In "Cabin Fever", she enlists Gibbs' assistance when Tobias is arrested for DUI. Earlier in the series, it is also mentioned that he is Ziva David's father, as well as that of her half-brother, Ari Haswari, a sort of mercenary/terrorist whom she prevents from shooting Agent Gibbs. Due to segregation, Jackson married Ann as LJ was African-American and an inter-racial marriage was a social taboo during that time. Paloma has a fascination for the work of Tennessee Williams, citing him on three occasions: twice in "Rule Fifty-One" ("We are all sentenced to solitary confinement within our own skins for life" and "Cruel men consider themselves paragons of frankness") and in "Spider and the Fly" ("Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering for when it comes you'll know you're dead."). In the season 12 premiere, he is mentioned by terrorist Sergei Mishnev, the main antagonist of the season (Alex Veadov) (and Ari's own half-brother on their mother's side), who attempts to kill Gibbs in revenge. Cole manipulates DiNozzo, Barrett, and Cade into first distrusting one another and then meeting, where he attempts to kill all three before fleeing with the microchip. During her years in charge, the cartel grew to be powerful enough to infiltrate the US Navy. Leyla Shakarji (Tehmina Sunny) is the daughter-in-law of Mike Franks. His past is unknown, but he lost his mother at a very young age and was homeless. Vance is the longest serving NCIS Director in the series, having been in the position of Director for over ten years. Jackson Gibbs (Ralph Waite, almost played by James Garner[58]) is the father of Leroy Jethro Gibbs. She wants Gibbs to work for her or she will kill his friends and family, starting with his coworkers and finishing with his father. The character also makes a guest appearance in the spin-off NCIS: New Orleans, in the episode "Carrier", when she is consulted after the New Orleans agents find a Navy officer dead from a strain of bubonic plague. Gibbs and he spend much time together, including when Gibbs provides help for a science project. The episode is written by Nicole Mirante-Matthews and directed by Tony Wharmby, and was seen by 21.08 million viewers.[1]. Ed alternates between grating on the nerves of the entire team and mocking Palmer's career choice. M. Allison Hart (Rena Sofer) is an attorney. As he is waiting for Davenport to arrive, Cobb tortures Kort, Palmer, and E.J. The deaths of their parents prompted Lee to raise Amanda as her child. It is also speculated that Kort killed La Grenouille, though it is implied Jenny Shepard may have also been responsible, as her Glock 19 magazine is found to have left the same imprints on a 9mm bullet as the one that killed "The Frog". The two show some romantic interest in both episodes. Posted by 6 minutes ago. After the first failed attempt, Latham advises Cole to abandon his mission, but Cole refuses, claiming that he has to see it through, and he murders Latham. Gibbs places his voided FBI agent ID card on a wall commemorating fallen personnel in the episode, "Collateral Damage",[64] just as Gibbs is turning his suspicion back to Agent Lee. Now aware of his role in Phantom Eight and his actual name, NCIS trick Cole into attacking a safehouse under the pretense that Barrett and DiNozzo are hiding there. At the end of season eight, DiNozzo is tasked with dealing with an agent who is selling top-secret information. He also returns with Gibbs taken prisoner. [61] However, in the season eight opening, "Spider and the Fly", it is revealed that Gibbs managed to warn his father about the approaching danger just in time and Jackson is able to fight back against Paloma's men and escape before they could manage to kill him. She writes a note to Eleanor Bishop, asking her to keep her secret. Sahar was involved in a Hamas splinter group with Ziva's brother Ari, and is seeking revenge for his death. (hon. She and her daughter, Amira, lived with Mike in Mexico until his death in 2011. changes forever in "Swan Song". Both Shannon and Kelly were killed in a car wreck caused by Mexican drug dealer Pedro Hernandez in Oceanside, California, while Gibbs was deployed during Desert Storm. Jackson and LJ both fell in love with Ann, but Jackson married her. This, however, led nowhere, which Sloane herself laments in "Going Mobile". Vance also reveals that he knows about the true story of the death of Ari Haswari. Quinn leaves the team at the end of Season 14 to take care of her ailing mother.[48]. 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. He mostly suspended doing this however in season 14 and onward since DiNozzo left the agency, neither with McGee as the new senior field agent and DiNozzo successor nor with new agent Nick Torres, who often displays a variation of DiNozzo's behavior that "earned" him his headslaps previously. Jennifer "Jenny" Shepard (Lauren Holly) is the director of NCIS from season three to season five, replacing Thomas Morrow. The key point involved the fact that she started preparing around the time the NCIS building was bombed. Vance also prevents Gibbs' detention during a DOD internal investigation by allowing him to be temporarily assigned to JSOC. 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. He is also the husband/widower of Jackie Vance, father of Kayla Vance and Jared Vance, brother-in-law of Michael Thomas, son-in-law of Lamar Addison and rival to Joe Banks . Aware of Cobb's identity from the beginning of the investigation, Kort tries to save one of Cobb's victims; but the effort costs him his left eye, which he sends to the NCIS team. They form a partnership and elaborate a scheme to have revenge on Gibbs. Abigail "Abby" Sciuto is a former forensic specialist with NCIS, and is originally from Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. For example, in the episode "Legend (Part 1)", Tony asks Abby to check the records on Rivkin. In the NCIS: Los Angeles episode "Ambush", Hetty remarks to Director Vance that the last she'd heard, as the result of a political "witch-hunt", Macy was "working out of a quonset hut in Djibouti". After becoming a team leader and being assigned to the Pentagon, Cassidy's team is killed while investigating a suspected terrorist, and she later joins the team to find out who arranged the phone call and the trap that sent her team to their deaths. After engineering a double murder, Kort approaches Gibbs for help in tracking down one of NCIS' most-wanted criminals, and seizes $300 million in illegal assets for the CIA's useattempting to get his old field-agent job back. Mike continues to appear as a figment of Gibbs' imagination, often offering advice. He returns with DiNozzo and David to the Navy Yard, and is part of the crowd which sees Gibbs place Dearing's photo on the wall of NCIS Most Wanted. Episode aired Mar 17, 2009 TV-PG 44m IMDb RATING 7.0 /10 732 YOUR RATING Rate Action Crime Drama Vance, using members of the Gibbs team, in Chicago works the case of the murder of a man who, Vance insists, was once a member of the Marine Corps. a piece of his mind. 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. He is hired by an Iraqi tribal leader to capture her daughter and granddaughter from Mike Franks's home in Mexico. Gibbs blamed his father's affairs for his mother leaving. The pilots' reunion is the subject of the eleventh season's episode Better Angels. (Bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico.) Examples of this include: defending DiNozzo against his father and calling his then senior agent "the best young agent he ever worked with" in "Flesh and Blood"; calling Ziva "kid" in "Safe Harbor"; giving McGee the watch his father had given him on the day of his wedding with Shannon in "Something Blue" when McGee married Delilah; following Bishop to Oklahoma in "Blood Brothers" to help her deal with the end of her marriage; and having dinner with Torres to help him cope with his father abandoning him again in "Sangre". Tony frequently flirts with her and sometimes goes through her personal belongings, no matter how many times she points out that his behavior is grossly unprofessional. After they apprehend the assassin who had been tracking E.J. After a period of estrangement, the two reunite and agree to marry. Special Agent Christopher "Chris" Pacci (Tim Kelleher) is an NCIS special agent who worked at NCIS Headquarters with Special Agent Gibbs for at least three years. Clayton Dante Reeves (Duane Henry) is a British MI6 Intelligence Operative who first encounters the NCIS team working abroad with DiNozzo. Leon Vance; Kayla Vance; Jared Vance; Friendship; Babysitting; Children; NCIS Major Case Response Team (MCRT) Summary "They both had a good idea of how Kayla and Jared were feeling." Tagged to Hereafter: After baby-sitting Vance's kids, Tony and Ziva discuss children and families. It is revealed in season six ("Semper Fidelis") that the document was written by his supervising agent at the time. CIA agent Ray Cruz later receives a text message saying that Kort is in Tel Aviv and that he has to go there straight away. In the episode "Mother's Day", when Gibbs' former mother-in-law (Shannon's mother) becomes a suspect in a murder investigation in which the victim was linked to the cartel responsible for the deaths of Shannon and Kelly, Gibbs covertly hires Hart to defend her. says that she does not know what is on the microchip. Bishop is repeatedly shown as a bit of a perfectionist, sometimes asking for second tries, knowing she can do better the next time around. Once Jared had found out Tony played for the National Championship Team, he had considered the NCIS agent nothing short of a celebrity. They make up when Hicks is eventually found to indeed be guilty and is arrested, exonerating Fornell. However, it is revealed, in the season 13 episode 9 "Day In Court", that Jake has been dishonest, having an affair with fellow NSA employee Taylor Matthews. In the season 18 episode "Sangre", Torres' absentee father returns, and is a suspect in a murder. Despite Gibbs and Ziva's efforts, they arrive too late to save Eshel who ultimately succumbs to his injuries and dies although Eshel tells them that the real Sahar they've been looking for is someone they know before dying, leading the two to realize that the real Sahar is Gibbs's neighbor, Sarah. E.J. He was formerly a member of "Phantom Eight", a clandestine team of operatives assigned to the Watcher Fleet tasked with protecting the United States Navy. A lance corporal collapses and dies on an obstacle course at the MCB, Quantico, Virginia; Gibbs and company investigate; Ducky sees many wounds. He departs NCIS in order to travel to Israel to find answers and to Paris because Ziva loved Paris. In season seventeen, in the episode titled "Out of the Darkness", it is revealed that Ziva faked her death to protect her family from a woman named Sahar who wanted to kill her. Two doctors go missing, one of whom is Jeanne's husband. Upon being promoted to the director's position at the end of season five, Vance immediately goes to former Director Shepard's office, and is seen to shred a single mysterious document from his own personnel file. Despite being offered back a position in the FBI, Fornell chooses to stay in his new career. In the season 11 episode, "The Admiral's Daughter" it is revealed to Jimmy through a word game that Breena is pregnant. He keeps believing, along with Eli, that there was a dirty agent in NCIS, who had really tipped off the Russian about Vance's mission. She first appears in episode Alibi, after Marine Staff Sergeant Justin Dunne, is arrested, Dunne requests an attorney, and hires former FBI agent Carrie Clark, who also happens to be an old acquaintance of the team. When she returns as team leader now based in the US, she and McGee move in together. [2] According to Mirante-Matthews, in this episode Leon Vance's process to "come back stronger than before" begins. In "Two Steps Back", Grace is seen playing a poker game at Gibbs' house with Gibbs, Vance, Fornell and new NCIS agent Jack Sloane, whom she meets for the first time. Her last appearance is "In the Zone". She also has an Aunt Nettie who likes to play mahjong. She develops a romantic relationship with DiNozzo and the two seemingly stay in contact, but she breaks it off at the end of "Heart Break" after hearing nothing from him (or possibly due to her anger at Gibbs giving her grief). While in Afghanistan, Ducky stumbled on a CIA interrogation program in the Jalozai refugee camp on the Pakistani border, run by Marcin Jerek, aka Mr. 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. However, Cade knows nothing about it and all three realize that they have been used. Chad Dunham is a recurring NCIS Special Agent who was stationed in the Horn of Africa when Ziva was being held captive by a group of terrorists in the beginning of season seven. Although Gibbs figures out gradually that she is a spy, and affirms his conclusions by inserting a picture of an agent she shot, as if he were the spy, on a barwall "Slain Heroes" wall ("Collateral Damage"), she is caught in the next episode "Cloak". Once the threat against her is eliminated, Ziva goes home to Paris to reunite with Tony and Tali. David's specialties with Mossad were espionage, assassination and counter-terrorism and she is highly trained in martial arts. In the episode "Ex-File" the relationship with Gibbs ends when she discovers the truth about Shannon and Kelly from Ducky and realizes that Gibbs is still silently mourning their deaths. [60] This is following Reynosa's warning to Gibbs that if he does not do exactly as she says she will kill everyone he ever met and is all part of Paloma's plan to get revenge on Gibbs who killed her father twenty years previously. [4], Douglas Wolfe from TV Fanatic gave the episode 4.5 (out of 5) and stated that "I liked the fact that Ziva finally had a brief heart to heart with Vance about the death of his wife. He acquired the supervisory position at NCIS after former NCIS Supervisory Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs decided to stay in Alaska and not come back to NCIS since he finds a sense of peace that he hadn't felt for 30 years since his wife and daughter were killed by Pedro Hernandez. Grace returns in "Privileged Information", as Gibbs investigates a patient of hers, a Marine Sergeant, after she ends up in a coma, and tells Gibbs he should treat it as a murder investigation, but cannot divulge further due to doctor-patient confidentiality. The NCIS cast is back for a new episode called Face the Strange. Tibbs, under the pseudonym Thom E. Gemcity (an anagram of his name), featuring characters based on his co-workers and others from his everyday life. In an effort to honor her and as part of his recovery, Clayton volunteers at a program that helps homeless veterans and their kids. for the past year, she and Tony reconcile, and she returns to her home on vacation. He is unable to help Gibbs regain his memory, although Gibbs recognizes him on sight. [57] These events spur Gibbs to seek personal revenge against Dearing, culminating in a confrontation in which Gibbs fatally stabs Dearing in self-defense.[25]. He meets his handler, Riley McAllister, who tells him that the target is a Russian agent known to Vance only as "The Russian", later known as Anatoly Zhukov. She first appears in the episode "Kill Ari (Part I)". Leon Vance; Established Relationship; Hurt/Comfort; Team as Family; Summary. Gibbs' mother, Ann, was a hard woman to live with and they mutually had affairs despite their strong feelings for one another. Later, Gibbs pays him a condolence call in the autopsy room, but Ducky seems relieved at her death (probably as she was no longer suffering from Alzheimer's), grateful to have been her son and proud that she almost lived to the age of 100. Following the La Grenouille incident, Kort is assigned to a desk. in the stomach and Tony in his shoulder. But, she's trained, and highly qualified. Michael Rivkin (Merik Tadros) first appears in the episode "Last Man Standing" as a Mossad officer. However, Kort is shown to have some strong ties within the CIA, as he is able to get files for Gibbs on Ducky and Director Vance. Following Ziva's resignation from NCIS, she is replaced by former NSA analyst Ellie Bishop. [19] In "Double Identity," it is revealed that Ducky's mother has died. In the next episode, "Dog Tags", Gibbs questions Jenny about her illness and she says she is fine. )[clarification needed] (David McCallum) was the chief medical examiner at NCIS and an old friend of Gibbs. I wanted to bring in a character that causes Tony to have to sit back and not quite be able to handle her. She was disowned by her family and then smuggled out of Iraq after becoming pregnant with the child of Franks's biological son, Lance Corporal Liam O'Neill, USMC. Leon James Vance is the Director of NCIS in all 3 versions of the show. [3] The "recovery and rebirth" of the character is connected to the same experience Gibbs had with his wife Shannon, making Gibbs "pull [Vance] back from [the] brink" after questioning his wife's intentions. In "Truth or Consequences," DiNozzo says that "sometimes his head is connected directly to his mouth." E.J. However, Ducky claimed that he would not be forgiven for the act by others or by himself. She leaves the squad room after telling Tony (who did not lie about his feelings, despite his undercover deceptions) that she wished she had never met him. They met during their first week at NSA, though during season thirteen they appear to be having marital difficulties. Gerald Jackson is Dr. Mallard's original assistant until being incapacitated by Ari Haswari after being held hostage in the morgue[62] While recuperating from the gunshot wound to his shoulder, his position is filled by Jimmy Palmer. E.J. Supervisory Special Agent Paula Cassidy (Jessica Steen) is a criminal profiler for NCIS, who first appears in the episode "Minimum Security". "Hereafter" was written by Nicole Mirante-Matthews and directed by Tony Wharmby. During season four, Director Shepard places Tony DiNozzo on an undercover assignment to get close to arms dealer Ren Benoit. Special Agent-in-Charge Mike Franks, NIS (Ret.) Kayla and Jared Vance. After Director Shepard's death, she is replaced by Assistant Director Leon Vance, who becomes the new Director of NCIS. Until season 15, David McCallum had appeared in every episode of NCIS except "Legend Part II.". 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. With DiNozzo's departure in the final episode of season thirteen, McGee is permanently promoted to Senior Field Agent. In the episode "Knockout", he reveals that he is not doing well with women and that he is still hurting from his relationship with former girlfriend Jeanne Benoit. In "The Namesake", it is revealed that Jackson named his son after LJ Leroy Jethro Moore (Billy Dee Williams). He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1976 and became a Scout Sniper. Gibbs has picked up many of his mannerisms, including the trademark head slap he gives to DiNozzo and his ability to find a way around red tape. Gibbs shot the man, Anatoly Zhukov, but Jenny faced down the woman, Natasha (aka Svetlana), and let her live. In the season 10 premiere, "Extreme Prejudice", it is revealed that he survived relatively unscathed. Richard Parsons (Colin Hanks) is an investigator who works for the Department of Defense Inspector General. The 44-year-old NCIS star, who fans will recognize as Dr. Jimmy Palmer on the long running series, shared his harrowing tales of having a stroke, and heart surgery and how they inspired him to . NCIS is an American police procedural television series, revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which investigates crimes involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. He later approaches DiNozzo in the hospital under the Casey Stratton alias, but is unable to kill him as DiNozzo is under guard. Gibbs is able to convince McGee to go to his appointment with Grace, and meets with McGee outside her office after the session, having himself become a more regular patient of Grace. Eli David also dies in the episode. Parsons repays the debt by saving Gibbs' life during a gunfight. She sees Gibbs as a father figure and leans on him. O'Neill was murdered and Gibbs finds out about Leyla from Franks as he was the lead agent assigned to the case.