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1	Directed by Creator/DennisSmith
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3	Written by Creator/ReedSteiner & Creator/ChristopherJWalid
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5	The team is forced to rely on information from questionable sources while trying to stop a criminal bent on stealing government secrets.
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7	!!Tropes in this Episode:
8	* ADeathInTheLimelight: For Michelle Lee, as her role as the mole has been revealed. Michelle ends up dying in the end.
9	* BittersweetEnding: Ted Bankston was revealed to be the one who hired Michelle as TheMole and he gets killed. Michelle's daughter (who is actually her adopted younger sister is) rescued. But Michelle allowed herself to die so Bankston dies too, and Michelle's actual role in the whole scheme is not known, but Gibbs says that she is both a hero and a villain.
10	* CallBack: Michelle asks [=McGee=] to understand what she's going through by reminding him what happened to his sister in the Season 4 episode "Twisted Sister".
11	* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Ted Bankston pretends to be someone else under coercion by "the Weatherman" before it's revealed that he himself is the Weatherman.
12	* FirstNameBasis: Averted. Abby calls Director Vance by his name Leon, something he wasn't too pleased about.
13	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Michelle reminding [=McGee=] what his sister went through when she was a murder suspect in "Twisted Sister", giving the hint that Michelle's abducted daughter is actually her sister.
14	* IHaveYourDaughter: Bankston had kidnapped Michelle's daughter, who is actually her adopted younger sister.
15	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Michelle allowed Gibbs to [[ShootTheHostage shoot her]] so he could [[ShootTheHostageTaker shoot the culprit]], Ted Bankston who kidnapped her daughter and made Lee the mole, knowing that her daughter (actually her younger adoptive sister) has been rescued by Tony and Ziva.
16	* WeightAndSwitch: Tony considers doing this to rescue Michelle's adoptive daughter/sister, even referencing ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''.

Context Recap / NCISS06E09