Lance Henriksen has been cast as an intense local sheriff on NCIS.

According to TV Guide, the actor will play Sheriff Clay Boyd in the episode "South by Southwest," which is scheduled for a February sweeps airing.

During the installment, Gibbs is led to the Arizona desert when an NCIS agent turns up dead.

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