In the episode "Mother's Day", when Gibbs' former mother-in-law (Shannon's mother) becomes a suspect in a murder investigation in which the victim was linked to the cartel responsible for the deaths of Shannon and Kelly, Gibbs covertly hires Hart to defend her. Abby is the exception – when Ed makes a comment regarding the supposed promiscuity of tattooed women, she places Palmer and Slater in "time out" by locking them in her office. Gibbs warned Fornell that Diane would leave him and plunder his accounts - which happened eventually. Before working for the first lady, Grisham served as the White House press secretary. His third appearance (and the last to date) is in season seven, episode seven, "Endgame", although this time it was in person in DC, when Ziva notices that he "cleans up nice". In addition, Gibbs, under the pretense of helping to catch the man who tried to kill Tobias (although it is heavily implied that it is actually to help Emily come to terms with what might happen), brings his shrink, Dr. Grace Confalone, who also proceeds to help her with the project. In the episode "High Tide", Torres and Ellie Bishop go on an undercover mission, which revolves around them both acting like a couple. Paloma is contacted by Colonel Merton Bell, who is seeking revenge against the man who had sent him into a Mexican prison: Agent Gibbs. When Jarvis hands DiNozzo the file with the agent's name, he recognizes the name but it remains unknown to viewers. He first appears in "Double Blind", the penultimate episode of season 10, in which he is investigating the aftermath of the NCIS team's handling of the Ilan Bodnar case. Ducky hires her as his assistant to help keep him on schedule on a book he is writing about past cases. Paloma's brother, Alejandro, uses his position in the task force to get the forensic evidence linking Gibbs to the murder using Abby Sciuto's skills. Gibbs often shows frustration with his team (particularly DiNozzo for rambling or McGee for getting sucked into technical rambling) by slapping them over the back of the head, an action that is later shared between team members and known as a "headslap" or "Gibbs-slap". Mann reappears in the eleventh-season episode "Kill Chain", as a special agent for the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, which is the criminal investigative arm of the Department of Defense's Office of the Inspector General, and she later returns in the NCIS Season 12 episode, "We Build, We Fight". In "Check", Diane is murdered by Sergei Mishnev in a re-creation of Special Agent Caitlin Todd's death at the hands of Ari Haswari in "Twilight" with Diane dying after being shot in the head by Sergei who uses a sniper rifle. She also has a hostile relationship with Ziva David, pronouncing Ziva's surname wrong to antagonize her, a trait that Abby repeats upon meeting Ziva for the first time. After a day of trying to avoid her, Rebecca then arrives at Gibbs' house, apologizing for cheating on him during their marriage. The sub-plot comes to a head late in the season when it is revealed that Jenny blames Benoit for her father's death and that Benoit is now central to a major CIA deep-cover operation. Carrie Clark (Salli Richardson-Whitfield) is a lawyer and a former Special Agent with the FBI. Pain at the Afghan embassy. Initially believed to be pursuing Ziva David, and then Director Vance, the team soon learn his target is Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Admiral John McGee (Jamey Sheridan) is the father of Timothy McGee. Chad Dunham is a recurring NCIS Special Agent who was stationed in the Horn of Africa when Ziva was being held captive by a group of terrorists in the beginning of season seven. He responds "No, you don't... we're good. Special Agent Gayne Levin (Alimi Ballard) was an NCIS special agent on the team of E. J. Barrett who appears in three episodes in season eight. 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. In the episode "Off The Grid", after Gibbs goes undercover, McGee and Torres discover that he and Rebecca had a phone conversation the night before. She's not afraid of men". He preferred to be referred to as Haswari in school instead of Ari. He has been known to dress seamen in the uniforms of officers, and often leaves personal effects of his victims behind frozen in ice that foreshadow his next kill, though his m.o. 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. Bishop planned to accept the night he died, but never had the chance. During her years in charge, the cartel grew to be powerful enough to infiltrate the US Navy. Jake Malloy (Jamie Bamber) is NCIS Agent Ellie Bishop's ex-husband and an attorney for the National Security Agency. Even at her 100th birthday celebration she was overheard talking about killing a snake with a shovel, a dull shovel at that. Todd is a former Secret Service agent, recruited by Gibbs after she successfully helped him solve a murder aboard Air Force One. 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. Following Abby's resignation from NCIS, Gibbs hires Kasie in "Fallout" to fill in for her temporarily until he finds a permanent replacement, which she agrees to do with Abby's blessing. The pilots' reunion is the subject of the eleventh season's episode Better Angels. She and Gibbs have a serious relationship, even earning the nickname "future ex-wife number four" from DiNozzo. The end of the episode shows Ed accepting Palmer and expressing a desire for a grandchild. [26] 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. (NR) 1 hr. After being arrested, Alejandro soon learns that Paloma was actually in the safe house all along, resulting in Alejandro unintentionally killing his sister. The season 17 episode "Institutionalized" reveals that Bishop is from Hinton, Oklahoma, where she was chosen to be the Grand Marshall of its Tater Tot Parade in the past. It is further revealed in the season eight episode, "Enemies Domestic",[32] that the head of the San Diego field office, when Vance was assigned there, had begun creating a legend for Vance that incorporated fictitious information about Vance in order to backstop a deep cover assignment, including the false information that Vance had been a pilot and director of a field office. In the episode "Dagger", after she learns that Amanda is safe, she gives Gibbs silent permission to kill the Weatherman, the person responsible for the crimes. Jackson later tells Gibbs to take the car and they promise to keep in touch. After Gerald Jackson is incapacitated, Palmer becomes Mallard's assistant. Nina Foch, who played Victoria, died in 2008. 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. Gerald Jackson (Pancho Demmings) first appears in the episode "Yankee White". Eli and Vance kill the Russian's hit team, but the Russian manages to escape. When he first starts, as with most "newbies", he is subjected to some teasing by DiNozzo. He has a picture of himself on his desk as a reminder of a woman he loved but lost to cancer as a teenager. She first appears in the episode "Kill Ari (Part I)". 6 p.m. [9] In the season nine finale "Till Death Do Us Part", a bomb blast at NCIS headquarters occurs with Gibbs tackling Abby to the floor in her lab. During season 15, it is revealed he is a recovering alcoholic as he often drank to cope with the stresses of his undercover operations. Phineas' parents are locked in a custody battle over him. Late in season 15, MI6 Agent Clayton Reeves is killed while protecting Abby from a supposed mugger. He also convinces Gibbs to seek counseling and eventually is able to make an introduction to his therapist, Grace Confalone. In season 15, Gibbs discovers that Fornell had falsified evidence to get Gabriel Hicks convicted as a serial murder and is forced to testify against him, resulting in his being fired from the FBI and becoming a private investigator; this causes a temporary break in their friendship. He is the last person to know about then-Director Shepard's incurable illness during her lifetime, as Gibbs only has suspicions at the time as of "Judgment Day" (Part 1). He is duped into thinking that his sister, Paloma, had been killed, and goes to the safe house she was at, thinking that he can kill Gibbs and his father. She won the first challenge of Cycle 3 that episode. He departs NCIS in order to travel to Israel to find answers and to Paris because Ziva loved Paris. When she divorced Gibbs, Diane took his money, including his grandfather's watch. He also showed fatherly affection towards Ziva, Tony, McGee and Bishop on several occasions. Jeffry is a resident of 1653 Lloyd, Ozark, MO. He was widowed some years before the events in the season six episode "Heartland". He becomes friends with Ellie's boss, SSA Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Nicholas "Nick" Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) is an undercover agent who first appears in the season 14 premiere, "Rogue". Later, back in Washington, D.C., Parsons drops his investigation into NCIS and also grants McGee, David, and DiNozzo permission to get their badges back and become agents again. He is mentioned in "Family First", with DiNozzo stating he has asked Eshel about Ziva's current location, but that Adam says he has not had contact with her in over a year. 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). 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Cobb's modus operandi involves luring his victims into a trap before slashing their throats from behind. Director Vance hints that she may have been headed for a death sentence had she survived in "Dagger" as punishment for having committed treason against the United States with her actions. Taft is a former surgeon at the Walter Reed Memorial Hospital. When the evidence is uncovered, Bell sends Lieutenant Jason Paul Dean to kill Special Agent Lara Macy, who knew about Hernandez' murder but covered up the evidence while still an MP officer, believing it to be a just killing.