NCIS/Hung Out to Dry

Hung Out to Dry
Season 1, Episode 2
Airdate	September 30, 2003
Written by	Don McGill
Directed by	Alan J. Levi
Stream
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NCIS — Season One

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Hung Out to Dry is the second episode of the first season of NCIS.

Starring: Mark Harmon (Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs), Sasha Alexander (Special Agent Caitlin Todd), Michael Weatherly (Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo), Pauley Perrette (Abby Sciuto)

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

Special Guest Star: Patrick Labyorteaux (Lt. Bud Roberts)

Guest Starring: James Macdonald (Captain Faul), Rick Pasqualone (Corporal Paul Dafelmair), Dave Power (Corporal Dave Ramsey), Chaney Kley (Corporal Paul Brinkman), Keith Diamond (Sergeant Gregory Nutt), Julie Gonzalo (Sarah Schaefer), Brandon Davis (Jimmy), Pancho Demmings (Asst. M.E. Gerald Jackson), Lee Reherman (Sergeant Tuers)

Co-Starring: Austin Noah Marques (Billy Fuentes), Christina Souza (Rosemarie Fuentes), Brian Wade (Marine Lance Corporal)

Plot Overview

A Marine dies during a nighttime parachute jump exercise when his parachute fails to open and he crash-lands into a parked SUV with two teenagers making out inside. Gibbs, DiNozzo, and newly-minted Special Agent Caitlin Todd investigate and discover that the Marine's parachute was tampered with by another Marine in his squad who was trying to cover up a drug deal.

Notes

• This episode was based on a real-life NCIS casefile, specifically an incident where a disgruntled Marine cut the parachute cords of several of his fellow jumpers during a training exercise in North Carolina.

Arc Advancement

Characters

Jethro Gibbs

• This episode introduces the ongoing arc with Agent Gibbs' boat, which he is building by hand in his basement without the aid of power tools.

Caitlin Todd

• This episode marks Kate Todd's first case as an NCIS agent.

Abby Sciuto

• Abby reveals the reason that she got into forensic science: when she was a child, she lived near a car lot where wrecked cars were brought after accidents, and developed a predilection for taking pictures of the wrecks and trying to figure out what had happened.

Trivia

Behind the Scenes

• Abby's explanation for the reason that she got into forensic science is, in reality, the reason that her actress, Pauley Perrette, got into forensic science in real life.

Quotes

• Gibbs, Abby and Kate in the forensics lab:

Gibbs: How long to find the acid and check out the rest of the chutes?

Abby: Well, I'm flying solo, so at least a day.

Gibbs: Go faster if you had an assistant?

Abby: Definitely.

Gibbs: Okay, you got the job.

Kate: I get to do forensics?!?

Gibbs: No, you get to schlep for Abby. She gets to do forensics.