| 1 | '''As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff as per policy.]] Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.''' |
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| 6 | [[folder:General]] |
| 7 | * Basically any episode ending with a child involved, seeing as how Gibbs tends to flashback to his daughter. |
| 8 | * Any scene involving Shannon and/or Kelly that isn't a TearJerker, and a few that are. |
| 9 | * The romantic relationship between [[MilitaryBrat Timothy]] [[HollywoodHacking [=McGee=]]] and [[TragicallyDisabledLoveInterest Delilah]] [[BadassBookworm Fielding]] in general; while they're not perfect, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-83lr1te1g they have one of the most stable relationships in the series]]. Season 14 has them get married, and a season later they have twins named Johnny and Morgan. |
| 10 | * Anytime Gibbs drops his stern/gruff demeanor, revealing that for all his standoffness, he genuinely cares about his team, as evidenced by the sincere anger or fear he has shown whenever any of them have been in danger. |
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| 13 | [[folder:Season 1]] |
| 14 | * In the second episode, Gibbs arrives at the victim's house shortly before the family has to leave for the funeral, and finds the dead Marine's son in a half-built treehouse that will never be completed because his father is dead. After solving the case Gibbs returns and finishes the treehouse himself. |
| 15 | * Season 1, episode 15, Gibbs is illegally helping an old Marine friend. Everyone can guess as much, even if there's no proof. He refuses to bring Tony and Kate in on it, leading them to form the wrong conclusion. Fortunately, Ducky sets them straight. |
| 16 | --> '''Fornell:''' If I find Gibbs is helping him, I'll have him charged. As an accessory to murder.\ |
| 17 | ''(Leaves)''\ |
| 18 | '''Kate:''' He's right. We have to do something.\ |
| 19 | '''Tony:''' Like what? I mean, Gibbs obviously doesn't trust us enough to tell us what's going on.\ |
| 20 | '''Ducky:''' You don't honestly believe that, do you? Don't you see, Gibbs is doing his very best to protect you.\ |
| 21 | '''Tony:''' From what?\ |
| 22 | '''Ducky:''' From being accessories yourselves. He's willing to risk his own life and reputation for a friend, but he's not willing to risk yours. |
| 23 | * In the episode "[=UnSEALed=]", Gibbs' relationship with the little boy is really sweet. |
| 24 | -->'''Boy:''' I'm not gonna help you catch my dad.\ |
| 25 | '''Gibbs:''' That's OK. *ruffles his hair |
| 26 | * Even though it's PlayedForLaughs a few moments later, the scene in "Missing," when Gibbs tells Tony that he's irreplaceable after rescuing Tony from the serial killer. |
| 27 | ** When Tony is passing out just before he's abducted while on the phone with Gibbs: |
| 28 | ---> '''Gibbs''': "We're coming for you!" |
| 29 | ** It's the genuine panic in his voice that sells it. |
| 30 | * "Left For Dead". Gibbs allowing Tony to crash at his place after spending the entire episode refusing. |
| 31 | * "Seadog" begins with Gibbs promising the young men at a community center that he will get the lights turned back on. . .and [[{{Bookends}} ends]] with him having done exactly that. |
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| 33 | |
| 34 | [[folder:Season 2]] |
| 35 | * Pretty much every scene with the little girl in "See No Evil" qualifies as this. Her actress (Creator/AbigailBreslin) deserves an award for the way she pulls at your heartstrings in a thousand ways all episode long. |
| 36 | * In "Call of Silence" Tony is ordered to watch Corporal Ernest Yost, an aging World War II Medal of Honor Recipient, who is convinced he murdered his friend in battle. So Tony takes the lonely man to a fair or amusement park, off-screen, and wins the gentleman a stuffed giraffe. |
| 37 | ** One of the greatest moments in NCIS happens in this episode. A rather combative member of the JAG Corps arrives to take Yost into custody, accompanied by an armed escort. As the disagreement on who has jurisdiction gets heated, Tony leans over and moves Yost's tie aside, showing his Medal of Honor. ''Instantly'' both the JAG officer and her escort ''snap'' to attention. Despite it not strictly being a requirement, '''that''' is how much MOH recipients are honored. |
| 38 | ** In the end, Gibbs brings in a Japanese POW, Hitoshi Yoshida, who fought on Iwo Jima as a witness to help prove Yost's innocence. It turns out Yost did kill his friend in an accident, as the friend was wounded, in pain and was about to give away their position. He isn't charged and the record remains as it was. And the Japanese POW? He didn't fight on Iwo Jima but Guadalcanal, where Yost was previously injured. He agreed to come and jog Yost's memory out of goodness of his heart despite the two having been on opposite sides in the war. At the end of the episode, Yost and Hitoshi share a drink together at Hitoshi's restaurant. |
| 39 | * In Pop Life, the team letting the father of the victim and the killer [[LetThemDieHappy die peacefully with his daughter at his side]] before they arrest her. |
| 40 | * In "SWAK", when Tony is in the hospital with the plague, Gibbs tells him that he won't die, and Tony believes him... Just anytime that Tony and Gibbs act like Father and Son, really... |
| 41 | * Despite the ending of 'Twilight', there is a brief but powerful scene halfway through. Ari has admitted that he will try to kill Gibbs soon. Gibbs isn't unduly worried, and stays at headquarters for the night. He tells [=McGee=], Kate and Tony to go home, several times. The camera cuts to later in the night, with Gibbs working in a silent office... except for the snoring, because they all stayed with him. |
| 42 | ** Also, at the beginning of the episode, Tony, still recovering from last episode and just the recipient of being pushed to the ground by Kate after a fall down a hill, ''ordering'' [=McGee=] and Kate away from the bomb on the car while he stays behind to hold the trigger so they can get a lead before it detonates. |
| 43 | * "Caught On Tape". In the middle of a shootout, Gibbs pauses to whistle to the man's dog so that the animal will run out of the house to safety. |
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| 45 | |
| 46 | [[folder:Season 3]] |
| 47 | * Everyone imagining Kate appearing to them, managing to get them to smile while they're still reeling from her death. If nothing else, it's a good way to remember her, not the horrific way that she died, but as their friend. |
| 48 | ** The only exception to this is Gibbs, who is seeing her berating him for letting her die throughout the episode, which makes her final appearance to him, gently teasing him for being late to her funeral, all the sweeter. |
| 49 | * In "Honor Code", every scene Gibbs has with Zach, the kidnapped man's son, is a CMOH. Abby even calls Zach "Mini-Gibbs." |
| 50 | ** The reunion between Zach and his father at the end of the episode is really sweet. |
| 51 | * The ending of the episode "Bait" is a COMH if you think about it, behind one of the few NCIS episodes where no-one dies. Double points for Kody, who has just spent the day being strapped to a pipe bomb and forced to threaten his peers, who he very clearly wanted to help, gets reunited with the mother he thought was dead. One can only hope he was able to make it up to the other hostages though. |
| 52 | * In "Light Sleeper", one of the women who found the murdered bodies also had her baby daughter with her at the time and when NCIS is processing the crime scene, the baby ends up getting extremely fussy since it's time for her to be fed, so her mother hands her to [=McGee=] so she can find the bottle and formula in the diaper bag. Once Gibbs sees that [=McGee=]'s struggling to get her to stop crying because he's never held a baby before, he gestures to [=McGee=] to give him the baby instead; this leads to a sweet moment where Gibbs gently rocks and comforts the baby enough for her to stop crying. He then offers to prepare the bottle for her mother as he and [=McGee=] take her statement. |
| 53 | ** Even more heartwarming comes in later in the episode after TheReveal: The woman with the baby used to be a sleeper agent for North Korea, but she turned her back on it and killed her former comrades because she genuinely loved her husband and baby daughter too much to leave them. And at the end of the episode, her husband decides to forgive her as he knows her love of him and their daughter was always real. |
| 54 | * "[[Recap/NCISS03E11 Model Behavior]]": Abby gives Tony a vase of black roses as an apology for her role in getting him arrested in "[[Recap/NCISS03E09 Frame-Up]]", and pleads for him to say he doesn't hate her. He is genuinely shocked, and says he could never hate her, and can't imagine anyone who would. |
| 55 | * "Bloodbath" |
| 56 | ** Gibbs' TranquilFury regarding Abby's stalker ex: |
| 57 | ---> '''Gibbs''': "Why didn't you come to me, Abby?" |
| 58 | *** There's an undercurrent of genuine hurt that she didn't seek him out. When he confronts the guy, it manages to be heartwarming and scary all at once: |
| 59 | ----> "The only reason you're still able to ''walk'' is because I never heard about you until today." |
| 60 | ** Later in that same episode, Gibbs finds Abby hiding in the elevator, clearly terrified from the attempt made on her life earlier, which leads to this sweet exchange: |
| 61 | --->'''Gibbs:''' No one is going to hurt you, Abby.\ |
| 62 | '''Abby:''' You’re just saying that to make me feel better...\ |
| 63 | '''Gibbs:''' Did it?\ |
| 64 | '''Abby:''' ...Yeah. Can you say it again?\ |
| 65 | '''Gibbs:''' No one’s gonna hurt you, Abbs. |
| 66 | * "Hiatus" |
| 67 | ** Gibbs talking with Mike Franks. |
| 68 | ** Ziva helps an amnesiac Gibbs regain his memories by putting his hand on the back of her head as if imitating his famous DopeSlap in a moment both funny and heartwarming as it shows [[DefrostingIceQueen despite her rather standoffish demeanour she really does care about him.]] |
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| 70 | |
| 71 | [[folder:Season 4]] |
| 72 | * In "Dead and Unburied", Abby laments that she missed the [[CatFight chick fight]] that happened earlier in the episode. [=McGee=] then reveals that he recorded it on his new camera phone, much to her delight. The two of them have fun rewatching it over and over again until Gibbs catches them goofing off. |
| 73 | * The ending of ''Witch Hunt''. They rescue the kidnapped girl, and to make it up to her for missing Halloween, let her visit their building as all the agents from their cubicles give her candy. The mother tries to express gratitude and how she could thank Gibbs, and Tony replies "He knows". That he does, even remembering his daughter (also in a princess dress before she died) with a smile. |
| 74 | * In "Sandblast," Gibbs' remark of "My son, Tony, plays that same game." |
| 75 | * The end of "Twisted Sister": Sarah [=McGee=], now cleared of suspicion for the episode's murder, comforts the victim's girlfriend, telling her that the victim was a good man and that he really loved her. This is especially poignant when you remember that Sarah had previously trashed her entire college cheer squad (and by extension, the girlfriend) on her blog. She's essentially offering comfort and sympathy to someone that she normally can't stand. |
| 76 | * This exchange, from "Smoked": |
| 77 | -->'''Gibbs:''' You know how I feel about apologies.\ |
| 78 | '''Ducky:''' That they're a sign of weakness.\ |
| 79 | '''Gibbs:''' Not between friends.\ |
| 80 | ''(they hug)'' |
| 81 | * Around the middle of Season 4 Ziva starts noticing Tony's odd behavior. She gets suspicious, but instead of being angry that he's keeping secrets she starts worrying about his health and a possible relapse of the plague. Episode 11 ends with her telling Gibbs while researching Y Pestis, unable to ''quite'' hide every trace of her concern. |
| 82 | * In "Dead Man Walking", the terminally ill Lt. Sanders wants a breath of fresh air; Ziva starts to help him out of bed, but when his doctor objects, Tony [[LargeHam coughs loudly]] and worries aloud that he might have been exposed to radiation; the doctor immediately rushes to Tony's side, allowing a grinning Ziva and Sanders to slip away. |
| 83 | * "Cover Story". Having just discovered that Abby is the next target of [=McGee=]'s deranged fan who is acting out his latest novel, the team is racing to save her. Already worried, when [=McGee=] reminds them that Abby is on her own with no protection, Gibbs guns the engine with such force that if you didn't already know how fond of her he is, that little moment confirms it. |
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| 85 | |
| 86 | [[folder:Season 5]] |
| 87 | * "Requiem" when Kelly's best friend, Maddie, comes back into Gibbs's life. He immediately slips into the paternal role like a pair of well worn shoes. When Maddie is threatened, he immediately does everything to protect her, swearing not to let what happened before happen now...and he succeeds. At the end, he holds a pair of pictures of both Kelly and Maddie, overlapping them in a way so it looks Gibbs is embracing both of them. |
| 88 | ** In the same episode it turns out that Maddie still maintains a webpage in memory of Kelly, despite the fact that more than a decade has passed and they were both small children when Kelly died. |
| 89 | ** When Gibbs makes it perfectly clear that he is not going to stop protecting Maddie. |
| 90 | ---> '''Ducky:''' Jethro, just who are you trying to save? |
| 91 | ---> '''Gibbs:''' I look at her, I see Kelly, Duck. How it should have been. |
| 92 | ---> '''Ducky:''' Jethro, be careful. Don't-don't let your....some things just can't be undone. |
| 93 | ---> '''Gibbs:''' [[MyGreatestFailure I wasn't there then.]] [[MyGreatestSecondChance I am now.]] |
| 94 | * ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': In [[http://cbsncis.wetpaint.com/page/5.10+Corporal+Punishment?t=anon "Corporal Punishment"]], a "Poster Boy" marine escapes from a mental institution, right before he's given a Silver Star; his list of accomplishments includes breaking out of captivity after four days' torture, killing his captors, and getting his comrades to safety. It turns out he had been initially rejected for service, and he had gotten steroids, giving him 'roid rage. When Ziva asks him if he went through all that "just so [he] could be some sort of Super-Marine?" he says "No ma'am. Just a Marine." |
| 95 | ** Later in the same episode, the Marine loses his shot at the medal due to his drug use, and is said to be lucky if he gets an honorable discharge. Gibbs goes back to the office, gets a box, comes back to the Marine's room and silently places the opened box on the table. It's ''his'' Silver Star. End credits. |
| 96 | ** When the marine attacks Ziva, Tony and [=McGee=] scramble to her rescue, from where they had been on surveillance. They burst through the door, guns drawn, to find Ziva cradling the marine's head in her arms, just like a mother would comfort her child. |
| 97 | * "In The Zone." Tony and germaphobic NCIS analyst Nikki Jardine go to Iraq to investigate a murder. At one point Nikki goes to visit the family of a man who helped save her brother's life during an ambush (and was killed by Marines who mistakenly thought he was an insurgent). Nikki brings a laptop computer for the young son, who had given her intel during the investigation. The boy is thrilled with the gift--not only for himself, but also for his little sister's sake. She is not allowed to attend school, so the laptop can provide her access to an education. When she sees the gift, and he tells her it's theirs, she shyly walks up to Nikki, wraps her arms around the woman and softly says "Thank you" over and over. Nikki freezes for a moment, but then overcomes her phobia and warmly returns the hug. |
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| 99 | |
| 100 | [[folder:Season 6]] |
| 101 | * A lot of the stuff involving Jackson Gibbs in "Heartland". Gibbs's clear joy at ''finally'' being able to drive and keep his dream car, and especially that hug at the end. On a broader note, pretty much anything involving hugs. |
| 102 | ** In that same episode "Heartland", just as Gibbs is driving out of his hometown he reminisces about the first time he met his deceased first wife Shannon. The flashback itself is incredibly heartwarming but the smile that Gibbs gives after he thinks of her is priceless. |
| 103 | * In the S6 episode "Cloak", Tony is smashed to the ground by a [[PistolWhip machine gun slam to the head]], and Ziva goes absolutely ''[[UnstoppableRage berserk]]''. It took ''four'' people to bring her down. The first words out of her mouth upon waking are "Where is Tony?" |
| 104 | * Ziva air guitaring at the end of "Road Kill". |
| 105 | --> '''Ziva:''' Tony, you and I come from two totally different places. In my world, you grow up. Fast. You have no choice. |
| 106 | --> '''Tony:''' Now you do. |
| 107 | * The ending (arguably even the majority) of "Silent Night", heartwarming for the whole team spending Christmas together (even if Gibbs is taking a detour to take someone back to their daughter), and downright heartwrenching for the call back to Kate's sketches. |
| 108 | * At the end of "Caged" (when [=McGee=] was held hostage in a women's prison), Ziva asks, "Did they hurt you?", then declares "Because if they did, I will ''kick their ass''." |
| 109 | ** Also, the victim of the week (a prison guard) was killed because [[MamaBear he was raping Sharon's (one of the prisoners) oldest daughter]]. After this is discovered by everybody, Celia Roberts, a convicted SerialKiller, takes her aside into one of the private visitor rooms to have a private conversation with her, and then tells [=McGee=] that the hostage situation can end since they got their killer. It seems like Celia threatened Sharon to give herself up. Then it turns out that ''Celia convinced Sharon to let her take the blame instead'' because while Sharon had only a year left in prison and still had other children at home to take care of, Celia had no family and was serving life. When Celia also give herself up, she "confesses" to the warden that while the guard was raping Sharon's daughter, she and the other women involved in the hostage situation had zero involvement in the murder so they don't get punished alongside her. The best part is that the NCIS team, while they do know the truth, decide to respect the wishes of both women involved and decide that justice has been served. |
| 110 | * In its own way: Hadar made sure to save Ziva's family picture of her siblings, and gives it to her after his ToughLove admission to JustFollowingOrders in covering for Michael's crimes in Washington. |
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| 112 | |
| 113 | [[folder:Season 7]] |
| 114 | * The marine from Season 5's "Corporal Punishment" reappears in an episode, unknowingly working for the bad guys. The moment he meets Gibbs and team, he recognizes that and quits, helping them. |
| 115 | * The ending of "Child's Play": the team gathers at Ducky's home for Thanksgiving dinner. |
| 116 | * The ending of "Faith" certainly qualifies: [=DiNozzo=] (doing a not-so-Secret Santa) gives a sour human-resources woman a gift she didn't get as a child, bringing her to joyful tears; [=McGee=] and Abby, via MTAC, help a little boy talk to his mother who is deployed overseas; and Gibbs and his dad reconcile and leave to deliver some hand-carved toys to a children's hospital. Merry Christmas, indeed. |
| 117 | * The ending of "Outlaws and In-Laws". Franks and the mother of his daughter-in-law are both just sitting on his front porch while Gibbs voiceovers a story about how Civil War soldiers who fought on opposite sides of the war had to live together when their kids got married. They hated each other, but still managed by not speaking to each other for the rest of their lives. Except on Franks' porch, the Matriarch shyly looks at him like she wants to say something, but doesn't. It's one of her few moments of vulnerability. |
| 118 | * "Truth or Consequences." The premise alone (Tony, [=McGee=], and Gibbs go to Somalia to rescue Ziva from a terrorist camp.) is equal parts this and SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, but the last 2 minutes are the most heartwarming. When the team comes into the squad room, beaten, tired, and looking like hell, the ''entire floor'' applauds them, starting with Vance. And Abby, usually the embodiment of GenkiGirl, silently and calmly goes over and hugs Ziva. |
| 119 | ** Tony's description of each member of Team Gibbs (while under the influence of TruthSerum): |
| 120 | *** [=McGee=]: ''"Small muscles, big brain, heart of a lion."'' |
| 121 | *** Gibbs: "the fearless Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Former gunnery sergeant, marine sniper, coffee aficionado and functional mute." |
| 122 | *** Abby: "heart and soul, a paradox wrapped in an oxymoron, smothered in contradictions in terms, sleeps in a coffin. Really the happiest goth you'll ever meet." |
| 123 | * In early season 7 a Mossad officer came to try and bring Ziva back to Israel, despite the fact that she did not want to return, he continued to act as if she did. When Gibbs finally foils his plan at the end, the officer says "I failed you, Ziva, I'm sorry." Ziva replies with "Never apologize. It is a sign of weakness," which is Gibbs's rule #6, cementing her decision to stay with the team. |
| 124 | * "Flesh And Blood": Vance comes down to Autopsy to ask Ducky how soon the VictimOfTheWeek's body can be released back to the Saudi government. After getting his answer, Vance takes a moment to ask after Ducky's mother, and to sympathize with her deteriorating mental state. |
| 125 | -->'''Ducky''': Just this morning, she insisted that the clock on the wall was going backwards.\ |
| 126 | '''Vance''': ''[smiles]'' Actually, I've had days that felt like that.\ |
| 127 | '''Ducky''': ''[ruefully]'' Haven't we all. |
| 128 | * Gibbs setting things up in "Mother's Day" so that he legally could not have his mother-in-law arrested for the murder of a man connected to the same drug cartel run by the man who killed Shannon and Kelly. |
| 129 | * Gibbs's rules are a constant fixture throughout the show, with him and other characters invoking them as a code to live by. It's eventually revealed that Gibbs started his list after meeting Shannon and learning that she had a set of esoteric and arbitrary rules she tried to live by and we see that Shannon was both flattered and amused by Gibbs' attempts to emulate her. He had 50 written down on scraps of paper and stored away in a wooden box for years and it's while remembering the moment Shannon discovered his list that he decides to add a 51st rule: "Sometimes you're wrong." |
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| 131 | |
| 132 | [[folder:Season 8]] |
| 133 | * "A Man Walks Into A Bar..." is a crowning episode of heartwarming five plus years in coming. Especially when Gibbs brings Kate's sister to the place where Ari was killed. |
| 134 | --> '''Gibbs:''' ''This'' is closure. Everything else is memories. |
| 135 | * Understated but heartwarming one in 'Baltimore,' [=McGee=] asks Ziva how she'd react if he was killed. Her answer is an immediate, matter-of-fact, off-the-cuff statement of "I'd hunt him down and make him regret the day he was born!" in a tone that dripped with "how do you not know this already?" |
| 136 | ** Also from "Baltimore", Tony's final flashback that establishes the basic Tony-Gibbs relationship--giving him a DopeSlap when he says or does something stupid, then paying him a genuine compliment: "Don't waste good. And you're good." |
| 137 | ** One of the other flashbacks shows Gibbs getting Tony's personnel file, indicating that within just a few brief interactions, Tony impressed him so much that he believed that he'd be a worthy addition to NCIS. |
| 138 | * When we find out that Gibbs built Mike Franks' coffin himself. |
| 139 | * Another understated one near the end of "Royals and Loyals". Tony is poking Ziva (yet again) about who she met when in Miami, and says he would like to meet him. Ziva asks Tony what he would say to him if he did. |
| 140 | --> '''Tony:''' ''(grins)'' Be careful. ''({{Beat}})'' Handle with care...Contents: priceless. |
| 141 | * From "Broken Arrow": [=DiNozzo=] Senior showing Tony the picture of both of them on a fishing trip, and telling him it was one of his fondest memories, right after Tony assumed he'd forgotten about it. |
| 142 | * Ziva's "There's always another monster" speech in "Swan Song" after Mike Franks is killed is just one CMOH after another. First, she hugs Tony. Then Tony touches her face. Then they hug. Then the elevator opens to reveal Abby and [=McGee=], ''also hugging.'' Then the whole team gets in a GroupHug... excuse me, [[SandInMyEyes there's something in my eye]]... |
| 143 | * In "Kill Screen", [=McGee=] decides to swear off dating for a time after [[GirlOfTheWeek the woman he was interested in during the last episode]] faked her own kidnapping and put his position in NCIS in danger. However, when he meets the Victim Of The Week's ex-girlfriend, Maxine, he finds out she is a woman with very similar interests to his (videogames, laser gunfights), but his apprehensions over what happened the previous week make him decide not to ask her out. In the end, Tony decides to give him a hand and sets up a "laser tag" date for him and Maxine. |
| 144 | ** After Palmer goes into great detail about how a stolen purse is a knockoff: |
| 145 | --> '''Palmer:''' ''(sheepishly, off everyone's weird looks)'' "Long story". |
| 146 | --> '''Tony:''' ''(sincerely impressed)'' "And a good catch, Gremlin. It might help us trace it back to the killer." |
| 147 | --> '''Palmer:''' ''(smiles, pleased at having been able to help)'' |
| 148 | * In the episode "Recruited" Ducky's predecessor, Dr. Walter Magnus (played by Bob Newhart) is suffering from Alzheimer's and is slowly forgetting who he was. As he tells Ducky, before this disease he could sit and mentally recall every detail of the cases he worked but now they are slowly slipping from him. So Ducky, with [=McGee=]'s help, creates a video showing the happy pictures of those Magnus' cases as Ducky narrates that these were the men and women Magnus helped and brought them closure to. |
| 149 | [[/folder]] |
| 150 | |
| 151 | [[folder:Season 9]] |
| 152 | * In "Enemy On The Hill", Abby's entire world is turned upside-down when she finds out she's adopted. Where does she go? Gibbs' house, where he holds her and tells her she isn't alone and that her family is going to help her through this. |
| 153 | * The ending of the episode "Safe Harbor": The team spent the episode searching for a date for Gibbs, who they thought was feeling lonely. In the end he tells Ziva "You are never alone when you have kids", gives her a kiss on the forehead, and finishes with, "Goodnight, kid." |
| 154 | * Engaged, Part II has a couple. The first is when Gibbs and Ziva are talking to the two girls that Gabriela Flores had rescued, one of whom has grease burns on her face and may be permanently blinded, the other with cigarette burns all over her body. When they're done, Gibbs gives them both a kiss on the head and tells them never to stop smiling. |
| 155 | ** Then, after they find Flores alive, and capture the female insurgent who was posing as a teacher in order to destroy the school, Gibbs asks Flores what he thinks should happen to the insurgent. |
| 156 | -->'''Flores:''' She should watch those girls change the world in positive ways she never imagined. |
| 157 | -->'''Gibbs:''' That a punishment? |
| 158 | -->'''Flores:''' That's a gift, sir. Punishment's knowing she could've done the same. |
| 159 | -->'''Gibbs:''' ...You're rare, Flores. Come on, let's go home. |
| 160 | * Palmer finally gets one in the ChristmasEpisode "Newborn King." He wearily puts up with his jerkass future father-in-law's abuse ''all night,'' but when Pops implies that the team doesn't know what they're doing, Palmer snaps and rips into him. He explains that they're highly trained, his father-in-law doesn't know what he's talking about, and if Palmer's not going to get any respect then the team should. Also, he's not taking a high paying job in the private sector because he "loves NCIS" and his job there. Also, his father-in-law isn't leaving until he understands all this. |
| 161 | --> "So sit down, and shut up!" |
| 162 | * In "Need to Know", there's something strangely heartwarming about [=McGee=] getting to call someone "Probie" for once. |
| 163 | * In "The Missionary Position", there's a scene where Palmer, after some hesitation, asks Abby to be his best man. Abby responds by [[NiceGirl giving him a huge hug and telling him she'd be delighted.]] |
| 164 | * A major plot point in "Rekindled" is when Tony crosses paths with an arson specialist named Jason King, whom he saved from a house fire when Jason was nine, but unfortunately was unable to save his little sister Amy from the same fire. After Tony tells [=McGee=] and Ziva the full story, Gibbs comes in for a debriefing in their current case. Once it ends, it turns out that [[RightBehindMe as usual Gibbs overheard what his team was talking about]] and he comforts Tony by pointing out that at least he managed to defy BystanderSyndrome and did something to help. |
| 165 | ** For a majority of the episode, Jason gives Tony the cold shoulder as [[WhyCouldntYouSaveThem he still resents him for not being able to save Amy]]. When the two finally talk it out, Tony makes it clear that there was nothing he could have done to save his sister, and that he was forced to learn that night that he couldn't save everybody that he crossed paths with. Tony then admits that the incident was why he chose to become a cop, because for once in his life he actually made a difference, and wanted to help other people from suffering the same fate (the same reason why Jason chose to become an arson specialist). Tony then tells Jason that while Amy was gone, they were still here and that they could still focus on the people that they could save. Jason promises that he'll try, and then they part on better terms. |
| 166 | * Ducky after convincing Palmer not to cancel/postpone his wedding: |
| 167 | -->'''Ducky:''' Did I not say, rather poetically, that we have loved ones who should not be taken lightly? |
| 168 | * Jimmy and Breena have a lot of these. Most notably, when Harper Dearing bombs the Navy Yard in the middle of preparations for their wedding, Jimmy asks Breena if they can get married right then, but postpone the reception and honeymoon until Team Gibbs is safe. Breena Slater proves once and for all time that she is Jimmy's perfect girl by agreeing ''instantly'' and without a hint of regret. |
| 169 | * Tony's making a bucket list. Okay, he wants to master the art of kung fu, haha, experience a Wonder of the World "besides Gibbs," ...and then it gets to "tell Dad it's okay." Others, as per {{Word of God}}, include "discuss Paris," "let friends get closer," and "''tell her.''" |
| 170 | * Also, In "Engaged: Part II", at the end of the episode, [=DiNozzo=] overcomes his greatest fear: little kids. As soon [=DiNozzo=] comes in with Burke to the daycare, one little girl hugs [=DiNozzo=]. Awwwww...... |
| 171 | [[/folder]] |
| 172 | |
| 173 | [[folder:Season 10]] |
| 174 | * Early Season 10, Tony asks Abby to develop some photos on a very old camera of his. Ziva later finds him holding the photos, and jokingly asks him if it's more pictures of him from boarding school. He tentatively asks her if he can show her something, and we find out the pictures are of him and his mother. They then have a touching conversation where we find out more about Tony's mother than in the past nine seasons, including that Tony got his love of movies from her. |
| 175 | * After NCIS is bombed, Tony and Ziva are trapped in an elevator. Ziva's estranged father calls her cell to make sure she's alright before they even get out. And despite the fact that they last parted on such bad terms that she changed nationalities to get away from him, he's the ''only'' relative of any of the team members to make such a call - and he did it at a time that was probably quite late at night, Jerusalem time. |
| 176 | * In the episode "You Better Watch Out" we find out that Tony has a pet goldfish named after Kate. |
| 177 | ** Really, the entirety of the last five minutes of that episode. |
| 178 | ** Also, it's mentioned later that he has two goldfish; presumably, the other one is for Ziva. |
| 179 | * Everything Tony does for Ziva in "Shiva" after her father is killed, including bringing Schmeil over from Israel. |
| 180 | * In "Hit and Run", Abby's spent the whole episode worrying that she isn't good enough to counteract all the bad in people's lives. Gibbs comforts her by saying that you can't always see the after effects of a good deed. Then he asks if she remembers the first day they met. She says she'd been eating Chinese for lunch and had given him her fortune cookie. Turns out Gibbs had kept that fortune after all these years. And even better? The fortune says "Today's new friend is tomorrow's family." |
| 181 | * "Detour" Jimmy and Ducky's ItHasBeenAnHonor moment as they prepare to escape the terrorists who have abducted them. For perhaps only the second time in the entire series Ducky [[YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious calls Jimmy by his first name]] instead of the usual "Mr. Palmer". |
| 182 | --> '''Jimmy:''' "Dr. Mallard, I just want to say, in case your plan, brilliant as it is, doesn't work. . ." |
| 183 | --> '''Ducky:''' ''(realizes what he's trying to say)'' "Likewise, Mr. . .Jimmy". ''(they shake hands)'' "Shall we?" |
| 184 | ** And when Ducky repeatedly suggested that Palmer run and save himself? |
| 185 | -->'''Jimmy:''' "Doctor, I respect you more than anyone else ''in the world'', so please forgive me when I say ''go to hell.'' I'm not leaving you. I think it's time we made our stand." |
| 186 | ** It borders on {{Tearjerker}} at one point, as the two are cornered by a gunman. Ducky, who can't run because of a sprained ankle, ''instantly'' yells to Palmer to run while he can, essentially trying to make a HeroicSacrifice on his behalf. Palmer of course refuses and the two seem on the verge of tears as they await their fate. |
| 187 | ** There's also the gang's collective BerserkButton reaction when they realize that the two are in trouble--Gibbs pretty much loses it when interrogating a suspect, revealing that he's genuinely frightened for their safety. |
| 188 | --> "Look, I've got two guys missing! '''''I don't have time for this!''''' I want answers ''now''! '''''Right now'''''!" |
| 189 | * All of "Seek", for dog lovers out there. Particularly all of Gibbs' interactions with Dex--apparently animals bring out his softer side too. Then, the ending combines this with "Awesome" and "Tearjerker" when Gibbs brings Dex back to his handler's widow. As the team leaves, Tony muses that he's been thinking about getting a dog. Gibbs declares with the utmost respect and sincerity: |
| 190 | --> "That's ''not'' a dog. That's a Marine." |
| 191 | ** The episode ends with a shot of Dex sitting at his handler's casket, paying his respects, and a dedication to military dogs. |
| 192 | * Every year on her late sister's birthday, Ziva makes a point of going to the opera to honour the sibling who wanted to be an opera singer when she grew up. One year, she isn't able to get tickets. So Tony gets [=McGee=] to explain how to turn the bullpen's speakers into a high grade surround sound system and tracked down a CD of her sister's favourite opera so she could listen to the opera at her desk. |
| 193 | * Tony, Ziva and [=McGee=] resigning from NCIS to protect Gibbs in "Damned if You Do", because they know that he would do the same for them. |
| 194 | [[/folder]] |
| 195 | |
| 196 | [[folder:Season 11]] |
| 197 | * Tony and Ziva's final scene. He's spent several months trying to track her down and is madly begging her to come back to the States. She refuses but shows she will always love him by treating him to the series most memorable BigDamnKiss. |
| 198 | ** Ziva told Tony about an old tradition involving making a list of things which you want to come true. On the flight back to the states, Tony is despondently drawing the list. |
| 199 | ** Tony giving Ziva her star and then on the plane, finding it in his pocket. |
| 200 | * Gibbs offering [=CGIS=] Agent Abigail Borin a position at [=NCIS=] and on his team. Notable in that every time someone else has tried to fill in the slot in the team first filled by Kate and then Ziva, there is blatant (and often heavy) resistance from some if not all of the team. With her, however, it's clear than none of the team would object to her being a full-time member of Team Gibbs. |
| 201 | * Tony, who has no problem with tricking a probie into memorizing the entire [=NCIS=] handbook, presents Bishop with a cupcake with a lit candle to congratulate her on having her first BOLO come back with a positive result. |
| 202 | * The episode "Better Angels" has Gibbs spend pretty much the entire episode bickering with his father. But at the end of the episode, Gibbs Sr. introduces his son to a man who saved his life during WWII as "the best man I know." |
| 203 | ** Even more heartwarming, the man who saved Jackson's life was a ''German pilot''. Jackson's compass was busted and couldn't know which way to go over Europe to reach the English Channel. Later, as Walter Beck lay dying, hating himself for having to fight for an ideology he never believed in and fearing he only did evil, was assured by Jackson he did do good and by saving him, his son Leroy came into the world, and Leroy helps people and saves them. None of that could have happened if not for Walter Beck. |
| 204 | ** When Leroy calls his father out for omitting the fact that the pilot who saved his life was German: |
| 205 | --->'''Leroy''': It's the most important part!\ |
| 206 | '''Jackson''': No, son. The important thing was... is that we were both fliers. We were brothers up there. We were the same. We're all the same. But we keep ''fighting'' each other. |
| 207 | ** This also becomes an unintentional TearJerker when one realizes that this was Jackson Gibbs' last episode, and as such possibly the last time Gibbs ever spent time with his father. His actor died the following year. |
| 208 | * Look closely at the pencil holder in Abby's lab during season 11 and you'll see a new addition - Ziva's Israeli flag. |
| 209 | * After hearing the news that the birth mother decided to keep the baby that Jimmy Palmer and his wife were going to adopt, Gibbs comforts Jimmy as only he can and reassures him that he is ready to be a father. |
| 210 | * Abby going out of her way in "Shooter" to help a homeless girl reunite with her parents after the former ran away in 2008. |
| 211 | * At the end of "The Admiral's Daughter," Jimmy realizes his wife sent him a "picture puzzle" that translates to "A bun in the oven." Complete with "Rock-A-Bye Baby" playing in the background. |
| 212 | * In "Monsters and Men", when Gibbs offers Bishop a permanent job at NCIS on his team. |
| 213 | --> '''Bishop:''' Okay, um, before I officially start working for you and this becomes frowned upon... ''[hugs Gibbs, then pulls away]'' I accept, boss.\ |
| 214 | ''[They shake hands]''\ |
| 215 | '''Gibbs:''' Welcome aboard, probie. |
| 216 | * In "Bulletproof" both [=McGee=] and his girlfriend Delilah are struggling to adjust to Delilah's recent paralysis. Over the course of the investigation, Tim and Gibbs go to interview a soldier who was paralyzed in the line of duty and now runs a skydiving business. |
| 217 | -->'''[=McGee=]''': So you were a former paratrooper? |
| 218 | -->'''Freddie Linn''': Nah, but jumping sounded fun, and as it turns out, you don't need legs to fall - or to turn a nice profit. |
| 219 | ** At the end of the episode [=McGee=] takes Delilah to meet and talk with Linn at his work, where he is coming down for a landing from one of his jumps. Even though Linn admitted to [=McGee=] that he has never fully come to terms with losing the use of his legs, and possibly never will, his uncomplicated joy at his new work is clear to see. |
| 220 | --->'''Freddie Linn''': ''(lands on his target pad)'' Whoo, bulls-eye! Seven out of ten! |
| 221 | * In "Double Back," Doctor Cranston (aka Doctor Kate's Sister) has a brief chat with Bishop, telling her that the desk she's at, formerly Ziva's and Kate's before her is a good place to learn, and that both her predecessors would approve of her. |
| 222 | * In "Alleged", a rape victim is being uncooperative in the investigation because of the embarrasement of it potentially becoming public and because she doesn't know who assalted her. While waiting in the conference room, Abby, having heard about what had happened, visits her and [[YouAreNotAlone tells her that she can trust Gibbs, and that Agent Cabot and her Family and Sexual Violence unit was working hard to make sure that nobody has to go through what she experienced ever again]]. The talk helps the victim take courage, and tells Gibbs that she had filed a restricted report and did a rape kit the day after the assault, giving the team a huge lead on the case. Once the predator's been caught, she thanks Gibbs and Abby for their help, accepting that others are going to know about the rape and is ready to face her assaulter in the court-martial. |
| 223 | * In Bishop's introductory episode, she hands Abby a sketch she made of a suspect. Abby remarks that it's good, though not 'Kate good.' When Bishop asks who Kate is, Abby says it's a long story that would take several hours and a box of tissues. Almost a decade since her death and Abby still cares so much about her fallen friend. |
| 224 | * At the end of "Homesick", Bishop gives Gibbs some cinnamon coffee cake that's her mother's recipe as a Christmas gift. Gibbs tries a taste and clearly enjoys it. |
| 225 | ** Vance, inspired by Abby and Carol's aggressive pep talk to Palmer, reverses his earlier stance and allows his children's grandfather (his late wife's estranged father) to meet them. |
| 226 | * "Page Not Found": At the end of the episode, the originally presumed-dead Marine is reunited with his grieving fiancee in front of the courthouse so that they can get married. When Delilah voices her hopes that they made it to the courthouse in time, [=McGee=] tells her he called the judge ahead of time. And later, the couple comes back out and asks the two of them to be their witnesses. |
| 227 | ** [=McGee=] being understanding and supportive when he learns that Delilah is considering a position in Dubai, rather than upset that his girlfriend is planning to relocate halfway around the world. |
| 228 | * The season 11 finale, "Honor Thy Father": |
| 229 | ** While it's [[TearJerker sad]] to see Ralph Waite and his character he played, Jackson Gibbs (Gibbs's father), the InMemoriam card for Waite is both heartwarming and tear-wrenching. |
| 230 | ** Calvin, the young man who meets Gibbs in Stillwater after Jackson's death was only hired a short time ago, but clearly Jackson made an impression on him. |
| 231 | --->'''Calvin''': I was going down a bad road, and Jackson Gibbs saved my life. He said, "the world's bad enough, you've got no right-" |
| 232 | --->'''Gibbs''': "...to make it any worse."'' |
| 233 | --->'''Calvin''': No one ever cared enough to say something like that to me before. |
| 234 | *** Calvin is clearly floored when, after Jackson's funeral, Gibbs decides to pass the general store to him. |
| 235 | ---->'''Gibbs''': Just do good work. |
| 236 | ---->'''Calvin''': I will. |
| 237 | [[/folder]] |
| 238 | |
| 239 | [[folder:Season 12]] |
| 240 | * "We Build, We Fight": Jimmy's wife Breena gives birth to their daughter, Victoria Elizabeth Palmer, named after Ducky's mother. |
| 241 | * "The Artful Dodger" opens with a night janitor making an effort to give his son some life lessons. He notes that he is proud to be a janitor, saying that blue-collar jobs are important, and if you do a good job, "people will notice. And even if they don't, ''you'll'' notice." His son ''listens'' and gets the message. The guy's raising his kid right. |
| 242 | ** A moment later, when they hear a crash from nearby, the janitor tells his son to lock himself in one of the offices at the rear of the building and call security InThatOrder. The man has his priorities straight. |
| 243 | ** Ducky has been named the honorary grandfather of Jimmy and Breena's child, who the parents will teach to address him as "Grand-Ducky" once she's old enough to speak. |
| 244 | ** Abby has Jimmy talk in front of the ''Chesapeake'' so she can locate the voice-activated bug hidden in the painting. Jimmy goes on at length about his worries as a new father, including whether his daughter will look up to him when she is old enough to understand what he does for a living. Even though it is unimportant what Jimmy is saying, it is clear his concerns are very real. When Abby locates the bug and hands it over to the CIA, the officer congratulates them and calls them heroes. Abby pats Jimmy on the shoulder and tells him to remember, if he ever has doubts, that ''"Victoria Elizabeth Palmer's father... is a hero."'' |
| 245 | * In "Kill The Messenger", the relief that everybody who was in the know about it when it turns out Vance has sarcoidosis, an easily-treatable and non-fatal virus, not lymphoma like everybody feared. |
| 246 | ** Vance kept both his children in the dark about him possibly having lymphoma because he didn't want them to worry until it was confirmed. However, Kayla finds out anyway when she hears Lara and Dr. Mallard talking on the phone the night before the biopsy and insists that she skip school so she can be at the hospital for her father. |
| 247 | --> '''Kayla:''' You should have told me. I'm the woman of the house now. I'm strong, like mom was.\ |
| 248 | '''Vance:''' Did you tell your brother?\ |
| 249 | '''Kayla:''' No, he's too young. I didn't think he could handle it.\ |
| 250 | '''Vance:''' ''[smirks, and then strokes her chin]'' You are your mother. |
| 251 | * A retired Vietnam War Marine and the VictimOfTheWeek in "The Searchers" ''never'' gave up trying to find his best friend and commander's body after they went missing in an ambush so his family could give him a proper burial. After finding the conman who murdered him for threatening to turn him in for producing bogus dog tags, the team finally find out where the dead marine was and fulfill his wish. |
| 252 | ** The location of where the body had been all these years is also heartwarming; the Marine Unit the victim and his friend were in came across a village the Vietcong razed, and the commander decided that they would help a fifteen-year-old boy give his parents a proper burial. Shortly afterwards, the ambush happened, and the boy who secretly followed them took the commander's body to bury it next to his parents. He honestly didn't know that there were people searching for him, he just wanted to honor and thank the man who helped him in his time of need. |
| 253 | ** The dead marine's relationship with the family of his friend is also pretty sweet, with him becoming a full-fledged father figure to his friend's daughter, and even making videos so her daughter would get to know more about her grandfather. |
| 254 | ** In the conclusion of the episode, Gibbs admits to Bishop that he's been going easy on her, but it has nothing to do with her; Gibbs "lost" the two previous occupants of her desk (Kate and Ziva), and he has to conclude that he must have been doing something wrong, and has to take a different approach with her. Bishop tells him not to worry about her, because Tony and [=McGee=] are two of the best agents she's ever seen, and if she has to go through the TrainingFromHell to be like them (not to mention like Gibbs himself), that's exactly what she wants. |
| 255 | * "Semper Fortis": Anna, a Navy corpsman, assists four teenagers injured in a hit-and-run, and [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished is arrested for practicing medicine without a license]]. [[note]] Corpsmen, despite their training, are not accredited medical professionals.[[/note]] Gibbs, his lawyer friend, and the rest of the team pull together to ensure that she is sentenced to [[{{Unishment}} nothing worse than community service.]] |
| 256 | ** Despite her legal predicament, Anna is torn up with guilt over her failure to save two of the occupants of the car. Ducky takes her to view the bodies in Autopsy and carefully explains to her that their injuries were almost instantly fatal and there was nothing she could have done, or should have differently. |
| 257 | ** The father of one of the dead passengers is brought into NCIS; Anna, still guilty, says that his son told her, with his dying breath, to help the others first, and she obeyed his wishes. The father proudly says his son was always that kind of man, and he doesn't blame her in the slightest. He is also outraged to hear that Anna is being charged with a crime, and when her lawyer says they could use his help with the court, he doesn't hesitate to say yes. |
| 258 | *** Notably, this scene takes place after the scene in Autopsy; Anna could easily have excused herself with Ducky's medical opinion that there was nothing she could have done to save the son, but she doesn't even try. |
| 259 | * In "Cadence" the case takes Tony back to his former military academy. One of the other cadets, an overweight teen nicknamed Piggy, collapses during the middle of drills, and Tony's first instinct is to help the guy out, even standing up to the senior cadet to do it. Cue the final scene of the episode; while Tony is reminiscing about a picture of him and Piggy as flagbearers, he calls him up and invites him to dinner to catch up. |
| 260 | * In "Neverland", as Joanna Teague is viewing the body of her son, Ned Dorneget, Palmer starts to explain something to her, then gets sidetracked in his usual way, before apologizing and returning to the point: that he, and every other member of Team Gibbs, are in it together to catch Ned's killers, ''"no matter what."'' |
| 261 | [[/folder]] |
| 262 | |
| 263 | [[folder:Season 13]] |
| 264 | * Gibbs comforting Bishop when she feared Jake might be dead and sharing her relief when he turns out to be okay. |
| 265 | * "16 Years" has a combination of this a TearJerker: namely, there's one point where they find out a man who was sentenced to life in prison for murder 16 years ago, but was [[MiscarriageOfJustice innocent due to the method of testing hairs as evidence being flawed]]. Abby [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone feels really guilty about this]] and works to find the real murderer. At the very end the man is exonerated and reunited with his daughter. Abby tries to apologize to him, but he implies he forgives her for everything, and the two of them hug. |
| 266 | * "Day In Court" has a doozy. Jake was having an affair with the IA officer at NSA. When the team find out, they are all naturally concerned for Bishop, culminating in Jake turning up at the Navy Yard looking for her, with [=McGee=] and [=DiNozzo=] [[BigBrotherInstinct telling him to leave]] while he still has the power to, then [[PapaWolf Gibbs]] telling him in no uncertain terms to 'Get his head out of his ass'. Make no mistake, Team Gibbs has a lot of friction, but they are a family. |
| 267 | * In the following episode, "Blood Brothers", Gibbs following Ellie to Oklahoma and convincing her to come back to DC with him -- without ever once saying or doing anything to pressure her. And proving that he knew she would come back? When Ellie decides that she'll return to D.C. the Saturday after Thanksgiving, he admits that he only bought a one-way ticket, meaning that he knew he'd be driving back with her. |
| 268 | ** Barbra, Bishop's mother, tells Gibbs that it's not easy for her having her daughter hundreds of miles away from home working in a dangerous law-enforcement job... but Barbra than says that she finds it comforting to know that Ellie has coworkers who love her and care about her. |
| 269 | ** As his father and his girlfriend can't be with him in Thanksgiving, Tony plans to spend the night doing paperwork at the office... until Fornell, who was helping with the episode's case, invites him to the Thanksgiving dinner with himself (Fornell) and Emily. |
| 270 | * "Spinning Wheel": This episode reveals that most of Ducky's globetrotting was done in an effort to track down his much younger half-brother, who was forcibly separated from him by Ducky's stepmother as part of an acrimonious divorce in which she got everything, despite the fact that Ducky was the only real parental figure in the life of Nicholas Mallard. At the end of a case that centered around Ducky's long lost, and believed long-dead brother, the team tracked Nicholas down to a nursing home in Philadelphia, allowing Ducky to see his beloved sibling for the first time in forty years. |
| 271 | ** As an added touch, because it was the Christmas Episode, the team gift-wrapped all the information they found about Nicholas' life. |
| 272 | ** When Ducky is in need of a lawyer to help his custody case, he goes to Angus Clarke, his former best friend, with whom he had a falling-out in "So It Goes", but needs his legal help. Ducky knocked out his two front teeth, but Angus still doesn't hesitate to say he'll help. This includes when it is revealed the "manky wench" wants Ducky's father to pay her 10,000 pounds in the 1960s, money neither Ducky nor his father could have, Angus will personally give Ducky the funds. The stepmother refuses the money and runs off with Nicolas first, but still Angus' actions shock Ducky to the point he has no words for this kindness. |
| 273 | ** Angus points out that even if Ducky's father wins the custody battle, he's incapable of raising Nicholas on his own. Ducky says he's resigning his commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps and staying in London to be the father figure Nicholas needs. |
| 274 | --->'''Angus''': Resign? Are you off your trolley? You've wanted this your entire life!\ |
| 275 | '''Donald''': Nicholas is my life. This, quite simply, is a decision that does not require one second of thought. |
| 276 | ** Gibbs gently asking Bishop if she needs to go home upon noticing how discombobulated she is, having just decided to end her marriage. It gives her the strength to pull herself together and get back to work. |
| 277 | ** A brief moment where Tony and Tim talk about how Ducky practically raised his little brother in his early childhood, and both agree that they would have loved to have Ducky as a father. |
| 278 | * There is something sweet about the ending of "Deja Vu", which features Tony, Bishop, and Tim staying at Gibbs's place, watching ''Holiday Inn''. |
| 279 | * "Decompressed": It's Valentine's Day, and Tony and Bishop are newly-single. Both offhandedly mention gifts they would like to get for the holiday early in the episode; Tony wants to go to a Wizards game (while complaining about how men are under more pressure to give gifts than women), while Bishop mentions wanting to watch a movie at home while also commenting on her favorite meal at a restaurant she and Jake would go to as a Valentine's Day tradition. At the end of the episode, Bishop gives Tony Wizards tickets, and Tony gives her a copy of ''Film/{{Alien}}'' on DVD, telling her that her favorite meal is about to be delivered to her apartment. |
| 280 | * "Scope" is full of Heartwarming Moments: |
| 281 | ** The injured sniper (Creator/TayeDiggs) finally joining the band for injured soldiers, singing a beautiful rendition of 'Hallelujah', while his daughter and the team watch. |
| 282 | ** Abby pitching in to help the band's leader develop "gadgets" that allow disabled soldiers to play instruments. |
| 283 | ** Tony taking [[TrueCompanions Ducky, Palmer and]] ''[[TrueCompanions Director Vance]]'' to the Italian restaurant he has a voucher for. |
| 284 | ** Gibbs finally getting over the loss of Shannon and sleeping on his bed for what could be the first time in over a decade. |
| 285 | ** [=McGee=] browsing for engagement rings online. |
| 286 | * The B-Plot to ''Reasonable Doubt'' involves Anthony [=DiNozzo=] Sr. struggling to find a purpose in his life after retirement, and he tries to look for voluntary work within NCIS. That all changes when a homeless woman on the street mistakes him for her father. Anthony spends the remainder of the episode looking into her life, alongside Tony. Eventually, it is discovered that she has dementia caused by an inoperable brain tumor, and her birth father died sometime after she left home after being outed as gay. When Anthony finally finds her and takes her to the hospital for treatment, and when the doctor tells Anthony that she only has a month at most to live, he apologizes to her on behalf of her birth father for not accepting her sexual orientation so she could [[PeacefulInDeath die believing that she and her father have reconciled]]. |
| 287 | ** Also in that episode, when Senior takes the homeless woman to a free clinic to get her checked out, a homeless guy asks if his nice shoes are his size but unfortunately, they aren't. The next day Senior returns with a new pair of tennis shoes that fit the homeless guy and gives them to him. |
| 288 | * Bishop and [=McGee=] enter into a competition to come up with a name for a new aircraft carrier. Bishop wins by suggesting the name of a recently deceased highly decorated officer - Tim's father, Admiral John [=McGee=]. |
| 289 | * "Charade": |
| 290 | ** Gibbs rushes into the squad room, slightly out-of-breath, and is visibly relieved to see Tony there, explaining that he received a [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated false report]] that a "Tony [=DiNozzo=]" with an NCIS badge was killed in a car crash; for Gibbs, [[TheStoic this is a huge reaction]], and the viewers can imagine a much bigger reaction when he got the phone call. |
| 291 | ** Much of the episode revolves around Tony having his identity stolen, including being arrested for impersonating a Federal Officer when unable to prove he is the ''real'' Tony [=DiNozzo=], the pep talk [=McGee=] gives him after bailing him out, ending with [=McGee=] calling Tony "one of his best friends" counts as this. |
| 292 | * "Dead Letter": while Fornell is in critical condition after being shot, his daughter Emily is ''livid'' when the doctor finds a "do not resuscitate" order in his medical records and says she has to pull the plug; luckily Fornell named Gibbs as his medical power of attorney: |
| 293 | -->'''Emily''': You know he would never give up on me. On you. On the world. He's a fighter! Let him fight.\ |
| 294 | '''Gibbs''': ''(calmly tears the DNR in half)'' Never crossed my mind not to. |
| 295 | ** Gibbs' look is somewhere between bewilderment and mild disappointment, as if he's surprised that Emily would think he'd even consider another course of action. |
| 296 | * Tali--Ziva and Tony's daughter introduced in "Family First"--is one cute piece of heartwarming. Especially when she calls Tony "Abba," which is Hebrew for "Daddy." |
| 297 | ** For more context, Tony is under the assumption that Tali, whom he has never met in person, has no clue who he is. Then they find a picture of him and Ziva together, and Tali points to it and declares "Ima. Abba." |
| 298 | ** When the news reports that there's been a survivor pulled from Eli David's destroyed farmhouse, Tony assumes it's Ziva, and tells the team he needs to go. Gibbs reassures him that he knows that, and asks [=McGee=] to get Tony a plane ticket. It's unneeded, because [=McGee=] already did. |
| 299 | ** Tony gives Tali Ziva's Star of David necklace, which she had given him after he left her behind in Israel. |
| 300 | ** Jimmy comes over to give Tony fatherly advice. |
| 301 | ** Senior as the doting grandfather, having a tea party with Tali. |
| 302 | ** Tony's sendoff, in which he says his goodbyes to everyone else on the main cast. Complete with him PassingTheTorch to Gibbs' new NumberTwo with five words: "Very Special Agent Timothy [=McGee=]." |
| 303 | *** In particular, Abby's private reassurance to Tony: |
| 304 | ---->'''Abby''': I'm Abby Sciuto, and I know things... I know how much Ziva loved you, and I need to know that you know.\ |
| 305 | '''Tony''': I do... I think.\ |
| 306 | '''Abby''': Don't think, ''know''. I know. She told me. |
| 307 | [[/folder]] |
| 308 | |
| 309 | [[folder:Season 14]] |
| 310 | * For ''JAG'' fans- seeing Bud Roberts after eleven years, as a Navy captain in the season 14 premiere (twenty years after he first appeared in the ''JAG'' series premiere). |
| 311 | * Season 14's ''Love Boat'' had a major CMOH - with [=McGee=] proposing to Delilah! |
| 312 | * In "Shell Game", Abby knits "Welcome To NCIS" sweaters for Quinn and Torres. While Quinn has no problem with wearing her sweater, Nick doesn't like his gift because it's a sweater ''vest'' and he doesn't like the cobalt-blue color. However, after talking about it with Gibbs, Nick decides to show up at work wearing the sweater-vest at the end of the episode, and gets a hug from Abby in response. |
| 313 | ** [=McGee=] and Bishop reveal during this episode that Abby made them socks and a friendship bracelet, respectively, when they first joined the team. |
| 314 | * Half of the episode ''Keep Going'' is Palmer talking to the latest victim's son to keep him from jumping off a building. Most of what Palmer talks about is the team and how much they mean to him, including the fact that he'd passed the ME exam and could now go on to seek his own career elsewhere, but he hadn't told them because he didn't want to leave. |
| 315 | ** One of the things Palmer says to the guy is "When you're going through hell, keep going", a saying that a younger Ducky was familiar with. Sounds like Palmer learned more than autopsies from his mentor. |
| 316 | ** After Jimmy successfully convinces the son that he can keep on living and the two of them get back from the ledge and head inside, the first-responders, the news crew, and the civilians watching all cheer for the both of them. |
| 317 | ** After Palmer accidentally reveals via the microphone to the rest of the team that he's a fully-licensed Medical Examiner now, Abby and Bishop immediately petition Gibbs to get him a pay raise and Ducky [[SoProudOfYou rushes back to the building so he can congratulate him on his success]] once he's safe. |
| 318 | ---> '''Palmer:''' Dr. Mallard, what are you doing here?\ |
| 319 | '''Ducky:''' Where else would I be? I'm not going to leave you out there all alone… ''Dr.'' Palmer. |
| 320 | ** The ending. Palmer ventures into Gibbs' basement to apologize for the personal things that he revealed to the guy. He's babbling in typical Palmer-style when Gibbs finally shuts him up by grabbing him into a bear hug [[note]] The backstory on this little moment is that Palmer mentioned to the guy that Gibbs had never hugged him, indicating that he thought that Gibbs didn't care about him or like him very much. Gibbs' actions promptly told him otherwise [[/note]]. |
| 321 | * Basically every interaction between Bishop and Qasim post-season 12, on the job and off, before the latter's death. |
| 322 | * The episode "What Lies Above" starts with [=McGee=] coming home and finding two thieves ripping up the floor and knocking holes in the wall[[note]]They were searching for something cached there by the owner who lived there fifteen years ago[[/note]]. It's [[{{Bookends}} bookended]] by him coming home to find another person in his apartment. This time it's Gibbs, and he brought his tools, some drywall, and wooden planks. |
| 323 | --> "There you are. You gonna help me fix your floor or what?" |
| 324 | ** After [=McGee=] gets into a gunfight with the two thieves, the first thing he does is call Gibbs to tell him what happened. |
| 325 | ---> '''Gibbs:''' Yeah, [=McGee=].\ |
| 326 | ''[Tim doesn't respond right away due to being too shaken up by the fight and trying to catch his breath]''\ |
| 327 | '''Gibbs:''' [=McGee=], you there? ''(starts to sound worried)'' [=McGee=]?!\ |
| 328 | '''[=McGee=]:''' ''(finally catching his breath)'' I'm here, boss. I'm here. |
| 329 | * In ''Off The Grid'', Quinn accidentally breaks one of Gibbs' plates that his daughter drew on. While Abby fixes it to be good as new, she still has enough morals to tell Gibbs about what happened. Luckily, he forgives her for it right away. |
| 330 | -->'''Gibbs''': Look at this, it's like new. How'd you do this? |
| 331 | -->'''Quinn''': Do you believe in miracles? |
| 332 | -->'''Gibbs''': No. |
| 333 | -->'''Quinn''': Do you believe in Abby? |
| 334 | -->'''Gibbs''': With all my heart. |
| 335 | * "Beastmaster": |
| 336 | ** Park Police Officer Cole's affection for his horse, Jody: |
| 337 | --->'''Torres''': Anything that big, it's not a pet.\ |
| 338 | '''Cole''': That's right, they're not pets. They're cops. |
| 339 | ** Gibbs shows off his horse sense with Jody; when Officer Dawson compliments him on it, he admits he learned it all from his deceased daughter, Kelly, who developed a rapport with a horse when the Gibbs family lived near the beach in San Diego; |
| 340 | ** After Liberian Ambassador Moore proves himself to be a BigGood instead of an ObstructiveBureaucrat, Vance invites him to give the opening statement at the NCIS press conference, explaining that Moore is the best face to put on their success, for both countries; |
| 341 | ** At the end of the episode, Jody, who'd been in a funk and refusing to eat after the death of his rider, becomes the proud parent of a foal, named for the fallen policeman. Even Torres tears up at the cuteness of it. |
| 342 | * "Something Blue": The Gibbs family has an heirloom watch which has been passed from father to son on the son's wedding day for generations. Leroy Gibbs manages to continue this tradition despite having no living children by giving the watch to his about to be married younger son in all but blood - Timothy [=McGee=]. |
| 343 | --> "Who better than you, Tim?" |
| 344 | ** Not to mention how eagerly he agrees to be Delilah's "man-of-honor". |
| 345 | ** Gibbs consoling [=McGee=] when the latter is practically having a panic attack when Delilah is in the hospital. He then sits and waits with [=McGee=] in the hospital lobby until Delilah wakes up. |
| 346 | * Abby's cute and gleeful reaction when she learns that Delilah's pregnant, to the point that she cuddles Delilah and Tim at the hospital bed. |
| 347 | * Palmer becoming a minister so he can officiate at [=McGee=] and Delilah's rushed wedding. |
| 348 | * [=McGee=] letting Torres board the last chopper out of the area in Paraguay, so he can back Gibbs up against the rebels. Doubles as a Tearjerker. |
| 349 | [[/folder]] |
| 350 | |
| 351 | [[folder:Season 15]] |
| 352 | * "House Divided": |
| 353 | ** [=McGee=] reuniting with his wife after two months of captivity. |
| 354 | ** Vance is before a Congressional committee when he gets word of [=McGee=] and Gibbs being found. He wants to go in but the committee tell him he has to be bound by rules. As soon as the hearing adjourns, Vance races to the committee to tell them he has to order a rescue. To his shock, they tell him to go right ahead. Vance quickly realizes that the committee are totally backing him but had to put on a show for the cameras. In private, they confess they not only respect what NCIS does but are proud of them. |
| 355 | -->'''Vance:''' This is why people don't like politicians. |
| 356 | -->'''Congressman:''' [[SelfDeprecation And I don't blame them]]. Now get your people home. |
| 357 | ** One of the terrorists becomes sympathetic to Tim after he monologues about how much he misses his wife and unborn child while being trapped on their ship, and gives him food in exchange for fixing a computer printer. Later, he visits [=McGee=] in his cell with more food and admits that he's only part of the group for the money, not the cause the terrorists fight for, and he lost his own family in an uprising a few years back. He admits that if he had his chance, he would take out the boss himself. At the end of the episode, Tim and Gibbs decided to spare the guy for helping them out while they're escaping and [[TheDogBitesBack he takes care of the boss for them.]] |
| 358 | ** Gibbs hugging Bishop and telling her he's proud of her for holding the team together for the last two months. |
| 359 | * In its way, the culprit of Tim as the subject of a meme started by Tony, out in Paris. He's not there, but he's still playing the old games. |
| 360 | * In "Trapped", Palmer asks the rest of the team to donate to "Inclusion Town", a charity that designs and builds accessible playground equipment for kids with physical and mental disabilities. Torres makes a donation online, but he forgets a decimal point so he accidentally donates five thousand dollars instead of the intended fifty dollars. After finding out about this and talking to Palmer, he is told that he could get a refund if he talked to the main person in charge. At the end of the episode, Torres shows up at the new Inclusion Town playground. While he's watching all the kids having fun, Palmer introduces him to Catherine Scott, the founder of the charity. She heard about the mix-up and reassures Torres that they can easily refund his money. But before he met Catherine, he's been watching all the kids having fun on the playground. This made him realize that the playground means so much to so many people, so he lets the charity keep the accidental donation because it can help the charity build more accessible playgrounds. Both Catherine and Palmer hug him in response. |
| 361 | * In "Voices", [=McGee=] learning that Delilah's having twins. |
| 362 | * In "Ready or Not", Delilah gives birth. [=McGee=] names one of the twins after a fellow LEO who just died at the hands of a terrorist. |
| 363 | ** At the beginning of the episode, the team is at a crime scene and Gibbs starts giving out orders when Tim suddenly gets the call that Delilah is going into labor. As soon as [=McGee=] hangs up, Gibbs orders him to go to the hospital to be with his wife. |
| 364 | * "Double Down" ends with Gibbs' ex-CO reconciling with the son he'd been estranged from for years. What makes it especially heartwarming is that both of them had suffered injury-related near-death experiences over the past couple of days making it even sweeter when they both manage to survive them so they can see each other again. |
| 365 | * The first bullpen scene in "Dark Secrets" starts with [=McGee=] showing off pictures of his twin babies, which, according to Torres, has become a regular occurrence since they were born. [[WhenHeSmiles Even Gibbs smiles at the sight of them]]. |
| 366 | * "One Man's Trash": Ducky returns from his work at John Jay College to NCIS to help with the case, and his graduate student assistant, Kasie Hines, accompanies him. She immediately establishes a good rapport with [=McGee=], Torres, and Bishop, picking up on who's who due to the details she learned about them beforehand via Ducky. And then when Gibbs enters the bullpen, she is so happy to finally meet him in person that she pulls him into a hug; he doesn't seem to mind too much, either. |
| 367 | ** Kasie doesn't identify Abby in the same manner, which Abby finds strange and off-putting... until Kasie reveals that she studies forensics at John Jay, and indeed admired Abby so much that she kept quiet so that she didn't fall to pieces in fawning over her. Once this misunderstanding is cleared up, they become such good friends that Abby gives Kasie her blessing to become her successor when she leaves NCIS. |
| 368 | * "Two Steps Back" Gibbs signing "I love you" to Abby. Paired with {{Tearjerker}}. |
| 369 | ** Reeves wanted to start a charity in his mother's name, but is killed before he has the chance...so Abby's doing it for him. |
| 370 | * "Fallout" has quite a few. |
| 371 | ** Kasie becoming an AscendedFangirl from her last appearance, becoming the temporary forensic scientist for Team Gibbs which she views as a huge honor. Kasie outright calls it her dream job and she [[PassingTheTorch only accepted with Abby's blessing]]. |
| 372 | ** After solving the case, Kasie isn't aware and when she finds the team in Abby's lab assumes its a "pity party" for the killer getting away. [[note]] Sloane had set up a schedule for the team to hang out, alone, in Abby's lab to come to grips with her leaving and it developed into a "group session"[[/note]]. When informed to the contrary, her reaction is to pull [=McGee=] into a hug out of joy to solving her first case solo and immediately goes to call her mom to tell her that she helped make a difference. |
| 373 | *** There's also [=McGee=], who's been in a slump and questioning his career choices as a result of Abby's departure. |
| 374 | --->'''[=McGee=]''': ''[Smiling slightly]'' [[GoodFeelsGood I just remembered why I became an agent.]] |
| 375 | [[/folder]] |
| 376 | |
| 377 | [[folder:Season 16]] |
| 378 | * Gibbs and Sloane [[IntertwinedFingers holding hands]] when she reaches out to comfort him after they've been listening to tapes of the Vietnam War, bringing up some [[ShellShockedVeteran harrowing memories]] for both of them. Just to make it better, she just reaches out and puts her hand on his arm. ''He'' is the one who takes ''her'' hand in his. |
| 379 | * Vance officially naming Kasie the head of forensics in front of the entire main office. |
| 380 | * "What Child Is This?": |
| 381 | ** Team Gibbs being willing to put their holiday plans on hold to help the baby boy find any family he might have. |
| 382 | ** At the end of the episode, the baby is adopted by the couple who was originally supposed to adopt him in the first place. The new father even calls him a Christmas Miracle. |
| 383 | ** Kasie deciding to go home for Christmas. You can hear her mom being elated when she calls her to let her know. |
| 384 | * "She": |
| 385 | ** Bishop digging her heels in and helping Ziva solve a cold case that she handed off, even calling Gibbs out on Rule 10 (never get personally involved in a case). |
| 386 | ** Lily reuniting with her mother and meeting her father for the first time. |
| 387 | ** Sloane opening up to Lily. |
| 388 | * "Bears and Cubs": |
| 389 | ** Palmer saying that he has two father figures at NCIS, clearly referring to Ducky and Gibbs. |
| 390 | ** When Palmer can no longer cover up Ed's involvement in the case NCIS is investigating, Ed begs Gibbs not to get mad at his son-in-law for his actions. And when it comes down to it, nobody on Team Gibbs actually gets mad at Palmer, as any of them would have done the same thing. |
| 391 | ** Palmer reveals to Ed that his own father [[AbusiveParents wasn't a good person at all]]. What made Jimmy finally give up hating him was the birth of Victoria, because he wanted to become a much better dad than his own ever was. |
| 392 | ** Equally heartwarming and tearjerking, Ducky choosing to retire, and to turn over his position as Chief Medical Examiner over fully to Palmer. |
| 393 | * "Silent Service": With Ducky stepping down from the ME position, Vance offers him a way to stay on, as the NCIS Historian. The whole team shows up to celebrate him remaining at NCIS while starting his new chapter. |
| 394 | * "Daughters": |
| 395 | -->'''Ziva''': (''upon return, to Gibbs'') Well, aren't you going to say something?\ |
| 396 | '''Gibbs''': (''after a {{Beat}}'') Ziver... |
| 397 | [[/folder]] |
| 398 | |
| 399 | [[folder:Season 17]] |
| 400 | * The fact that Ziva doesn't forget Tony or Tali. She even wears the necklace her daughter made her wear, and gets desperate, grappling for the necklace when it is wrapped around a perverted guy's fingers and she can't get it off under duress. |
| 401 | * Gibbs helps Ziva and acts like a fatherly figure. |
| 402 | * Odette helping Ziva by supplying weapons, getting a kiss on the forehead as a reward. |
| 403 | * Bishop meeting Ziva for the first time. |
| 404 | * "May I please get that hug?" Tim to Ziva. She obliges. And he even asks her to "Come home." Later, she does and sits at the desk she occupied so long ago. Of course, she's worried when Bishop walks in, but she enjoyed sitting where she was. |
| 405 | ** Heck, she gets to see how the twins have grown. |
| 406 | * Ducky and Ziva get to talk to each other again. |
| 407 | * From "Wide Awake", Gibbs playing catch with his new neighbor Phineas, like a father and his son. |
| 408 | * In the face of Kasie’s insistence that her friend is innocent, even having chewed out the others for seeming to be unconcerned with him going to jail again for murder, [[ChewOutFakeOut Vance calls her to his office... to tell her that he approves of her determination to help her friend even with the risk of possibly losing her job]] and has no intention of telling her to stop. |
| 409 | ** At the end of the episode, after the true culprit is caught, Kasie's friend manages to land an interview for a dog-training job since he took dog-training courses while he was in prison. What makes it sweeter is that the business is willing to give him a chance even when they know about his criminal past. |
| 410 | * "Musical Chairs": |
| 411 | ** When it's discovered that the poisoned reed that killed the VictimOfTheWeek John Warran was meant to kill another bandmate named Hannah (When John's reed broke, [[SpannerInTheWorks another bandmate let him use the poisoned reed that was secretly slipped into Hannah's bag]]), she starts to blame herself for John's death. [=McGee=] quickly reassures her that she isn't to blame for what happened. |
| 412 | ---> '''Hannah:''' If he just hadn't have used my reed-- |
| 413 | ---> '''[=McGee=]:''' No, John is dead because somebody poisoned him. |
| 414 | ** A ConspiracyTheorist who is a LoonyFan of the Anchor Ensembles claims that some members of the Anchor Ensembles are part of a cult that does HumanSacrifice. While the team obviously doesn't believe this, they investigate it anyway since they don't have any other leads in the case. They promptly discover that the "freaky secret cult" is actually some of the Anchor Ensembles putting on an annual concert service to honor every deceased band member, with the recent edition in their tribute being the VictimOfTheWeek. The bandleader explains to the agents that the Anchor Ensembles started this tradition after a whole Navy Band was killed in the Pearl Harbor attacks and invites them to stay for the service. The anguished look on the band members' faces before and during the performance also puts this firmly in TearJerker territory. |
| 415 | ** In the teaser, John gets his bandmates to start an impromptu performance of "Sing Sing Sing" by Benny Goodman, just before he is killed. At the end, when Team Gibbs is invited to their concert to thank them for catching John's killer, the bandleader announces that their first number will be an ode to John... and they break into a balls-to-the-wall version of "Sing Sing Sing." Somewhere, their bandmate is cheering them on. |
| 416 | * "IRL": |
| 417 | ** Phineas' mother trusting Gibbs enough to let him watch over Phineas when she's called away last-minuted to a custody hearing with her ex-husband in New York. And her deciding to make him Phineas' full-time sitter as the custody battle gets extended. |
| 418 | *** Becomes HarsherInHindsight when it's revealed that Phineas's mother is the same Sahar, who wants Ziva dead, and the whole reason she even moved in across the street was to monitor Gibbs for when Ziva returned. |
| 419 | ** To find a suspect, [=McGee=] riggs up a computer inside [=MTAC=] so they can track him through a video game. The downside is that you have to have a high enough score to get the suspect's attention, so he brings in Phineas, who has a high enough score on the video game. The way Phineas' face lights up when he sees the set-up and the huge screen he gets to play on is heart-melting. |
| 420 | * "In The Wind": |
| 421 | ** Ziva and Palmer finally properly reunite, leading to one of the most heartwarming hugs on a show surprisingly full of them. |
| 422 | ** Ziva has been trying and trying to get in touch with Tony, to let him know that Sahar is dead and they can finally reunite. The ultimate reply? First, a picture of Tali, smiling, following by a video of her, eager to see her ''ima'' again. The only way it could have been better if Tony and Tali had shown up in person. |
| 423 | *** A successive video is shown to [=McGee=], with Tali wanting "Uncle Tim" and her cousins to visit. |
| 424 | ** Ziva's ultimate departure from the squad room, with Palmer taking her to the airport to rejoin Tony and Tali in Paris. Hugs and happy exchanges abound, and it's everything that fans wanted and were angry to have missed out on both in her prior departure (which had consisted only with Ziva and Tony) and her supposed death (being entirely offscreen). |
| 425 | * In "Flight Plan", [=McGee=] and Delilah agree that they don't want any more children so [=McGee=] decides to get a vasectomy as a birth control measure. When word spreads around the office, Vance calls [=McGee=] to his office for a private meeting. While Vance asks [=McGee=] not to talk about such a personal medical decision at work anymore, he also reveals that ''he'' did a vasectomy when he and Jackie also decided they didn't want any more children. [=McGee=] is relieved because he's glad that he's not the only one he knows who is doing it, and Vance reassures [=McGee=] that the pain from the surgery will only last a few days. |
| 426 | ** That same conversation also reveals that Vance had to redo the vasectomy since the first time failed: |
| 427 | --> '''[=McGee=]:''' How'd you find out it didn't work the first time?\ |
| 428 | '''Vance:''' When Jackie got pregnant with our son.\ |
| 429 | '''[=McGee=]:''' Jared was an oops?\ |
| 430 | '''Vance:''' ''(Grinning)'' Yep. Best mistake we ever made. |
| 431 | * In "Lonely Hearts", the person who sent the Valentine chocolates to Sloane turns out to be Faith, her biological daughter she gave up for adoption after she was born. This indicates that despite initially wanting nothing to do with her birth mom, Faith has recently decided she wants to have at least some kind of relationship with her. |
| 432 | * The opening bullpen scene of "Ephemera" is confirmation that [[EarnYourHappyEnding Ziva finally made it back to Tony and Tali.]] [=DiNozzo=] Sr. was so overjoyed about the reunion that he sent long, handwritten thank-you letters on handmade paper to each member of Team Gibbs. |
| 433 | ** The final shot reveals why Art loved this particular room in the museum so much... It has a photograph on the wall showing the dance where Art and Annie met, and you can see them in the background. Their song, "Precious and Few", starts to play, and the scene goes to gray-out. Perhaps Art and Annie [[TogetherInDeath have been reunited at last.]] |
| 434 | * "Schooled": The "YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre" pep talk Torres gives [=McGee=] when the latter is having misgivings about going to his college reunion. |
| 435 | ** Sloane's daughter realizing that she gave her up to protect her from her father, who raped her after a party. |
| 436 | --->'''Faith:''' You gave me up to protect me. You gave me a wonderful life. You ''did''. |
| 437 | * In "The Arizona", even though Joe ends up dying of an age-induced heart attack, the shrapnel in his arm burs matches is proven to be a match to the ''U.S.S Arizona'' wreckage, proving that he did serve on the ship and is a survivor of the Pearl Harbor attacks. Vance, Jimmy, and Gibbs quickly and happily arrange Joe's LastRequest; to have his ashes be interred on the ship wreckage in Hawaii so he can be buried with the rest of his crewmen. |
| 438 | [[/folder]] |
| 439 | |
| 440 | [[folder:Season 18]] |
| 441 | * "Sturgeon Season": When Palmer's car gets blown up by an IED, Gibbs immediately rushes to his side and escorts him from the scene, and make sure he gets an ice pack for the bruise he got on his head. The next morning, Gibbs gets [=McGee=] a coffee. |
| 442 | * "Everything Starts Somewhere" |
| 443 | ** While [=McGee=] wants to invite Gibbs to his anniversary party, he fizzles out his invitation after finding out that the week before was the anniversary of Shannon and Kelly's death. |
| 444 | ** Ducky goes to Gibbs' house to ask him why he's so obsessed with Zucado, only to figure out soon after that Gibbs wouldn't have lost Shannon and Kelly or he wouldn't have to suffer their losses because of Zucado. Ducky blames himself, but Gibbs explains that he's grateful that Ducky gave him time to be with his family. Ducky reminds him that Shannon and Kelly aren't his only family and that the whole team is by his side. |
| 445 | ** The final flashback of young Gibbs has him calling up Shannon and making up with her thanks to Ducky's advice. He then tells her he will see her personally before his deployment, stating he wants to ask her "a question that shouldn't be told over the phone". We all know what that is. |
| 446 | ** After remembering the proposal, Gibbs calls up [=McGee=] on his own accord to see if they were still out for drinks. To say that the team is overjoyed would be an understatement. |
| 447 | * "Head of the Snake": After Gibbs is forced to non-fatally shoot [=McGee=] to save his life from a highly explosive bomb-rigged plane after [=McGee=]'s comms went out, the rest of the NCIS agents acknowledge that he had no choice and don't hold it against him. Not even Delilah or [=McGee=] himself (as he admits during the next episode) have any hard feelings about it because they know that if Gibbs didn't do it [=McGee=] would definitely have been killed. |
| 448 | * "The First Day": The team gathering for a memorial service in the bullpen for Jimmy's wife Breena, who passed away from COVID during the timeskip. |
| 449 | [[/folder]] |
| 450 | |
| 451 | [[folder:Season 19]] |
| 452 | * "Pledge of Allegiance" - Both [=McGee=] and Palmer receive $10,000 in their bank accounts from an unknown source. Later on, Director Vance brings both of them in to inform them that they are the newest members of the Leroy Jethro Gibbs college scholarship fund. Gibbs opened a college fund for his daughter Kelly, which he never closed even after her death, continuing to put money into it. It's now being used as a college fund for agents with children, which even included Vance's kids, and will now also help both [=McGee=] and Palmer's kids. |
| 453 | [[/folder]] |
| 454 | |
| 455 | [[folder: Season 20]] |
| 456 | * "Kompromat" |
| 457 | ** [[TearJerker In one of what will be David McCallum's final appearances]] [[SwanSong before his death four months after this episode aired]], we get this heartwarming and yet bittersweet exchange between Ducky and [=McGee=], having the two known each other for 20 years: |
| 458 | --->'''[=McGee=]:''' Still the best, Duck. |
| 459 | --->'''Ducky:''' I do what I can. |
| 460 | --->'''[=McGee=]:''''' (smiles)'' |
| 461 | ** Ducky mentions he’s on a 35-city lecture tour and one of his stops is at Scotland, where he was born, [[ActorSharedBackground same as David McCallum]]. Seeing him talking about Scotland fondly briefly on one of his final scenes is so fitting and sweet. |
| 462 | |
| 463 | [[/folder]] |
| 464 | [[folder: Season 21]] |
| 465 | * "The Stories We Leave Behind" |
| 466 | ** The team receives flowers from everywhere after Ducky's passing, including from [[Series/NCISLosAngeles the L.A office]], [[Series/NCISNewOrleans the NOLA office]] and even [[Series/NCISSydney the newly established Sydney office]]. And naturally, Abby sends in a flower arrangement of her own. |
| 467 | *** During Parker’s first appearance in the episode, he’s finishing up a phone call with the Scotland Ambassador to the United States. Ducky’s homeland had also received news about his death, and the Scottish Parliament wanted to send their condolences (at Parker’s insistence, they decided to make donations to the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation in Ducky’s honor in lieu of flowers). |
| 468 | *** Even Gibbs sent [=McGee=] an old photo of him, [=McGee=], and Ducky together. Doubles as TearJerker. |
| 469 | ** Jimmy reveals to Knight that he decided to adopt Solo, Ducky’s corgi, which has helped comfort his daughter over her “Grand-Ducky’s” death. |
| 470 | ** The numerous flashbacks to Ducky's best and most meaningful moments, from the time he treated Tim for poison ivy, to the day he retired as M.E. |
| 471 | ** Before he died, Ducky made a call for Daniel Zawadski‘s daughter to the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation and we found out she’ll be getting a scholarship. His last great deed on earth. Thanks, Ducky! |
| 472 | *** Even more heartwarming in real life when Creator/DavidMcCallum and his wife Katherine created a scholarship in his name through MCSF in the honor of Katherine’s brother, a Marine Corporal who was killed in action in 1967. |
| 473 | ** [[TheCameo A certain Very Special Agent drops by]] and helps Jimmy get ready for Ducky's funeral by giving him a Ducky-esque bow tie to wear, complete with an equally Ducky-esque story, told in Ducky's accent. |
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