Leon Vance
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| Leon Vance | |
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| Rank: |
NCIS Director |
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Male |
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| Actor: |
Rocky Carroll |
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Leon Vance was the Deputy Director of NCIS, then later succeeded Jenny Shepard as Director after she was killed. When Vance was made Director, he split up Gibbs' team in an attempt to catch an NCIS agent leaking information about US military plans, then later reformed them once they thought that they had caught the criminal.
When Director Vance was informed of Gibbs' suspicions concerning Agent Lee, Director Vance authorized the operations that led to Agent Lee's exposure and the eventual death of the domestic terrorist that was using her to gather information.
In the episode entitled Cloak, it was revealed that Director Vance was promoted to full Director of NCIS, with the specific mandate by the Secretary of the Navy to in his words `clean up the mess left by Director Shepard.'
During the events related in the episode entitled "Broken Bird" Trent Kort gave Gibbs a file on Director Vance, the nature and contents of the file are unknown. In episode 6.18 "Knockout" Gibbs revealed to Director Vance that the CIA gave Gibbs a file concerning the Director, after the Director appropriated both Ziva and McGee to conduct a questionable investigation into the death of a former marine who had close personal ties to Director Vance.
Gibbs also counseled Director Vance to avoid the errors that his predecessor Director Shepard had made because, she used the Director's as a tool to further her own agenda at the expense of the agency. In response Director Vance told Gibbs to keep the file because, it would serve to keep him honest
[edit] Relationship With Other Characters
[edit] Gibbs
He seems to have a knack for reading Gibbs like a book, and can hide anything from Gibbs by not having any personal connections to Gibbs.
[edit] Ziva
Director Vance seems to have close ties with Mossad, like his predecessor Director Shepard. The evidence for this can be found in episode 6.01 "Last Man Standing" when Director Vance advancing his request to have Ziva reassigned to Gibbs team, he called Director David, "Eli" to which, Director David responded "Use her well my friend."
