"Shalom" -- With Gibbs retired and boat-building in Mexico, the NCIS team must learn to work without him when Ziva is wanted by the FBI after she witnesses a political assassination, on a rebroadcast of the fourth season premiere of NCIS, Tuesday, Dec. 5 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.  William Webb directed the episode from a script by John C. Kelley.  (Originally broadcast 9/19/06)

As each team member deals with the absence of Gibbs in their own way, Ziva's past comes back to haunt her when she inadvertently witnesses an assassination of a military attaché by her former Mossad partner.  Convinced her father ordered the hit, Ziva seeks refuge at the Israeli Embassy only to find she is wanted by the FBI.  As the NCIS team, now headed by Tony, works to prove her innocence, Ziva reaches out to the one person she has always been able to trust.

SERIES REGULARS:

Leroy Jethro Gibbs.................... Mark Harmon

NCIS Special Agent

  Anthony DiNozzo............. Michael Weatherly

Dr. Donald "Ducky"

  Mallard................................ David McCallum

Abby Sciuto............................. Pauley Perrette

NCIS Agent

  Timothy McGee......................... Sean Murray

Ziva David, Mossad

  Liaison.................................... Cote de Pablo

NCIS Director Jenny

  Shepard..................................... Lauren Holly

GUEST STARS:

Jimmy Palmer.............................. Brian Dietzen

Mike Franks.............................. Muse Watson

FBI Agent Ron Sacks.................. Don Franklin

NCIS Agent Michelle Lee.............. Liza Lapira

Namir Eschel.................................. Eyal Podell

Faatin Amal........................... Saba Homayoon

Camila Charo........................... Susan Santiago

Mossad Officer

  Michael Bashan............................. Eli Danker

ZNN Reporter

  Debra Green......................... Sheila E. Frazier

GENRE:  DRAMA, CRIME, MYSTERY, MILITARY

RATING:  TV14-V

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