Life Before His Eyes

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Life Before His Eyes, is the fourteenth episode in Season Nine of NCIS, and the 200^th of the series as a whole. It also marks the final appearances of Caitlin Todd, Jennifer Shepard, Ari Haswari and Riley McCallister.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Prologue 3 Act One 4 Act Two 5 Act Three 6 Act Four 7 Act Five 8 Cast 8.1 Series Regulars 8.2 Recurring Cast 8.3 Other Cast 9 Major Events 10 Trivia

Synopsis

While in a stand-off with someone in a diner while having his coffee, Gibbs is trapped in a life-or-death situation, forcing him to question all the choices he has made during his life.

Prologue

Act One

Act Two

Act Three

Act Four

Act Five

Cast

Series Regulars

Name	Portrayed by	Role
Leroy Jethro Gibbs	Mark Harmon	Special Agent in charge of the Major Case Response Team, NCIS. After being caught in a stand-off at a diner, he is shown various alternate realities, ie, what would have happened if Kate Todd had survived, if Gibbs hadn't assassinated Pedro Hernandez and if Gibbs hadn't permitted Shannon to testify at the drug trial.
Anthony DiNozzo	Michael Weatherly	Senior Special Agent, MCRT, NCIS. In one alternate reality, he married Kate Todd and together they had either a baby boy (unnamed) or a daughter named Kelly DiNozzo.
Ziva David	Cote de Pablo	Former Mossad Liaison Officer to NCIS MCRT. Now Probationary Special Agent on the MCRT. In an alternate reality, as a result of Caitlin Todd not dying at the hands of Ari Haswari, Ziva never joined NCIS and remained with Mossad as a member of the Kidon Unit.
Abigail Sciuto	Pauley Perrette	Chief Forensic Specialist, NCIS. In an alternate reality, she married Tim McGee.
Timothy McGee	Sean Murray	Special Agent, MCRT, NCIS. In an alternate reality, he married Abby Sciuto.
Leon Vance	Rocky Carroll	Director of NCIS. In an alternate reality, he is shown playing chess with Ari Haswari.
Donald Mallard	David McCallum	Chief Medical Examiner, NCIS

Recurring Cast

Name	Portrayed by	Role
James Palmer	Brian Dietzen	Assistant Medical Examiner
Senior Special Agent Tobias Fornell, FBI	Joe Spano	Senior Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Jackson Gibbs	Ralph Waite	Gibbs's father.
Michael Franks	Muse Watson
Shannon Gibbs	Darby Stanchfield
Kelly Gibbs	Sam Schuder	Gibbs's daughter.
Special Agent Christopher Pacci, NCIS	Tim Kelleher
Private Joan Matteson, USMC	Jeananne Goossen
Dr. Ari Haswari	Rudolf Martin
Former Special Agent Riley McCallister, NCIS	Michael O’Neill
Young Leroy Jethro Gibbs	Sean Harmon	N/A
Caitlin Todd	Sasha Alexander	In alternate realities, she survived the events documented in Twilight, and subsequently married Tony DiNozzo with whom she had either a son (unnamed) or a daughter named Kelly DiNozzo.
Jennifer Shepard	Lauren Holly

Other Cast

Name	Portrayed by	Role
Ann Gibbs	Clare Carey	Gibbs's mother, she left Jackson Gibbs shortly before her death.
Stephen Rose	Jordan Garrett	The seventeen year old son of Michael Rose, he shot and wounded Gibbs in the shoulder.
Michael Rose	Mackenzie Astin	He was the prime suspect of a MCRT investigation of a double homicide. Rose confessed to the killing but argued that it was done to prevent an attempt espionage from going forward.
Elaine	Connie Jackson	A waitress at Gibbs' favorite diner, she is waiting for a marriage proposal from him.
Pedro Hernandez	Thomas Rosales, Jr.	The drug dealer who killed Shannon and Kelly Gibbs in order to prevent Shannon Gibbs from testifying in a drug case pending against one of his associates.
Doctor	Jeff Williams	In one alternate reality, he was the obstetrician who delivered the son/daughter of Special Agents Tony DiNozzo and Kate Todd.

Major Events

• Gibbs and the team investigate a double murder motivated by a desire to prevent espionage.
• Mike Franks, Ann Gibbs, Riley McCallister, and Shannon Gibbs help Gibbs to understand the choices he made by showing him what his life would be like if he had not made the choices he did.

Trivia

• The scene where Caitlin Todd survives being shot dead by Ari Haswari is the alternate ending for the Season 2 finale episode, Twilight (episode). Two separate endings were first filmed with the scene of Kate dying after Ari shot her being added to the end of the episode while the scene of her surviving later appeared in this episode.
• The footage of Kate in the hospital was actually CGI and archive footage from the Season 2 episode, SWAK (episode).

• Like the Season 7 episode, Flesh and Blood (episode) which was the 150th episode of the series, celebrations were held in honor of the TV series reaching its 200th episode while at the end of the episode, a title card thanking the fans for making it 200 episodes was shown.

v - e - d NCIS Season Nine
Nature of the Beast ♦ Restless ♦ The Penelope Papers ♦ Enemy on the Hill ♦ Safe Harbor ♦ Thirst ♦ Devil's Triangle ♦ Engaged Part 1 ♦ Engaged Part 2 ♦ Sins of the Father ♦ Newborn King ♦ Housekeeping ♦ A Desperate Man ♦ Life Before His Eyes ♦ Secrets ♦ Psych Out ♦ Need to Know ♦ The Tell ♦ The Good Son ♦ The Missionary Position ♦ Rekindled ♦ Playing with Fire ♦ Up in Smoke ♦ Till Death Do Us Part