NCIS’ Tony and Ziva’s Daughter Fears for Her Life in Chilling Teaser (Exclusive)

As the debut season of NCIS: Tony & Ziva heats up, no one is safe.

In PEOPLE’s exclusive look at episode 6 of the action-packed spinoff series, titled “We’ve Got Company,” Tony (Michael Weatherly) and Ziva (Cote de Pablo) are on the receiving end of a terrifying phone call. The clip begins with their daughter, Tali (Isla Gie), noticing a suspicious car pulling into the driveway of their safe house.

“I thought you said no one knew about this place,” she runs to tell her nanny, Sophie (Lara Rossi).

“What? They shouldn’t,” Sophie declared before rushing to shut the front door.

Concerned, she and Tali peek out the window, where they see a group of men approaching. Tali then calls her parents to warn them that she might be in danger.

“Mom? Dad? There are strange men at the house,” she says as Sophie pulls her out of frame and warns, “No, no, no. There’s no time. Let’s go.”

The tense scene comes after the Sept. 18 episode, in which Tony and Ziva learned that it wasn’t Henry (James D’Arcy) who was working with Martine (Nassima Benchicou) to frame them within Interpol, but rather Jonah (Julian Ovenden).

When Henry decided to help Tony and Ziva in their mission to uncover the truth, they found themselves face-to-face with Martine and Jonah in a tense confrontation.

Just as Henry seemingly got things under control and sent Tony and Ziva off to bring Tali to safety, Jonah used the distraction of an unexpected explosion to brutally stab and shoot Henry point-blank in the head.

After the episode aired, D’Arcy revealed to TVLine that his “old friend” and series creator, John McNamara, told him his character was going to die from the start.

“The fact that they’ve killed off a character that was pretty integral at this point in the show will raise the stakes fairly dramatically, because you don’t know who’s the bad guy,” D’Arcy teased.

“We don’t know who’s gonna die next,” he continued. “I think it leaves it pretty open to the idea that anyone could die at any time.”

In a separate interview with TV Insider, McNamara explained how the pivotal death will impact the rest of the season.

“It was a hard choice,” he admitted. “I love Henry and, more to the point, love James D’Arcy — we’ve been friends for 18 years. But a thriller like this needs real stakes and that sometimes means terrible things have to happen to good people.”

“As in life, how our characters deal with this kind of awful tragedy will define and change them,” he hinted.

McNamara added that the show won’t shy away from exploring Tony’s emotions after losing his close friend Henry.

“A lot of that will play out in episode 6 and beyond,” he said. “Tony’s grief will be deep and not something we’ll lightly brush off.”

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New episodes of NCIS: Tony & Ziva stream Thursdays on Paramount+.