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. In the season 18 episode "The First Day", Sloane reveals to Gibbs that she wants to leave NCIS to try new things, and is putting down an offer for a house in Costa Rica. 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. NCIS Season 9 - The Good Son (episode). Despite initially believing that Ari is innocent, she fatally shoots him when he attempts to kill Gibbs, earning the latter's trust. Faith became aware of this after asking Jack for the medical history of both of her parents and despite Sloane's attempts to hide the real reason behind her daughter's birth, Faith is grateful for it as she gave her a great life and reconciled her relationship with her mother. In "Newborn King", Palmer is accompanied to NCIS headquarters by Breena's father, Ed Slater. 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. [20] The rest of the team only learns of Victoria's death when Abby follows Ducky to her grave. When Ducky found out about the program through Javid, a young man being tortured by Mr. The two frequently pretend to be furiously angry at each other in front of their agents, while privately they are on friendly terms. On their return flight, Jeanne thanks Tony and tells him that she owes him. He manages to keep a neutral relationship with everyone on Gibbs' team except DiNozzo, as he blows up Tony's car in the episode "Bury Your Dead" and keeps La Grenouille informed about Tony's relationship with his daughter, even though it is an undercover mission. He and Gibbs first make contact after he throws a baseball through Gibbs' window. As Just Jared noted, the episode proved to be quite an emotional one as Tobias Fornell's daughter (Joe Spano) died. Delilah Fielding-McGee (Margo Harshman) is a Department of Defense analyst and McGee's girlfriend and later his wife. He has stated that he is not a religious person. The deaths of their parents prompted Lee to raise Amanda as her child. She and Gibbs are both fluent in sign language. Alex Quinn (Jennifer Esposito) joins Gibbs' team after 15 years assigned to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). In the next episode, "Dog Tags", Gibbs questions Jenny about her illness and she says she is fine. When their teams have to share jurisdiction on a case, Gibbs usually asks for operational control; in exchange, credit for successes is claimed by Fornell's team. 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. Coleman first appeared in the JAG episode "Meltdown" and went on to make several appearances on NCIS, assisting Gibbs and his team. In episode "Damned If You Do", Jimmy tells Ducky that he and Breena are on a waiting list for adoption, seeing as how there are so many children without parents. Jarvis is an old friend of Director Leon Vance and it seems that he comes highly recommended in D.C. Jarvis is introduced in the final scene in a meeting between himself, Director Vance and Anthony DiNozzo. Clayton Jarvis (Matt Craven) is the Secretary of the Navy appointed after the events of the season eight finale, "Pyramid", which led to the resignation of Secretary Davenport. Leon James Vance is the Director of NCIS. David McCallum is credited with the 'and' billing from seasons 118 and is credited with the 'with' (sharing with Rocky Carroll) billing from seasons 1920. During season eleven, "Devil's Triad", Emily is kidnapped and subsequently rescued by NSA Analyst Eleanor Bishop, while in season twelve she is visibly distraught following her mother's death. Series. She enjoys the fictional drink Berry Mango Madness. In the sixth episode of season 18, "1mm", Bishop and Torres are trapped in cells rigged to blow, with Bishop standing on the pressure plate that triggers the bomb. Special Agent Vivian Blackadder (Robyn Lively) is a former FBI agent who joins NCIS after the attack on the USS Cole, in which her brother, Rex, was killed. Another injured Marine dies. NIS (later renamed NCIS) takes an interest in him and he is recruited by Special Agent Whitney Sharp. ("Frame Up"). However, when NCIS finds out that the case is connected with her father, Jeanne accuses Tony of lying to her. Color key: Template:Col-start Template:Col-4 . In cases without actual bodies, he assists by using his psychological training to decipher the clues left by the perpetrators and establish modus operandi and motive. Following his recovery, he drops off the grid and is suspected of being a mole. 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. Could she be just a guest star, or is she gearing up to become a member of the team? Gibbs and he spend much time together, including when Gibbs provides help for a science project. Richard Parsons (Colin Hanks) is an investigator who works for the Department of Defense Inspector General. Hart successfully gets Bell released from prison on the condition that he not leave Mexico. Her death leaves Tony grief-stricken and finally gives him the courage he needs to tell Jeanne that he loves her. She dies of a drug overdose in the Season 18 episode "Winter Chill". Cole reappears in "Housekeeping", where he attempts to kill E.J. Jimmy Palmer was Assistant Medical Examiner during seasons 114. [35] In 1991, Vance was a student at the Naval War College in Rhode Island, and began to take an interest in black operations. In the season 17 episode "IRL", Phineas' video-gaming abilities help the team capture a murder suspect. After a series of attacks on Navy ships where his hired arsonist Andre Fullerton was apprehended in "Playing with Fire", Dearing now knows that NCIS is onto him after Fullerton was forced to divulge the identity of the man who hired him. The Secretary of the Navy tells Gibbs that the file is a fabrication and that he thought all copies had been destroyed. As a result of the bombing, Cassidy is left with psychological scars and begins developing survivor's guilt, believing herself to be the one responsible for unknowingly sending her team into the trap. Gibbs' mother, Ann, was a hard woman to live with and they mutually had affairs despite their strong feelings for one another. From this episode on, they begin calling each other by their first names, rather than their last. [52], In episode 15, "Thick As Thieves," Knight asks Palmer to be her plus-one at a wedding. Jackie's estranged biological father, Lamar Addison, who was never married to her mother, walked out on Jackie and her mother and brother (Michael Thomas) when she was young. Paloma took over control of the cartel when her husband died. Jethro was falsely accused of killing his police handler. Her no-nonsense attitude and strong will are a fun match-up with the team's laid-back behavior as they work the case.[49]. He is shot twice and killed at the very end of "One Step Forward" by Kent Marshall hired by Robert King to kill Abby. Although she and Gibbs clearly have serious feelings for each other, she is often frustrated by his reluctance to express his emotions. Vance also refuses to discuss a phone call from Eli with Gibbs, despite knowing how dangerous Eli is and despite his precarious relationship with Gibbs and his team. He reappears in his Homeland Security position in the Season 10 episodes, "Chasing Ghosts" and "Berlin". In season 17, work is starting to consume Jimmy and devour his time. NCIS Season 10 - Hereafter (episode) and Shiva (episode). The memories of this experience are shown to often have a serious effect on Sloane, but also allow her to connect with people suffering from similar trials. 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. Once Jared had found out Tony played for the National Championship Team, he had considered the NCIS agent nothing short of a celebrity. He also showed fatherly affection towards Ziva, Tony, McGee, Bishop, and Torres on several occasions. I wanted to bring in a character that causes Tony to have to sit back and not quite be able to handle her. McGee is unharmed and eventually is able to be with Delilah when she gives birth. She first appears in the Season 11 premiere episode "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" during a coffee date with McGee and later becomes an ally, assisting the NCIS team in their hunt for terrorist Benham Parsa. He responds "No, you don't we're good. Vance and Jackie have two children: a daughter, Kayla, and a son, Jared. In "Truth or Consequences," DiNozzo says that "sometimes his head is connected directly to his mouth." Appearances Season 1 Episode 1: Identity Episode 4: Search and Destroy Episode 5: Killshot Episode 7: Pushback Both are rescued from the elevator and survive their ordeal. Over eight years after his first appearance, Burley returns in the season nine episode "Playing with Fire", where he leads DiNozzo and David in tracking down and thwarting a terrorist who tries to destroy the carrier USS Benjamin Franklin in Naples, Italy, under the orders of businessman Harper Dearing. M. Allison Hart (Rena Sofer) is an attorney. share. This is because he managed to find the happiness that he hadn't felt since Shannon and Kelly's deaths. Ducky announces his official retirement from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service in "Bears and Cubs." Vance is the longest serving NCIS Director in the series, having been in the position of Director for over ten years. Recruited without any military background, she is the first female to hold the position. In the season 18 episode "Sangre", Torres' absentee father returns, and is a suspect in a murder. NCIS Intelligence Analyst Nikki Jardine (Susan Kelechi Watson) first appears in the episode "Leap of Faith". In "Sister City", DiNozzo informs McGee and Bishop that he and Zoe have split up. He later travelled to Mexico and murdered the drug dealer responsible, a crime he kept concealed for twenty years. Congresswoman Flemming starts a romantic relationship with Director Vance after his team investigates death threats against her and the death of her aide. An agent with the Department of Defense, Delilah is first mentioned during the Season 10 finale "Damned If You Do" as a woman McGee has been flirting with who sends him some confidential information relating to a case. for the past year, she and Tony reconcile, and she returns to her home on vacation. 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). In the episode "Last Man Standing", Palmer admits to Gibbs and Vance that he and Agent Lee had been "doing it" for a while, but he had broken it off because he felt "used" an important bit of information about Lee's character, as a bit of dramatic irony reveals at the end of the same episode. Anthony D. "Tony" DiNozzo, Jr. (Michael Weatherly) is a former NCIS Senior Field Special Agent and former homicide detective for the Baltimore, Philadelphia and Peoria Police Departments. Ziva thus travels covertly into a Somali terrorist camp to eliminate Saleem Ulman, its leader. In the season 16 episode "She," Bishop learns that Ziva is still alive. David's specialties with Mossad were espionage, assassination and counter-terrorism and she is highly trained in martial arts. Lara Macy (Louise Lombard) was a former USMC Lieutenant working as a military police officer, and almost two decades earlier had investigated then-USMC Gunnery Sergeant Leroy Jethro Gibbs' role in the murder of Mexican drug lord Pedro Hernandez. In "Outlaws and In-Laws", Gibbs is stated to be godfather to Leyla's daughter Amira. They both escape unscathed when Gibbs comes to rescue them, but not before she and Torres confess to having feelings for each other. Although it is not shown, it is implied that she either returned to the FBI or was fired from NCIS for good because of her mistakes. In "Anonymous Was a Woman" Franks is shown (in flashback) as having conducted a rescue program for Afghan women. )[clarification needed] (David McCallum) was the chief medical examiner at NCIS and an old friend of Gibbs. He then sends Hart to Washington in a bid to have his revenge against Gibbs. In "Need to Know", Gibbs decides that he is ready and hands him his first field assignment. Off-screen in "The Spider and the Fly", Hart resigns from her job at NCIS and moves away, taking the report with her in order to protect Gibbs from Paloma Reynosa and Alejandro Rivera, Hernandez's two children hell bent on revenge on Gibbs for their father's murder. No doubt director Vance is going to try and protect his daughter from the job. Nevertheless, Jarvis proves to be an asset to the team such as when E.J. 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. He asks Gibbs to be the executor of his will. As such, her coworkers refer to her as a foodie. At the same time, Kate is willing to risk her life for DiNozzo and admits that life would be considerably less interesting without him around. Abigail "Abby" Sciuto is a former forensic specialist with NCIS, and is originally from Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. They then have an amicable conversation about both of them wanting to go back in time to fix their relationship, in the hope of a happier ending. The Good Son is the nineteenth episode in NCIS Season 9 and the 205th episode of the entire NCIS series. Spit: Amin Joseph . 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."). As of "Rule Fifty-One", she is a citizen of the United States and able to become a full agent which is made official in season nine's "Nature of the Beast". In the season nine premiere, "Nature of the Beast", Tony stops E.J. 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. [40], In episode 19, titled Blarney, as Jimmy and Kasie eat breakfast together, their morning is interrupted by three armed robbers who decide to hold them hostage after a burglary goes bad.[41]. His visiting professorship ends in early season 16 and he proceeds to embark on a book tour after publishing a book about the various cases he had worked on over his long career as a medical examiner (both at and prior to NCIS). [56] The resulting cliffhanger leaves most of the main characters' fates unclear. Adam Eshel (Damon Dayoub) works for the Shin Bet, Israeli Secret Service, and is also Ziva David's contact. In "Extreme Prejudice", he insists on remaining at Ducky's bedside until Ducky convinces him that NCIS needs him more. Eli also tells Vance he has been chosen because he is expendable and would not be missed. They then get shot, Cade fatally, E.J. The synopsis for First Steps reads: "As NCIS investigates the cause of death of a reservist Navy Seal surgeon, they're forced to bring Vance's daughter, Kayla, who recently trained with NCIS, to . This information allows them to track down Jacob Scott (whom they had believed was the man who murdered Terdei and left Fornell under critical condition at the time) who, much to everyone's surprise, has surrendered to NCIS custody at the Navy Yard. Mike continues to appear as a figment of Gibbs' imagination, often offering advice. In the next episode, "The Lost Boys", Dorneget is killed in Cairo in a terrorist bomb attack after saving dozens of people at a hotel. It was later revealed that Macy had been brutally murdered and her body set alight with her killer being revealed as Jason Paul Dean, a mercenary and former U.S. Army Ranger, as part of a plot to get to Gibbs in relation to the Hernandez case.[68]. [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. After finding out that Dr. Hampton was not male, Ducky was visibly placated. Butcher Clayton Dante Reeves (Duane Henry) is a British MI6 Intelligence Operative who first encounters the NCIS team working abroad with DiNozzo. He was widowed some years before the events in the season six episode "Heartland". Over the course of the show, Fornell and Gibbs often butted heads but their friendship became so strong over time that even after Gibbs ended Fornell's career as an FBI agent in "Burden of Proof" through court testimony the two were able to forgive each other and rekindle it. Shepard and Ziva have a working relationship prior to Shepard's being appointed Director of NCIS. When Special Agent Caitlin Todd asked Gibbs "What did Ducky look like when he was younger?" It is later revealed that his mother, whose real name is Sahar, is the woman trying to kill Ziva. However, he ends up killing Paloma and is then arrested for her death. Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) initially holds the post of Mossad Liaison Officer to NCIS, to which she is appointed following the murder of Special Agent Caitlin Todd by a rogue Mossad operative named Ari Haswari. and Tony are targeted by an unknown killer. Gibbs begins to suspect Barrett and DiNozzo are in a relationship and dividing the loyalties of the team, and is so distrusting of her that he questions her very motivations for being an NCIS agent, opposing her in everything from interrogating a suspect to profiling the killer. Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Pre-Series 1.2 NCIS Season 6 1.3 NCIS Season 9 He re-surfaced in Rota, Spain, where he began his pattern of killing Navy personnel when they made landfall. Vance is credited with the elimination of the hit team and he starts to rise swiftly through the ranks at NCIS. As Washington D.C. gets ready for Christmas, the NCIS team find their holiday plans being put on hold as they investigate when a mysterious illness strikes young children from military families with the disease quickly spreading. In "Twofer", following Gibbs' and McGee's return to the US after a failed mission in Paraguay, Grace is appointed to conduct psychiatric evaluations on them to determine whether they are fit to return to NCIS. ; Patrick Labyorteaux appeared as his JAG character in three episodes of NCIS (one each in seasons 1, 14, and 15); John M. Jackson appeared as his JAG character in one episode of season ten of NCIS. 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. At the end of season six, she falls under suspicion as a spy for Mossad. In the episode "Angel of Death", it is revealed that she is the daughter of arms dealer Ren Benoit and that Director Shepard, during Gibbs' absence at the end of season 3, assigned Tony to an undercover mission to get close to her.