Continuity mistake: When Maddie turns the photo album round, its position changes between shots. In the first shot she is holding it by the top of the album, as shown with a brown photo being away from her hands. Camera changes and now she is holding it by the bottom of the album and her hand is on the brown photo. (00:09:40)
Revealing mistake: When Ducky opens the fridge and uncovers the body, the man's eyes twitch. (00:21:20)
Continuity mistake: We see Jenny talking to the former embassy worker. When doing so she has her hands out stretched in one shot and clasped in others. (00:25:30)
Continuity mistake: In one scene, Tony observes that Ziva never uses contractions when she talks, and Ziva even seems confused as to what they are. But in previous episodes, Ziva not only knows what contractions are, but uses them frequently.
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Continuity mistake: Gibbs passes a soda to Carson who holds it in one hand. When the camera changes he's not holding the can any more. (00:03:50)
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Visible crew/equipment: When Gibbs and McGee are talking to the kid at the start there is a camera shot moving past an empty chair. In this shot a shadow can be seen moving over the chair. (00:04:00)
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Continuity mistake: When talking to Carson's mum, the notepad Gibbs is holding has 1 page hanging loose or not at all depending on the shot. (00:09:10)
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Continuity mistake: LT Col Mann is retiring after 22 years' service. However last season she stated that she was coming up on 20 years' service. (00:12:00)
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Continuity mistake: The name of the paper Jenny is reading changes from "Stars and Stripes" to "The Mini..." (00:12:10)
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Revealing mistake: The newspaper article on Lt Col Mann repeats the same few paragraphs throughout. Slow motion helps but is not required to spot this mistake. (00:12:20)
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Character mistake: We see McGee using his computer where the word violators is spelled violaters on the NCIS search form. (00:23:15)
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Continuity mistake: The amount of ice cream and chocolate on the ice creams that Carson and Gibbs eat keeps changing between shots. (00:29:10)
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Continuity mistake: Ducky writes the name Brian Taylor on the board and its style keeps changing. Note the tail of the Y in Taylor, in some shots it's well past the underline and in others it's barely touching the line. (00:31:00)
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Continuity mistake: Gibbs pulls the sole loose photo towards him when Ducky is doing a psychological review. Only for another loose picture to appear in the next shot. (00:31:20)
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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