Switch

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Switch is the fifty-first episode of NCIS, and the fifth in Season Three.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Prologue 3 Act One 4 Act Two 5 Act Three 6 Act Four 7 Major Events 8 Trivia 9 Cast 9.1 Series Regulars 9.2 Recurring Cast 9.3 Guest Cast

Synopsis

A Petty Officer is gunned down while talking to his wife but when Tony and Ziva inform the victim's C.O of the death, they discover that another man is posing as the victim. This leads the team into a possible case of mistaken identity, only to find that the victim left them a message before he died about who killed him.

Prologue

The scene opens with Petty Officer Jerry Smith driving down a long stretch of road while talking to his wife. The two are engaged in a conversation that quickly turns into an argument and it's all concerning their anniversary. Smith then starts ignoring his wife who's still rambling and raving about her husband, calling him a bastard.

Suddenly, Smith sees something that causes him to attempt to duck for cover but the unknown assassin soon shoots him, causing a splatter of blood to appear on the window. Smith then collapses over the steering wheel, dead. As this goes on, his wife still calls her husband, unaware of what's happened.

The car then drives off a cliff and for a second, there's nothing but smoke.

It then cuts to Smith who's now shown to be lying underneath the car, dead, his lifeless eyes still open and there's a bullet wound in the left side of his neck.

Act One

Act Two

Act Three

Act Four

Major Events

• Gibbs reveals that he has about 50 different Rules and that it's his job to teach them to the rest of his team.
• It's revealed that the real Petty Officer Jerry Smith was killed by his wife, Wendy Smith because he'd been cheating on her since their wedding day.
• It's soon discovered that John Kirby had been posing as the victim for a few months so that the real Smith would avoid getting a dishonorable discharge.
• Abby and Ziva begin forming a possible friendship when they start reassembling the briefcase that the bomb squad blew up.

Trivia

• In the evidence garage, while she's saying "Very good, Gibbs", Abby's spider web tattoo is seen on the wrong side of her neck before swapping back to its normal side in the next shot.
• Someone appears to be using McGee's credit card to buy porno, although it's not revealed who it was.

Cast

Series Regulars

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.
Donald Mallard	David McCallum	Chief Medical Examiner, NCIS.
Jennifer Shepard	Lauren Holly	Director of NCIS.

Recurring Cast

Name	Portrayed by	Role
James Palmer	Brian Dietzen	Ducky's Assistant Medical Examiner.

Guest Cast

Name	Portrayed by	Role
Wendy Smith	Merritt Wever	The wife of the victim and also his murderer.
Robert Morris	Geoffrey Lower	A Commander at Norfolk and the victim's C.O.
John Kirby	Wilson Bethel	A Petty Officer posing as the murder victim.
Jody Hampton	Richard Whiten	A police officer and a member of the Virigina State Police.
Jerry Smith	Andrew Caple-Shaw	The murder victim.
Young Woman	Maria Bertrand	A member of the unknown group who delivered random suitcases across D.C.
Nervous Man	Vern Urich	A man who gives McGee a briefcase.

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Kill Ari Part 1 ♦ Kill Ari Part 2 ♦ Mind Games ♦ Silver War ♦ Switch ♦ The Voyeur's Web ♦ Honor Code ♦ Under Covers ♦ Frame-Up ♦ Probie ♦ Model Behavior ♦ Boxed In ♦ Deception ♦ Light Sleeper ♦ Head Case ♦ Family Secret ♦ Ravenous ♦ Bait ♦ Iced ♦ Untouchable ♦ Bloodbath ♦ Jeopardy ♦ Hiatus Part 1 ♦ Hiatus Part 2