Rena Sofer made quite an impression on NCIS this week as a$$-kicking, name-taking attorney M. Allison Hart. Her role on the show doesn't appear to be over, either.

TV Guide confirms, citing Sofer herself, that she will be back. As we wondered in our NCIS Round Table discussion yesterday, is she a potential love interest for Gibbs?

Could she be the potential love interest that executive producer Shane Brennan has promised will appear in the second half of the current Season 7? Don't rule it out.

After all, we saw the obvious chemistry there, despite the fact that Gibbs was getting his buttons pushed and Hart obviously has a hidden agenda. He was intrigued.

"Who in their right mind would not love to be a potential love interest for Mark Harmon?" Sofer says, stating the obvious, but adding that "I have absolutely no idea."

"I am certainly very happy to stay where I'm at if [Brennan] sees that as a possibility. I'm not saying that is a possibility, but boy, wouldn't that be nice?"

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