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Rex Blackadder was a Navy sailor who was the brother of FBI-turned-NCIS Special Agent Vivian Blackadder.

Biography[]

Pre-Series[]

Not much was known about Rex but it's implied that he had a good relationship with his younger or older sister, Viv.

JAG Season 8[]

Personality[]

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Vivian Blackadder[]

Legacy[]

Rex's murder in the attack on the Cole left Viv greatly devastated and consumed with grief with his death also seeing her become hellbent on avenging his death by any means necessary. This later caused her to either resign or quit the FBI and join NCIS nearly two years later in 2003 and presumably a few months prior to "Ice Queen", all for the sake of becoming a member of the kill team that would target Hussan Mohammed, the man who had arranged the attack.

Unfortunately, Viv's dreams of avenging her dead brother were shattered upon her actions during the operation in Rota, Spain which forced the anti-terrorism teams to act quickly and even though they managed to stop the attack with Gibbs even killing Mohammed, classifying the operation as a success, Viv was later presumably either sent back to the FBI or forced to resign from NCIS for good in disgrace as a result of her actions which had jeopardized such an important operation and put the lives of many personnel including Gibbs and Tony at risk.

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