NCIS/Hiatus (1)

Hiatus (1)
Season 3, Episode 23
Airdate	May 9, 2006
Written by	Donald P. Bellisario
Directed by	Dennis Smith
Stream
← 3x22 Jeopardy	3x24 → Hiatus (2)
NCIS — Season Three

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Hiatus (1) is the twenty-third episode of the third season of NCIS, and the sixty-ninth episode overall.

Starring: Mark Harmon (Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs), Michael Weatherly (Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo), Cote de Pablo (Mossad Officer Ziva David), Pauley Perrette (Forensic Scientist Abby Sciuto), Sean Murray (Special Agent Timothy McGee), Lauren Holly (NCIS Director Jenny Shepard)

and David McCallum (Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard)

Guest Starring: Muse Watson (Mike Franks), Cotter Smith (NCIS Special Agent in Charge Sam Stevens), Brian Dietzen (Asst. ME Jimmy Palmer), Christopher Maher (Capt. Aris Mahir), Burt Bulos (Abog Galib), Jarvis George (Navy Lt. Morgan Tolliver), Aloma Wright (Nurse Ethel Washingtown), Tess Lina (Nurse Maria Baliad), Darby Stanchfield (Shannon Gibbs), Jamison Jones (Lt. Gelfand)

and Brett Cullen (Captain Todd Gelfand)

Co-Starring: Mary Matilyn Mouser (Kelly Gibbs), Adam Lieberman (U.S. Customs Officer), Randy Flagler (Gibbs' C.O.), Marcus Reynaga (Paramedic), Ariel Felix (Alon Atu)

Plot Overview

While on an assignment to meet an undercover agent aboard a civilian transport ship, Gibbs is seriously injured in an explosion and taken to a hospital in a coma, where he dreams of painful memories about his past. With DiNozzo in charge, the rest of the NCIS team has to put their feelings about Gibbs aside and proceed with the investigation. Gibbs later awakens, but he is suffering from amnesia and has lost his memory of the last fifteen years.

Arc Advancement

Characters

• Gibbs' first wife and daughter Kelly were killed in the early 1990s, shortly before his return from the first Gulf War. He has told almost no one of this, not even Ducky.

Trivia

Allusions and References

• At one point, DiNozzo says "I have a better chance of hooking up with Jessica Alba than these guys do of ...". The actor, Michael Weatherly dated Jessica Alba at one point.

Quotes

• [Ziva, having recognized a reference to "The Sound of Music", starts to sing. Tony claps a hand over her mouth.]

Tony: One note and I will lock you in a room and make you listen to "It's A Small World" for 24 hours straight. Understand?

Ziva: Mmph!

• [Ducky and Palmer are examining a blown-up corpse discovered to have been sitting on a bomb]

Palmer: Who would sit on an explosive?

Ducky: Someone who didn't know they were sitting on the explosive.

Palmer: Of course.

Ducky: Did it myself once. No, twice. First time I was young, second time foolish.

Palmer: Why were you sitting on an explosive, Doctor?

Ducky: I just told you. I was young and foolish. Haven't you been listening?