Abigail Sciuto
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Forensic Scientist |
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Abigail "Abby" Sciuto is the forensic scientist on the NCIS team. McGee occasionally assists her with forensic and computer work. Known for her Gothic style of dress and addiction to the fictional, high-caffeine beverage "Caf-Pow". She is the most active person of the team, often hugging everyone and talking fast. Unlike the rest of the team she and Dr. Donald Mallard never get "headslaps" from Gibbs.
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[edit] Background
A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Abby is a hearing child born to deaf parents and likes her music loud. Gibbs tells Tony DiNozzo she had deaf parents. Like Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Abby seems to thrive on caffeine; unlike Gibbs, who drinks a lot of coffee, she prefers her caffeine in the form of a soda called "Caf-Pow".In the episode "My Other Left Foot" it was revealed that Abby has a younger brother.
[edit] Education
Abby graduated with full honors from Louisiana State University with a triple major in sociology, criminology and psychology. She earned her master's degree from Georgia State University in criminology and forensic science (Perrette likewise has a Master's Degree in Criminology, and has toured the real NCIS offices to meet with the real forensic specialists, the source of her interest in forensics is the same as her character's; living near a wrecking yard and being intrigued by the cause and effect of the wrecks).
[edit] Personality
Abby is known for her Gothic style of dress and her pigtailed dyed hair, with at least nine tattoos on her neck, arms, back, ankle and other places which are only hinted ; while some of the tattoos are Perrette's, and real, some, such as the large cross on her back, are makeup applied for the occasions when Perrette shows her bare back on camera. The spider web on her neck is not real either; producer Donald Bellisario wanted the character to have a tattoo that would be visible (almost) all the time. Her style of clothing includes black dresses and t-shirts, mini-skirts, and goth jewelery. She often wears anklets and toe rings. She has stated several times that she sleeps in a coffin, and in the episode "Hiatus", she says she has a hearse that has flat tires all the time. At one time she also owned a Harley and revealed that her then-boyfriend tried to run over her with it while she was sleeping. Abby has a happy-go-lucky attitude and a sweet personality. It has been revealed that she doesn't like to have an assistant (most likely due to the one that framed Tony and tried to kill her) or anyone other then the team in her lab. She also has called herself a perfectionist.
When changing the artwork in her lab, she states that she has a "Chagall feeling"–a reference to Marc Chagall, a Jewish Belo-Russian artist whose main works came from fantasy and dreams. Her favorite term for something out of the ordinary is "hinky". Her favorite bands are The NewlyDeads, Plastic Death, Android Lust, and Brain Matter, a band started by her friends. In Season 3's "Deception", Abby asks DiNozzo to help her ID some audio evidence, explaining she is having trouble hearing because of attending a Plastic Death concert the night before. She has a stuffed hippo named Bert that farts when squeezed.
Episode 6.22 demonstrates that Abby has a phobia related to Los Angeles stemming from the events of the Judgment Day story arc where Jenny dies.
[edit] Career
Abby is well-versed in her field of study; she is rarely stumped by the puzzles which Gibbs' team present to her. Also, she does all the work on the evidence herself. In season 3, in an effort to allieviate some of the workload and in an effort to keep her from suffering burn out, Director Shepard assigned her an assistant, named Charles "Chip" Sterling, she protested, but begrudgingly worked with him until it was revealed that he was homicidal.
Although she has been courted by many large private firms, Abby elects to remain with the NCIS despite substantial monetary offers.
In Episode 6.21 entitled "Toxic" Abby was temporarily detached from NCIS and seconded to a special project codenamed "Tarburst" following the disappearance of the project's chief scientist Dr. Phillip Heller. To all outward appearances the purpose of the project was to cure "Afghanistan War Syndrome," however, this aim was a cover story to disguise, a covert operation to develop a biological weapon to enable targeted assassinations without placing assets in the line of fire.
[edit] Tattoos
Abby has 11 tattoos that we can see: a spiderweb on her neck, a smiley face on her right middle finger, a "P" on the inside of her right wrist, three triangles on the inside of her left wrist, an infinity symbol on her right inner forearm, the letters "R.I.P." on her left inner forearm, a stick-figure angel on her right shoulder-blade and a stick figure devil on her left shoulder-blade, a flower on her upper back, a large cross on her lower back, a smiley face on her left inner ankle, and three dots on her right outer ankle.
[edit] Relationships with Colleagues
[edit] Gibbs
Some fans think Abby has a father-daughter type relationship with Gibbs. There is a running gag between the two Gibbs walks in just when Abby discovers something, something she theorizes has something to do with a psychic link. She is usually excited when Gibbs comes into the lab, especially if he has a "Caf-Pow," an extra large convenience store cup of soda, which he gives her as a reward for good work or as a "bribe." In the season 5 episode, Leap of Faith, Abby receives a bouquet of black roses from Gibbs for solving the case. While Tony remarks that the flowers should have been his, McGee and Ziva both agree that Tony should stop trying because “Abby will always be Gibbs' favorite.” Gibbs takes her out to dinner the night before her birthday annually. These examples could also support the alternative view that an intimate relationship exists between the two as discussed below.
Other viewers believe that she and Gibbs have an intimate romantic relationship. This view is based on the following evidence: First, One Valentines Day, Gibbs gave her a Caf-Pow with a stuffed "love you" on the straw. Second, Abby is extremely defensive against any accusation, joking or not, against Gibbs. In response to one such occasion, she declared that she can kill a person without leaving any forensic evidence. Third, In the season 5 episode, Leap of Faith, Abby receives a bouquet of black roses from Gibbs for solving the case. While Tony remarks that the flowers should have been his, McGee and Ziva both agree that Tony should stop trying because “Abby will always be Gibbs' favorite.” Third, Gibbs takes her out to dinner the night before her birthday annually. He once managed to sneak a gift into her office unseen even though she had been in the lab the entire night. While the rest of the team each gave her black roses, when she opened the large, gift wrapped box from Gibbs, it emitted a glowing light and she was impressed.
[edit] DiNozzo
Abby's relationship with Tony is quite close in spite of the fact that Abby unwittingly played a part in Tony's incarceration during the events chronicled in the third season episode entitled "Frame-Up". However, after she has her faith restored in her forensics, she thought of everything she could to discover who the real criminal was. In the pilot episode, Ice Queen, Abby made a deal with Tony that if he bought dinner for her, she'd get ID from prints off a car in two hours than the usual 12. Tony sweetened the deal by saying he would take her to a cafe. In the season five episode "Internal Affairs" Abby steadfastly maintained the team's innocence in the murder of René Benoit by asserting that if a member of the team had committed murder that Gibbs would have been aware of the fact. A point which both Deputy Director Vance and Special Agent Fornell had overlooked.
After Tony, Ziva, and Tim were reassigned Abby proceeded to keep a tally of the number of days since their reassignment as a reminder to Gibbs to work towards the restoration of Tony, Ziva, and Tim to Gibbs' team. Abby was overjoyed by Tony's reassignment back to Washington DC.
[edit] McGee
In "Pop Life," Abby makes a comment about men "being fakes." When McGee is affronted, Abby responds to him with, "Your tat is real, and you don't disappoint me."
[edit] Director Vance
Abby, is one of the few people whom Director Vance permits to address him by his given name of Leon. This is Director Vance's way of demonstrating his respect for her abilities and her work ethic. The only other people allowed to address Director Vance by his given name are Gibbs and Ducky.
Director Vance's respect for Abby's abilities was first demonstrated during the events chronicled in the episodes entitled "Cloak and Dagger." When only she and Ducky were informed of the plan to trap the "mole" within NCIS prior to its being set. This respect was recently reaffirmed Director Vance, called her in to facilitate and speed up the process of forensic analysis in a case being investigated by the team from the Office of Special Projects led by G. Callen, as chronicled in the NCIS Los Angeles episode entitled "Killshot" which, featured a crossover between the two series.
