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Special Agent in Charge Dwayne Cassius "King" Pride

Played By: Scott Bakula

A proud native of New Orleans, Pride is determined to keep his city safe while also investigating Navy-related crimes throughout the Gulf of Mexico. He is old friends with Gibbs over at NCIS Headquarters in DC, going back to when they were both probationary agents in the early 1990s.

He was a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's deputy prior to joining NCIS and was responsible for taking down a a vicious mob prior to becoming a federal agent.

In Season 5, he is promoted to Special Agent in Charge, putting him in command of NCIS operations in the US Southeast Region. However, he steps down to resume his old position in Season 6 after one of the team's investigations goes wrong.

• Amicable Exes: Pride and his ex-wife are friendly enough to occasionally sleep together. He's holding out for a reconciliation while she tries to gently remind him that it's over (they're officially divorced by the Season 2 premiere). It's later revealed that she still loves Pride but that she is trying to put some distance between them because she's afraid that his job is going to kill him and she can't deal with the constant fear.
• Anti-Hero: He's incredibly friendly to those willing to extend the olive branch, and downright cruel to the perps that really piss him off. Even as that part leans off over the course of the series, particular villains will bring his willingness to kill for the greater good to the forefront, taking out entire scores of bad guys even when he's technically on the run or barred from duty, and at least a couple antagonists are gunned down or put through hell by him because It's Personal.
• Beware the Nice Ones/ Berserk Button: Pride's not nicknamed King for nothing, according to LaSalle, since he'll absolutely go out of his way in order to help his team and the people of New Orleans. He's also more reasonably friendly, albeit hands-on than Gibbs with questioning suspects. But if you want to stay on his good side, don't push these buttons:
  • DO NOT try to mess with him by going through his daughter. He'll rough you up pretty bad.
  Thug: Your little girl sure looks good in her running shorts.
  Pride: (grabs ahold of him) WHAT did you say?!
  • As his Establishing Character Moment of handling unreasonable suspects in NCIS episode "Crescent City Part One" suggests (ie. throwing a lobbyist across the hood of a car after he insulted Pride's late mentor), also do NOT badmouth any of his old friends, especially if said friends are recently deceased.
• Catchphrase: "Learn things." And "Tell me things." Turns out he got that first phrase from his ex-wife.
• Chef of Iron: He enjoys cooking for his team after a long day of fighting bad guys.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Anyone who watches more than three episodes can tell he's got this bad, but he himself doesn't consciously acknowledge it until he has a major revelation about his past and a subsequent argument with Linda, where she basically lays out for him that he sees his job as a "calling" instead of just a career.
• Clean Up the Town: In the NCIS episode "Crescent City Part 1", Brody asks LaSalle why he calls Pride 'King', and LaSalle explains that when Pride first opened up the New Orleans headquarters, he made a sizable drug bust which essentially cleaned up the whole neighborhood, after which the local crew made him an honorary member, which as LaSalle puts it, 'never happens'.
• Cowboy Cop:
  • Pride apparently has an agreement with the NCIS brass that gives him significant leeway in how he runs the New Orleans office, even dealing with Director Vance directly even though he technically answers to the NCIS office in Chicago. It helps that it had just been him and LaSalle for a while before Brody showed up from the Great Lakes office.
    Pride: My city. My way.
  • Whereas Gibbs will intimidate suspects through sheer force of will, Pride prefers being more hands on when it comes to softening up suspects for interrogation. Pride's temper can get bad enough that even Gibbs will step back to give him room.
    Gibbs: (After Pride throws a suspect across the hood of a car) Kinda old school. Think you made your point there, King?
    Pride: Old school still works in Louisiana.
  • Deconstructed, though, as it gets him in a lot of trouble with the people upstairs during his crusade against Mayor Hamilton. After he almost gets Loretta's adopted son killed, even he admits that he goes too far and needs to deal with it.
• Dented Iron: The fatal injuries he sustained in the season 4-5 arc that actually did briefly kill him affects both his physical and mental state for the rest of the season and then some, on top of the lasting scars of three bullet wounds. Doesn't keep him out of field work for long and getting straight into the thick of it two episodes later.
• Experienced Protagonist: He was a deputy with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office for many years before he joined NCIS.
• Feuding Families: Pride and Douglas Hamilton's fathers had a feud. Their sons, however, clash simply because they don't get along and because Pride suspects that the councilman (and later mayor) might be corrupt. He's right.
• Freudian Excuse: As a child, he was bribed/intimidated by his father Cassius into letting slip that his mother and the pianist she performed with, Red, were having an affair^note Dwayne never explicitly said they were having an affair, only that Red was "hanging around the bar". Cassius then drives over to Red's place with Dwayne in tow and forces Dwayne to watch as he beats Red to within an inch of his life. Red ultimately survived, but Dwayne was convinced at the time that Cassius had killed Red, and that it was his fault for opening his mouth (in reality, Cassius dropped Red off outside the city limits and told him never to come back or he really would kill him). The incident was traumatic enough that his young mind repressed it, but it directly informs Dwayne's subsequent Guilt Complex and Chronic Hero Syndrome, and to an extent why he's willing to go so far in order to protect people. He doesn't recover the memory or learn that Red survived until the second-half of season 6, since the recurring nightmares associated with it were interfering with his health and his job.
• Good-Guy Bar: In season 2, he buys the bar his mother used to sing in during his childhood and turns it into this. His team becomes accustomed to heading over to "Pride's bar" when they get off work.
• Guilt Complex: Has one the size of Texas that informs and exacerbates his Chronic Hero Syndrome. He takes personal responsibility for ensuring people are helped, and beats himself up if an attempt to help fails, regardless of whether he's actually to blame. This has spurred some pretty desperate actions on his part in order to save the city or his loved ones from serious threats.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Becomes this in "Down the Rabbit Hole", thanks to Hamilton's spin on his actions.
  • In the 4th season, he's hated for making the city lose the port contract.^note Granted, they probably wouldn't hate him if they knew what Hamilton was planning, but that information was never made public.
  • Much like in season 3, in season 4, the Associate Attorney General of the United States organizes a smear campaign to destroy Pride's reputation that ensures nobody will believe him that he is trying to commit a terrorist act and would make sure he takes the fall for the attack. Fortunately, it fails.
• Hidden Depths: He is a talented jazz pianist and can easily fill in for an established quartet, to the surprise of his coworkers.
• Honor Before Reason: After a case involving a group of bikers who are also war veterans is resolved, he promises to hire any member of the group looking for a job to work at his bar. When Tammy asks if Pride can afford to do that, Percy amusedly responds with "No."
• Hypocrite: In "If It Bleeds, It Leads", he tells Brody to not get too personally involved in the case involving her sister's murder. During "Means to an End", he roughs up on a suspect involved with attacking his daughter.
• I Call It "Vera": Pride normally carries a NCIS-issue SIG-Sauer P228 as his main sidearm but for special occasions, or cases connected to when he was a sheriff's deputy, he uses a Colt Python revolver he nicknamed "Charmaine".
• The Leader: See above.
• Lighter and Softer: Pride is nicer and more outgoing to his team than The Stoic Gibbs.
• Long-Lost Relative: In the Blood reveals that he has a paternal half-brother, Jimmy Boyd.
• Man of the City: In spades. New Orleans is his city, and he'll go to any lengths to protect the city and its people from bad guys. It gets him into deep trouble several times, and has almost cost him his career at least twice.
• My God, What Have I Done?: He has absolutely no problem breaking the law to take down Hamilton in Season 3. Then it keeps happening and escalating, to the point of Season 4 having him kidnap and brutally torture the son of a criminal businessman to get Wade's son Donny back and keep them from assassinating Donny's girlfriend Emily in witness protection. He's shaken up by this and the fact that the moment anyone he cares about getting threatened has him instantly slip into going so far beyond Cowboy Cop that all hell breaks loose every time. One of the only times he doesn't feel this again is when he shoots Eddie Barrett dead after the latter threatened to kill everyone he ever loved from the safety of prison, given what had happened to LaSalle already.
• Noodle Incident: In "Sister City (Part 2)", Pride says he's "been arrested in a lotta interesting places".
  • From the same episode, in a phone conversation with Gibbs, Pride says that this case did not cause an international incident like a past case in Miami.
• "Not So Different" Remark: In Season 7, Pride's short affair with Sasha Brousard resulted in Connor being conceived. He remarks that he's like his dad with his half-brother Jimmy Boyd.
• Police Brutality: Has a tendency to do this to the point that Gibbs gets slightly concerned.
• Post-Injury Desk Job: After his recovery in the season 5 premiere, he is promoted to Special Agent in Charge, which largely consists of office work.
• Real Men Cook: Was shown to be an excellent cook from the show's Back Door Pilot on its parent show. Aside from genuinely enjoying preparing meals for his team, it's implied to also be slightly therapeutic for him—in one instance, he mentions, "It clears my head."
• Red Baron: "King". It's a nickname bestowed upon him by locals for all the work he puts into making New Orleans a better place.
• Remember the New Guy?: In the Back Door Pilot on its parent show, Gibbs mentions having known him "for 30 years".
• Renaissance Man: In "Hell on High Water", Pride travels alone to an offshore oil rig as part of a murder investigation. After his departure, Gregorio, having just officially joined the team, learns that he used to spend his summers working on his uncle's oil rig.

  Gregorio: Of course he spent summers working on his uncle's oil rig, what hasn't the guy done?

  LaSalle: Certifiable Renaissance Man. That's why he's the boss.

• Sanity Slippage: His encounter with the "Angel" in the season 5 opener, "See You Soon", leaves Pride hallucinating not only said "Angel" repeatedly but abnormal signs and things that aren't there, flashback memories and other oddities. A medical co-worker points out that this could be a major aspect of his constant work stress, but he genuinely starts to see premonitions correlating to death, which shakes him up hard.
• Trauma Conga Line: A lot of the shit Pride goes through over the course of the series, from being shot and all but put on death's door in Season 5, to his conflict with Hamilton nearly getting him killed multiple times over and threatening the lives of his team, to the deaths of multiple characters around him like his father Cassius, or especially LaSalle while feeling it all comes back to him, leaves Pride more than a fair bit of a wreck later in the series. He can't even sleep at night half the time without the trauma waking him up again.
• Uncertain Doom: Pride is shot three times and left for dead in the unused upstairs of his bar at the end of Season 4.
  • He pulls through after the season 5 premiere, but with no shortage of physical and emotional trauma, even two months afterwards.

Sebastian Lund

Played By: Rob Kerkovich

A forensic scientist-turned-agent who works down the hall from Loretta Wade's morgue.

• Beware the Nice Ones: After Loretta (and other victims!) is infected with an engineered virus, Sebastian threatens to inject a Chinese agent with the same virus if he doesn't reveal where the antivirus is.
• Catchphrase: He spends an episode trying to come up with one, to the annoyance of other characters.
• Chekhov's Skill: His scientific skills have continued to be useful even as he's become an agent and they save his bacon when he's accused of shooting an unarmed man.
• Conspiracy Theorist: Ask him why the faked moon landings mean there isn't any decent footage of Bigfoot.
• Embarrassing Nickname: His mother calls him "Peaches".
• First-Name Basis: Everyone calls him Sebastian.
• Geek Physiques: Tall and skinny.
• Heroic BSoD: He has a major one one in "Chaos Theory" after a friend of his is killed when a bomb goes off in the box of evidence that he brought to her.
• Hidden Depths: He's normally quite neurotic but after a simple pep talk from Loretta, during a hostage crisis, he shows an extraordinary amount of backbone, performing emergency surgery, an autopsy, and standing up to the armed hostage taker. He even bosses around a couple of paramedics later.
  • Despite his fear, he keeps it together pretty well when he's kidnapped. Since becoming an agent, he's proven to be just as badass as the rest of the team.
• Motor Mouth: Tends to talk a lot without stopping that Pride and the others need to remind him when he's about to do this.
• My Beloved Smother: His mom. Oddly enough, she tones it down after he's kidnapped, realizing that he's capable of taking care of himself.
• Number Two: For Loretta in her morgue.
• Promotion to Opening Titles: In the second season.
• Spear Counterpart: He is very similar to Abby on NCIS as a forensic scientist with a fascination of the macabre, a perpetually chipper demeanor, and a penchant for practical demonstrations of how a victim was killed.
• Took a Level in Badass: Goes from being "afraid of his own shadow", as Gregorio puts it, to handling himself pretty well when he was kidnapped and deciding to become an agent himself. Showed himself in "NOLA Confidential" when he took down a hostile attacking Gregorio, and again in "Identity Crisis" when he protected his high-school friend from three hired guns.

Patton Plame

Played By: Daryl Mitchell

A computer expert who is called when NCIS' New Orleans team needs help on technical aspects of a case such as the need for hacking or mining through datafiles. He and Sebastian have a rivalry that alternates between friendly and acrimonious.

• Alliterative Name: He sometimes refers to himself as "Triple P", suggesting that his middle initial is also P.
• Black and Nerdy: Also a member of the Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus, though he was temporarily thrown out for veering too far towards the fantasy side of the sci-fi/fantasy spectrum.
• The Gambling Addict: Mentioned off-handedly in the episode "High Stakes", to the point of being afraid to even be in a casino, lest he relapse.
• Genius Cripple: He's the tech expert, and he's wheelchair-bound.
  • Handicapped Badass: Former elite soldier and can defend himself well in a fight despite only having his arms to defend himself with.
• Only Sane Man: To Sebastian's Conspiracy Theorist line of thinking.
• Promotion to Opening Titles: In the second season.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: With Sebastian when push comes to shove. They gradually do grow out of the "teeth-clenched" part.
• The Computer Is Your Friend: Patton keeps an electronic tablet attached to one of the arms of his wheelchair.
• The Smart Guy: Of the computer tech aspect.
• Twofer Token Minority: Averted; he's both black and wheelchair-bound, but the main cast as of his initial Promotion to Opening Titles is four whites and three blacks so the former is hardly "token", and the racial balance has only further improved since then.

Doctor Loretta Wade

Played By: C.C.H. Pounder

A Jefferson Parish coroner who is contracted to handle the NCIS New Orleans Office's cases. In addition to her duties as a medical examiner, Wade is also Pride's confidant, the one he leans on whenever he is troubled.

She is also Brody's landlord, although Brody has no idea.

• And Starring: In the opening credits.
• Black and Nerdy: African-American and The Team's resident coroner.
• The Confidant: Wade seems to be the only person who can pull Pride out of a funk and he heavily relies on her advice.
• The Coroner: Dr. Loretta Wade is the Jefferson Parish Coroner who consults with the New Orleans team.
• Distaff Counterpart: She is very similar to Ducky from NCIS, as the lead agent's confidant while being a coroner with a very colorful history.
• Heroic BSoD: When the COVID-19 Pandemic took place during the last season's filming, it was adapted into the series as a breaking point for Loretta from the sheer number of patients and deaths that resulted. It's to the point that she ends the series slowly recovering from the PTSD of it all despite staying at her work.
• Hypocrite: Says she broke up with her boyfriend because anyone that age who has never been married sends up red flags. Pride points out that she's just as old as her ex and has never been married, and she says she prefers the dead because they don't call her on her hypocrisy.
• First-Name Basis: With Pride, which shows their close friendship.
• It's Personal: Loretta was long haunted by the cold case that involved the death of a Navy officer of Jewish background. At the time, there was widespread discrimination against African-Americans, Jews and other undesirables. After she found new evidence (from the stolen gun taken from the dear robber), she was determined to close the case.
• Retcon: It was established, in the Poorly Disguised Pilot, that Wade first came to New Orleans later in life and never left but she claims, in a later episode, that she lived in New Orleans 40 years previously and came back after finishing her studies because of a cold case that haunted her.
  • She also turns out to have been married once before, despite her initial backstory that she wasn't.
• Team Mom
• Two First Names: Wade can be used as a given name.

Tammy Gregorio

Played By: Vanessa Ferlito

A FBI agent and a native of New Orleans. She's placed into the NCIS team in the aftermath of Season 2. She officially joins the team in "Let It Ride".

• Butch Lesbian: She fits this to a T.
• The Complainer Is Always Wrong: FBI Agent Gregorio's complaints about Pride's habits — that he's too close to his agents and the victims and that he goes too far trying to help — are proven to be positive things every time.
  • When the rest of the team save Gregorio thinks Pride and an old lawyer friend from JAG couldn't possibly be romantically interested in each other. Once they start singing together, this is also a subverted example on Gregorio's part.
• Commonality Connection: With Percy re: exes in "Outlaws."
• Dating Catwoman: There's a little of this in Gregorio and Eva Azarova's interactions in 3x14 - Eva seems to have definitely have fallen for Gregorio.
• Damsel out of Distress: When she's held prisoner by a serial killer who used to be her profiling instructor in "Mind Games", Gregorio manages to free herself before she's suffocated, and gives the killer a brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown before Pride finds their motel room.
• Dark Secret: FBI Agent Gregorio worked in New Orleans years ago but essentially fled the city. A plane crash that's being blamed on one of the Navy officer passengers angers her because unless the team can clear the officer's name his daughter will have to live with the shame of having her name connected with a murderer. Gregorio reveals her "secret" that, while definitely not as bad as mass murder, is still pretty bad in New Orleans: her then-husband stole money meant to rebuild the city after Hurricane Katrina. She divorced him, went back to her maiden name, joined the FBI, and avoided New Orleans at all costs until the Colombian cartel case led her back.
• Fair Cop: She's played by Vanessa Ferlito.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Develops this with the team, and particularly with Sonja by the end of season 3. She and the latter even move in together by "The Asset".
• Friendly Sniper: One of the most approachable members of the team once you earn her trust, and is a very good shot, as demonstrated by "Aftershocks" and "The Last Stand."
• Meaningful Echo: "I've got your back" to Percy in "Outlaws."
• My Greatest Failure: She blames herself for the disappearance and subsequent murder of her best friend when they were younger. This gets brutally Exploited by a Serial Killer who gets off on forcing her victims to relive past traumas.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Very much like Brody in this respect.
• Romantic Wingman: is attempting to be this to LaSalle as of "End of the Line."
• Shipper on Deck: She initially assumed LaSalle and Percy were sleeping together and has said several things that indicate that she thinks they would be good together. LaSalle and Patton don't agree.
  • She also picks up that Dwayne and Rita have history together, and reacts with glee when she and the team hear the two perform "It Had To Be You."
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: FBI Agent Gregorio is introduced wearing very plain, very buttoned-up clothes; the more comfortable she gets with the team the more her wardrobe loosens up (resembling Brody's, incidentally).
  • Lampshaded by Percy and LaSalle when she comes in wearing casual clothes, which Gregorio dismisses as "casual day".
  • Also noted by Hannah in "Overdrive."
• Take a Third Option: Her response to the antagonist during a standoff in "The Asset".
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Got into this with Percy initially. By "Outlaws" they've become Fire-Forged Friends.

Hannah Khoury

Played By: Necar Zadegan

A veteran NCIS agent who decided to be assigned in New Orleans in order to be settled in the Southeast region. Becomes the team leader when Pride is promoted to Special Agent in Charge; later demoted after an investigation goes wrong, but chooses to stay on the team.

• But Not Too Foreign: Hannah is Arab-American.
• Cunning Linguist: When she needs to talk to foreigners, Hannah whips out a variety of languages. Aside from English, she's seen using Arabic in "Diplomatic Immunity".
• Hero of Another Story: Hannah's investigations/work in other NCIS offices.
• Humble Hero

Quentin Carter

Played By: Charles Michael Davis

LaSalle's replacement, introduced in "The Man in the Red Suit".

• Badass in a Nice Suit: Wears them regularly.
• Military Brat: His father is a Navy two-star admiral.
• Replacement Goldfish: Averted. While he is LaSalle's replacement, the rest of the team, who are still hurting from Christopher's death, give him a cold reception and make it very clear that they don't see him as an adequate replacement.
• Semper Fi: Served in the 1st Force Reconnaissance Company.

Recurring Characters

Linda Pride

Played By: Paige Turco

Pride's ex-wife. They still love each other, but her worrying over his safety led to their separation.

Laurel Pride

Played By: Shanley Casswell

Pride and Linda's daughter. She is studying music at Louisiana State University.

• Daddy's Girl: She makes some light-hearted jabs towards her father's worry for her and shares her mother's mixed emotions of pride and worry over his job and safety, but they have a loving relationship.
• Dating What Daddy Hates: Both her parents agree David Cabrera is a good man. But Linda is uncertain if Laurel knows what it really means to be married to a police officer.
• Hidden Badass: Is skilled at defending herself when the need arises. "Means to an End" shows that the emotional aftermath can be hard on her, though.
• Like Parent, Like Spouse: She gets engaged to Detective David Cabrera in the second half of Season 6.
• Twerp Sweating: Inverted with Pride; he has "bromances" with her boyfriends, much to her chagrin.

Douglas Hamilton

Played By: Steven Weber

A New Orleans councilman who is quick to seize any opportunity for good publicity. He and Pride don't get along, with Pride not bothering to hide his anger while Hamilton makes an effort to be outwardly friendly; both of their fathers have similarly feuded in the past. He becomes the mayor of New Orleans and is ousted in season 3 as a consequence of his corrupt leadership.

• Big Bad: Of the Clearwater arc in Season 3.
• Corrupt Politician: And how. Over the final third of the third season becomes more and more involved in nefarious doings.
• Everyone Has Standards: Has a very shady past but has never killed anyone though he did help cover up a murder and truly wants what's best for the city. Eventually, he starts resorting to murder to get people out of Clearwater to build a Navy shipyard, including a conspiracy to assassinate a Congresswoman who opposed it.
• Never My Fault: He often refuses to truly take responsibility for his more heinous actions.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: After learning that NCIS placed a wiretap on his phone, Hamilton goes all out on trying to take down NCIS, getting Percy arrested for letting a suspect escape and transferred to general population and getting Patton kicked off the team for participating in an illegal betting match, which he helped set up to eliminate Javier Garcia.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Not anymore, as NCIS is ultimately able to expose him.

CGIS Special Agent Abigail Borin

Played By: Diane Neal

See the NCIS Character Index

Rita Devereaux

Played By: Chelsea Field

Gene Holloway

Played By: Keith David

Raymond Isler

Played By: Derek Webster

James "Jimmy" Boyd

Played By: Jason Alan Carvell

Eric Barlow

Played By: Doug Savant

Former Characters

Special Agent Christopher LaSalle

Played By: Lucas Black

A former detective with the New Orleans Police Department, LaSalle was recruited by Pride to join NCIS shortly after Hurricane Katrina. He's originally from Alabama and moved to New Orleans as a teenager. He is very proud of his roots, though, and is an alumnus of the University of Alabama (where he was the school mascot).

Fatally shot while searching for his brother's killer.

• Big Eater: His preferred solution to getting over an investigative hump is to order take out dessert.
• Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: He thinks mashing up bacon and The Terminator to become the "Baconator" for Halloween is an immensely clever idea.
• Country Mouse: Percy's Affectionate Nickname for him.
• Embarrassing Tattoo: He has a tattoo of Big Al, the University of Alabama's mascot, on his rear that he got after a night of heavy drinking to show pride for for his alma mater.
• Experienced Protagonist: An ex-Sheriff's Deputy under the vice squad turned NCIS agent.
• Friend to All Children: He volunteers at a children's hospital in his spare time and makes elaborate Lego models to cheer the patients up.
• The Lancer: He's Pride's number two in the office. In fact he was the only other NCIS agent in New Orleans before Brody came alone.
• Killed Off for Real: In the Season 6 episode "Matthew 5:9".
• Noodle Incident: He says he owed Pride because Pride saved his life. He hasn't gone into any detail of how exactly that happened.
  • A flashback episode reveals that he used to be entirely career-driven and had stopped thinking about anyone but himself. A chance meeting with Pride helped him start to see the human element of crime once again.
• Really Gets Around: Starting in Season 2, Brody and Percy note that he seems to have a different fling every week. When Pride pushes him on the issue, Chris confides that he can't sleep at home because it reminds him of Savannah so he hooks up with women passing through New Orleans to try and distract himself from the grief and pain.
• Retcon: He introduces himself as a former Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office deputy but this was retconned and he became a former homicide detective with the New Orleans Police Department's 5th District.
• Southern-Fried Genius: Don't let the accent fool you. He is a highly skilled investigator and is cool under pressure.
• Those Two Guys: He usually gets paired up with Brody and the two are constantly playing off each other.
• Tragic Keepsake: He has a St. Christopher medallion that Savannah meant to give him before her death. To add to the emotional heft, he wears it around his neck on a necklace that used to belong to Brody's twin sister.
• Undying Loyalty: He might question some of Pride's decisions every once in a while, but he will do his absolute best to never let him down. If Pride's in danger, LaSalle is probably the first to either be concerned or figure Pride can handle himself, and if the team's been entrusted with a task, he is the first to immediately follow it to the letter.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Percy.

Special Agent Sonja Percy

Played By: Shalita Grant

A former undercover ATF agent who helped Pride's team throughout Season 1. She takes a liking to them and decides to transfer to NCIS. However, like Brody, she has a tendency to get restless after being in one place for too long, and decides to leave towards the end of Season 4.

• Ambiguously Bi: Characters have commented on the vibe between her and LaSalle, but her interaction with Marion kinda reads as if they are exes, and she seems to be flirting with Gregorio.
• City Mouse: LaSalle's Affectionate Nickname for her.
• Combat Stilettos: Averted. Although she is the shortest character by a large margin, she wears flat sneakers as opposed to the modest heels Brody wears.
• Commonality Connection: with Gregorio re: exes in "Outlaws"
• Dating Catwoman: had some of this with Ramon when she was undercover with the ATF ^note although he didn't know about the undercover part at the time He end up being more of a Love-Interest Traitor in "Outlaws"
• Demolitions Expert: due to her time with the ATF
• Fire-Forged Friends: with Gregorio after she rescues her from Ramon in "Outlaws".
• My Greatest Failure: not helping Marion years ago.
• The Napoleon: The shortest character and also the loudest and most prone to losing her temper.
• New Meat: LaSalle and Brody are merciless in hazing her, labeling her the "NFG"^note New Fucking Guy/Girl and even getting her former boss to join in.
  • No longer the case in season 3, due to the addition of Gregorio to the team.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: Notably her tackling a suspect in "Music To My Ears"
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: with Gregorio initially, although by "Outlaws" they've become Fire-Forged Friends
• Tomboyish Ponytail: How she usually wears her hair.
• To Be Lawful or Good: A major plot point in "Krewe" when she decides not to arrest a POI. She's indicted by the Inspector General for lying under oath.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: With LaSalle.
• We Used to Be Friends: with Marion in "Second Chances".

Special Agent Meredith "Merri" Brody

Played By: Zoe McLellan

A recent transfer from the NCIS Great Lakes Office. Brody was temporarily brought in to help the New Orleans crew with interrogating suspects while investigating the death of Pride's mentor. Once that case was wrapped up, Pride offered her the chance to stay in the NOLA office permanently, which she happily accepted. She has a reputation, however, for not being able to stay in one place for too long.

• Affectionate Nickname: Doc Wade calls her "Merri".
• Big Eater: She falls in love with New Orleans cuisine and indulges as much as possible. Pride can only look on in amazement when he buys her breakfast and she puts away multiple plates in one sitting with no sign of slowing down.
• Actor Allusion: She has a Dark and Troubled Past (see below) as did Jennifer Coates in JAG (in which she also portrayed)
• Combat Stilettos: A realistic example. Brody wears conservatively high-heeled shoes when working^note It's so that it brings Zoe McLellan closer in height to her male co-stars. They don't slow her down very much, though, as she can keep up during foot chases.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Her failure to stop a suicidal sailor aboard the USS Moultrie haunts her and gives her a poor reputation among some NCIS agents.
• Death Glare: She has one that radiates pure fury.
• Experienced Protagonist: A veteran NCIS agent stationed at the Great Lakes office before transferring to New Orleans.
• Ms. Fanservice: Brody wore a silk slip, high heels, glasses, and carried a cigar on Halloween. She was going as a Freudian Slip
• My Greatest Failure: While an Agent Afloat, she failed to stop a disturbed sailor from detonating a bomb aboard USS Moultrie, an incident that resulted in the death of five sailors. Although she was cleared of any wrongdoing, she continues to feel guilty over not shooting the sailor when she had the chance.
• New Meat: LaSalle treats Brody as such and gives her As You Know spiels. Brody reminds him that she is an experienced investigator and interrogator who worked out of Detroit.
• Noodle Incident: She and Gibbs worked together in the past, but neither go into any detail because the incident is classified.
• Power Hair: Borders on Boyish Short Hair. She grows it out considerably by Season 2.
• Put on a Bus: Chooses to not return in season 3 due to the events of the season 2 finale.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Played by the very beautiful and very pale skinned brunette Zoe McClellan.
• Sex with the Ex: She hooks up with her ex-fiance.
• The Smart Guy: Brody does crossword puzzles in her head and can memorize large amounts information quickly.
• Those Two Guys: She's usually partnered with LaSalle and the two are constantly playing off each other.
• Tragic Keepsake: Somewhat averted because Brody doesn't keep it out of sadness. She and her twin sister used to have a matching pair of necklaces that they bought from a gypsy. She gives her sister's to LaSalle so that he can use the chain to wear Savannah's St. Christopher medallion around his neck.

Savannah Kelly

Played By: Gillian Alexy

A psychiatrist and an old acquaintance of the LaSalle brothers from Alabama. Christopher was in love with her when they were in high school and they start dating 17 years later.

• Disposable Woman: She's murdered by Baitfish in an attempt to throw the NCIS New Orleans team off guard.
• Nothing Personal: Said by Baitfish just before shooting her - she was in the wrong place at the wrong time and is just the means to an end.

Cade LaSalle

Played By: Clayne Crawford

Christopher LaSalle's estranged older brother. While they were growing up, Christopher 'worshiped' Cade, describing him in high school as 'star quarterback, the guy who got all the girls'. However, after Cade was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder, their relationship began to strain, finally reaching a breaking point when Cade disappeared for five years.

• Killed Offscreen: And then burned beyond recognition. Loretta identifies him via dental records.
• Shipper on Deck: He loves to tease Christopher over Savannah and pushes his brother to make good on his teenage declaration that he would marry her some day.
• The Madness Place: His manic periods from his bipolar disorder result in this very easily for him. His introduction episode ends with him renovating Chris' living room like he promised; the room is a half-painted train wreck, and Cade himself hasn't slept for several days and is excitedly babbling to Chris about how amazing the room will look when it's done. All Chris can do is sadly reassure his brother that it'll be great while Savannah calls the hospital to prepare for the impending crash.

Eddie Barrett

Played By: Eddie Cahill

A sinister cult leader.

• Hero Killer: He murders LaSalle.