His fate is left ambiguous and whether he is killed or captured in the attack is unknown. The safehouse is empty, and Cole is apprehended. He responds "No, you don't we're good. Barrett. Jackie and Vance met while attending a University of Maryland basketball game where Len Bias was playing. 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. NIS believes he is bribing sailors for intelligence. 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]. In season 14 it is revealed that Tali and Tony like Paris so much they'll stay indefinitely. Franks, who is outside at the time of the shooting, returns to Jenny's house, where Natasha is trying to kill Gibbs, and Franks shoots her. When she left in "Two Steps Back", she didn't say goodbye to him in person because of this and instead expressed her reasons for leaving in a letter. Joanna Teague (Mimi Rogers) is a senior CIA officer. Vance responds that Ziva is a plant, used to get Mossad a foothold in NCIS through Gibbs. 100% Upvoted. He works for the CIA; while he usually manages to avoid getting caught for illegalities, he nevertheless almost always has his own agenda. In the season eight finale, "Pyramid", it is revealed that E.J. She confronts him, saying, "I'm aware there are three billion men in the world, and not all of them have to want me, but you should want me, and the fact that you don't makes me wonder why I ever wanted you." 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. I'm sure Agent DiNozzo wouldn't mind helping them with their homework." "Really?" Kayla said, her excitement evident in her . 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. Tonight's new episode of NCIS had a heartbreaking ending that most didn't see coming. Due to the past investigation, their relationship was volatile until the OSP's operational psychologist Nate Getz revealed to Gibbs that Macy had been protecting him for eighteen years by covering up the evidence. NCIS Season 9 - The Good Son (episode). Fornell's daughter, Emily, has dealt with addiction over the past several seasons. 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". Alden Parker is the current Supervisory Special Agent of the NCIS Major Case Response Team and a former FBI Special Agent. He has a picture of himself on his desk as a reminder of a woman he loved but lost to cancer as a teenager. He also strikes up a friendly rivalry with Clayton Reeves, and they both try to one-up each otherfrom undercover tactics to arm-wrestling contests. She is Gibbs' former partner and lover. for the past year, she and Tony reconcile, and she returns to her home on vacation. Gibbs leaves the door open for her, having finally warmed to her. 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". In the episode "In the Dark", she returns from choosing her successor and is upset to find that Gibbs has worked through the night to fix her home's plumbing, seeing it as a sign that he does not want to stick around. She was wounded in the attempt, but recovered and later coerced the man who wanted her dead to confess. Later, after the case is closed, Tony returns to Jeanne's office to find her alone after a fight with her husband regarding her unresolved feelings for Tony. She is similar to Gibbs; both are coffee drinkers, liking it the same way, and workaholics with a strong sense of duty to their jobs. Shepard tells him "protect yourself" in true devotion to her father and hands him her gun, although it is later shown that he doesn't take it, as Gibbs is there in the same room to see what really happened that night. [36] However, when this failed, McAllister assigned Gibbs, Shepard, and Decker to eliminate Zhukov to tie up loose ends and set up another scheme to have Vance and Eli eliminated. Jared Vance (son) Michael Thomas (brother-in-law) Lamar Addison (father . "Hereafter" is the fifteenth episode of the tenth season of the American police procedural drama NCIS, and the 225th episode overall. 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. In the episode "Blowback", when confronting "Goliath" on the plane about "ARES", Gibbs reveals he is a Virgo. [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. The series premiered on . When one of the killer's victims is found within the MCRT's jurisdiction, Vance puts together a task force to capture the killer, appointing Barrett as lead investigator. 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. 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. Sarah 4 episodes, 2019-2020 Patrick Labyorteaux . Shepard and Ziva have a working relationship prior to Shepard's being appointed Director of NCIS. He is asked to leave the U.S. by NCIS agent in charge in Los Angeles, Lara Macy and later by DiNozzo, both of them citing laws that prohibit foreign intelligence operatives from working in the United States. Later, he and a few other FBI agents are sent to arrest Gibbs after he had been "avoiding the law for so long", but he has a change of heart at the end of "Great Wide Open" when he decides not to arrest Gibbs. )[clarification needed] (David McCallum) was the chief medical examiner at NCIS and an old friend of Gibbs. After attempting to arrest an intoxicated Rivkin for the murders of the ICE agent and the terrorist handler NCIS was tracking, a struggle ensues and Tony shoots Rivkin in self-defense. He attended Ohio State University as a physical education major and was a member of the "Alpha Chi Delta" fraternity, class of 1989. [30] While she and Gibbs were stationed in Europe, Gibbs was ordered back to the US and she was offered her own section in Europe. He also bears some resemblance to Timothy McGee, causing Anthony DiNozzo and Abby Sciuto to refer to him as McGee's "evil doppelgnger". He scatters Tony, McGee, and Ziva to various departments and assigns Gibbs a new team in the Season 6 premiere "Last Man Standing" upon being named director; however, it is later revealed that he did this to flush out a mole in the agency. Eventually, he is confronted and killed by Reeves and the NCIS team and FBI agent Tess Monroe when they arrive on the scene and confront him over his actions. Gibbs finally starts to forgive his father when he learns that he has finished restoring the car that had been Gibbs' only dream during his teenage years. Gibbs is the first person he reveals this to. Jarvis later dies in the Season 11 premiere episode, "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" where he is the victim of a bombing; his death leaves Vance devastated. When a "John Doe" is donated to science and Ducky finds mercury in his brain, he is outraged that the medical examiner who performed the autopsy did not think to check his brain before donating him. Mallard is a kind but eccentric character who often talks to the deceased ("their bodies tell me a great deal; it helps to reciprocate"[16]) and rambles to the living with long personal remembrances or historical accounts. Jessica Knight(Katrina Law) is an NCIS Special Agent, who was formerly assigned to the REACT Unit in the Washington Navy Yard. McGee asks Gibbs why he calls Tony 'Honey'. Director Shepard's investigation of La Grenouille almost ruins a CIA sting operation to get a faulty weapon system into Iranian hands. [9] In the season nine finale, "Till Death Do Us Part", a bomb blast at NCIS headquarters occurs with Tony and Ziva in the elevator. 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. Once the threat against her is eliminated, Ziva goes home to Paris to reunite with Tony and Tali. However, in the episode "Two-Faced", it is revealed that Barrett is stationed in Washington to track a serial killer known as the "Port-to-Port Killer" (or P2P for short). At the same time, he begins to doubt his own innocence, wondering what the difference between him and a cold-blooded killer is. Morrow later informs Vance that a terrorist group, the Brotherhood of Doubt, are responsible for the bombing and are targeting former NCIS Special Agent Ziva David. 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. Vance consults Gibbs, who tells him that Jackie was most likely afraid that Vance would die in the line of duty, and prepared accordingly, since Shannon did the same thing when he was in the Marine Corps. His wife states that Vance attended the United States Naval Academy and was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in the Marine Corps, but was forced to take a medical discharge before ever serving due to surgery to repair a detached retina suffered during his boxing career. He and Director Vance have shared a history since a time in Amsterdam when Eli saved his life from the attempts of a Russian hit squad. When she is first introduced, Tony and the rest of the team are turned off by her germaphobic behaviour: reluctance to shake hands, wiping down phones with wet wipes before using them. She assists Gibbs' team in keeping watch on communications, and speaks fluent Arabic and Kurdish. Gibbs deduces, correctly, that the only person Ducky would "stick his neck out" for would be the director. Cobb is killed before he can kill any of the hostages. 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. During this time, she also runs out of nail-polish, thus leaving her pedicure on her dad incomplete. She also mentioned an unnamed uncle who breeds Arabian horses,[31] and this might be the same brother that Eli David mentions who wanted to buy her a pony when she was younger.[32]. He serves as a field computer consultant and occasionally assists Abby in the lab. in the stomach and Tony in his shoulder. 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. As with most newbies, Chip ends up being the butt of Tony's jokes and is told off by Gibbs for lack of concentration on several occasions. Barrett congratulates Jimmy on his engagement, and in the season nine premiere "Nature of the Beast", Ziva says that they are getting married next spring. Gibbs blamed his father's affairs for his mother leaving. 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. 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. When first introduced, DiNozzo and McGee quickly notice her wedding band, but she remains coy when asked about her marital status. He is aware that what he does is evil, but maintains that his actions have been for the greater good. Diane Sterling (formerly Gibbs, Fornell) (Melinda McGraw) is the first ex-wife of Leroy Jethro Gibbs, the ex-wife of FBI Special Agent Tobias Fornell and DHS Special Agent Victor Sterling, and the mother of Emily Fornell. Gibbs and he spend much time together, including when Gibbs provides help for a science project. She first appears in "Hiatus" (Part 1). It is eventually revealed that Gibbs' resentment for his father came from the difficult relationship between his parents. However, Cade knows nothing about it and all three realize that they have been used. [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. Until season six, Ducky lived with his aging mother Victoria and her corgis. 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. McGee later buys an engagement ring, with the intent of proposing to Delilah. Delilah Fielding-McGee (Margo Harshman) is a Department of Defense analyst and McGee's girlfriend and later his wife. Lamar Addison is a man who is the father of Jackie Vance and Michael Thomas, father-in-law of NCIS Director Leon Vance as well as the grandfather of Kayla Vance and Jared Vance . He's still a parent after all. 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 later revealed that Ziva has been allowing herself to be the target of Cassidy's anger in order to help her through the ordeal of losing her team. 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. After his son left to join the Marines, Jackson Gibbs continued to live in the town of Stillwater, Pennsylvania. Although he comes across as crass and uncaring, Franks has been known to be very devious and sneaky, even hiding the fact that he had a son, though Gibbs helps hide his granddaughter and the girl's mother. Until season 19's "Face the Strange", Harmon was the only main actor to appear in every episode of the series. Gibbs later offers her a probationary position as a Special Agent in "Monsters and Men", affectionately referring to her as "probie" for the first time, officially filling the open position left by Ziva David. Following Gibbs' return early on in the season she is transferred to the legal department and is frequently seen delivering warrants to the team, also having a covert intimate relationship with the medical examiner's assistant, Jimmy Palmer. She attended Harvard and attained a business degree, before becoming a career politician. Being undercover for so long has given him a range of skills such as close combat training, but his methods are a bit unpredictable: e.g., such as drawing a gunman's attention by jumping onto a poker table with McGee holding them at gunpoint. In the same episode, it is revealed that Bell was working for the Reynosa drug cartel. Colonel Merton Bell (Robert Patrick) is a former Army tank unit commander and the President of First Defense PMC, the largest security and bounty hunting firm in the U.S. and the main antagonist of season seven. She writes a note to Eleanor Bishop, asking her to keep her secret. He flatlines once, and the experience leads Bishop to hint at her feelings for him. She drives a red Mini Cooper but at the end of season ten, she sells the Mini and replaces it with an Inferno Orange Metallic V6 Camaro convertible. 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). It is revealed in the episode "Aliyah" by Director Vance that Ziva had been under orders to kill Ari, as he was out of control and planning a massive terrorist attack, and to gain Gibbs' trust in the process, which ended whatever secret Gibbs and Ziva could keep from the rest of NCIS. In the season 10 episode "Shabbat Shalom", Vance is widowed when his wife Jackie is shot and dies in surgery. 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. The episode is written by Nicole Mirante-Matthews and directed by Tony Wharmby, and was seen by 21.08 million viewers. It is implied that they share a kiss at the end of one episode. Meanwhile Director Vance, still on an administrative leave of absence following the murder of his wife Jackie, discovers that she had secretly set up her own bank account and hired a lawyer to draft a Separation of Property letter. Director Vance hints that she may have been headed for a death sentence had she survived as punishment for having committed treason against the United States with her actions. In the Season 11 episode "Homesick", Jackie's estranged biological father Lamar Addison shows up at the family home, much to Vance's displeasure. Cassie Yates (Tamara Taylor), an NCIS special agent, first appears in the episode "SWAK" and again in the episode "Jeopardy". Pain, he gave Javid and a number of other prisoners a lethal injection of morphine to save them from a slow and painful death. Lieutenant Commander Faith Coleman (Alicia Coppola) is a prosecutor for the Judge Advocate General's office. 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. Most of the team either ignore Ed or quietly tolerate his rudeness out of respect for Palmer and his guest. As a running gag in season 17, Sloane is often teased that she and Gibbs are in a relationship by members of the team. Bishop is horrified and the two separate, with Bishop going home to Oklahoma to get some distance. 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. 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. However, as they part, they both stand up and have a tense moment where they nearly kiss, but both agree it should not go any further. 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. 0. McGee is also a writer, writing mystery crime novels including a national bestseller, Deep Six: The Continuing Adventures of L.J. then reveals that Levin asked her to bring the microchip to Navy Captain Felix Wright if anything happened to him. He also convinces Gibbs to seek counseling and eventually is able to make an introduction to his therapist, Grace Confalone. The compelling conclusion tied up Vance's story nicely, with Gibbs making him realize that Jackie was merely preparing her kids and herself for a time when Vance wouldn't be around. Jake Malloy (Jamie Bamber) is NCIS Agent Ellie Bishop's ex-husband and an attorney for the National Security Agency. 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. Ari's motivation for his actions is his hatred of his father, who groomed him from birth to be a spy within Al-Qaeda, and was very likely the reason why Gibbs later suspects him in "Twilight" to be the head of an Al-Qaeda cell in Washington, D.C. After murdering Special Agent Kate Todd in the episode "Twilight" and mounting several further attacks on NCIS members (including Gibbs) in the episodes "Kill Ari (Part I)" and "Kill Ari (Part 2)", his reign of terror finally comes to an end when he is killed by his half-sister, Mossad officer Ziva David, who is later offered and accepts a position at NCIS as Mossad liaison officer. Initially described as "an eccentric businessman whose son was killed in a terrorist bombing",[55] he appears as a domestic terrorist, out for revenge against the Navy due to the death of his son, Evan, which is revealed in "Up in Smoke". LJ revealed to Gibbs that he, Jackson and the latter's wife Ann were friends growing up and both men fell in love with Ann. She states that she had texted Tony to let him know that it's safe, but no response. In the episode "Page Not Found", McGee confides in Tony that he is planning to ask Delilah to move in with him; Delilah later reveals to Tony that she wants to take a job opening for a senior intelligence analyst, which would require her to move to Dubai for a year. 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. After a day of trying to avoid her, Rebecca then arrives at Gibbs' house, apologizing for cheating on him during their marriage. The pilots' reunion is the subject of the eleventh season's episode Better Angels. Jenny and Gibbs are reunited in "Kill Ari (Part I)", which stirs Gibbs' heart and opens up constant flirtation between her and Gibbs. She later admits to Shepard that she lied out of anger at Tony for breaking her heart by lying about his identity and his intentions. Vance and Gibbs clash during this span, prompting a cold war between them, which ends with a dtente in "Agent Afloat" at the start of season six. Despite initially believing that Ari is innocent, she fatally shoots him when he attempts to kill Gibbs, earning the latter's trust. She was replaced at NCIS by Ziva David.[6]. 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. in "Housekeeping". Supervisory Special Agent Paula Cassidy (Jessica Steen) is a criminal profiler for NCIS, who first appears in the episode "Minimum Security". A lance corporal collapses and dies on an obstacle course at the MCB, Quantico, Virginia; Gibbs and company investigate; Ducky sees many wounds. Supervisory Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) was born in Stillwater, Pennsylvania to Jackson and Ann Gibbs. Her younger sister, Tali David, was killed in a Hamas terrorist attack against Israel at the age of sixteen. Later, she requests a liaison assignment to NCIS, and joins Gibbs' 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. 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. Parker accepts after the events of "Face the Strange", filling the Supervisory Agent position that Gibbs had for 25 years. (Bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico.) Jenny's cause of death given to the media is reported as "death in home fire". Paloma Reynosa, daughter of Pedro Hernandez and head of the cartel, plans to use Bell's vendetta against Gibbs to have her revenge for her father's death. Jackson served as a pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. She makes two quick cameos in Seasons 2 and 3 before making a full appearance in "Twisted Sister". Jared goaded, "She wanted to meet him." "I did not!" "Did too!" "All right! 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. He asks Gibbs to be the executor of his will. She orders Dean to kill Bell as she no longer needs him. 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. 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. 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. DiNozzo steps in and wants to arrest Cade, and reveals that he was the agent selling top-secret information. Her most recent appearance is in the season eleven "Double Back", when she psychologically evaluates McGee after a bombing leaves his girlfriend Delilah paralyzed. Kayla and Jared Vance. 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. Both of his parents were medical doctors; Ari's mother, Hasmia Haswari, was Palestinian and his father, Dr. Benjamin Weinstein (actually Eli David using an alias), was Israeli. In season twelve, Zoe and Tony meet during an investigation into a jihadist group. While Gibbs and McGee were held prisoner in Paraguay between seasons 14 and 15, Bishop, as the ranking agent, served as Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) of the Major Case Response Team; she retained command until Gibbs was medically and psychologically cleared for duty. He then opens fire on the safe house with a submachine gun, believing Gibbs and his father to be in it. Late in season 15, MI6 Agent Clayton Reeves was killed while protecting Abby from a supposed mugger. The mother of Ned Dorneget, Teague works with both DiNozzo and Gibbs in the aftermath of his death. 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 "The Good Wives Club", it is revealed that Jimmy is claustrophobic; when he is entering the enclosed hallway he is seen sweating profusely and when he has to go get the body bag he freaks out about having to go back through it. The last we see of Director David is Ziva holding his body while sobbing and praying in her native Hebrew. In "Outlaws and In-Laws", Gibbs is stated to be godfather to Leyla's daughter Amira. He preferred to be referred to as Haswari in school instead of Ari. 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. [citation needed]. His investigation centers on a microchip Barrett extracted from the body of Gayne Levin, who also served in Phantom Eight, but wound up the last murder victim of Lt. Jonas Cobb, the Port-to-Port Killer. To play the young Vance, Rocky Carroll underwent make-up procedures that he described as "a little instant facelift". 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. 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. The team is called to investigate the death of a Marine private during training and discovers he had suffered a number of wounds from repeated beatings and stabbings.