Scott Bakula is coming back to solve crime on NCIS: New Orleans this fall and the 59-year-old dished on the fame of his character Dwayne "King" Pride.

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"My character is definitely not undercover. He's got relationships with the politicians in town or the cop on the beat that he worked with 15 years ago, when he was with the New Orleans police department, before joining NCIS," the actor told TVGuide.com in a new interview.

"Pride has a certain amount of notoriety in New Orleans, so when he walks into a bar, people turn and say, 'Hey, Dwayne' or 'Hey, King.' That's part of his - no pun intended - pride, doing what he does for the city and caring about it."

And, what about Pride's love life? On the pilot, fans saw the agent in bed with his estranged wife making it unclear if he's single or taken.

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"Certainly, if his wife says, 'I'm outta here,' that opens the door for other relationships. Or they'll struggle and get back together. But I don't think they've spent a whole lot of time tracing that arc of my character yet. It's incumbent upon us at the beginning to not scare people away and to let them know that we're 'the same but different' with a lot of the procedural stuff," he explained.

NCIS: New Orleans will kick off right after the season 12 premiere of NCIS on Tuesday, Sept. 23.