NCIS - Younger Vance

[Chicago Jake]

Anyone watch the latest two episodes of NCIS? It was a two-parter regarding the origins of Director Vance and how he came to work for NCIS, and his first disastrous mission. (and his rocky beginnings with Gibbs - the famous "Danish" brouhaha) It had been alluded to in previous seasons, and now they finally filled in the backstory.

The freakiest part was seeing the character as a 27 year old fresh graduate. We were trying to figure out how they did it. It looked a lot like him, but younger, and the voice was dead on. I figured they got a younger actor, and dubbed in Rocky Carroll's voice.

But nope: It was a combination of some awesome make-up and awesome physical acting. Check it out:

insidetv.ew.com/2010/11/22/ncis-exclusive-behind-the-scenes-of-vances-origins-episode/

[Ardbeg... innit]

Saw that too and had the same thoughts. Its on the dvr and both episodes will get a second view. Lots of backstory resolved .

[Merlot Joe]

We seen that last night also and thought the same thing. How the hell did they pull that off. At first I thought it was someone else but Denice said no, and she was right.