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Welcome to my section on NCIS. NCIS is a crime drama with plenty of humour mixed in with the character interactions. In my opinion it is the best in its genre. It is compared alot to CSI, but I have to be honest and say I got bored of CSI after half a season. NCIS however I will never get tired of. The plot is much grander and you don't know when a main or reacurring character may get killed of. However the best part has to be the characters themselves. Each has development over each season and I can't wait to see what happens each new episode. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS TO ALL.

NCIS is a television series that follows a fictional team of Naval Criminal Investigative Service Major Case Response Team (MCRT) special agents, headquartered at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, DC. It is described by the actors and producers (on special features on DVD releases in the USA) as being distinguished by its comedy elements, ensemble acting and character-driven plots.
NCIS is the primary law enforcement and counter-intelligence arm of the United States Department of the Navy, which includes the United States Marine Corps. NCIS investigates all major criminal offenses (felonies), those crimes punishable under the Uniform Code of Military Justice by confinement of more than one year, within the Department of the Navy. This can be seen when the “NCIS team” is frequently assigned to high-profile cases such as the death of the President's military aide, a bomb situation on a U.S. Navy warship, the death of a celebrity on a reality show set on a USMC base, terrorist threats, and kidnappings.
The “NCIS team” is led by Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon). Gibbs’ team is composed of Special Agent and Senior Field Agent Anthony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly), Special Agent Timothy McGee (Sean Murray) and Mossad Liaison Officer Ziva David (Cote de Pablo), who replaced Caitlin 'Kate' Todd (Sasha Alexander) when she was shot by Ari Haswari (Rudolf Martin) at the end of season two. Ari himself was then killed by his half-sister Ziva at the beginning of season three. The team is assisted in their investigations by Chief Medical Examiner Donald "Ducky" Mallard (David McCallum), Forensic Specialist Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette) and Assistant Medical Examiner Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen).
NCIS is currently led by Director Leon Vance (Rocky Carroll). The first Director seen in the series, Thomas Morrow, (Alan Dale) left after a promotion to Deputy Director of DHS. Jenny Shepard (Lauren Holly) was appointed Director after Morrow; she was killed in a shootout at the end of the fifth season.

Leroy Jethro Gibbs Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Supervisory Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, portrayed by Mark Harmon, was born in Stillwater, Pennsylvania to Jackson Gibbs and an unnamed mother. He joined the United States Marine Corps in 1976 instead of attending college and became a Scout Sniper. After serving tours of duty in Panama and Iraq, he retired from the Marine Corps with the rank of Gunnery Sergeant. He joined NIS, which later became NCIS, after his wife Shannon and only daughter Kelly were murdered. Since then, he has been married and divorced three times, and is currently single. He currently leads a team consisting of Anthony DiNozzo, Timothy McGee, and Ziva David. He is often shown in his basement building boats, at least one of which he named after his daughter. In the episode "Blowback", when confronting "Goliath" on the plane about "ARES", Gibbs revealed he was a Virgo.

Anthony ''Tony'' D. DiNozzo Anthony "Tony" D. DiNozzo: Senior Special Agent Anthony "Tony" D. DiNozzo, portrayed by Michael Weatherly, is a former homicide detective for the Baltimore Police Department. Prior to Baltimore, he worked for Philadelphia PD and Peoria PD. He is a "technophobe" with limited patience for the scientific method and technical terms. He attended Ohio State University as a physical education major and was a member of the "Alpha Chi Delta" fraternity, class of 1989. DiNozzo is said to have played college basketball, "running the point for Ohio State" according to Abby Sciuto in a discussion with her assistant, Chip. It is mentioned that he comes from a wealthy family (but was disowned by his father), his mother was over-protective, and she "dressed him like a sailor until he was ten”.

Ziva David Ziva David: Ziva David, portrayed by Cote de Pablo, is a Mossad Liaison Officer to NCIS, appointed following the murder of Special Agent Caitlin Todd by a rogue Mossad operative named Ari Haswari. David was Ari's control officer and half-sister. After Ari's death, she requested a liaison assignment to NCIS, where she subsequently joined Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs' team.
Her specialty with the Mossad was interrogation which included various forms of torture. She speaks Hebrew, English, Arabic, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian and Turkish. Despite being fluent in English, she sometimes misinterprets idioms and phrases that have different meanings in other languages if translated directly. Ziva is very skilled with a knife and has been shown teaching her colleagues how to throw it properly. In her career, she has travelled extensively to countries including Egypt (where she met Jenny Shepard), Iraq, United Kingdom and Morocco.
Ziva rarely speaks of her personal life. Her father Eli David is the director of Mossad. She also has a Palestinian stepmother named Hasmia Haswari, who is Ari's mother. Her sister, Talia "Tali" David, was killed in a terrorist attack in Israel. She also has an Aunt Nettie who likes to play Mah Jong.
Ziva's hobbies include playing the piano, singing, dancing (she took ballet when she was young), cooking, reading and boxing. She enjoys the fictional drink Berry Mango Madness. She drives a red Mini Cooper, likes listening to the Israeli band Hadag Nachash and the Latin American band Kinky. She does not own a television but her favourite movie is The Sound of Music. In the episode "Aliyah", she was left in Tel Aviv, and is later seen bruised and beaten after being captured.
De Pablo describes the character as someone who is "completely different from anyone else on the show" and that because "she's been around men all her life; she's used to men in authority. She's not afraid of men”.

Abigail ''Abby'' Sciuto Abigail "Abby" Sciuto: Abigail "Abby" Sciuto, portrayed by Pauley Perrette, is a forensic specialist with NCIS. As indicated in the episode "Seadog", she is the child of deaf parents. She is known for her gothic style of dress and addiction to the fictional, high-caffeine beverage "Caf-Pow". Abby had a brief and "casual" relationship with Special Agent McGee in season one, which ended with the two remaining friends. She is the most active person of the team, often hugging everyone and talking fast. She is one of the few who can talk to Gibbs freely, and he often buys her Caf-Pow. She and Gibbs, who also calls her "Abbs/Abs," are both fluent in sign language, and often use it, much to the chagrin of their colleagues. She has a stuffed farting hippopotamus named Bert that often appears in the show.
Abby's hobbies include a bowling league with nuns and helping build homes for the needy and playing computer games.

Timothy McGee Timothy McGee: Timothy McGee, portrayed by Sean Murray, is a Junior Special Agent with NCIS. The character was introduced in the First Season episode "Sub Rosa" as a Case Agent stationed at Norfolk, and was promoted to Field Agent and assigned to Agent Gibbs' team in the second season, becoming a regular character. He serves as a field computer consultant and occasionally assists Abby Sciuto in the lab.
His clashes with DiNozzo over his methods have earned him the pejorative nickname "McGeek" and "McGoo" (along with other derisive nicknames based on his surname), as well as "Probie", and "Elf Lord", bestowed upon him by Special Agent Gibbs in the episode "Witch Hunt", in which the team discovered McGee's costume. He was trained in biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, and computer forensics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He also graduated the top of his class at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.
McGee is also a writer, writing mystery crime novels including a national best seller, "Deep Six" under the pseudonym Thom E. Gemcity (an anagram of his name), featuring characters based on his fellow co-workers and others from his everyday life. He also drives a silver Porsche Boxster as seen in the episode "Twisted Sister".

Dr. Donald ''Ducky'' Mallard Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard: Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard, portrayed by David McCallum, is the Chief Medical Examiner at NCIS. Dr. Mallard is a British (Scottish)-born doctor, who has been long-time friends with Gibbs. He has a "second talent", as Gibbs calls it, to be able to read people, which he expands in Season 4 by studying psychology. In cases without actual bodies, he assists by using his psychological training to decipher the clues left by the perpetrators. He can be a bit eccentric, as he often talks to the deceased and rambles to the living with many long personal remembrances or historical accounts, but is a kind man at heart.
Ducky drives a Morgan that he restored himself. In the episode "Hung Out to Dry," it is revealed that he has a nephew, though no further information follows. He lived with his aging mother and their four corgies until season 6. In the episode "Broken Bird", Ducky revealed his mother had moved out and had Alzheimer's disease. Nina Foch, the actress who played Ducky's mother, died on December 5, 2008, necessitating the change. When Gibbs was asked, "What did Ducky look like when he was younger?" he replied, "Illya Kuryakin" - the Russian spy played by McCallum in the 1960s television show The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
The ring tone on his cell phone features bagpipes playing Scotland the Brave.

Caitlin ''Kate'' Todd Caitlin "Kate" Todd: Caitlin Todd, portrayed by Sasha Alexander, first appeared in the episode "Yankee White". Todd was a former Secret Service agent, recruited by Gibbs after she successfully helped him solve a murder aboard Air Force One. She worked well with everyone on the team, becoming particularly close with Ducky and Abby, who convinced her to get a tattoo (referenced in the episode "Kill Ari (Part 1)"). Her relationship with Gibbs was interesting to watch, as there appeared to be a real friendship between the two characters; unusual considering Gibbs is not a close friend with anyone. Her relationship with Tony, however, was more adversarial. Tony frequently flirted with her and went through her personal belongings, no matter how many times she pointed out that his behaviour was grossly unprofessional. Kate was killed in the line of duty at the end of the episode "Twilight" by Ari Haswari, collateral damage in the terrorist's obsession with Gibbs. Kate also made appearances in "Kill Ari" parts 1 and 2 as a spirit, remembered by her teammates. She was replaced at NCIS by Israeli Mossad Liaison Officer Ziva David.

Jenny Shepard Jenny Shepard: Portrayed by Lauren Holly, she first appeared in the episode "Kill Ari (Part 1)". She replaced former NCIS director Thomas Morrow, at the start of the third season after Morrow took a Deputy Director's position with the Department of Homeland Security. She is also a "military brat" as her father Jasper Shepard was an Army officer. She was Gibbs' former partner and also his former lover. She was killed in the episode "Judgment Day (Part 1)". At the time of her death she was already dying from a terminal illness, but it was never revealed what the illness actually was.
In several episodes during season five before her death in the episode "Judgment Day (Part 1)", her failing health becomes a plot issue as for example when Ducky is shown to be ordering a test on a blood sample to Abby, telling her that they are from a John Doe. However, when Abby talks to Jimmy Palmer, he says that they have no John Does. Gibbs deduces, correctly, that the only person Ducky would act this way for would be the director at the end of the 106th episode "Stakeout". In the next episode "Dog Tags", Gibbs questions Jenny about her illness and she lies to him, saying she's fine.
Mike Franks also discovers her illness by going through her purse and finding her medication. In the episode "Judgment Day (Part 1)", Franks and Jenny are talking in an abandoned diner in the California desert and she indicates that she is dying and reveals that she regrets her decision to leave Gibbs in Paris and that she's still in love with him. It is revealed that she botched an operation ten years prior. She and Gibbs had been ordered to assassinate Russian lovers who were crime lords. Gibbs shot the man but Jenny faced the woman down and let her live. As a result, the woman sent killers that kill Jenny in the diner (although she manages to fatally wound them before dying herself). Franks, who has been outside at the time of the shooting, returns to Jenny's house where the female killer is trying to kill Gibbs and he shoots her. Gibbs and Franks decide to cover Jenny's mistake and death by burning her Georgetown mansion down and her cause of death is reported as "death in home fire." She was replaced by former Assistant Director Leon Vance.

Leon Vance: Leon Vance, portrayed by Rocky Carroll, was introduced in the episode "Internal Affairs" as Assistant Director in Season 5. He is named Director after the death of Jenny Shepard. It has been revealed that he trained to be a boxer while growing up in Chicago. At one point, he enlisted in the Marine Corps, but never served due to having undergone surgery to repair a displaced retina suffered during his boxing career. He has a wife, Jackie, and two children, a daughter, Kayla, and a son, Jared.

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	Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Supervisory Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, portrayed by Mark Harmon, was born in Stillwater, Pennsylvania to Jackson Gibbs and an unnamed mother. He joined the United States Marine Corps in 1976 instead of attending college and became a Scout Sniper. After serving tours of duty in Panama and Iraq, he retired from the Marine Corps with the rank of Gunnery Sergeant. He joined NIS, which later became NCIS, after his wife Shannon and only daughter Kelly were murdered. Since then, he has been married and divorced three times, and is currently single. He currently leads a team consisting of Anthony DiNozzo, Timothy McGee, and Ziva David. He is often shown in his basement building boats, at least one of which he named after his daughter. In the episode "Blowback", when confronting "Goliath" on the plane about "ARES", Gibbs revealed he was a Virgo.

	Anthony "Tony" D. DiNozzo: Senior Special Agent Anthony "Tony" D. DiNozzo, portrayed by Michael Weatherly, is a former homicide detective for the Baltimore Police Department. Prior to Baltimore, he worked for Philadelphia PD and Peoria PD. He is a "technophobe" with limited patience for the scientific method and technical terms. He attended Ohio State University as a physical education major and was a member of the "Alpha Chi Delta" fraternity, class of 1989. DiNozzo is said to have played college basketball, "running the point for Ohio State" according to Abby Sciuto in a discussion with her assistant, Chip. It is mentioned that he comes from a wealthy family (but was disowned by his father), his mother was over-protective, and she "dressed him like a sailor until he was ten”.

	Ziva David: Ziva David, portrayed by Cote de Pablo, is a Mossad Liaison Officer to NCIS, appointed following the murder of Special Agent Caitlin Todd by a rogue Mossad operative named Ari Haswari. David was Ari's control officer and half-sister. After Ari's death, she requested a liaison assignment to NCIS, where she subsequently joined Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs' team. Her specialty with the Mossad was interrogation which included various forms of torture. She speaks Hebrew, English, Arabic, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian and Turkish. Despite being fluent in English, she sometimes misinterprets idioms and phrases that have different meanings in other languages if translated directly. Ziva is very skilled with a knife and has been shown teaching her colleagues how to throw it properly. In her career, she has travelled extensively to countries including Egypt (where she met Jenny Shepard), Iraq, United Kingdom and Morocco. Ziva rarely speaks of her personal life. Her father Eli David is the director of Mossad. She also has a Palestinian stepmother named Hasmia Haswari, who is Ari's mother. Her sister, Talia "Tali" David, was killed in a terrorist attack in Israel. She also has an Aunt Nettie who likes to play Mah Jong. Ziva's hobbies include playing the piano, singing, dancing (she took ballet when she was young), cooking, reading and boxing. She enjoys the fictional drink Berry Mango Madness. She drives a red Mini Cooper, likes listening to the Israeli band Hadag Nachash and the Latin American band Kinky. She does not own a television but her favourite movie is The Sound of Music. In the episode "Aliyah", she was left in Tel Aviv, and is later seen bruised and beaten after being captured. De Pablo describes the character as someone who is "completely different from anyone else on the show" and that because "she's been around men all her life; she's used to men in authority. She's not afraid of men”.

	Abigail "Abby" Sciuto: Abigail "Abby" Sciuto, portrayed by Pauley Perrette, is a forensic specialist with NCIS. As indicated in the episode "Seadog", she is the child of deaf parents. She is known for her gothic style of dress and addiction to the fictional, high-caffeine beverage "Caf-Pow". Abby had a brief and "casual" relationship with Special Agent McGee in season one, which ended with the two remaining friends. She is the most active person of the team, often hugging everyone and talking fast. She is one of the few who can talk to Gibbs freely, and he often buys her Caf-Pow. She and Gibbs, who also calls her "Abbs/Abs," are both fluent in sign language, and often use it, much to the chagrin of their colleagues. She has a stuffed farting hippopotamus named Bert that often appears in the show. Abby's hobbies include a bowling league with nuns and helping build homes for the needy and playing computer games.

	Timothy McGee: Timothy McGee, portrayed by Sean Murray, is a Junior Special Agent with NCIS. The character was introduced in the First Season episode "Sub Rosa" as a Case Agent stationed at Norfolk, and was promoted to Field Agent and assigned to Agent Gibbs' team in the second season, becoming a regular character. He serves as a field computer consultant and occasionally assists Abby Sciuto in the lab. His clashes with DiNozzo over his methods have earned him the pejorative nickname "McGeek" and "McGoo" (along with other derisive nicknames based on his surname), as well as "Probie", and "Elf Lord", bestowed upon him by Special Agent Gibbs in the episode "Witch Hunt", in which the team discovered McGee's costume. He was trained in biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, and computer forensics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He also graduated the top of his class at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. McGee is also a writer, writing mystery crime novels including a national best seller, "Deep Six" under the pseudonym Thom E. Gemcity (an anagram of his name), featuring characters based on his fellow co-workers and others from his everyday life. He also drives a silver Porsche Boxster as seen in the episode "Twisted Sister".

	Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard: Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard, portrayed by David McCallum, is the Chief Medical Examiner at NCIS. Dr. Mallard is a British (Scottish)-born doctor, who has been long-time friends with Gibbs. He has a "second talent", as Gibbs calls it, to be able to read people, which he expands in Season 4 by studying psychology. In cases without actual bodies, he assists by using his psychological training to decipher the clues left by the perpetrators. He can be a bit eccentric, as he often talks to the deceased and rambles to the living with many long personal remembrances or historical accounts, but is a kind man at heart. Ducky drives a Morgan that he restored himself. In the episode "Hung Out to Dry," it is revealed that he has a nephew, though no further information follows. He lived with his aging mother and their four corgies until season 6. In the episode "Broken Bird", Ducky revealed his mother had moved out and had Alzheimer's disease. Nina Foch, the actress who played Ducky's mother, died on December 5, 2008, necessitating the change. When Gibbs was asked, "What did Ducky look like when he was younger?" he replied, "Illya Kuryakin" - the Russian spy played by McCallum in the 1960s television show The Man From U.N.C.L.E. The ring tone on his cell phone features bagpipes playing Scotland the Brave.

	Caitlin "Kate" Todd: Caitlin Todd, portrayed by Sasha Alexander, first appeared in the episode "Yankee White". Todd was a former Secret Service agent, recruited by Gibbs after she successfully helped him solve a murder aboard Air Force One. She worked well with everyone on the team, becoming particularly close with Ducky and Abby, who convinced her to get a tattoo (referenced in the episode "Kill Ari (Part 1)"). Her relationship with Gibbs was interesting to watch, as there appeared to be a real friendship between the two characters; unusual considering Gibbs is not a close friend with anyone. Her relationship with Tony, however, was more adversarial. Tony frequently flirted with her and went through her personal belongings, no matter how many times she pointed out that his behaviour was grossly unprofessional. Kate was killed in the line of duty at the end of the episode "Twilight" by Ari Haswari, collateral damage in the terrorist's obsession with Gibbs. Kate also made appearances in "Kill Ari" parts 1 and 2 as a spirit, remembered by her teammates. She was replaced at NCIS by Israeli Mossad Liaison Officer Ziva David.

	Jenny Shepard: Portrayed by Lauren Holly, she first appeared in the episode "Kill Ari (Part 1)". She replaced former NCIS director Thomas Morrow, at the start of the third season after Morrow took a Deputy Director's position with the Department of Homeland Security. She is also a "military brat" as her father Jasper Shepard was an Army officer. She was Gibbs' former partner and also his former lover. She was killed in the episode "Judgment Day (Part 1)". At the time of her death she was already dying from a terminal illness, but it was never revealed what the illness actually was. In several episodes during season five before her death in the episode "Judgment Day (Part 1)", her failing health becomes a plot issue as for example when Ducky is shown to be ordering a test on a blood sample to Abby, telling her that they are from a John Doe. However, when Abby talks to Jimmy Palmer, he says that they have no John Does. Gibbs deduces, correctly, that the only person Ducky would act this way for would be the director at the end of the 106th episode "Stakeout". In the next episode "Dog Tags", Gibbs questions Jenny about her illness and she lies to him, saying she's fine. Mike Franks also discovers her illness by going through her purse and finding her medication. In the episode "Judgment Day (Part 1)", Franks and Jenny are talking in an abandoned diner in the California desert and she indicates that she is dying and reveals that she regrets her decision to leave Gibbs in Paris and that she's still in love with him. It is revealed that she botched an operation ten years prior. She and Gibbs had been ordered to assassinate Russian lovers who were crime lords. Gibbs shot the man but Jenny faced the woman down and let her live. As a result, the woman sent killers that kill Jenny in the diner (although she manages to fatally wound them before dying herself). Franks, who has been outside at the time of the shooting, returns to Jenny's house where the female killer is trying to kill Gibbs and he shoots her. Gibbs and Franks decide to cover Jenny's mistake and death by burning her Georgetown mansion down and her cause of death is reported as "death in home fire." She was replaced by former Assistant Director Leon Vance.

	Leon Vance: Leon Vance, portrayed by Rocky Carroll, was introduced in the episode "Internal Affairs" as Assistant Director in Season 5. He is named Director after the death of Jenny Shepard. It has been revealed that he trained to be a boxer while growing up in Chicago. At one point, he enlisted in the Marine Corps, but never served due to having undergone surgery to repair a displaced retina suffered during his boxing career. He has a wife, Jackie, and two children, a daughter, Kayla, and a son, Jared.

REVIEW

TV Show: This is my review for the NCIS TV Show.