SPOILERS: 'NCIS' Picks Up After Explosive Season Finale

NCIS, starring Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette and David McCallum, will return with its tenth season on CBS right where it left off when a bomb hit the NCIS headquarters on the season nine finale cliffhanger.

"It literally picks up two hours after the explosion, and it's an action-packed episode of television," executive producer Gary Glasberg said, reports Entertainment Weekly. "I packed a lot in there. It's an emotional roller coaster, and it's all about the manhunt for Harper Dearing [Richard Schiff]. It gets really personal between Gibbs [Harmon] and Dearing."

Dearing, a former CEO and technology venture capitalist, later went rogue to head up a terrorist organization that targets and bombs Navy Ships — bad news for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

NCIS returns to CBS on September, 25, 20012.