‘NCIS’ Season 13 SPOILERS: Jon Cryer’s ‘Badass Doctor’ Scrubs In To Save Gibbs’ Life

Leroy Jethro Gibbs' will need the expertise of another "Duckie" to save his life when "NCIS" returns for its 13th season this fall. Jon Cryer will scrub in as a "badass" Navy surgeon who must perform emergency surgery on the special agent who was shot in the chest at the end of last season.

Cryer returns to CBS for his first TV role since "Two and a Half Men" bowed out in February after 12 seasons. He will recur as Dr. Taft for at least three episodes on "NCIS" during which time he'll develop an interesting friendship with Gibbs (Mark Harmon).

"So far, the writers have only hinted at the depths of him. What I'm looking forward to is seeing his friendship with Gibbs. He's not the kind of guy Gibbs usually takes to," Cryer told Entertainment Weekly.

The "Pretty in Pink" star describes his character as the "Jeff Goldblum of naval surgeons" who is a "bit of a wiseass. Way too comfortable making jokes in the operating room. Can probably play a mean jazz piano."

A big fan of the show, Cryer has advocated for a role on the crime procedural ever since it premiered in 2003, the same year as "Two and a Half Men." But he never wanted anything more than to die in the cold open and land on Ducky's (David McCallum) autopsy table.

"I always wanted to be one of the characters who die entertainingly in the first two minutes of the show. Then you'd see me dead on a slab in Ducky's lab with my genitals all lit up later on. That would've been great!" he said.

The "NCIS" writers clearly went in a different direction.

"When I first read the script and realized the importance of my character I thought "Sweet lord! What part of 'I just want to die entertainingly in the first two minutes' did you not understand?!" Cryer joked.

Pauley Perrette, who plays forensics tech Abby Scuito, actually found Cryer stretched on one of the autopsy tables a couple weeks back when the show started production.