Why Did Chris Call Pride King? – Celebrity
Daniel Moore
Updated on January 18, 2026
Down in NO, LaSalle explains to Brody how Pride got the name King: When Pride first opened up the New Orleans NCIS office he made a big drug bust and a local crew made him an honorary member and named him King. LaSalle was a sheriff’s deputy and King saved his life after Katrina.
Dwayne “King” Cassius Pride is an NCIS Supervisory Special Agent and Special Agent in Charge of the New Orleans field office, making him the direct superior to all other agents in its ranks. He is the smart one and he is the quiet old man and he used to solve cases with LaSalle in the past. He lives above his bar.
In NCIS: New Orleans, 1. am I hearing LaSalle correct when he calls Pride “King”, and 2. why does he call him that? Show activity on this post. He calls Pride “King” because that is his nickname. It is explained in the NCIS (mothership) episode that introduced the New Orleans team, “Crescent City”, Season 11 Episode 18:
On NCIS: New Orleans (TV series) why is Special Agent Dwayne Pride sometimes called “King”? LaSalle calls Pride King because they have a history together the other agents don’t. Early in the series, Chris says its because Pride took out a gang that ran drugs. The locals gave him the title. imdb.com says it was in the two part pilot.
Who is Linda Pride?
Linda Pride. Linda Pride ( Paige Turco) is Pride’s ex-wife, and the mother of his daughter Laurel. She appears in the very first NCIS introductory episode — “Crescent City” Part 1 — that launched the New Orleans franchise from the main NCIS series. She also appears in an early episode from Season 1.
Pride went on to have an illustrious career that took him around the world, including Russia and South Africa, culminating in his return to Louisiana to head up NCIS operations at the United States Marine Corps Support Facility in Algiers, Louisiana before NCIS opened a proper NCIS Resident Agency in New Orleans.
Cassius Pride ( Stacy Keach) was Dwayne Pride’s incarcerated father, who has a shady past, being a veritable kingpin in the “running” of New Orleans city and parish, “back in the day.” He is in prison for being caught and convicted of robbing a casino. His son Dwayne visits him from time-to-time, and Cassius feels his son shouldn’t be so bitter about being raised in an underworld figure’s home. Dwayne thinks maybe trying to make up for his father’s crooked deeds is one reason why he went so far the other way, becoming a top law enforcement officer and agent. Dwayne’s own mother had a nervous breakdown and had to move “halfway round the globe” just to get away from Cassius’s influence and adulterous ways. Dwayne told his father that prison is the only place he can be kept where he would be safe from himself. Because of Cassius’s old underworld experiences and connections, Dwayne sometimes consults with him on certain cases. Even in prison Cassius remains the semi-lovable con artist, trying to leverage his son into writing a letter of support for his annual parole hearings; even trying to use his granddaughter Laurel to work on Dwayne’s sentiments. Eventually, Dwayne does help Cassius at the end of Season 1 by writing him that long-sought letter of support to the parole board, although it is revealed later that Cassius did not actually make parole until sometime after Season 4’s episode “Mirror, Mirror”, where he is still in prison. Whenever Cassius does make parole, he stays in New Orleans for a while, but by the time of Season 5’s “Tick Tock”, he had been living a “good life” in “Evansville, Kentucky”, in some kind of witness cover program, with armed federal agents protecting him; it was from here that he was kidnapped by Apollyon and held for ransom along with Dr. Loretta Wade. Some time during or after prison, he had taken up painting, which his granddaughter Laurel thinks is simple but cute, saying his trees look like “green marshmallows”. Cassius has a very pragmatic view of life and crime, as exemplified in his involvement in his son’s childhood sports endeavors. Cassius: “I’m on my way to fix things right now.” Dwayne: “Like you fixed my Little League career?” Cassius: “Hey, you were a natural-born shortstop. The coach just didn’t see it.” Dwayne: “So you planted a brick of hash in his truck and had him arrested.” Cassius, laughing: “Well it worked, didn’t it?” Dwayne told his father that in spite of all his shady history, that he trusts Cassius to be the one person that loves the people and city of New Orleans “almost as much as me.” As revealed in the Season 5 episode “In The Blood”, one of younger Cassius’s (Justin Miles) long-term extra-marital affairs produced a boy named Jimmy Boyd (Craig Cauley Jr., as the young Jimmy; & Jason Alan Carvell, as the adult Jimmy), a half-brother to Dwayne, but to whom Cassius devoted quite a bit of time when Jimmy was young, teaching him to fish at his bayou cabin, and even giving him Dwayne’s bicycle. Cassius is murdered in the Season 5 episode “Tick Tock” (continued into the first minutes of the subsequent episode “Vindicta”); Cassius’s courage and resourcefulness here saves Dr. Loretta Wade’s life, as well as two other hostages. Cassius’s last act was saving the life of his son Dwayne while the two of them were freeing captives, by stepping in the way of several bullets fired at Dwayne by assassin Amelia Parsons Stone.
Where was Pride filmed?
The interiors are filmed in a sound studio in Elmwood, upriver near the Huey P. Long Bridge. Filmed entirely here though! A bar on Royal Street called R Bar is used as the site of Pride’s bar. 25 insanely cool gadgets selling out quickly in 2021.
Let’s start with Agent Christopher LaSalle played by Lucas Black. That’s the easy one. The character is from Alabama and so is Black. The accent is the most authentic on the show because it is actually his. Scott Backula’s Agent Pride is very good, although he does slip up now and then.
In November 2019, Lucas Black left the series NCIS: New Orleans, to devote more time to his family.”. – Lucas Black – Wikipedia. The actor seems to feel that his role on the show was somewhat taxing, saying “The show has been so good to me over the years exceeding my expectations and goals.
What episode of NCIS did Christopher die?
It’s always jarring and shocking when a show’s main character leaves for good. So when Lucas Black’s Christopher LaSalle was shot and killed in season six episode six of NCIS: New Orleans. It is safe to say the show will not be the same without Special Agent LaSalle.
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In a statement released after his character’s death, showrunners Christopher Silber and Jan Nash said, according to Newsweek, “We had an amazing run with Lucas Black and he has been such an important part of out NCIS: New Orleans team.
If you’ll remember, Lucas Black starred in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift as Sean Boswell. He then popped up again in Furious 7 in 2015, and while he didn’t make an appearance in the eighth installment, many believe he’s set to make a comeback in Furious 9, which would honestly be amazing.