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Playing with Fire

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Playing with Fire

Season

Episode

9

22

First aired

May 1, 2012

Written by

George Schenck & Frank Cardea

Directed by

Dennis Smith

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Up in Smoke

Playing with Fire, is the twenty-second episode in Season Nine of NCIS, and the 208^th of the series as a whole.

SynopsisEdit

In the aftermath of the explosion on board the U.S.S. Brewer, NCIS and the entire Navy race against the clock to find and stop who is responsible for causing the blast while battling to stop a global security crisis. When a similar device is found on the U.S.S. Benjamin Franklin which is docked in Italy, Tony and Ziva head to Italy to investigate and in doing so, are reunited with DiNozzo's predecessor.

PrologueEdit

Act OneEdit

Act TwoEdit

Act ThreeEdit

Act FourEdit

Act FiveEdit

CastEdit

Series RegularsEdit

Name	Portrayed by	Role
Leroy Jethro Gibbs	Mark Harmon	Special Agent in charge of the Major Case Response Team, NCIS.
Anthony DiNozzo	Michael Weatherly	Senior Special Agent, MCRT, NCIS.
Ziva David	Cote de Pablo	Junior Special Agent on the MCRT.
Abigail Sciuto	Pauley Perrette	Chief Forensic Specialist, NCIS.
Timothy McGee	Sean Murray	Special Agent, MCRT, NCIS.
Leon Vance	Rocky Carroll	Director of NCIS.
Donald Mallard	David McCallum	Chief Medical Examiner, NCIS.

Recurring CastEdit

Name	Portrayed by	Role
Stanley Burley	Joel Gretsch	NCIS Special Agent trained by Gibbs, he is believed by many to have been DiNozzo's predecessor on the MCRT. This is Gretsch's first reappearance in the series since his debut appearance in High Seas (episode) nearly nine years ago.

Other CastEdit

Name	Portrayed by	Role
Admiral Theodore Tully, USN	Nigel Gibbs	An Admiral with the Navy.
Emma Park (Playing with Fire), NCIS	Elizabeth Ho	Intelligence Analyst attached to NCIS
Andre Fullerton	James Harvey Ward	An arsonist responsible for attempting to blow up the U.S.S. Benjamin Franklin but fails thanks to Tony and Ziva arresting him.
Vincent Maple	Rick Peters	A man who appears in the episode.
Mrs. Johnson	Karina Logue	Bruce Johnson's wife.
Mail Carrier	Dan Martin	A man who appears in the episode.
Wayne Usher	Rob Nagle	A man who appears in the episode.
Security Guard (Playing with Fire)	Patrick Faucette	A man who appears in the episode.
Seaman (Playing with Fire)	Tony Christopher	A man who appears in the episode.
Tobey Abbott	Robert Sloan	One of the victims of the explosion that occurred on the USS Brewer.
Seaman Apprentice (Playing with Fire)	Maggie Henry	A woman who appears in the episode.
Harper Dearing	Richard Schiff	A reclusive billionaire who doesn't actually appear in the episode in person. Appears in a photograph late into the episode.

Major EventsEdit

Stan Burley returns to help the NCIS team.
Ducky reveals that he edited his will and that Gibbs is to be the executor of his estate in the Will.
Abby later confirms that the person responsible for the terrorist attacks on the Navy ships is businessman Harper Dearing.
Gibbs later applies Dearing's picture to the NCIS Most Wanted Wall, confirming that Dearing has become the biggest threat to the U.S since Osama Bin Laden.

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