Donald Mallard
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| Donald "Ducky" Mallard | |
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NCIS Chief |
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Male |
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David McCallum |
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Doctor Donald "Ducky" Mallard is the medical examiner on the NCIS team. Ducky also graduated from a forensic psychology course. His current assistant is Dr. Palmer, after his previous assistant Gerald Jackson resigned after he was held hostage and shot in the arm by terrorist Ari Haswari.
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[edit] Biography
Ducky lived with his mother whose name has been given variously either being Vanessa or Victoria, in a large mansion of the classical American style of architecture popular in the antebellum Southern United States.
Doctor Mallard's mother was ninety-six years old when she was introduced in the second season episode The Meat Puzzle. In the sixth season episode Silent Night, Ducky mentioned that he was going to visit his mother who is now well over a hundred years old, in her new home, which is a rest home; however the actor who plays his mother has passed on. It is mentioned in Hiatus (part 2) that Ducky's mother left him on a bus as an infant, and was halfway to her destination before she noticed he was gone.
His most obvious character traits are a tendency to ramble since he appears to know vast amounts of information about every topic under the sun and an eccentric habit of talking to the bodies he autopsies.
[edit] Education
Ducky was educated at Eton College, and subsequently graduated from University of Edinburgh's Medical School. Additionally, Ducky successfully completed a Masters degree program in the field of forensic psychology.
[edit] Career
Prior to joining NCIS Ducky worked with several other organizations including the British police before coming to the US and joining NCIS. Ducky by his own volition affirmed that he served in the military during the Vietnam War, although whether he served in the American military is unknown.
In 1980 Doctor Mallard was working in a refugee camp in Afghanistan, and while, there he became acquainted with Polish born CIA interrogator, Marcin Jerek who was known locally as "Mr. Pain." As a result of this acquaintance Ducky was later mistakenly charged with war crimes for violating Article Four of the 1949 Geneva Conventions by the government of Afghanistan. When the truth surrounding the events was revealed through the efforts of Gibbs and the team, the charges against Ducky were dismissed.
Dr. Mallard has worked as the Medical Examiner for NCIS for at least seventeen years because, the events are chronicled in the sixth season episode Silent Night involve a Marine who was believed to be deceased due to a mistaken identification performed using only dental records seventeen years ago.
Dr. Mallard has also obtained a degree in forensic psychology and often provides psychological profiles of suspects for the team.
[edit] Relationships with Other Characters
[edit] Leroy Jethro Gibbs
Ducky and Gibbs have a longstanding friendship that dates back to the period when Jethro and Jenny Shepard were partners in France because, he and Jethro escaped in a boat procured by Jenny. Ducky friendship with Jethro was further reinforced when after Gibbs returned to NCIS after coming out of semi-retirement, he apologized to Ducky for his actions after he came out of the coma. Also, during "Hiatus" when Gibbs was in a coma he was the only one there when he awoke. In that same episode, DiNozzo commented that if Gibbs didn't remember Ducky he wouldn't remember anyone. Additionally, he is one of the few people who regularly call calls Gibbs "Jethro" apart from Jenny Shepard, Tobias Fornell, and G. Callen.
[edit] Caitlin Todd
Dr. Mallard adopted a fatherly attitude toward Kate Todd. He repeatedly refused to call her Kate preferring to call her Caitlin. This attitude was demonstrated in the episode SWAK when he comforted during her distressd over Tony's illness. Ducky reaffirmed this attitude in the aftermath of Bete Noire when he told Gibbs that he wanted Ari on his slab.
[edit] Ziva David
Donald has a very good relationship, most likely because she saved his life
[edit] Abby Sciuto
They have a very good friendship, this is seen in numerous episodes where they joke and laugh and comfort each other. They also seem to have friendship due the common bond of their profession
[edit] Corpses
Ducky is very nice to the corpses. He often can be seen talking to them, he asserts that he does this to counteract the invasiveness that characterizes the nature of his work.
