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NCIS (season 1)
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Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	23
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	September 23, 2003 – May 25, 2004
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List of NCIS episodes

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The first season of the American police procedural drama NCIS was originally broadcast between September 23, 2003 and May 25, 2004 on CBS. The first season dealt with introducing the characters and their strengths, skills, and weaknesses. Three recurring characters are also introduced: the main foe for the first two seasons, Ari Haswari; Special AgentTimothy McGee and Jimmy Palmer who replaces Gerald Jackson, Ducky's assistant, after he was shot. The season also introduces Sasha Alexander as Special Agent Caitlin Todd who serves as Special Agent Vivian Blackadder's (Robyn Lively) replacement, who was a member of Gibbs' team during the two-partJAGbackdoor pilot.

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Mark Harmon as Leroy Jethro Gibbs, NCIS Senior Special Agent (SSA) assigned to Washington's Navy Yard
Sasha Alexander as Caitlin Todd,NCIS Special Agent
Michael Weatherly as Anthony DiNozzo, NCIS Senior Agent, second in command
Pauley Perrette as Abigail Sciuto, Forensic Specialist for NCIS
David McCallum as Dr. Donald Mallard, Chief Medical Examiner for NCIS

Recurring[edit]

Alan Dale as Thomas Morrow, NCIS Director
Alicia Coppola as Faith Coleman, JAG Commander
Joe Spano as Tobias Fornell, FBI Senior Special Agent
Pancho Demmings as Gerald Jackson, Assistant Medical Examiner for NCIS and Ducky's first assistant
Joel Gretsch as Stan Burley, NCIS Special Agent and former member of Gibbs' team
Sean Murray as Timothy McGee, NCIS Probationary Agent who works at the Norfolk Naval Base
Jessica Steen as Paula Cassidy, NCIS Senior Special Agent
Tim Kelleher as Chris Pacci, NCIS Special Agent
Rudolf Martin as Ari Haswari, rogue Mossad Agent
Brian Dietzen as Jimmy Palmer, Assistant Medical Examiner for NCIS and temporary replacement for Gerald after he gets shot

Guest appearances[edit]

Patrick Labyorteaux as Bud Roberts, JAG Lieutenant from Falls Church
Adam Baldwin as Michael Rainer, Navy Commander
Eric Ladin as P.O. Thompson

Episodes[edit]

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	1	'Yankee White'	Donald P. Bellisario	Teleplay by: Donald P. Bellisario Story by: Donald P. Bellisario & Don McGill	September 23, 2003	101	13.04^[1]
While on Air Force One, a Navy commander, Ray Trapp (Gerald Downey) who was tasked with carrying the 'football' dies under mysterious circumstances, forcing an emergency landing in Wichita, Kansas. But while his death is originally thought to be a tragic accident, NCIS eventually uncovers evidence suggesting the commander was in fact murdered and that it might be connected to a possible assassination attempt on the President.
2	2	'Hung Out to Dry'	Alan J. Levi	Don McGill	September 30, 2003	102	12.08^[2]
A Marine (Brian Patrick Wade) dies during a night-time training jump. The culprit seems to be a faulty parachute, but standard investigation reveals that the death might not have been an accident after all. Gibbs begins to believe that the supposed accident which resulted in the Marine's death might actually be murder after all and he and Tony, along with new recruit Kate Todd, set out to find out who tampered with the dead Marine's faulty parachute and eventually sent him to his death. Note: This is the first crossover with JAG in this series, with the appearance of Lt. Bud Roberts Jr. (Patrick Labyorteaux).
3	3	'Seadog'	Bradford May	John C. Kelley & Donald P. Bellisario	October 7, 2003	103	11.26^[3]
When a driver-less boat and several bodies, including that of a Navy commander, wash up on the beach, seemingly during a freelance drug deal gone sour, the media is quick to link him to drug trafficking and the evidence stacks up. Being a former Marine himself, Gibbs refuses to believe that a good officer could be so corrupt. In his efforts to clear the commander's record and good name, Gibbs uncovers a turf war between two rival drug gangs and a terrorist's scheme to knock out the national power grid. The NCIS team is aided in its investigation by a DEA Agent (played by William R. Moses), and FBI Special Agent Tobias Fornell.
4	4	'The Immortals'	Alan J. Levi	Darcy Meyers	October 14, 2003	104	11.70^[4]
The discovery of a drowned sailor in dress whites, with an officer's ceremonial sword and weights chained to his waist, sparks a suicide investigation and eventually sends the team to the USS Foster so that they can dig into the deceased officer's life and find out what his colleagues thought of him. Kate refuses to believe that the deceased sailor committed suicide as, like her, he came from a Catholic family where suicide is considered a mortal sin. Meanwhile Abby discovers a link between the crew of the USS Foster and an MMORPG known as The Immortals, and begins searching the game for clues to help Gibbs and the team solve the case and save the ship from possible destruction.
5	5	'The Curse'	Terrence O'Hara	Teleplay by: Don McGill & Jeff Vlaming & Donald P. Bellisario Story by: Donald P. Bellisario	October 28, 2003	105	13.50^[5]
Gibbs and the team are called in when a mummified lieutenant, who was believed to have absconded with 1.2 million dollars of stolen Navy funds nine years previously and later received a dishonorable discharge for allegedly deserting his position, is found in a half-buried cargo pod with Navy markings on it by a deer hunter deep in the woods of St. Mary's River State Park. Two former shipmates who served with the deceased come under suspicion for both the murder and the theft. Gibbs and Tony work at investigating the murder, while Kate is charged with tracking down the missing funds, although she is more devoted to ensuring the dead lieutenant's former wife and young daughter receive his death benefits. Abby uses a computer reconstruction to work a confession out of a possible suspect.
6	6	'High Seas'	Dennis Smith	Teleplay by: Jeff Vlaming & Larry Moskowitz Story by: Jeff Vlaming	November 4, 2003	106	11.77^[6]
One of Gibbs's former team members, NCIS Special Agent Stan Burley, who is on board the USS Enterprise investigating a case, calls for assistance when a sailor suffers a meth overdose while on leave, despite the sailor in question claiming that he's never taken the drug. Gibbs, Tony, and Kate fly out to investigate. Not long after their arrival, another sailor is admitted to sickbay under the same circumstances and later dies. The team also discovers that the crew is unusually efficient and several senior crew members are behaving strangely.
7	7	'Sub Rosa'	Michael Zinberg	George Schenck & Frank Cardea	November 18, 2003	107	13.21^[7]
NCIS Norfolk Case Agent Timothy McGee works on a case of a partially dissolved corpse found in a barrel of acid at the Norfolk Naval Base, and calls in the Major Case Response Team to help him. As the investigation continues, it soon becomes apparent that the killer took steps to prevent the body from being identified. Gibbs quickly comes to believe that the motive for the brutal murder was identity theft and his suspicions are further confirmed when it is revealed that although a submariner is dead, no one has been reported missing, leading Gibbs to believe that an impostor is on one of the submarines. Tony, Abby, and McGee are tasked with identifying the deceased, while Gibbs and Kate are sent underwater on a submarine to vet five possible suspects, one of whom might have been responsible for the murder and to also prevent a possible sarin attack from taking place.
8	8	'Minimum Security'	Ian Toynton	Philip DeGuere, Jr. & Donald P. Bellisario	November 25, 2003	108	12.71^[8]
The team heads for Cuba when Ducky and Gerald discover that a dead translator from Gitmo they have been working on has a stomach full of emeralds. NCIS Special Agent Paula Cassidy turns out to be deceitful to Tony when he is ordered to investigate her involvement, while Gibbs and Kate try to discover where the emeralds came from, how they ended up in their translator's stomach, and prevent the assassination of an important prisoner with links to Osama Bin Laden.
9	9	'Marine Down'	Dennis Smith	John C. Kelley	December 16, 2003	109	12.03^[9]
The team is called to investigate when a dead Marine's wife receives a phone call from her husband who supposedly died under suspicious circumstances. However, the case is complicated when someone impersonates the Marine's CO and Tony. As the investigation continues, the Marine turns up embalmed, having been killed two days after his funeral supposedly took place. Gibbs suspects CIA involvement, and the team soon find themselves tracking a rogue operative who killed the first Marine as a part of a cover-up in regards to a classified mission that ended in disaster and is now attempting to kill off the dead Marine's partner to make sure that the investigation is wrapped up while he flees with the money the CIA previously paid in an attempt to save the two kidnapped Marines. As such, the team find themselves racing against the clock as they attempt to rescue the deceased Marine's partner before another murder takes place and take down the rogue CIA agent once and for all.
10	10	'Left for Dead'	James Whitmore Jr.	Teleplay by: Don McGill & Donald P. Bellisario Story by: Don McGill	January 6, 2004	110	14.51^[10]
Kate immediately develops a close, personal bond with a young woman (Sherilyn Fenn) suffering from amnesia after she wakes up and crawls from her grave in a national park following a possible murder attempt. Her memory is completely blank but the woman or 'Jane Doe' claims to remember that a bomb is present on a Navy ship and that people will die unless it is found, leading Gibbs and the team on a hunt for the bomb and also to find Jane's true identity. But unknown to Kate and the team, Jane is actually lying to Kate as she is already beginning to secretly remember her past and is probably planning something to strike back against her employers, something that might end in bloodshed not only for her but could affect Gibbs and his team as well.
11	11	'Eye Spy'	Alan J. Levi	George Schenck & Frank Cardea & Dana Coen	January 13, 2004	111	14.00^[11]
NCIS is called in to investigate the murder of a naval officer at Little Creek Naval Base following an anonymous tip-off. McGee manages to track the tip-off to Langley, suggesting that the CIA has been spying on the base. Gibbs and Kate follow the tip-off, coming across a witness who leads the team to several possible suspects. At first the murder seems to be tied in with work the officer was involved in, but Gibbs soon begins to suspect that the motive for the death might not actually be espionage-related and that someone else might be the true killer.
12	12	'My Other Left Foot'	Jeff Woolnough	Jack Bernstein	February 3, 2004	112	12.31^[11]
When the severed leg of a marine is discovered in a dumpster, Gibbs and the team immediately run into a problem – identifying who the leg belongs to and finding the rest of his body. Kate and Tony are ordered to find the marine's place of burial and exhume the body, only to discover that the marine to whom the leg belongs to was apparently cremated years ago by a very distraught woman claiming to be the deceased marine's sister. Gibbs talks to an old Marine buddy of his and discovers that there is more to this 'sister' than meets the eye. The NCIS team decide to investigate closer to home where they uncover a mother and daughter who are both guarding a deep secret.
13	13	'One Shot, One Kill'	Peter Ellis	Gil Grant	February 10, 2004	113	13.18^[12]
When an over-embellishing marine recruiter is killed, the NCIS team quickly discover that a highly intelligent and skilled sniper was behind the attack. Initially, the team believes the sniper had a grudge against the recruiter, but when a second attack occurs the investigation takes on a wider scope and as a result, the FBI are called in, bringing Gibbs into direct conflict with his old friend Fornell. After hitting several dead ends, the team realize that the killer had left a 'calling card' in the form of a white feather at each scene and was most likely targeting recruiters in revenge for being rejected by the Corps. Hoping to lure out the killer, Gibbs dons his old Marine uniform and takes over the recruitment office with Kate as his new 'commanding officer', while DiNozzo and the FBI team lie in wait.
14	14	'The Good Samaritan'	Alan J. Levi	Jack Bernstein	February 17, 2004	114	13.49^[13]
A local county sheriff calls in NCIS upon discovering a murdered lieutenant commander by the roadside, quickly followed by the murder of a civilian contractor two counties over. As the team struggle to find a motive or suspects for either case, another murder occurs; this time a naval aviator. Ducky points out that while the murders appear to follow the same modus operandi and seem to have been carried out by a serial killer, some elements are different, indicating that the murders were not carried out by the same individual which suggests that there is a copycat on the loose. A DNA sample draws suspicion onto the widow of the third victim, but she has an iron-clad alibi, leaving Gibbs and the team with a complex investigation and many loose ends to tie up.
15	15	'Enigma'	Thomas J. Wright	John C. Kelley	February 24, 2004	115	12.14^[14]
Gibbs puts his career on the line after finding out that a marine colonel, William Ryan (Terry O'Quinn) who also happens to be his former CO has absconded from Iraq with two million dollars, and returned to the States under an assumed name. The FBI, led by Fornell, believe that he staged the ambush and stole the money for himself while Gibbs denies the claim, believing he is innocent. Ryan later contacts Gibbs, and explains that he has discovered a conspiracy to siphon funds out of Iraq for use on black ops while vehemently denying any responsibility. Gibbs finds himself in a delicate situation as he realizes that Ryan is mentally unstable after the latter kept mentioning a 'Lt. Cameron', Gibbs's former companyXO who had died in his arms years ago. Gibbs later learns that Lt. Cameron is alive, but only in Ryan’s head and is working with Ryan to stop the conspiracy. After being arrested for 'pissing off the FBI', Gibbs, along with Fornell, set out to discover the truth behind the Colonel's claims in a tense standoff and discover that Ryan had indeed been framed. With the truth out and the standoff over, Ryan is admitted into a mental hospital so that he can be treated for his paranoid schizophrenia.
16	16	'Bête Noire'	Peter Ellis	Donald P. Bellisario	March 2, 2004	116	12.82^[15]
Ducky responds to an emergency call when the Israeli Embassy sends a Royal Navy officer to NCIS for autopsy, only to find a gunman (revealed in later episodes to be recurring antagonist Ari Haswari) inside the body bag. As Ducky, Gerald and eventually Kate are held hostage in the autopsy lab, the director and Gibbs coordinate with an FBI strike team to negotiate their release. Meanwhile, Kate questions herself after she hesitates when presented with an opportunity to kill her captor, while Gibbs and Tony assist with the hostage rescue team. Haswari asks for Gibbs in the autopsy lab and challenges him to try and shoot him.
17	17	'The Truth is Out There'	Dennis Smith	Jack Bernstein	March 16, 2004	117	13.29^[16]
During a rave party, the body of a petty officer falls through the ceiling. Preliminary investigation suggests that the petty officer was killed in the nearby parking lot, and was dressed after his death. Upon checking the victim's room, evidence surfaces that he might have been taking financial bribes or someone else may have been blackmailing him. Gibbs suspects the victim's co-workers of involvement in the death when their separate versions of events are too consistent. Forensic evidence links them to the scene, and they eventually confess that their coworker's death was a result of a prank gone wrong. However, Gibbs believes that the petty officer's death was more than just an accident.
18	18	'UnSEALeD'	Peter Ellis	Thomas L. Moran	April 6, 2004	118	10.83^[17]
A former Navy SEAL convicted of double homicide escapes from Leavenworth, resulting in Kate and McGee being assigned to protect the son and in-laws of the escaped prisoner. During the night, the SEAL breaks into the house to see his son before fleeing, leaving Todd tied to a chair and unarmed, her weapon having been taken by the SEAL as a form of protection and to be possibly used in another crime of some sort. Using her profiling skills, Kate theorizes that he may actually be innocent and had discovered the identity of the real killer while in jail. At headquarters, the team has to contend with the antagonistic defense and prosecution attorneys, one of which is Lt. Commander Faith Coleman as they review the evidence in order to find the real murderer before the SEAL delivers his own brand of justice: revenge.
19	19	'Dead Man Talking'	Dennis Smith	George Schenck & Frank Cardea	April 27, 2004	119	11.64^[18]
Special Agent Chris Pacci is brutally murdered while investigating a cold case, prompting a guilt-ridden Gibbs to step in and take over the case while attempting to find Pacci's killer. Picking up from where Pacci left off with McGee's assistance, the team follows the trail of millions of dollars embezzled by Navy Lt. Cmdr. Hamilton Voss (who died before trial), and is led to a mysterious woman named Amanda Reed (Jamie Luner) who seems to appear near wherever Voss has been stationed. The agents take shifts conducting a stake-out on the woman's house, until Tony is caught raiding the mailbox. Forced to improvise, he introduces himself as a resident of the neighborhood and strikes up a conversation based on what he had heard via surveillance. This gives him a chance to get close to the suspect in order to find out more, as he goes on a successful date with her. Meanwhile, Abby makes a shocking discovery which turns the direction of the case and will give Kate something to mock Tony about for time to come.
20	20	'Missing'	Jeff Woolnough	John C. Kelley	May 4, 2004	120	10.13^[19]
The disappearance of a marine from a bar draws NCIS in to investigate, and it is discovered that several marines from the same unit have also vanished under similar circumstances. When skeletal remains of one of the missing men is found chained to a pipe in a small sewer room, Gibbs begins to suspect the unit CO (the only team member not dead or missing) as a serial killer. However, when Tony vanishes while tailing the CO from the unit, the investigation takes on a more frantic pace and McGee is called back in from Norfolk to help as Gibbs and Kate work against the clock to find Tony before it is too late. Tony wakes up in a room with the missing marine. Unfortunately, their only hope of finding Tony and the missing marine alive is an uncooperative journalist. Tony and the marine escape their cell and make their way through the sewer system, and soon come across his teammates; however, he and the marine are forced to keep moving because the killer is right behind them. The team ultimately uncovers a shocking truth about some petty matters of the EOD unit gone wrong over 12 years ago and that the survivor of the fatality was the serial killer. When Tony and the marine become cornered, the killer reveals herself, wanting revenge for what happened to her friends. It is further proved when she shots and kill's the unit CO in front of DiNozzo's eyes; however, thanks to DiNozzo and the team, they save the missing marine.
21	21	'Split Decision'	Terrence O'Hara	Bob Gookin	May 11, 2004	121	11.07^[20]
As Ducky meets his new assistant, Jimmy Palmer who is replacing the injured Gerald Jackson, Gibbs and the team handle the case of a marine found impaled on a tree stump after being shot with a SMAW. The investigation uncovers the sale of decommissioned military weapons on the black market. Tony goes undercover and meets the buyer, only to stumble into an undercover ATF operation. Working with ATF Special Agent Stone (Bellamy Young), Gibbs poses as a weapons supplier to complete the deal, and must double-cross everyone in order to find the corrupt person at the center of the investigation, and the one responsible for the marine's death.
22	22	'A Weak Link'	Alan J. Levi	Jack Bernstein	May 18, 2004	122	10.39^[21]
Routine training results in the death of a U.S. Navy SEAL lieutenant just days before he was due to deploy on a classified hostage rescue operation. The death is initially dismissed as an equipment malfunction, but Abby discovers that the link attaching the lieutenant to his rappelling rope was made of a weaker material than factory standard, suggesting sabotage and potentially murder. Pressure is applied by the CIA for the investigation to be wrapped up within 38 hours so the operation can continue or else the entire mission, which is of national security importance, will be scrubbed. As the case goes on, Gibbs discovers that the lieutenant had a secret, and that his wife might be holding back vital information about his death. Meanwhile, Abby deals with her relationship with McGee.
23	23	'Reveille'	Thomas J. Wright	Donald P. Bellisario	May 25, 2004	123	10.86^[22]
As Gibbs's obsession with tracking down the infiltrator who held Todd and Ducky hostage in 'Bête Noire' begins reaching new heights, the team grow more concerned about him. But when Kate is kidnapped and reunited with the terrorist, Gibbs's anger goes into overdrive as he pushes McGee and Tony to find out more information about the man responsible, not realizing that Kate's life might be in great danger.

DVD release[edit]

NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Services- The Complete First Season^[23]
Set details		Special features
23 Episodes 6-Disc Set English (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround) Commentary on 'Yankee White' by Co-Creator/Executive Producer/Writer/Director Donald P. Bellisario		N.C.I.S. Creating Season 1 N.C.I.S. Building the Team N.C.I.S. Defining the Look All the above-mentioned features are available only on the Region 1 DVD Set as the other Regions including Region 2 only have the episodes.
Release dates
Region 1	Region 2		Region 4
June 6, 2006^[24]	July 24, 2006^[25]		August 10, 2006^[26]

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NCIS (season 4)
Starring
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	24
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	September 19, 2006 – May 22, 2007
Season chronology
Next → Season 5
List of NCIS episodes

The fourth season of the police procedural drama NCIS was originally broadcast between September 19, 2006 and May 22, 2007. Special Agent Gibbs left NCIS at the end of season three after a terrorist attack had been successful because his superiors did not heed his warnings in time. The team is now led by DiNozzo for a short time until Gibbs' eventual return. New characters introduced in this season are Michelle Lee, who was briefly on DiNozzo's team and was transferred to the legal department upon Gibbs' return, and (already in the final episodes of season 3) Gibbs' former boss and mentor Mike Franks, both as recurring characters. Also, albeit later in the season, Army CID Lieutenant Colonel Hollis Mann is introduced as another love interest for Gibbs.

In December 2006, Bill Keveney from USA Today announced that the 'CBS investigative drama NCIS topped the Nielsen viewership list for the first time with 17.4 million. CBS was the No. 1 network in viewers and young adults (ages 18 to 49) for the week of Dec. 11–17.'^[1]

TV Guide reported on May 5, 2007 that creator and showrunner Donald Bellisario would step down and leave the series due to a disagreement with series star Mark Harmon.^[2] Because of Bellisario's 'chaotic management style', Harmon threatened to leave NCIS.^[3] Co-executive producer Chas. Floyd Johnson and head writer Shane Brennan replaced Bellisario as showrunner.^[2]

1Cast

Cast[edit]

Main[edit]

Mark Harmon as Leroy Jethro Gibbs, NCIS Senior Special Agent (SSA) assigned to Washington's Navy Yard
Michael Weatherly as Anthony DiNozzo, NCIS Special Agent, second in command
Cote de Pablo as Ziva David, Mossad officer and Liaison To NCIS
Pauley Perrette as Abigail Sciuto, Forensic Specialist attached to NCIS
Sean Murray as Timothy McGee, NCIS Special Agent
Lauren Holly as Jenny Shepard, NCIS Director
David McCallum as Dr. Donald Mallard, Chief Medical Examiner for NCIS

Recurring[edit]

Joe Spano as Tobias Fornell, FBI Senior Special Agent
Jessica Steen as Paula Cassidy, NCIS Senior Special Agent
Brian Dietzen as Jimmy Palmer, Assistant Medical Examiner for NCIS
Troian Bellisario as Sarah McGee (Tim McGee's sister)
Mary Mouser as Kelly Gibbs, Gibbs' deceased daughter
Stephanie Mello as Cynthia Summer, NCIS Secretary to Director Shepard
Muse Watson as Mike Franks, retired Senior Special Agent for NCIS (Gibbs' old boss)
Don Franklin as Ron Sacks, FBI Special Agent
Scottie Thompson as Jeanne Benoit, Tony's girlfriend while undercover
Armand Assante as Rene Benoit, NCIS target
Susanna Thompson as Hollis Mann, Gibbs' girlfriend and Army CID Agent
Liza Lapira as Michelle Lee, NCIS Special Agent
David Dayan Fisher as Trent Kort, CIA Agent
Enzo Cilenti as Mamoun Sharif, NCIS target
Payton Spencer as Emily Fornell (Tobias Fornell's daughter)

Episodes[edit]

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
71	1	'Shalom'	William Webb	Teleplay by: John C. Kelley Story by: Donald P. Bellisario & John C. Kelley	September 19, 2006	401	13.80^[4]
After witnessing a Mossad agent perform an assassination, which was not authorized by Mossad, Ziva is suspected by the FBI to be a double agent. Now a fugitive and on the run, Ziva is forced to ask for help from Gibbs, who is in Mexico after retiring from NCIS. Tony finds his leadership skills being tested to the limit as he and the rest of the team put their careers on the line, determined to prove her innocence before the FBI can arrest her.
72	2	'Escaped'	Dennis Smith	Teleplay by: Steven D. Binder Story: Christopher Silber & Steven D. Binder	September 26, 2006	402	14.12^[5]
A former petty officer, convicted of murder, escapes from prison and forces F.B.I. Special Agent Fornell to reopen his case in order to find the real culprit whilst claiming his own innocence. Fornell asks Gibbs, who had worked on the case before and is reinstated as an NCIS agent by Director Shepard, for help when his daughter is threatened. To his former team's disappointment, Gibbs insists that the reinstatement is only temporary. The team soon finds discrepancies in the petty officer's case and that he may have been framed.
73	3	'Singled Out'	Terrence O'Hara	David J. North	October 3, 2006	403	15.89^[6]
Gibbs returns to NCIS and leads his team to investigate the kidnapping of a Navy Lieutenant, who is a computer specialist. They discover that the Lieutenant had used her military knowledge to profile potential husbands and was attending speed dating events. When they suspect that the kidnapper may continue attending the event in order to avoid suspicion, Ziva goes undercover at a speed-dating event to identify him. In addition, Tony is offered a promotion – and his own team – as a reward for his performance as team leader while Gibbs was retired but declines and remains in Gibbs' team.
74	4	'Faking It'	Thomas J. Wright	Shane Brennan	October 10, 2006	404	15.86^[7]
Minutes after Metro Police traffic cops apprehend a man with a recently-fired gun, a car crashes behind them with a dead Petty Officer in the driver's seat and 'NCIS' written in his blood on the seat, leading the team to suspect the arrested man had shot the Petty Officer. Tony and Gibbs find out that the Petty Officer went undercover in an operation led by Gibbs' former mentor Mike Franks, who informs them that their suspect is a Russian terrorist involved in selling illegal weapons to Chechen rebels and other extremist terrorist groups but the case went cold when the CIA took over and the files 'went missing' from the NCIS evidence storeroom. The situation takes a delicate turn when Homeland Security claims the suspect is actually working for them.
75	5	'Dead and Unburied'	Colin Bucksey	Nell Scovell	October 17, 2006	405	15.92^[8]
When a missing lance corporal is found dead in a vacant house by a real-estate broker giving two potential buyers a tour, the NCIS team discovers that he was buried in the backyard and then exhumed. They also learn about his identity and that he was to be deployed to Iraq, but he never showed up for duty. The investigation leads them to a new clue – he had two fiancées who are aghast at learning that they were both engaged to the same man. Abby runs the DNA samples from the two women to find out if the DNA is a match to the soil found on the dead man's body and later finds out that the team are looking for a third woman who might have been sleeping with the victim.
76	6	'Witch Hunt'	James Whitmore Jr.	Steven Kriozere	October 31, 2006	407	15.94^[9]
It is Halloween, and the NCIS team is busy investigating a ransom case in which a Marine's daughter has been kidnapped after the kidnapper attacked the Marine in his home. The investigation leads them to a fact that the couple has been separated. They decide to focus on the wife's ex-boyfriend, after learning that the woman is the one who destroyed their marriage. Meanwhile, McGee and Tony are stunned by Abby's Halloween costume.
77	7	'Sandblast'	Dennis Smith	Robert Palm	November 7, 2006	406	15.44^[10]
When a Marine colonel dies in an explosion at a military golf course, the NCIS team must investigate a suspected terrorist attack with the help from the Army Criminal Investigative Division (CID). The CIA gives them a lead to an abandoned warehouse. However, things take a sinister turn when both NCIS and Army CID invade and discover that it is actually a trap – the warehouse is rigged with a bomb set to go off any second. Ziva goes against Gibbs' orders and is successful in defusing the bomb, preserving any evidence for both groups to use, but earns a brief reprimand from Gibbs for doing so. In the meantime, McGee uses his computer skills to break into the secret government files to uncover the terrorist cell while Tony embarks on a personal quest of his own as he attempts to stop the Marine colonel's son from dropping out of college and enlisting in hopes of avenging his father's death.
78	8	'Once a Hero'	Thomas J. Wright	Shane Brennan	November 14, 2006	408	15.80^[11]
A decorated Marine veteran falls from a floor of a hotel during a conference of agency directors (that included Jenny Shepard) while Tony and Ziva were on security detail and the NCIS team must find out what happened to him. Soon they realize that the Marine did not commit suicide and that he was homeless, having lost everything after being injured while serving in Iraq. Having gone through the victim's personal belongings, the team soon find compromising evidence against him but Gibbs is determined to prove the man's innocence by any means necessary.
79	9	'Twisted Sister'	Terrence O'Hara	Steven D. Binder	November 21, 2006	409	17.00^[12]
When McGee's younger sister Sarah shows up disoriented and bloodied at his door in the middle of the night, and claims that she may have killed someone, McGee takes matters into his own hands, beginning his own independent investigation. Sarah claims that she is innocent, but has no memory of the past several hours and refuses to go with McGee to NCIS. While McGee works on figuring out what happened to his sister, the NCIS team is investigating a case of a Navy sailor, who is somehow connected to McGee's sister. Both Tony and Abby are busy with love problems, while McGee turns out to have another secret.
80	10	'Smoked'	Dennis Smith	John C. Kelley & Robert Palm	November 28, 2006	410	17.96^[13]
A dead man in a chimney chute on a Marine base leads the team to discover a serial killer's burial ground. They believe that the dead man was the serial killer until Abby uncovers something which proves he might actually be a victim while the whole team are in for a shock when the true killer is finally revealed. Meanwhile, Tony helps the director with a special project and makes time for his girlfriend as well while Ducky talks to Gibbs about how he felt betrayed when Gibbs left and after a heart-to-heart the two eventually repair their friendship, and McGee deals with the team's reaction to their portrayal in his best-selling book.
81	11	'Driven'	Dennis Smith	Teleplay by: Richard C. Arthur & Nell Scovell & John C. Kelley Story by: Richard C. Arthur	December 12, 2006	411	17.39^[14]
The team is forced to attend a sexual harassment seminar but much to their relief, Gibbs receives a call that a Navy officer is found dead in a classified self-driven robotic vehicle she was working on developing for a potential DoD contractor. Although it initially looks like suicide, when Abby puts the vehicle through some tests, it nearly takes her life as well but thanks to Gibbs' efforts, she is saved from certain death although McGee is left guilt-ridden over what happened. They discover that someone rigged the vehicle to kill the passenger and make it appear to be suicide but the woman who was killed was not the intended target. While Gibbs is questioning the scientists involved in the contract, the vehicle 'escapes' from the garage and it is up to Abby and McGee to stop it from killing more people. Meanwhile, Tony visits the hospital to see his girlfriend and continues working on special projects for the Director. Ziva notices Tony getting calls from the hospital and begins worrying about his health.
82	12	'Suspicion'	Colin Bucksey	Shane Brennan	January 16, 2007	412	15.95^[15]
When a Marine is murdered in a small town hotel room, NCIS is called in to investigate. However, things take a nosedive when they learn that the local Sheriff's department already cleaned up the crime scene and performed an autopsy. They also have a suspect – an Iraqi national who just moved to the town a few months earlier. But NCIS later receive evidence suggesting that an active terrorist cell might be in play in the town, and the national is not quite the man they believe he is.
83	13	'Sharif Returns'	Terrence O'Hara	Steven D. Binder	January 23, 2007	413	14.83^[16]
When the NCIS team learns that the missing 10 kilograms of highly toxic chemical weapons are now in the hands of Mamoun Sharif (Enzo Cilenti), the wanted terrorist from 'Sandblast', they will have to find a way to find the man and stop him before it is too late with the aid from Army Lt. Col. Hollis Mann and constant phone calls from Sharif himself, who claims to have infected Gibbs with the chemical.
84	14	'Blowback'	Thomas J. Wright	Teleplay by: Christopher Silber & David J. North & Shane Brennan Story by: Christopher Silber	February 6, 2007	414	16.16^[17]
After catching an international arms dealer thanks to a Mossad tip, the NCIS team learns that the Navy's highly classified weapons system will be sold to 'La Grenouille,' an important arms dealer. To stop the transaction from happening, the team sends Ducky undercover. Meanwhile, another government agency appears to be working on the same case, with different plans.
85	15	'Friends & Lovers'	Dennis Smith	John C. Kelley	February 13, 2007	415	15.36^[18]
A man proposing to his girlfriend finds the body of a sailor. NCIS works with local officers believing that the man died of an unintentional drug overdose. However, Abby discovers a message written in blood on a laminated card found at the crime scene and the team suspect that the sailor might not have been a victim after all. Meanwhile, Jimmy continues his relationship with Agent Michelle Lee and Tony helps Jeanne deal with an obsessive ex-boyfriend as well as a Metro cop dealing with his own ex.
86	16	'Dead Man Walking'	Colin Bucksey	Nell Scovell	February 20, 2007	416	15.90^[19]
A Navy Lieutenant arrives at NCIS with radiation poisoning requesting that the team investigate his murder, prompting them to investigate who is responsible for poisoning him. The Navy Lieutenant is an inspector for the International Atomic Energy Agency, so the team tries to figure out who would want to make sure he didn't make it to the next inspection. However, only his two closest colleagues knew where the next inspection was to take place. Meanwhile, Ziva sympathizes with the Lieutenant, in whom she sees a reflection of her own most strongly held beliefs and develops feelings for him. It is revealed in the next episode that the Lieutenant had died.
87	17	'Skeletons'	James Whitmore Jr.	Jesse Stern	February 27, 2007	417	16.16^[20]
An explosion at a military cemetery mausoleum turns up a skeleton. As they investigate, Ducky discovers that they have turned up the skeleton of more than one body. The team talks to the families to try to find some link between the victims. Meanwhile, Abby is having personal problems.
88	18	'Iceman'	Thomas J. Wright	Shane Brennan	March 20, 2007	418	15.69^[21]
When the man on Ducky's table turns out to still be alive the unit must track the young Marine's actions prior to his arrival in the morgue. They discover that the Marine had been on leave and used his time off for a secret trip to Baghdad. The case takes a turn when Mike Franks – Gibbs' old boss shows up revealing that the young Marine is in fact his long-lost son.
89	19	'Grace Period'	James Whitmore Jr.	John C. Kelley	April 3, 2007	419	13.79^[22]
An NCIS team, led by Paula Cassidy, discovers a tip about terrorist activity but it turns out to be a trap, resulting in the death of two agents and Cassidy, grief-stricken, begins blaming herself for what happened. Gibbs and his team are sent to investigate the deaths with Cassidy joining them during the investigation. But the team are shocked when Ducky reveals that the man who was the suicide bomber that killed Cassidy's team was dead at least a day before his bomb went off.
90	20	'Cover Story'	Dennis Smith	David J. North	April 10, 2007	420	14.38^[23]
During the murder investigation of a Petty Officer, McGee is unsettled when elements of the crime scene resemble the descriptions in his new novel, which is half-finished. The only person who had access to McGee's book, other than McGee himself, is his publisher. The killer promises two more kills and when the second body is found, McGee is pressured to determine who the killer plans to kill next.
91	21	'Brothers in Arms'	Martha Mitchell	Steven D. Binder	April 24, 2007	421	14.17^[24]
Director Shepard meets an informant named Troy Webster who has information on international arms dealer La Grenouille but Webster is killed during a gunfight, prompting Gibbs and his team to take charge of the investigation. Shepard later becomes convinced that La Grenouille, the arms dealer she has been chasing down is the one who ordered the kill but the team are all doubting her judgement, believing she might be on a personal revenge trip which is further increased when she manages to lead the team into a trap, leaving them with no clues to La Grenouille's whereabouts even after days of investigations.
92	22	'In the Dark'	Thomas J. Wright	Steven D. Binder	May 1, 2007	422	13.83^[25]
The assistant of a blind photographer notices a dead Petty Officer in one of the photographs and calls NCIS. Gibbs and his team respond to the case and use the photographer's help to re-construct the crime scene through his heightened senses of hearing and scent to find out who killed the victim. Meanwhile, both Gibbs and Tony are having love troubles.
93	23	'Trojan Horse'	Terrence O'Hara	Donald P. Bellisario & Shane Brennan	May 8, 2007	423	13.88^[26]
A man is found dead in a taxi headed to the NCIS headquarters but his body shows no signs of external injuries. Gibbs decides to lead the investigation into the man's death in preference to performing his duties as the Acting Director of NCIS while Jenny is in Paris attending an Interpol conference. When the team discovers that the people whose names were found on a list belonging to the dead man are all dead, Gibbs suspects that the list is a decoy used to distract them. While in Paris, Jenny gets a tip on one of La Grenouille's associates that may lead to a shocking revelation.
94	24	'Angel of Death'	Dennis Smith	Donald P. Bellisario	May 22, 2007	424	14.14^[27]
Jenny returns from her European trip and discovers that she had an unannounced visitor at her home who she suspects is her supposedly dead father. All NCIS agents are scheduled to take a Homeland Security polygraph test, which Gibbs finds out to have been arranged by the CIA. Gibbs has McGee hack into the CIA to uncover their involvement with La Grenouille and Jenny has Abby run fingerprints from the visitor. An unarmed Tony and Jeanne are held hostage in the hospital morgue by a drug dealer, who is desperate to remove his shipment of drugs from the dead body packer. The episode ends with Tony eventually meeting the man both he and Jenny have been spending months trying to find – René Benoit, also known as La Grenouille, the international arms dealer from France who is revealed to be Jeanne's father.

DVD special features[edit]

Cast and Crew Commentaries on Select Episodes
Cast Roundtable (Parts 1 & 2)
Ducky's World
Behind the Set: The Production Design of N.C.I.S.
Dressed to Kill: Dressing the Sets of N.C.I.S.
Prop Master
Picture Perfect: The Looks of N.C.I.S.
Season of Secrets

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