NCIS

The investigation into a mysterious suicide aboard a ship take a surprising, deadly turn.

While stationed on an aircraft carrier, DiNozzo finds that a Navy Lieutenant's apparent suicide may be connected to a larger, deadly scheme.

Tuesday October 7, 8:30pm

8.30pm tuesday / SEPTEMBER 2

A dead body is discovered on a building site, but is the person a victim of an accident or a killer? Ducky and his assistant Jimmy Palmer investigate the body, on site, in order to determine the sequence of events leading to their death. However, when Palmer comes face-to-face with the suspected killer, he realises he may be the next target.

The dead body is identified as a man called Baxter – but investigations into his personal life reveal that he has no bank accounts, no tax records and no permanent residence. How could a man exist with so little link to reality?

Palmer, meanwhile, has very little recollection of the killer, despite intensive interrogation, so Abby and McGee are forced to use alternative methods to try and jog his memory. He may just reveal a little more than he intends to when Abby puts him in under hypnosis.

8.30pm tuesday / AUGUST 26

Ziva's got some man trouble. Andy Hoffman may be gorgeous, charming and spontaneous, but he is also a serial killer.

Ziva picks Hoffman up at a bar as part of an undercover assignment and it's not long before she is caught in a precarious situation with her life at stake. Her quick instincts save her life, leaving Ziva alive but emotionally troubled.

In order to try and come to terms with her actions, Ziva returns to the bar where she met Hoffman and drowns her sorrow. In the bar, she meets another patron, Michael Locke, who despite being charming is also looking for his ex-girlfriend, who has been missing for three weeks. Could she be another of Hoffman's victims?

8.30pm tuesday / AUGUST 19

When Petty Officer Jessica Smith is allegedly assaulted in her own home, she is adamant the intruder was part of the military and had planned to kill her. The problem is, Jessica has a history of psychological trauma so Gibbs and his team are unsure of whether she is telling the truth about her supposed attack.

P.O. Smith is institutionalised after the incident at a military hospital, but the one place that is meant to protect her ultimately destroys her.

After calling Gibbs with a desperate plea to come and save her, P.O. Smith is found hanging in her hospital room. Gibbs is immediately dubious that her death was a suicide and Ducky supports his theory when he discovers that P.O. Smith was indeed murdered.

8.30pm tuesday / AUGUST 12

Gibbs and his team attend the scene of a suspicious murder – Petty Officer Tiffany Jordan is found dead, face down in a toilet bowl, at the back of a bikini contest.

Interrogations with former colleagues of Jordan reveal that she had a fear of rest rooms, confirming to Gibbs that this was indeed a malicious murder.

More concerning is that Jordan appears to have had a stalker, a man who has recently been released from prison. Although he protests to have loved Jordan, could he have murdered her in a fit of jealousy?

Ducky's revelation that Jordan was pregnant causes the team to consider that Jordan was perhaps having an affair, much closer to home – but could it have been with the stalker?

9.30pm tuesday / AUGUST 5

When the bodies of two assassins, a married couple, are delivered to NCIS from overseas, Tony and Ziva assume their identities undercover to track down their target.

Their undercover mission is under surveillance by an unknown team so Tony and Ziva take their duties very seriously – especially those in the bedroom. The question is, how far will they go to convince those that are watching them that they a loving couple, in all senses….

Meanwhile, we are treated to flashbacks of Gibbs and Director Shepard's own romantic and professional past. It seems NCIS is the breeding ground for relationships – it must be all the close intimate work…

9.30pm tuesday / JULY 29

Gibbs and his team investigate the kidnapping of Lt. Commander Tanner, an officer working as the Navy’s liaison with a defense contractor on a highly confidential project called “Honour”. His abduction from an amusement park is witnessed by Tanner’s six-year-old son, Zac. Gibbs and his team are alerted to Tanner’s disappearance by a phone call from Zac and commence an intense investigation in to his whereabouts.

8.30PM TUESDAY / JULY 8

Ducky has the unpleasant task of restructuring and identifying three completely mutilated bodies. He makes an even more disturbing discovery when he realises he actually knows the identity of two of the bodies, having worked on a case with them many years prior. The bodies belong to a District Attorney and a Judge, both of which were instrumental in convicting Vincent Hanlon of rape and murder, as was Ducky in revealing incriminating evidence, trying Vincent to the victim.

When the body of the Jury Foreman involved in Hanlon’s case is also discovered dismembered, Gibbs and his team realise that Ducky is the only remaining living person associated with the conviction.

However, Hanlon is already dead so who could be behind these recent murders?

8.30PM TUESDAY / JULY 1

A multi-millionaire real estate investor who doubles as a reserve officer is sent to serve in Iraq with US Marines and is killed by a mortar attack.

When his body is returned to Washington, his wife reveals that her husband had been in the middle of a business transaction with unscrupulous investors at the time of his death.

Because of that, she doesn’t believe that he was actually killed by the mortar attack, which is also confirmed by Ducky's autopsy, revealing that a gun shot wound was the cause of death. She thinks he was singled out: murdered by a contract killer.

Gibbs dispatches DiNozzo and the inexperienced but competent NCIS analyst Nikki Jardine to Iraq to continue the investigation, while Gibbs and the rest of the NCIS team follow leads and investigate the crime from Washington.

8.30PM TUESDAY / JUNE 24

When the body of international arms dealer La Grenouille resurfaces from the Baltimore harbour, all eyes fall on the NCIS team and more specifically, NCIS Director Jenny Shepard, as the prime suspect in his murder. Senior FBI Agent Fornell directs the investigation in to the team and interrogates each agent separately, forcing them to reveal details that could well implicate Director Shepard.

After their interrogation, Gibbs instructs Ducky, McGee and Ziva to start delving in to the FBI and determine why their team is getting framed for the murder. They won't rest until they get to the bottom of the accusations and determine the truth, but are they prepared for what they will discover about one of their own team members?

8.30PM TUESDAY / JUNE 17

While raiding a house in search of a missing Marine MP, McGee is forced to shoot a guard dog which attacks him. In the house they find the body of the missing MP who appears to have been killed by the dog. The dog is transferred back to the lab for Abby to check for evidence and she immediately bonds with it, renaming him 'Jethro'.

When Ducky’s autopsy confirms the Marine was mauled to death, Abby sets out to prove Jethro wasn’t the cause. When MP's arrive to put the dog down, Abby locks herself in her lab with the dog - refusing to hand him over to be put down. During the standoff, Jethro becomes seriously ill, leading Abby to make an astonishing discovery.

QUOTE:
Tony Di Nozzo: Dog handling... must be a pretty "rough" job. I don't want to "dog" you with a lot more questions, but if I need to sniff around some more, is there a number that I can call?

8.30PM TUESDAY / JUNE 10

While on a stakeout to try and catch a thief suspecting of nabbing a high-tech radar, the team accidentally end up witnessing a murder, which appears unrelated to the theft. Although Gibbs has told the team to focus on the weapons theft, Tony can't get it out of his mind and does some covert investigation with the detective assigned to the case. He discovers that the murder victim is the same guy who tipped off NCIS on the location of the missing radar, therefore the two cases are related. The case becomes more convoluted when an innocent man is used as a pawn to help determine the identity of the murderer.

Meanwhile, Ducky secretly asks Abby to run some blood tests for him, but Abby is shocked when she discovers who they are for. What is Ducky up to?

8.30PM TUESDAY / JUNE 3

The team investigates the death of a young Muslim Marine, Abdul Bakr (guest star Shaun Toub), who appears to have been shot to death around the corner from the mosque where he and his father, Khalid Bakr, worshiped. However, things get more complicated when Abby reveals from a toxicology report that his death wasn't from the gun shot wound but rather poison from rare octopus venom.

Kahlid had allowed the FBI to bug his mosque when he realised that it was being used as a recruiting ground for Al Qaeda. His son Abdul was helping to spy for the government in an effort to squeeze out the recruiter but his efforts led to his death.

With links to Al Qaeda, the killer is not easy to find but when they do track him down, the team blow apart a much bigger covert operation.

TRIVIA: JONATHAN LAPAGLIA

8.30PM TUESDAY / MAY 27

*100th episode for the series*

While trying to track down a delusional and violent Marine who thinks he's still in Iraq, Gibbs and the team learn that the man has been the subject of a secret experiment and it comes with a high price to pay.

TRIVIA:
Silver Star is the fourth highest military decoration that can be awarded to a member of any branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is also the third highest award given for Valor (in the face of the enemy).

8.30PM TUESDAY / MAY 20

The NCIS team has to babysit a nine-year-old son of a missing man, a survivalist who is somehow connected to a cold case murder. The investigation leads the team into the wilderness, where they discover a shocking truth about the man's past.