The episode ends with Harmon Rabb being read his rights before Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs officially declares him to be the main suspect in the case and as such, Rabb is arrested by NCIS for Lt. Singer's murder while interviewing her former JAG colleagues. As a result, a full murder investigation is opened and the NCIS team are tasked with finding a suspect for Lt. The NCIS team is called in to investigate the mysterious death of a JAG officer, Lieutenant Loren Singer, when a young Boy Scout looking for his stray arrow discovers her body. The character Special Agent Vivian Blackadder ( Robyn Lively) does not appear in the series because producer Donald Bellisario felt that 'she was a little soft for this kind of role'. In October 2003, the two episodes were edited together and aired as 'Navy NCIS: The Beginning'. The JAG episodes, ' Ice Queen' and ' Meltdown', served as pilot episodes for the show. The program and its characters are introduced during the eighth season of JAG. As of May 25, 2021, 414 episodes of NCIS have aired. NCIS was renewed for an eighteenth season on May 3, 2020, which premiered on November 17, 2020. Operational psychologist Dr Jacqueline Sloane ( Maria Bello) assists the team during troubled times, while successive Directors Tom Morrow ( Alan Dale), Jennifer Shepard ( Lauren Holly), and Leon Vance ( Rocky Carroll) command from on high. Based out of Washington, D.C., the team includes special agents Caitlin Todd ( Sasha Alexander), Anthony DiNozzo ( Michael Weatherly), Timothy McGee ( Sean Murray), Ziva David ( Cote de Pablo), Eleanor Bishop ( Emily Wickersham), Alexandra Quinn ( Jennifer Esposito), and Nicholas Torres ( Wilmer Valderrama), forensic specialists Abby Sciuto ( Pauley Perrette) and Kasie Hines ( Diona Reasonover), medical examiners Jimmy Palmer ( Brian Dietzen) and Donald 'Ducky' Mallard ( David McCallum), medical examiners assistant Gerald Jackson (Pancho Demmings) and SIS attaché Clayton Reeves ( Duane Henry). Bellisario and Don McGill, and executive produced by Bellisario, Shane Brennan, Gary Glasberg, and George Schenck & Frank Cardea, NCIS stars Mark Harmon as Supervisory Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, in charge of NCIS' Major Case Response Team. The show premiered on September 23, 2003, in the United States.Ĭreated by Donald P. NCIS and its characters were originally introduced in a two-part episode of the CBS television series JAG in April 2003.

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