NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service

Stakeout - S5-E12

Continuity mistake: When he hands Tony the autopsy report, Ducky has hair falling over his forehead, then combed back, then over his forehead again repeatedly from shot to shot. (00:07:15)

Stakeout - S5-E12

Other mistake: Season 5, Episode 12, "Stakeout": The picture on McGee's camera phone is just wrong. It shows not just the man in front of him, but it also shows a hand, holding a camera phone - McGee's camera phone. In other words, the phone is showing a picture of itself and the man, instead of just the man. (00:40:25)

Judgment Day: Part 1 - S5-E18

Factual error: There is a big deal made about Gibbs giving Shepard one of his magazines in the study with La Granoille. It is implied that that magazine was used in the gun to kill La Granoille on his yacht. The magazine he gave her was for his department issued Sig Sauer P228, however, he was killed with a Glock 19. The magazines are not compatible.

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Internal Affairs - S5-E14

Continuity mistake: When Tony enters the NCIS interrogation room with Fornell, he sits down and places his bag of potato chips on the table. In the next shot, the bag has disappeared, he removes it from his jacket pocket, and places it on the table again. (00:25:15)

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Tribes - S5-E11

Continuity mistake: After Ducky finds the needle in the MRI machine it cuts to Gibbs stepping on the bubble wrap, and as Abby happily rolls toward Gibbs, in the two shots facing her the headband magnifiers are flipped down over Abby's eyes, but in the shot facing Gibbs the magnifiers are flipped up over Abby's head. (00:27:30)

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Bury Your Dead - S5-E1

Continuity mistake: During season 4 when Ziva gets worried about Tony being 'sick', she is researching y. Pestis, and telling Gibbs how worried she is about Tony having tests and the long-term effects of plague. In season 5, first episode, when Ducky comes to tell the group that the body is not Tony because "he didn't have plague", Ziva looks confused and says "before my time?"

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In the Zone - S5-E15

Continuity mistake: McGee is looking at a report at the end and we see the page he is looking at has a few lines of text. Nothing much. Camera cuts to a close up of the report and the page is completely different. (00:38:40)

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See No Evil - S2-E1

[Gibbs is drinking a cup of coffee.]
Kate Todd: Gibbs, it's like one hundred degrees in here. How can you drink that stuff?
Leroy Gibbs: It keeps me cool.

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Agent Afloat - S6-E2

Trivia: Season 6, "Agent Afloat": Maybe real aircraft carriers posing as fictional ones shouldn't let viewers see their registration numbers. When this episode aired, producers heard from several "carrier purists" complaining that CVN74 is the U.S.S. John C. Stennis, not the (non-existent) Seahawk.

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Show generally

Question: I finally saw the 2-part episode from the show JAG. Does anyone know what happened to Viv Blackadder? I don't recall hearing anyone ever mention the name on NCIS.

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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Answer: I dont believe it is ever mentioned, but like most pilot episodes the characters are often changed, replaced or even removed in this case.

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