With NCIS onto him, Dearing plants a bomb at the NCIS Headquarters in the season finale, "Till Death Do Us Part". He is found assaulting an MI6 agent, Clayton Reeves. NCIS: Breena Palmer died of coronavirus. 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. Her portrait is later seen in a bar wall honoring officers who have been killed in the line of duty. and her team are ambushed by the P2P at the end of "Swan Song". [26] In the episode "High Tide", Bishop and fellow agent Nick Torres go on an undercover mission, which revolves around them both acting like a couple. By season ten, he is shown as more of a surrogate son to Ducky rather than simply his assistant (though this relationship has been implied throughout the series). 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. 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. Gibbs warned Fornell that Diane would leave him and plunder his accounts - which happened eventually. When she returns as team leader now based in the US, she and McGee move in together. [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". Her younger sister, Tali David, was killed in a Hamas terrorist attack against Israel at the age of sixteen. She is fiercely tenacious and with a wry sense of humor. Timothy "Tim" McGee (Sean Murray) first appears in the episode "Sub Rosa" as a case agent stationed at Norfolk, and is promoted to field agent and assigned to Agent Gibbs' team at the end of the season two premiere, "See No Evil", becoming a regular character. Later, in the JAG episode "Meltdown", she blew an NCIS operation to capture a terrorist planning another attack. The two had known each other since before the show started and had gotten to know each other when Fornell was about to marry Gibbs' second ex-wife Diane. In "Silent Service," he accepts an offer from Gibbs and Vance of a part-time position as NCIS historian, since it will allow him to come and go as he pleases and still assist the team's investigations. She is brought in between season three and four to bring the team back up to full strength following the departure of Gibbs. She is contacted by Colonel Merton Bell while he is being tried by the Mexican authorities for bounty hunting in their country. Once the threat against her is eliminated, Ziva goes home to Paris to reunite with Tony and Tali. Bell is released with the help of American lawyer Margaret Allison Hart. Cole kills Cade, wounds DiNozzo, and misses Barrett, who flees. The safehouse is empty, and Cole is apprehended. It was revealed that Mr. In "Sister City", DiNozzo informs McGee and Bishop that he and Zoe have split up. Cole goes rogue some time after the Phantom Eight are disbanded and begins working with Sean Latham, the corrupt Director of Special Operations for the Office of Naval Intelligence and a former member of Phantom Eight himself. 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. Chip Sterling (Michael Bellisario) first appears in the episode "The Voyeur's Web", as a new lab assistant working alongside Abby Sciuto, whom new NCIS Director Jenny Shepard has hired for her much to the displeasure of Abby, who continues to insist she prefers to work alone. He studied biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, and computer forensics at MIT. According to Jethro, it was LJ who inspired him to join the Marine Corps as a teenager. Craig is a bureaucrat, with little-to-no field experience. Since then, he has been married and divorced three times, and is single, although he has had a number of romantic relationships since his last divorce. 1. Dr Jacqueline "Jack" Sloane (Maria Bello) is an NCIS senior special agent and operational psychologist, specializing in profiling. Despite being a special agent, she seemed to be more focused on avenging her brother's death by any means possible rather than attempting to work with the rest of the team. 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. He later travelled to Mexico and murdered the drug dealer responsible, a crime he kept concealed for twenty years. They make excuses for working late and are seen entering and exiting the underside of the autopsy table. 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. However, the captain was murdered and E.J. E.J. He attended Ohio State University as a physical education major and was a member of the "Alpha Chi Delta" fraternity, class of 1989. Vachik Mangassarian, a veteran character actor known for his roles on NCIS, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D ., has died at the age of 78 from COVID-19 complications.. The Weatherman uses her as a human shield until Gibbs fires into Lee's abdomen, the bullets passing through her body and killing both of them. Trent Kort (David Dayan Fisher) first appears in the episode "Smoked". While deaths on the show are nothing new, viewers got a shock when a recent episode revealed Dr. Palmer's beautiful blond wife had died from COVID-19. Franks and his family run away to Gibbs's home in Washington, D.C. where they can be protected, but Bell finds out they are there and sends a squad to capture them. It is revealed that she botched an operation ten years prior, when she and Gibbs had been ordered to assassinate a pair of Russian crime lords and lovers. Vance says this despite his insistence to Gibbs that his friend was a Marine, though there is no record of his friend's service in the military. 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. 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. 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. Kort returns in season eight, tracking down Lt. Jonas Cobbalso known as the Port-to-Port Killerat the behest of the CIA. He even imagines one himself: Operation Frankenstein, which would later play a big part in the season eight finale. Barrett (Sarah Jane Morris) is an NCIS agent reassigned to Washington in the season eight episode "One Last Score". 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. 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. Stan Burley (Joel Gretsch) is an NCIS agent who first appears in the first-season episode "High Seas". However, when Abby talks to Jimmy Palmer, he says they have no John Does. Both of them find that they enjoy the experience and develop a mutual lingering attraction towards each other. Gibbs later interrogates her and her fianc, who is revealed to be the man she cheated on Gibbs with; and later when it is revealed that her cell phone has been bugged, Gibbs discovers that Sergei Mishnev has been stalking her and has her and her fianc put into the witness protection programme. She successfully defended Commander Harmon Rabb when he was accused of the murder of fellow JAG lawyer Lieutenant Loren Singer. This is shown when he receives a text message on his phone from Eli which says only: "I found him". In the next episode, "Dog Tags", Gibbs questions Jenny about her illness and she says she is fine. During this time, she also runs out of nail-polish, thus leaving her pedicure on her dad incomplete. Vance is credited with the elimination of the hit team and he starts to rise swiftly through the ranks at NCIS. Vance also reveals that he knows about the true story of the death of Ari Haswari. In the episode "Newborn King", Leyla and her daughter are revealed to have moved to Washington, D.C., following Franks' death. 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). Kasie becomes the permanent replacement forensics specialist in Season 16. That episodes ends with Gibbs replacing her rorschach test painting with that of an elephant in reference to her calling their non-existing "thing" "the elephant in the room" earlier in the episode. In season twelve, Zoe and Tony meet during an investigation into a jihadist group. While in the RAMC, he served in the Vietnam War while on an officer-exchange program with the United States military. However, everyone finds out because he was speaking in front of a mic, and Ducky congratulates him. However, the two again clash later on because Gibbs feels he cannot fully trust Vance, though he cannot identify a specific reason why. Gibbs often shows frustration with his team (particularly DiNozzo for rambling or McGee for getting sucked into technical rambling) by slapping them over the back of the head, an action that is later shared between team members and known as a "headslap" or "Gibbs-slap". In the season 10 premiere, "Extreme Prejudice", it is revealed that he survived relatively unscathed. Her death leaves Tony grief-stricken and finally gives him the courage he needs to tell Jeanne that he loves her. 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. Gibbs and Franks decide to cover Jenny's mistake and death by burning down her Georgetown mansion. While he seems to like Gibbs, he is less tolerant of Gibbs' personal style and methods than Jenny or Vance; he has a deeply serious, almost stern demeanor, and Gibbs only ever refers to him as "sir". Bishop is horrified and the two separate, with Bishop going home to Oklahoma to get some distance. With the help of Damon Werth, a former Marine under Bell's employ, Gibbs traps and arrests Bell before turning them over to Mexico for trial. In "Need to Know", Gibbs decides that he is ready and hands him his first field assignment. Bishop resigns from NCIS after confessing to leaking NSA secrets and goes on a long-term undercover mission with Odette. It is implied that both Trent Kort and NCIS Director Jenny Shepard kill him in the episode "Internal Affairs", and in "Judgment Day" (Part 1) Gibbs, reviewing the FBI file, finds evidence that further implicates her while looking at a familiarly marked bullet. Anthony DiNozzo, Sr. (Robert Wagner) is the father of Tony DiNozzo. Jenny's cause of death given to the media is reported as "death in home fire". Mann reappears in the eleventh-season episode "Kill Chain", as a special agent for the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, which is the criminal investigative arm of the Department of Defense's Office of the Inspector General, and she later returns in the NCIS Season 12 episode, "We Build, We Fight". LJ is "The Namesake" of Jethro Gibbs, and according to Jethro, it was LJ who inspired him to join the Marine Corps as a teenager. O'Neill was murdered and Gibbs finds out about Leyla from Franks as he was the lead agent assigned to the case. Updated - May 12: NCIS actress Lisa Sheridan's cause of death has been confirmed, as a coroner's report has stated that she died as a result of chronic . Unfortunately, both he and Jackie, Director Vance's wife, are shot and killed in the Vance home during dinner in a drive-by shooting orchestrated by hawkish anti-peace Mossad personnel headed by Deputy Director Ilan Tohar Bodnar (Oded Fehr). He is shot and killed by Gibbs and Vance when he refuses to surrender. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology, and is a former Lieutenant in the United States Army. In the same week ("1mm"), she and Torres are trapped in cells rigged to blow, with Bishop standing on the pressure plate that triggers the bomb. Ren Benoit, alias La Grenouille ("The Frog") (Armand Assante) is a French arms dealer and the primary antagonist of seasons 4 and 5. While there is a bit of a wild side to her, she was quick to step in to help clear Bishops name without even knowing who Bishop really was. In the episode "Off The Grid", after Gibbs goes undercover, McGee and Torres discover that he and Rebecca had a phone conversation the night before. [34] However, Ducky later reveals to Gibbs that Vance's close childhood friend, Tyler Owens, who had died just prior to the start of the episode, also suffered a detached retina. The series was created by Donald P. Bellisario and Don McGill as a backdoor pilot with the season eight episodes "Ice Queen" and "Meltdown" of JAG. In the episode "In the Zone", despite being a germaphobe, revolted at the idea of field work, Jardine asks to go to Baghdad with Tony. Taft's son died at a young age. This episode strongly implies that Owens and Vance switched identities in order for the current Vance to have a future. [25] Under reduced workload, he returns to work alongside the team. Gibbs surprisingly is able to open up to her about his troubles more than she's already known, but McGee skips his appointment with her, frustrating her. At the end of Tuesday night's episode, the two special agents were heading out of. She speaks Hebrew, English, Arabic, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian and Turkish. Torres often has trouble readjusting to a normal life and working with a team; he is thus reluctant to wear the NCIS windbreaker or cap when visiting crime scenes. Agent Gibbs. Eric Olsen character nearly dies on Sunday. Vance met his wife while attending a University of Maryland basketball game while Len Bias was playing. changes forever in "Swan Song". At the end of the episode, they kiss. Fornell and Diane have a daughter, Emily. After Director Shepard's death, she is replaced by Assistant Director Leon Vance, who becomes the new Director of NCIS. [citation needed]. Following Sasha Alexander's decision to leave the show, Todd is killed in the line of duty (at the end of the episode "Twilight") by Ari Haswari, collateral damage in the terrorist's obsession with Gibbs. Ducky Mallard was Medical Examiner during seasons 116. He first appears in the NCIS two-part pilot episodes, "Ice Queen" and "Meltdown", before making his official debut in the season one episode, "Yankee White", with his final appearance as NCIS Director in the season three opener "Kill Ari (Part I)", when he leaves to accept an appointment as a Senior Division Chief in the Department of Homeland Security. 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. After her father is found dead, an FBI team led by Agent Tobias Fornell investigates Gibbs' team and interrogates Tony based on testimony from Jeanne that he killed him. He also convinces Gibbs to seek counseling and eventually is able to make an introduction to his therapist, Grace Confalone. Although he has connections to Iran, the CIA appears to tolerate him as a method of funneling disinformation to Iran as well as maintaining him as a prominent arms dealer so as to keep a degree of control over the arms trade. I wanted to bring in a character that causes Tony to have to sit back and not quite be able to handle her. Pain knew that Javid was innocent and that the only reason he was torturing him was to break Ducky to stop him giving prisoners morphine injections. His past is unknown, but he lost his mother at a very young age and was homeless. They both escape unscathed when Gibbs comes to rescue them, but not before she and Torres confess to having feelings for each other. He then opens fire on the safe house with a submachine gun, believing Gibbs and his father to be in it. After her transfer from the NSA to NCIS, Jake and Ellie's marriage begins to show signs of stress, which he disingenuously attributes to the fact that they can no longer talk about their day with each other like they used to. She first appears in the episode "Kill Ari (Part I)". She participates in a shootout with the NCIS team that results in the intentional death of Trent Kort. Her political career started when she was elected to the School Board; she has been a member of the House since 2001. Kort is later revealed to have been the training officer for Operation Frankenstein, the "super soldier" program in which Cobb participated. Nina Foch, who played Victoria, died in 2008. When he was younger he went by "Donnie. 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. E.J. 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