IMDB Link: Click Here IMDB Rating: 7.8 Premiere Date: 2009-09-22 Views: 11843 Plot: NCIS, also known as NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural drama television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
The concept and characters were initially introduced in a two-part episode of the CBS series JAG (JAG episodes 8.20 and 8.21). The show, a spin-off from JAG, premiered on September 23, 2003 on CBS and, to date, has aired six full seasons and has gone into syndicated reruns on USA Network, Sleuth and Ion Television. Donald Bellisario, who created JAG as well as the well-known series Magnum, P.I. and Quantum Leap, is co-creator and executive producer of NCIS.
DiNozzo and McGee begin interviews for Ziva\'s replacement. No one has heard from Ziva in a while, everyone is concerned, even Gibbs. This leads the team to a high risk mission.
Three Marines are murdered at a bachelor party. While the team investigates, Ziva wants to join NCIS which means she she must now deal with the reasons she was left behind in Israel.
A blogger with a rep for exposing cover ups is murdered. His last blog involved a bungled NCIS investigation. The team investigates as best they can, while Metro PD investigates the blogger\'s NCIS claims.
The remains of a murdered marine are found. He was last reported on the ship Ziva was on. Ziva must reveal what happened to her during her time away from NCIS. Her status will be resolved.
Ducky suspects everything was staged, with forensic expertise, when retired NCIS agent Mike Franks\'s boat, still registered in donor Gibbs\'s name, hits a Navy ship, carrying the corpses of dishonorably discharged crooks Roy Keenan, US Army, and US Navy lieutenant Calvin Thomas Blanchard. They asked for Franks at his Mexican home, but no connections between them and Franks are known. The two met when in retired Colonel Merton Bell\'s PMC (\'private military company\'), the largest in Iraq. Franks turns up as well as his family\'s Iraqi matriarch.
A North Korean assassin, who is a nemesis of Vance\'s, resurfaces not long after a confrontation with him in Los Angeles. Now she is after his family and the key to saving them is to dig through Vance\'s troubled past.
A dead Marine\'s day job at a government think tank leads Gibbs and the team into the life of a 12-year-old prodigy who may be the killer\'s next target.
Kids illegally hacking a Christmas tree find USMC lieutenant Thom Ellis, frozen and skull smashed bizarrely, on a Muslim prayer mat. Although his father, retired marines colonel George Ellis, became a protestant reverend, Thom converted to Islam during the Iraq war. That caused serious tension in his unit and his family, which includes younger brother Pat and widow Tina, who had an adulterous affair. Someone arranged for Roughnecks to get violent. Meanwhile Ducky helps Gibbs find out why his dad really visits \'for Christmas\', Tony and McGee have a hard time doing Santa assignments.
Iraq veteran Marine Damon Werth asks Gibb\'s help after witnessing his mate being killed on a truck-ride for their dodgy employer, Aaron Szwed, suspected of smuggling and hits. FBI Agent T.C. Fornell allows the NCIS team to join in, in fact Gibbs take the lead, on his jurisdiction. Damon goes undercover on another ride, with Ziva as his partner. They find the cargo is legal, yet provides a surprising motive.
USMC lieutenant John Mayne is shot in his car in US park Rock Creek (DC) with his own gun. But according to wife Leah and his military record he went missing, presumed captured after breaking his leg, during a reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan six years earlier with former sergeant Matthew Gontz, now a cab driver, and then captain, present major, Gordon Holcomb. John lived a new life as day-trader Christian Wells, \'remarried a year earlier with unsuspecting Rachel. P.I. Pete Iger was hired to identify Wells from a marathon photo-finish- by Holcomb. The Afghan story proves dodgy.
The team discovers striking similarities between themselves and their CGIS (Coast Guard Investigative Services) counterparts when a Navy diver seeking sunken treasure is found dead.
Loner Afghanistan vet Marine corporal Ray Collins\'s corpse is found dumped in a junkyard car, both feet amputated, first knocked out and branded in the face. He was court-martialed and discharged for various crimes, affording a luxury motorcycles collection. He was apparently the latest victim of a serial killer of victims with motorcycle gang tattoos, collecting their salted feet. Abby is invited by Justice liaison Alejandro Rivera to address a Mexican forensic symposium in Benito Juarez, escorted by McGee. They meet the Reynosa cartel, trying to solve drug trader Pedro Hernandes\'s cold murder case. She\'s shocked to find a link to Gibbs\'s past. Tony vents dating website frustrations. The team works out that Collins probably murdered the others, plausibly explaining why he alone was alive when his feet were amputated, the others were Reynosa drug dealers, poisoned and the rest of their corpses acid-consumed.
Just before the Naval Academy\'s grand graduation, NCIS special agent Lara Macy\'s corpse is found in a campfire on Annapolis beach. The agent, officially on leave from Marseille, had her throat slit. She was apparently tailing petty officer 2nd Class Kaylen Burrows who, according to Macy\'s laptop, was an uncooperative rape victim. Suspect college boy Tyler, son of DC contractor Randall Hammond, was just roughed up by men in a US Navy van. The Hammonds claim Tyler saved Macy from Seamen George Capetanos and Karl Wachter. Gibbs knew Macy years ago and can no longer avoid his Mexican past catching up.
