Continuity mistake: When we first see young Abby, the way she's holding her bear changes between shots. (00:04:50)
Continuity mistake: Abby says that McGee is the most helpful person with clipboards. When she does, the position of the clipboard in her arms is constantly changing between instant cuts. (00:03:30)
Continuity mistake: When Tony wakes Ziva up, he grabs her wrist, and her fist is clenched in one shot and open in the next before returning to the closed position. (00:22:00)
Revealing mistake: When Ziva is hugging her dead father, you can see him breathing. (00:36:00)
Visible crew/equipment: When Ziva and Eli are talking, a camera crew can be seen in Eli's glasses. (00:30:10)
Visible crew/equipment: When talking to Ziva in the car, Eli's glasses reflect a light screen in his glasses. (00:29:10)
Continuity mistake: When DiNozzo and Gibbs are trying to work out who the man in the hat is, Tony has the clicker up by his chest in one shot and lowered in the following shot. (00:27:30)
Continuity mistake: During the interrogation, DiNozzo holds up the petty officer's ID vertically and asks a question. When the shot changes, DiNozzo is holding it lower and now horizontally. (00:09:05)
Continuity mistake: When McGee tells Sterling, the joke is over. Sterling's hands and the items in the changes from the rear and front camera angles. (00:32:30)
Continuity mistake: When Agent Sterling shows DiNozzo her badge, the way she holds it changes between shots. (00:11:40)
Continuity mistake: When we see the pool balls on the table for the 1st time, their position changes drastically between shots. (00:03:20)
Continuity mistake: The cracks in the windshield of Fornell's car change from the overhead to the ground level camera shots. This is before Fornell returns fire. (00:01:00)
Factual error: The intro shows a flashback from 1994 where young McGee is using a PC with Windows 95, which was not released until late 1995. (00:00:35)
Continuity mistake: Ziva tells Tony to stop being nice to her when doing the stakeout. When she does, in one shot her arm is on the car window, in the next shot it's not, then it's back again. (00:29:20)
Continuity mistake: At the very start, the way the soldier is holding up the car changes between shots. In some shots, he is holding bottom left, in others, he is holding bottom right. (00:01:10)
Revealing mistake: When we see the first segment of marines in a firefight in Afghanistan, a couple of marines take cover next to a wall with a tyre on the ground. When they hit the ground/wall, The Wall moves. (00:31:50)
Continuity mistake: Gibbs places a stack of photos down on the picture of the captain when speaking to him. When the shot changes, the stack of photos has moved off the photo of the captain. (00:07:00)
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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