With the seventh season of NCIS Los Angeles merely 9 weeks away the production of the show is about to start soon – prepping is already in progress…

Episode 701-147 (701 for the first episode produced in the seventh season of the show, NOT the first episode aired of the seventh season; 147th episode overall of the show) was written by R. Scott Gemmill and will be directed by John Kousakis, who started prepping the episode this Thursday.

The cast – Chris O’Donnell, LL Cool J, Linda Hunt, Daniela Ruah, Barrett Foa, Eric Christian Olsen, Renée Felice Smith and Miguel Ferrer – will return to production on July 24th.