" Hereafter " is the fifteenth episode of the tenth season of the American police procedural drama NCIS, and the 225th episode overall. 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. 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." "NCIS" Knockout (TV Episode 2009) - IMDb Vote. Lieutenant Commander Faith Coleman (Alicia Coppola) is a prosecutor for the Judge Advocate General's office. 100% Upvoted. ", which according to former NCIS director Jenny Shepard earned her the nickname "Energizer Abby". Secretly, Rivera's objective is to have revenge for his father's death by using Abby Sciuto's forensic skills to investigate the cold case while training a class of task force forensic specialists in Mexico. When Senior finally hears about this in the season 12 episode The Artful Dodger, he denies the accusation: he says he is an entrepreneur, the difference being that he has always believed in the dreams he was selling. Director Vance oversees all Operations from NCIS Headquarters, Located in Washington, D.C. During this time, she also runs out of nail-polish, thus leaving her pedicure on her dad incomplete. Torres is superstitious of anything relating to the dead; once forgoing an apartment where the resident had recently died and proclaiming he could never work in a cemetery because of this. Jared Vance (son) Michael Thomas (brother-in-law) Lamar Addison (father . 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. In the episode "Angel of Death", it is revealed that La Grenouille is the father of Jeanne Benoit, the woman that DiNozzo falls in love with after seducing her in the course of Director Shepard's undercover investigation, which Shepard later reveals in an apology to the young woman for "crossing the line" in "Internal Affairs". Gibbs seems to feel similarly about Fornell, going so far as to fake Fornell's death to further the investigation to clear him of guilt. Homesick (episode) | NCIS Database | Fandom David's specialties with Mossad were espionage, assassination and counter-terrorism and she is highly trained in martial arts. In "Broken Bird," Ducky reveals that his mother has moved out and has Alzheimer's disease. Cassie Yates (Tamara Taylor), an NCIS special agent, first appears in the episode "SWAK" and again in the episode "Jeopardy". Leon Vance | NCIS Database | Fandom After witnessing Kasie encourage Ducky to use the case to inspire his creativity for the book, Abby confronts Kasie, who admits that she is a fan of Abby's work and freaked out internally when she met her, and the two develop a close friendship. Abigail "Abby" Sciuto is a former forensic specialist with NCIS, and is originally from Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Vance also reveals that it was this friend who decided that Vance should leave Chicago while he stayed behind. In the sixth episode of season 18, "1mm", Bishop and Torres are trapped in cells rigged to blow, with Bishop standing on the pressure plate that triggers the bomb. Their attraction becomes overt in the episode "Sharif Returns", as they discuss their possible relationship but refuse to act on it until Sharif is caught. She is offered a position at NCIS by Director Jenny Shepard, but instead chooses retirement from the Army, in the episode "In the Dark". She also has an Aunt Nettie who likes to play mahjong. When he was younger he went by "Donnie. In the episode "Bte Noire", Gibbs comes face to face with terrorist Ari Haswari and tries to kill him but fails. Gibbs is often shown in his basement building boats, one of which he names after his daughter and another after one of his ex-wives. The character is also a recurring special guest on the spin-off NCIS: New Orleans, first appearing when she and Special Agent Dwayne Pride's team conduct a joint investigation. However, Cade knows nothing about it and all three realize that they have been used. She is introduced in the episode "Psych Out" when a patient, a Navy warfare psychologist, of her colleague is found dead and Gibbs and his team are called in to investigate. Vance survived, but was hospitalized. After the first failed attempt, Latham advises Cole to abandon his mission, but Cole refuses, claiming that he has to see it through, and he murders Latham. In the season 11 finale, "Honor Thy Father" (which aired exactly three months after Waite's death in February 2014), Vance tells Gibbs that Jackson suffered a fatal stroke. She joins Tony and Tim on their mission, where Tony promises that they will not rest until they locate her husband. Torres cancels her date with him, leading to her being angry at him, though she forgives him in the next episode, "The Last Link," when he buys her bacon brown sugar chips. 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. The synopsis for First Steps reads: "As NCIS investigates the cause of death of a reservist Navy Seal surgeon, they're forced to bring Vance's daughter, Kayla, who recently trained with NCIS, to . Vance and Jackie have two children: a daughter, Kayla, and a son, Jared. 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. 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. Knight speaks fluent Chinese and was a Division I track star in college. Gibbs confronts Jenny over the operation, suggesting she is letting her emotions rule and has knowingly placed DiNozzo in danger and jeopardized a major CIA operation for the purposes of revenge. He departs NCIS in order to travel to Israel to find answers and to Paris because Ziva loved Paris. He works for the CIA; while he usually manages to avoid getting caught for illegalities, he nevertheless almost always has his own agenda. Todd is a former Secret Service agent, recruited by Gibbs after she successfully helped him solve a murder aboard Air Force One. In 2017, Perrette revealed that she would leave the show after the end of season 15.[13]. McGee clashes with DiNozzo, though after the two became partners (following Ziva's departure from the team at the end of season six), they are frequently shown to form an effective team; however, their relationship has occasionally reverted to its original state upon Ziva's return. 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). However, he was found innocent when he confronted Mr. Bell and his men then set out for Mexico to murder Mike Franks and his family, but they are all killed by Dean who is revealed to be working for an unknown party. The key point involved the fact that she started preparing around the time the NCIS building was bombed. In "Anonymous Was a Woman" Franks is shown (in flashback) as having conducted a rescue program for Afghan women. This frustrates Abby, who believes that Kasie doesn't like her despite her attempts to be friendly, especially since, as Abby later learns from Ducky, Kasie has a degree in forensic science. E.J. Meanwhile, the team investigates, with the revelation of Ziva's survival leaving major rifts amongst them. The show rarely mentions her mother, Rivka, who taught her to drive; all that is known is that her mother is deceased and that she does not have the same mother as Ari. When their teams have to share jurisdiction on a case, Gibbs usually asks for operational control; in exchange, credit for successes is claimed by Fornell's team. In the next episode, "Dog Tags", Gibbs questions Jenny about her illness and she says she is fine. However, when caught she claims that she was forced to trade government secrets because her daughter Amanda has been kidnapped. Gibbs believes that Kort may be more dangerous behind a desk than when he is in the field. Jackie and Vance met while attending a University of Maryland basketball game where Len Bias was playing. He also bears some resemblance to Timothy McGee, causing Anthony DiNozzo and Abby Sciuto to refer to him as McGee's "evil doppelgnger". [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. Later, David demands that Ziva return full-time to Mossad and complete Rivkin's assignment. Media related to List of NCIS characters at Wikimedia Commons, Recurring and notable cast and characters, Sasha Alexander appeared in flashbacks within the episode ", Cote de Pablo is credited as a "Starring" from ", Lauren Holly is credited as "Starring" from ", Lauren Holly appeared in flashbacks within the episodes ", Emily Wickersham is credited as "Starring" from ", Maria Bello is credited as a "Starring" from ", Gary Cole is credited as "Starring" from ". Later in the season, it is revealed that Kort is the man responsible for framing British agent Jacob Scott, with Kort being revealed as the person who sold nuclear secrets to the Russians, therefore being shown as the main antagonist of that season, and later also being responsible for the apparent death of Ziva David, after hiring a contract killer to burn down Eli David's farmhouse in Israel in a mortar attack.