her aesthetic value,” and that he ...

Origins is building up to Lala's death - but Austin Stowell has another guess. "I had a theory that I had expressed to people on set - and it's kind of been proven wrong already," Stowell, 39, exclusively told Us Weekly about his thoughts on where Mariel Molino‘s character

Austin Stowell thinks his character Leroy Jethro Gibbs created Rule 12 because of his personal feelings. The NCIS: Origins actor is playing a young Gibbs, who was originally portrayed on the first show by Mark Harmon.