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. After working with Tobias Fornell, Monroe joins NCIS in the hunt for British spy Jacob Scott during season thirteen. [12] In the season nine finale "Till Death Do Us Part", a bomb blast at NCIS headquarters occurred with Gibbs tackling Abby to the floor in her lab. While Gibbs and Ryan try to keep their relationship strictly professional when at the office, Gibbs' agents and Ryan's co-workers frequently speculate on their relationship, as seen in "The Tell". [29] The series creator Don Bellisario stated, "When the Kate [Todd] character was killed, I didn't want to bring in the same character I had in Kate, someone who was very Puritan, uptight and treated Tony like a big brother. Ren Benoit, alias La Grenouille ("The Frog") (Armand Assante) is a French arms dealer and the primary antagonist of seasons 4 and 5. It's late night in downtown Baltimore and as "The Black Keys"- "Gold on the Ceiling" plays in the background, Seaman Mark Hill who is drunk . Leon Vance; Established Relationship; Hurt/Comfort; Team as Family; Summary. Ziva thus travels covertly into a Somali terrorist camp to eliminate Saleem Ulman, its leader. 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. This episode strongly implies that Owens and Vance switched identities in order for the current Vance to have a future. Todd is a former Secret Service agent, recruited by Gibbs after she successfully helped him solve a murder aboard Air Force One. 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". David also had a younger daughter, Tali, Ziva's full sister, who is also deceased. When Gibbs asked Jenny to go with him, she refused as she wished to advance her career to exact revenge on the arms dealer who killed her father. After spending almost a year in Dubai, Delilah returns in the episode, "Status Update". However, his real goal is to have revenge on the man who authorized the operation: SecNav Phillip Davenport. The mother of Ned Dorneget, Teague works with both DiNozzo and Gibbs in the aftermath of his death. Prior to the series' start, he was Gibbs' partner and subordinate, but eventually was transferred out as an Agent Afloat, when he was replaced by DiNozzo. [56] The resulting cliffhanger leaves most of the main characters' fates unclear. ; 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. Kayla Vance: Deprece Reddick . In 2017, Perrette revealed that she would leave the show after the end of season 15.[13]. He looks up to Gibbs, and enlists his and his teams' help in tracking down a drug dealer on board the USS Enterprise. [18] He served in Bosnia during the Yugoslav Wars and in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion. NCIS (TV Series 2003- ) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb List of NCIS characters - Wikipedia In "Day in Court", Jake reveals he is having an affair with a fellow NSA Agent. Jimmy is the central character of the episode "About Face" where he must recover his memory to find a suspect to a murder case and his attempted killer. This, however, led nowhere, which Sloane herself laments in "Going Mobile". Subsequently, the CIA do their best to protect their asset. Trent Kort (David Dayan Fisher) first appears in the episode "Smoked". Homesick is the eleventh episode of NCIS Season 11 and the 245th episode of the entire NCIS series. Shepard is killed in the episode "Judgment Day" (Part 1). She attended Harvard and attained a business degree, before becoming a career politician. A boxer's death leads to Vance starting his own investigation; Gibbs looks into Vance's past. She is the only major character who appeared in the NCIS backdoor pilot episodes from JAG, and then not in the series NCIS. Rivera is assigned by his government to be a liaison with American law enforcement agencies on a special anti-drug project of forming a Mexican-American task force to strike against the drug cartels, notably against Reynosa. He later travelled to Mexico and murdered the drug dealer responsible, a crime he kept concealed for twenty years. 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 "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 was also a recipient of The Leroy Jethro Gibbs Scholarship Fund along with his sister Kayla. In season 15, Ducky takes a sabbatical from NCIS to teach at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, leaving Dr. Palmer in charge in his absence. When McGee spontaneously proposes to Delilah in the elevator in the episode "Love Boat", she accepts. The NCIS cast is back for a new episode called Face the Strange. Bishop resigns from NCIS after confessing to leaking NSA secrets and goes on a long-term undercover mission with Odette. Torres is superstitious of anything relating to the dead; once forgoing an apartment where the resident had recently died and proclaiming he could never work in a cemetery because of this. 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. 100% Upvoted. 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. Jerome Craig (Greg Germann) is the deputy director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. 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. He is found assaulting an MI6 agent, Clayton Reeves. As Just Jared noted, the episode proved to be quite an emotional one as Tobias Fornell's daughter (Joe Spano) died. As he is waiting for Davenport to arrive, Cobb tortures Kort, Palmer, and E.J. In the season fourteen episode "Keep Going", Jimmy confesses to a victim's son that he is now a qualified doctor, having passed his Medical Examiner test (on the third time; he had failed it twice before), but doesn't want the rest of the team to know. [19] In "Double Identity," it is revealed that Ducky's mother has died. 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 "Newborn King", Palmer is accompanied to NCIS headquarters by Breena's father, Ed Slater. Eli David also dies in the episode. Sloane served in Afghanistan, where she was a prisoner of war. Things come to a head in "Aliyah", when Gibbs accuses Vance of selling out his team to Mossad Director Eli David. Natasha sends assassins to kill Jenny in the diner; Jenny kills them all but dies of her injuries from the gunshot wounds she received. Director Shepard's investigation of La Grenouille almost ruins a CIA sting operation to get a faulty weapon system into Iranian hands. 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. He has a picture of himself on his desk as a reminder of a woman he loved but lost to cancer as a teenager. During his first few seasons, Jimmy is portrayed as a geek with a tendency to ramble or speak out of turn, much to the irritation of Gibbs and even Ducky on occasions. In "Hiatus" (Part 2), it is stated that he retired to Mexico in 1996, roughly five years after Gibbs joined NCIS, after being disgruntled with the government's failure to prevent the Khobar Towers bombing. In the episode "Lost and Found", the Stars and Stripes military newspaper Shepard is reading reveals that Mann has relocated to the Hawaiian island of Lanai. However, when Abby talks to Jimmy Palmer, he says they have no John Does. He first appears in season 13, and returns as a main character for season 14. Vance and Jackie have two children: a daughter, Kayla, and a son, Jared. Special Agent Caitlin "Kate" Todd (Sasha Alexander) first appears in the episode "Yankee White". Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, David McCallum, and Pauley Perrette all appeared in two episodes of season eight of JAG that served as a back door pilot. 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. In "Sister City", DiNozzo informs McGee and Bishop that he and Zoe have split up. Secretary Porter has also appeared in an episode of season 2 of NCIS: New Orleans, and has frequently been mentioned on NCIS: Los Angeles, although she's yet to make a physical appearance. It originally aired on CBS in the United States on February 19, 2013. Towards the end of season six, Eli sends Michael Rivkin to Washington in what Vance describes as a not-so-subtle message that he does not think NCIS are doing their jobs. Nevertheless, Jarvis proves to be an asset to the team such as when E.J. There Eli David accuses Tony of killing Rivkin out of jealousy and Ziva, no longer able to trust Tony, stays in Israel. He is Gibbs' former mentor and partner, still referring to Gibbs as "Probie", just as DiNozzo does with McGee. Paloma tells him of her true intention: she doesn't want his death, she wants his life. Jake Malloy (Jamie Bamber) is NCIS Agent Ellie Bishop's ex-husband and an attorney for the National Security Agency. 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. M. Allison Hart (Rena Sofer) is an attorney. At the end of season eight, DiNozzo is tasked with dealing with an agent who is selling top-secret information. It is eventually revealed that she is married and her husband's name is Jake Malloy (Jamie Bamber), an attorney for the NSA. Leyla Shakarji (Tehmina Sunny) is the daughter-in-law of Mike Franks. McAllister then tried to do away with Vance himself in his hospital room, but thanks to Gibbs having sensed the plot, Vance mortally stabs McAllister with a switchblade Gibbs gave him earlier, ending the traitorous agent's life as he bleeds to death while Vance watches medical personnel try to save him.[36]. But, she's trained, and highly qualified. When Special Agent Caitlin Todd asked Gibbs "What did Ducky look like when he was younger?" Could she be just a guest star, or is she gearing up to become a member of the team? In the season 11 finale, "Honor Thy Father" (which aired exactly three months after Waite's death in February 2014), Vance tells Gibbs that Jackson suffered a fatal stroke. He retired from his position as chief medical examiner and became an NCIS historian in season 16. In June 2021, Gibbs resigned from the team and NCIS for good, opting to remain in Alaska instead of returning to Washington D.C. and ultimately resuming his career as the leader of the MCRT and also an NCIS Special Agent instead of Supervisory Special Agent. She also has an Aunt Nettie who likes to play mahjong. NCIS: Is Director Vance's daughter Kayla Vance joining as new NCIS Log in or sign up to leave a comment. NCIS Season 10 - Hereafter (episode) and Shiva (episode). The Good Son (episode) | NCIS Database | Fandom 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. Jared knew he wasn't very good at football himself, but he wanted to be and Tony had been patient enough to work with him until late in the evening. Kayla Vance, Director Vance's daughter, has gone through NCIS training to become a special agent. He is the last person to know about then-Director Shepard's incurable illness during her lifetime, as Gibbs only has suspicions at the time as of "Judgment Day" (Part 1). In the aftermath of Eli's murder, with Ilan Bodnar going on the run until killed in a fight with Special Agent Ziva David, Orli becomes the new director of Mossad. In "Extreme Prejudice", he insists on remaining at Ducky's bedside until Ducky convinces him that NCIS needs him more. NBC NCIS ' Jackie Vance is dead and buried, but Paula Newsome, the actress who played her on and off for four years, is very much alive and thriving. Her political career started when she was elected to the School Board; she has been a member of the House since 2001. Their attraction becomes overt in the episode "Sharif Returns", as they discuss their possible relationship but refuse to act on it until Sharif is caught. She writes a note to Eleanor Bishop, asking her to keep her secret. 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. Though appearing to be "all business" and uncaring about his children, Eli's reasons for this come from the need to preserve the existence of Israel, a country surrounded by enemy nations. in "Housekeeping". for the past year, she and Tony reconcile, and she returns to her home on vacation. Taft's son died at a young age. He then scrubs the body down with a hospital-grade cleanser before wrapping the bodies in plastic and dumping them in isolated areas. Abby regrets that she never told Jenny she was a snappy dresser and says that would have made her smile. 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. Four months later, Paloma is lured to a safe house where she believes Gibbs, Jackson, and Mike Franks have taken refuge. Special Agent Zoe Keates (Marisol Nichols) is employed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Special Agent-in-Charge Mike Franks, NIS (Ret.) 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. (In the episode "Dead Reckoning", he tells Gibbs that trust is elusive at best; Gibbs responds that, between them, it is not elusive but impossible.) Vance and Jackie have two children: a daughter, Kayla, and a son, Jared. 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. Bishop is repeatedly shown as a bit of a perfectionist, sometimes asking for second tries, knowing she can do better the next time around. 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. Jessica Knight(Katrina Law) is an NCIS Special Agent, who was formerly assigned to the REACT Unit in the Washington Navy Yard. Eli also tells Vance he has been chosen because he is expendable and would not be missed. In "Double Trouble", Vance is almost asked to resign after a confrontation with former NCIS Agent Kip Klugman, whom Vance arrested during his last case as a field agent in San Diego in 2005, until he and Gibbs are able to clear his name. 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. According to Jimmy, Ducky chased the teens for several blocks and apprehended them and made them clean its windshield. During "Something Blue", McGee and Delilah have been planning their wedding when Delilah collapses. [35] In 1991, Vance was a student at the Naval War College in Rhode Island, and began to take an interest in black operations. Dr. James "Jimmy" Palmer (Brian Dietzen) is an assistant medical examiner who first appears in the episode "Split Decision". When Javid's sister attacked Ducky at a crime scene, the story resurfaced and Ducky was to be investigated by the Afghan government for war crimes. Special Agent Chad Dunham (Todd Lowe) first appears in the episode "Truth or Consequences". Nicholas "Nick" Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) is an undercover agent who first appears in the season 14 premiere, "Rogue". Mike Franks also discovers Shepard's illness by going through her purse and finding her medication. 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. [50], Laws character quickly proves to be likable. 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. Secretly, Rivera's objective is to have revenge for his father's death by using Abby Sciuto's forensic skills to investigate the cold case while training a class of task force forensic specialists in Mexico. Quinn prides herself on remembering every agent she's ever trained, including McGee, Bishop, and Torres. Taft is a former surgeon at the Walter Reed Memorial Hospital. In an effort to honor her and as part of his recovery, Clayton volunteers at a program that helps homeless veterans and their kids. Until season six, Ducky lived with his aging mother Victoria and her corgis. While Kasie is friendly towards most of Gibbs' team to the point of giving hugs, she is noticeably cold towards Abby Sciuto, making no attempts to connect with her despite staying in her guest room. It is eventually revealed that Gibbs' resentment for his father came from the difficult relationship between his parents. "Hereafter" was written by Nicole Mirante-Matthews and directed by Tony Wharmby. 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. Jenny and Gibbs are reunited in "Kill Ari (Part I)", which stirs Gibbs' heart and opens up constant flirtation between her and Gibbs. Jordan came back to Ducky's autopsy room to help him find anything else she might have missed, and decodes the tattoo on his arm, helping Gibbs and his team eventually solve the case. There is a running gag in which Ducky and his assistant (first Gerald and then Jimmy) frequently get lost or meet a mishap when driving to the crime scene. In "Cabin Fever", Diane is avenged when Fornell finally kills Sergei Mishnev. Her most recent appearance is in the season eleven "Double Back", when she psychologically evaluates McGee after a bombing leaves his girlfriend Delilah paralyzed. She'll fight to protect the values she holds dear, and her team, with determination and a bit of sarcasm".[66]. He was mentored by Gibbs at NCIS before joining the FBI and is transferred back to NCIS at Gibbs' recommendation. Sharp, athletic and tough, she was raised by a single father and had to fight for everything in life. The deaths of their parents prompted Lee to raise Amanda as her child. Rocky Carroll is credited with the 'with' billing. Later in the season, it is revealed that Kort is the man responsible for framing British agent Jacob Scott, with Kort being revealed as the person who sold nuclear secrets to the Russians, therefore being shown as the main antagonist of that season, and later also being responsible for the apparent death of Ziva David, after hiring a contract killer to burn down Eli David's farmhouse in Israel in a mortar attack. According to a psychological profile by Dr. Mallard, even though La Grenouille is a "merchant of death", he is not a violent man by nature, a viewpoint Gibbs later embraces, as he too learns the fact that the arms dealer isn't really dangerous anyway. In season 16 episode "Mona Lisa", Torres is drugged and led to believe he killed someone in cold blood. [63] After Ari released him, Gerald was not seen again until "Kill Ari (Part 2)" and was replaced by Jimmy Palmer. In the next episode "True Believer", after rescuing kidnapped girls in Afghanistan, Sloane decides to stay there instead and help others in need, sharing a goodbye kiss with Gibbs. A petty officer she had called for help dies at the hands of an unknown assassin. 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. He had a brief appearance in the episode "Kill Screen" and returned in the season nine episode "Need to Know" and the season 12 episode Lost Boys. In the beginning of season eight, in the episode "Spider and the Fly", he appears after four months by showing up at Gibbs' house to help him, the team, Vance, and Jackson Gibbs destroy Paloma and Alejandro once and for all. In Season 18, his wife, Breena, dies from COVID-19. As indicated in the episode "Seadog", she is the adopted child of deaf parents, though she does not find out she is adopted until season nine when she learns that she has a biological brother (with whom she reconnects in season ten). 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. Most of the team either ignore Ed or quietly tolerate his rudeness out of respect for Palmer and his guest. He has also killed victims in Guam, Japan, Norfolk, Washington, D.C. and was in the process of killing another victim in Hawaii before being interrupted by CIA operative Trent Kort. 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. Gibbs, McGee and Bishop are trapped and need Tony to locate and rescue them. Quinn is extremely concerned about her wellbeing, especially as she eavesdrops on her asking MI6 officer Clayton Reeves to translate the files Qasim was assigned to assist the case. then goes into hiding to escape Stratton's attention, leaving both NCIS and Stratton looking for her. However, Alejandro makes one huge mistake when he arrives at NCIS and later threatens Abby, prompting the entire team, including Leon Vance, to have him removed. Vance survived, but was hospitalized. After Alejandro accidentally kills Paloma, mistaking her for Gibbs, and is arrested, Hart mails the report back to Vance, who then puts it in storage. The beautiful/tender tension between them was portrayed so well by Cote de Pablo and Rocky Carroll. Jeanne Benoit (later Jeanne Woods) (Scottie Thompson) first appears in the episode "Sandblast" as Tony DiNozzo's new girlfriend. Special Agent Michelle Lee (Liza Lapira) first appears in the episode "Shalom". They make excuses for working late and are seen entering and exiting the underside of the autopsy table. . Quinn met Gibbs when he was a part of the team investigating her partner's death. Joanna Teague (Mimi Rogers) is a senior CIA officer. Later, Bell tries to kill Mike Franks but Paloma needs him alive as leverage so she orders Dean to kill Bell and bring back Franks' severed finger. NCIS: Season 6, Episode 18 - Rotten Tomatoes They make it a point to keep these dealings confidential, arguing that "what Gibbs doesn't know can't hurt us". 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]. Gibbs initially believes Bell's body is actually Franks, but Dean confesses to the murder, leaving the fate of Franks and his family unknown until "Rule Fifty-One". He works for the CIA; while he usually manages to avoid getting caught for illegalities, he nevertheless almost always has his own agenda. They turn to Gibbs for help and E.J. ("Frame Up"). Color key: Template:Col-start Template:Col-4 . Executive Producer Gary Glasberg described Monroe as "full of fire and cynicism and sarcasm and wit and energy and is extremely experienced". 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. The show rarely mentions her mother, Rivka, who taught her to drive; all that is known is that her mother is deceased and that she does not have the same mother as Ari. Special Agent Ned Dorneget (Matt L. Jones) is a probationary agent first introduced in the Season 9 episode "Sins of the Father". There is a great deal of romantic tension between Tony and Ziva. 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. In the Season 11 episode "Homesick", Jackie's estranged biological father Lamar Addison shows up at the family home, much to Vance's displeasure. The strained relationship between Gibbs and Jackson starts to mend after they bond during the case and they get an insight into what the other is feeling. In the distant past, prior to her appointment to Mossad, Orli had an affair with Eli David that led to the dissolution of his marriage to Rivka David. Is Vance still the Director of NCIS? - Cowetaamerican.com However, everyone finds out because he was speaking in front of a mic, and Ducky congratulates him. Two doctors go missing, one of whom is Jeanne's husband. He is killed in the episode "Last Man Standing" by Agent Michelle Lee, and initially suspected of being a mole.