NCIS question

[alicejb]

lol yeah taz...frank doesn't mess around, does he? And that flashback of gibbs schlepping around their equipment when he was a "probie" -- that was great! They have a good amount of funny moments in the show overall. I just saw one of mcgee falling into a sewer when tony slipped and let go of his hold, lol. Abby with everyone else definitely brings the comic side. She and mcgee make a good comedic team.
I even saw one of the Jag-NCIS episode (first one for NCIS) where the prosecuting lawyer asked Abby to dress "conservative" and wear glasses and she was just so uncomfortable up on the stand, trying to be serious and "uptight", she would slip when she gets excited talking about forensic findings. I liked that scene too.

[alicejb]

Originally Posted by tamiznluv

LOL I love the names...Jethro Leroy Gibbs and Tobias Fornell.

I heard that there is a real Leroy Gibbs that's actual friends with Don Bellisario. That's where Don based his reel character from. And the real life Gibbs either worked for the CIA or FBI (not sure which).

[KathyA11]

Originally Posted by danameless

Kathy, do you know why Kate was killed off on the show? I actually like Ziva better, but just curious?

Sasha Alexander wanted to get pregnant, and doing the show was just too physical for her. She left amicably -- but man, that last scene was a shocker to everyone. We'd heard someone would die, but they were very good about spoiling the spoilers, and we thought we'd been had when she was fine after being shot the first time. No one on the lists saw that kill shot coming (just like when Buddy stepped on the mine in JAG). The lists exploded with chatter after that ep was over.

[KathyA11]

Originally Posted by alicejb

I heard that there is a real Leroy Gibbs that's actual friends with Don Bellisario. That's where Don based his reel character from. And the real life Gibbs either worked for the CIA or FBI (not sure which).

That's not where the name came from. Both Albert Jethro Chegwidden (from JAG) and Leroy Jethro Gibbs were named after Don Bellisario's father, whose name was Jethro.

[KathyA11]

Originally Posted by sgresident

his wife and child were killed by a drug lord. gibbs went back and killed that guy. they don't go into the past marriages much..just usually in joking.

One ex-wife was a witness in a case -- 5th season, I believe. She was played by Kathleen York.

but the one guy that they typically do stuff with from the cia also married one of gibbs ex-wives.

That's Fornell (played by Joe Spano) -- but he's FBI, not CIA.

[KathyA11]

Originally Posted by tamiznluv

I do believe Shannon was his first wife and they had a little girl who was murdered along with her mother. Gibbs quit NCIS to go find the drug lord who did the murder

No he didn't -- he killed the guy while he was still in the Marine Corps, before he joined NCIS.