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Skeletons

Season

Episode

4

17

First aired

27 February 2007

Written by

Jesse Stern

Directed by

James Whitmore Jr.

Previous episode

Dead Man Walking

Next episode

Iceman

Skeletons is the eighty-seventh episode of NCIS, and the seventeenth episode in Season Four.

Synopsis

NCIS investigate an explosion at a military cemetery mausoleum with the discovery turning up the dismembered bodies of many victims, leading the team to believe that they're dealing with a mass murderer.

Prologue

Act One

Act Two

Act Three

Act Four

Cast

Regulars Cast

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	Mossad Liaison to the NCIS.
Abigail Sciuto	Pauley Perrette	Chief Forensic Specialist, NCIS.
Timothy McGee	Sean Murray	Junior Special Agent, MCRT, NCIS.
Jennifer Shepard	Lauren Holly	Director of NCIS.
Donald Mallard	David McCallum	Chief Medical Examiner, NCIS.

Recurring Cast

Name	Portrayed by	Role
James Palmer	Brian Dietzen	Ducky's assistant.
Hollis Mann	Susanna Thompson	A Lt. Colonel with Army CID.

Other Cast

Name	Portrayed by	Role
Len Grady	Corin Nemec	A jack-of-all-trades salesman and a serial killer.
Natalie Dalton	Alexandra Lydon	Grady's girlfriend and a serial killer.
Dan Trask	Brian Markinson	A Marine Sergeant with the EOD.
Lloyd Jackson	Philip Anthony-Rodriguez	A former Marine Lance Corporal.
Kenneth Dixon	Chris Tardio	A man caught in the explosion at James River National.
Jacob Torrance	Brian Cousins	Madeline's husband.
Madeline Torrance	Erinn Bartlett	Jacob's wife.

Major Events

Ziva reveals that Roy Sanders a man that she met in the previous episode died.
Abby reveals that she hates nougat.

Trivia

Abby's boyfriend Marty is written out the show in this episode because the actor, Michael Gildon, died.
The footage of the Marines performing the gun salute at the beginning of the episode is actually footage that was originally used in NCIS's parent series, JAG.

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