Blowback

Season

Episode

4

14

First aired

6 February 2007

Written by

(teleplay) Christopher Silber, David J. North and Shane Brennan; (story) Christopher Silber

Directed by

Thomas J. Wright

Previous episode

Sharif Returns

Next episode

Friends and Lovers

Blowback is the eighty-fourth episode of NCIS, and the fourteenth episode in Season Four.

SynopsisEdit

With information from Mossad, NCIS are successful in capturing an international arms dealer and they discover that "ARES", a highly classified weapons system will be sold to an arms dealer known as "La Grenouille," an important arms dealer. The team then realize that if they want to stop the deal from going ahead, they need to send someone uncover and that someone is none other than Ducky.

PrologueEdit

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CastEdit

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Major EventsEdit

• Ducky goes undercover for the first time.
• Gibbs and the team eventually learn about the operation that Tony and Jenny have been working on: to track down arms dealer René Benoit aka La Grenouille/The Frog, an international arms dealer.
• During a talk with Gibbs in MTAC, Jenny reveals that she's been trying to bring "La Grenouille" down for ten years.
• It's revealed that in stressful situations, Ziva reverts to her Mossad training.
• The team learn about 'La Grenouille'.
• It's also revealed that Trent Kort is actually an agent for the C.I.A.

TriviaEdit

• In the scene where the team is trying to break Goliath, there is a moment when Goliath talks about Ares. Tony answers with Cancer, Gibbs with Virgo, and Ziva with Scorpio. These astrological signs are the same birth signs as the actors who play the parts (i.e. Michael Weatherly is a Cancer and Mark Harmon is a Virgo while Cote de Pablo is a Scorpio).
• "Charles Harrow" was played by actor Fred Tate, who closely resembles David McCallum and has "stood-in" for him before. In the episode "The Meat Puzzle (episode), Tate plays a corpse made to resemble Ducky.
• Armand Assante is credited as a Special Guest Star.
• In the Region 2 DVD, after the phoof of McGee calling for medical attention, the next phoof of Jenny standing in the squad-room is missing.
• This is also the only Season 4 episode that doesn't have a phoof after the opening credits.
• NCIS threatens to take Lisack to Zaire but this may be a show research blooper as the Democratic Republic of Congo has not been called Zaire since 1997.