Continuity mistake: When Gibbs is leaving the message for his father, in one shot there is a white remote control with a yellow button next to the answering machine, and in the next shot there is a tissue box in its place.
Factual error: The "bullets" extracted from the victim are intact cartridges, not fired bullets with no cases. (00:12:36)





Answer: I hadn't seen the backdoor pilots yet but while it wasn't explicitly stated, at least onscreen, I heard somewhere Vivian got either fired from NCIS due to jeopardizing a case, got resigned from the agency, or transferred to the FBI.
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