This leads to Decker and Jenny's deaths at the hands of Zhukov's lover Natalya before she is killed by Franks and her body burned with Jenny's mansion to cover up Shepard's mistakes. Because his desk is behind the bullpen of the team, a running gag is he tends to pop up unexpectedly with information in regards to the case at hand. Cobb, after abducting Ziva David, gives himself up to NCIS in order to start the next phase of his plan. Clayton Dante Reeves (Duane Henry) is a British MI6 Intelligence Operative who first encounters the NCIS team working abroad with DiNozzo. She successfully defended Commander Harmon Rabb when he was accused of the murder of fellow JAG lawyer Lieutenant Loren Singer. Abby regrets that she never told Jenny she was a snappy dresser and says that would have made her smile. He works with Gibbs' team in the episode "Tribes", where he assists the team in tracking down a terrorist recruiter. Ari Haswari (portrayed by Rudolf Martin) is a terrorist who attacks and wounds both Gibbs and Gerald Jackson when he infiltrates the NCIS morgue during the episode "Bte Noire". Throughout season 17, Ziva David encourages Torres to reveal his feelings for Bishop, as their relationship mirrors her own with Anthony DiNozzo. After a period of estrangement, the two reunite and agree to marry. In the episode "Legend (Part 2)", Michael appears as an undercover Mossad agent who is investigating the same terrorists that NCIS is investigating, killing them off one by one before NCIS can apprehend them. As a running gag in season 17, Sloane is often teased that she and Gibbs are in a relationship by members of the team. Later on in the episode, he is seen in the office of the head of Mossad, Eli David, Ziva's father, as Ziva talks on the phone to Gibbs. Special Agent Ned Dorneget (Matt L. Jones) is a probationary agent first introduced in the Season 9 episode "Sins of the Father". Eli also survived due to having sensed the trap in advance. [35] In 1991, Vance was a student at the Naval War College in Rhode Island, and began to take an interest in black operations. She is shown to be dating a man named Boyd in "Toil and Trouble", and claims for it to be serious, with it being date number 5; however, his contact is not saved into her phone. [5] She dies after being shot in the head by Ari with a lone bullet that is fired from a model of sniper rifle (Bravo 51) nicknamed "Kate". Gibbs and he spend much time together, including when Gibbs provides help for a science project. After being arrested, Alejandro soon learns that Paloma was actually in the safe house all along, resulting in Alejandro unintentionally killing his sister. When Senior first appears in the season 7 episode Flesh and Blood, Tony realizes that, although still living large, Senior is using his considerable charm to schmooze rich friends into paying his expenses, and is actually broke. She first appears in the season 7 episode "Faith" when she visits her good friend Abby Sciuto at NCIS headquarters to ask for a favor. Harper Dearing (Richard Schiff) is the primary antagonist during the last episodes of the ninth season. During her years in charge, the cartel grew to be powerful enough to infiltrate the US Navy. Paloma's brother, Alejandro, uses his position in the task force to get the forensic evidence linking Gibbs to the murder using Abby Sciuto's skills. DiNozzo studierte mit einem Stipendium an der Ohio . Gibbs does not like Bayar, as he seems to avoid trouble with federal agencies too easily. Fornell is the only recurring character to appear in every season, except season 17 due to COVID-19 shutting down production early, of NCIS. Despite his playboy manner and lighthearted nature, DiNozzo is frequently shown to be very sharp; he is able to coax Mossad Director Eli David into admitting that he ordered Rivkin and Ziva to spy on NCIS. She later sacrifices herself to stop a suicide bomber in the episode "Grace Period", thus saving Gibbs, DiNozzo, Ziva, and three Muslim clerics, who were signing fatws to promote peace in the Middle East. Despite his professional attitude toward Gibbs' team, Vance shows that he does care about them when Alejandro Rivera threatens Abby in "Spider and the Fly". Ziva does not fully come to terms with killing her brother, and experiences moments of guilt and hurt, even with her departure from Mossad (after the beginning of season 7) and her new American citizenship coming through (in that season's finale episode "Rule Fifty-One"). Lieutenant Jonas Cobb (Kerr Smith) is the real name of the "Port-to-Port Killer", or 'P2P' for short, the primary antagonist of season eight. When Flemming and Vance come to blows over their different views of politics, the two agree that they are not good at not letting these differences interfere with their relationship and decide to take a break from it to figure things out. He appears in several episodes during seasons one and two, but unlike his replacements, Directors Shepard and Vance, Morrow himself is not part of the main cast, and is credited as either a recurring character or a guest star. In the tenth episode "The North Pole", the real Sahar (who had been posing as Gibbs' new neighbor "Sarah") tortures and kills Ziva's childhood friend Adam Eshel, and traps Ziva under a heavy plumbing pipe, planning to kill first her and then Tali, but is instead shot dead by Gibbs, leaving her son Phineas motherless. In the episode "Semper Fidelis", what appears to be an open and shut case of an Immigrations, Customs and Enforcement agent killed by a terrorist is complicated by the presence of Rivkin, who is still in the US visiting Ziva. It is shown that he hates his Israeli father since Eli David arranged for the attack on Gaza on a day when Ari was in the city. Chip, having sinister motives, after being fired from his last job, attempts to frame Tony for murder (in which he almost succeeds) in the episode "Frame Up". Its time.. The only thing that kept Gibbs and his father in contact after that was Gibbs' wife, Shannon. While waiting for him to wake up, she attempts to paint his toenails to look like watermelons, but then she notices he is waking up and tries to talk to him. For example, in "Stakeout", Ducky is shown ordering a test on a blood sample and tells Abby it is from a John Doe. Delilah Fielding-McGee (Margo Harshman) is a Department of Defense analyst and McGee's girlfriend and later his wife. Like McGee during his days as a probie, Dorneget is often the butt of Tony's hazing pranks in Season 10, most notably in the episode "Prime Suspect". In the season eight finale, "Pyramid", NCIS special agent E.J. Sarah McGee (portrayed by Sean Murray's real-life stepsister Troian Bellisario) is the younger sister of Timothy McGee. [28] In the episode "Hung Out to Dry," it is revealed that he has a nephew, though no further information follows. It was a great journey with him, Bakula said. She sees Gibbs as a father figure and leans on him. After finding out that Dr. Hampton was not male, Ducky was visibly placated. In "Bears and Cubs", Ducky announces his official retirement from his full-time NCIS position and permanently promotes Jimmy to Chief Medical Examiner. It is later revealed that this is McAllister; an expert on Russia, he saw that the Soviet Union's collapse had diverted attention onto the Middle East, and planned to have Vance killed by a Russian operative to show that Russia still posed a major threat, thus setting himself up for the directorship of NCIS. In a last-ditch effort, he also attempts to attack Abby with a knife after being discovered, but she quickly subdues and hog-ties him with duct tape before asking Gibbs if she can now work alone. Out of anger and grief (especially as it happens just a year after her mother has been murdered), she demands that Gibbs swear to her to find the one who did this and make him pay. Gibbs leads a Major Case Response Team (MCRT) consisting of field agents Timothy McGee, Ellie Bishop, and Nick Torres, supported by medical examiner Dr. Jimmy Palmer, psychologist and NCIS Agent Jack Sloane, forensic scientist Kasie Hines, and sometimes with the assistance of his good friend and former medical examiner Ducky Mallard. After witnessing Kasie encourage Ducky to use the case to inspire his creativity for the book, Abby confronts Kasie, who admits that she is a fan of Abby's work and freaked out internally when she met her, and the two develop a close friendship. Although most of his time is spent in autopsy and attending crime scenes, he is sent on an important undercover mission in "Blowback". Shepard is killed in the episode "Judgment Day" (Part 1). Torres is also not afraid to break rules if he needs to, which on occasion has him butting heads with Gibbs. and her team are ambushed by the P2P at the end of "Swan Song". [citation needed]. NCIS Supervisory Special Agent DiNozzo (gesprochen di'noso) ist Gibbs' Stellvertreter und ein Schrzenjger, der sich nur selten einen Annherungsversuch bei einem weiblichen Kollegen oder einer Verdchtigen verkneifen kann.Er hat italienische Wurzeln, was unter anderem in der Folge Ein guter Patriot der siebten Staffel erwhnt wird. Vance met his wife while attending a University of Maryland basketball game while Len Bias was playing. He appears in "Squall", where it is revealed that he has cancer. While McGee is not seriously injured, Delilah is left permanently paralyzed due to shrapnel embedded in her spine, and she thereafter uses a wheelchair. McGee's methods are often indecipherable to the other team members, which earns him the pejorative nicknames "McGeek", "McGoo", and "Probie" from DiNozzo (along with other derisive nicknames, usually based on his surname); and "Elf Lord", used by multiple characters due to his elf character in an online role playing computer game. She has a sister in her twenties and a mother who is later revealed to be developing Alzheimer's. In that episode, Secretary Porter mentions that he has been the Director of NCIS for longer than his last two predecessors combined (at that point, just over 7 years). In the season 13 episode, "Return to Sender", Morrow is found dead, having been shot in the head by a sniper the team presume is former British spy Jacob Scott, although it is later revealed that the actual killer is former CIA agent Trent Kort. ". Dr. Rachel Cranston (ne Todd) (Wendy Makkena) is a psychologist and the older sister of Caitlin Todd. Jackson Gibbs (Ralph Waite, almost played by James Garner[58]) is the father of Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Her no-nonsense attitude and strong will are a fun match-up with the teams laid-back behavior as they work the case.[49]. Leyla's mother, Shada Shakarji (Diane Venora), is the tough-as-nails matriarch of one of the most prominent tribes in Iraq, due to the fact that most of her male relatives are now deceased. In "Family First", Grace befriends Tobias Fornell's daughter Emily at the request of Gibbs while Fornell is in a coma after having been shot. Faith Coleman recurred on NCIS, following several guest appearances on JAG. She is brought in between season three and four to bring the team back up to full strength following the departure of Gibbs. Gibbs warned Fornell that Diane would leave him and plunder his accounts - which happened eventually. Kort returns in Season 13 "Dead Letter", with a glass eye replacing his lost one. In several episodes during season five, Jenny's failing health becomes a plot issue. The series premiered on September 23, 2003 featuring an ensemble cast, which has included: Mark Harmon, Sasha Alexander, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette, David McCallum, Sean Murray, Cote de Pablo, Lauren Holly, Rocky Carroll, Brian Dietzen, Emily Wickersham, Wilmer Valderrama, Jennifer Esposito, Duane Henry, Maria Bello, Diona Reasonover, Katrina Law, and Gary Cole. [25] In the season ten premiere "Extreme Prejudice," it is shown that he had survived the condition and receiving treatment after being found on the beach. She ostensibly goes there on a case, but she also has her own reasons. She realizes that this is his oblique way of committing to their relationship for the long haul and kisses him fiercely. From this episode on, they begin calling each other by their first names, rather than their last. In addition, Gibbs, under the pretense of helping to catch the man who tried to kill Tobias (although it is heavily implied that it is actually to help Emily come to terms with what might happen), brings his shrink, Dr. Grace Confalone, who also proceeds to help her with the project. "And yet they're asked to just continue working because if they stop working, then we don't have our frontline there for us anymore. Watch popular content from the following creators: David Morris(@davidmorris), David Morris(@davidmorris), David Omari(@davidomari), David Mascarenhas632(@david_m.reis), David Reis(@davidreis014) . As a result of the gunfight between Bell and the Reynosa Cartel's men, Franks loses his right index finger. "Some of them have said, 'We're not going to deal with this at all because we don't want to have to deal with those storylines and whatnot.' She is contacted by Colonel Merton Bell while he is being tried by the Mexican authorities for bounty hunting in their country. Tess Monroe (Sarah Clarke) is an FBI Senior Special Agent. She attended Harvard and attained a business degree, before becoming a career politician. It is in this capacity that he helps investigate Ajay Khan ("Canary"), though he later steps down from his position in "Hereafter". She is the only major character who appeared in the NCIS backdoor pilot episodes from JAG, and then not in the series NCIS. Franks is killed by Jonas Cobb, the "Port-to-Port Killer", outside of Gibbs' house in the season-eight episode "Swan Song" as he attempts to apprehend Cobb. Pain at the Afghan embassy. Described by her boss at the NSA as a "reclusive data freak", Bishop claims that she "remembers almost everything she reads", and often thinks while sitting cross-legged on the floor. When Senior finally hears about this in the season 12 episode The Artful Dodger, he denies the accusation: he says he is an entrepreneur, the difference being that he has always believed in the dreams he was selling. She is offered a position at NCIS by Director Jenny Shepard, but instead chooses retirement from the Army, in the episode "In the Dark". Ziva initially does not believe that Ari was an enemy agent and becomes his control officer in hopes of protecting him, until he nearly kills Gibbs. He is aware that what he does is evil, but maintains that his actions have been for the greater good. Their friendship is close enough for Gibbs to delay his retirement in the episode "Escaped" to assist Fornell in recapturing a fugitive. In "Patriot Down", Hart reveals to Vance that since he got out of prison, Bell had been gathering information on Gibbs and is responsible for uncovering evidence that almost twenty years earlier, Gibbs killed Pedro Hernandez, the drug dealer who murdered Gibbs's wife and daughter in 1991. He calls coworkers by their full first names or by their surnames with an honorific ("Abigail" for Abby Sciuto, "Mr. Palmer" for his assistant Jimmy Palmer, etc.) Bishop is repeatedly shown as a bit of a perfectionist, sometimes asking for second tries, knowing she can do better the next time around. Craig is a bureaucrat, with little-to-no field experience. He joined NIS, which later became NCIS, after his wife Shannon and only daughter Kelly were murdered in 1991. In "Sister City", DiNozzo informs McGee and Bishop that he and Zoe have split up. He returned in episode four, "Good Cop, Bad Cop". At the end of the episode, he is seen floating in the Washington Channel with a single gunshot to his head (from Director Shepard's gun). "[14] Mallard is Scottish-born;[15] his cellphone's ringtone features bagpipes playing "Scotland the Brave.". Vance spearheads the investigation into Shepard's death and is angered greatly when he is not kept in the loop by Gibbs and Mike Franks, who ultimately manipulate the situation to exonerate Shepard from her past failure, not what Vance had in mind. In the season 16 episode "She," Bishop learns that Ziva is still alive. Directed by Thomas J. Wright Writing Credits Cast (in credits order) Produced by Music by Brian Kirk Cinematography by William Webb Film Editing by Jonathan Poirier . In the Season 11 episodes "Kill Chain" and "Double Back", Delilah is left badly injured in a missile attack at a black-tie event she and McGee are attending. This frustrates Abby, who believes that Kasie doesn't like her despite her attempts to be friendly, especially since, as Abby later learns from Ducky, Kasie has a degree in forensic science. But in the history of NCIS, when major things have happened in our country or in the world, there have been stories about it.". 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