Daniela Ruah Says Kensi Blye and Deeks Are Back to Work

Daniela Ruah says kensi blye and Deeks are back to work three years after NCIS: Los Angeles ended. Speaking on the NCIS: Partners & Probies podcast with Brian Dietzen and Diona Reasonover, she framed the pair’s post-series life as a return to the jobs that defined them for 14 seasons.

“In my opinion, I think they’re back to work,” Ruah said. “I think they both love what they do far too much.” She added, “I think Mama Deeks is probably helping out with raising little ninja baby Kensi,” and said, “It was never established, but I don’t know. I feel like Kensi would have a tough little girl.”

Season 10 to the finale

Season 5 is where Kensi and Deeks started with banter before going on a date, and season 10 is where they got married. By the end of the show, they had adopted a teen runaway and Kensi had discovered she was pregnant, which left Ruah describing their ending as “a progression that made sense.”

“I think we always knew off the bat that it would somehow lead in that direction,” she said. That last step is the part that makes her current read matter: she is not teasing a new romance beat, but sketching a working-life status for a couple that already went through dating, marriage, adoption, and pregnancy before the series wrapped.

Ruah on Eric Christian Olsen

Ruah also pointed to her long working relationship with Eric Christian Olsen, who played Deeks. “And Eric and I have great chemistry,” she said. “For those who don’t know, we’re actually family members at this point,” she added, referring to her marriage to David Olsen, Eric’s brother.

That family tie helps explain why her read feels less like a throwaway fan answer and more like an informed character check-in from someone who still lives inside the franchise. Ruah has already returned to the NCIS universe for a brief cameo in NCIS’s 1000th episode and has directed episodes of NCIS and the Hawaii spin-off, so her comments land as part of an ongoing relationship with the brand rather than a one-time memory dump.

NCIS after 14 seasons

NCIS: Los Angeles ended after a 14-season run on CBS, but the franchise has kept moving through other series and appearances. LL Cool J’s Sam Hanna shifted into NCIS: Hawaii before later popping up on NCIS, and Ruah’s own cameo in the 1000th episode showed that the universe still has room for familiar faces.

For viewers who followed Kensi and Deeks from season 5 to the finale, Ruah’s answer is the cleanest status update they have gotten: the couple is working again, and the domestic side of their ending still includes a child, a spouse, and the same job-first impulse that defined them on the show.