Continuity mistake: When the victim falls to the ground in the pre-title sequence his eyes are closed and a pool of blood spills onto the floor from his mouth. When Tony and Ziva are examining the body and taking photo's of the victim, his eyes are now open and the pool of blood is gone from by his mouth. (00:00:50 - 00:03:10)
Continuity mistake: When The DA comes into NCIS after confronting Gibbs at his house, Ziva's action's in the background are constantly changing between cuts. (00:23:40)
Continuity mistake: When Ziva is photographing the bedroom she has the camera raised to her eye in one shot and lowered in the next when the DA asks about DiNozzo. (00:05:40)
Continuity mistake: Ziva is photographing the scene and takes a picture of the empty DVD player with a yellow evidence marker number 5 on top of it, Gibbs is then seen with the same marker in his hand before placing it on the DVD player. (00:04:40)
Continuity mistake: At the start, the disk falls out the paper and the case is touching the door mat. When the shot changes to a close up of the case being picked up, the case is no longer touching the mat. (00:01:05)
Broken Arrow - S8-E7
Continuity mistake: The position of the mobile phone on the victim changes from when we see the Admiral discovering the body and NCIS taking the photos. (00:02:40)
Broken Arrow - S8-E7
Continuity mistake: At the start, the way Ziva holds her passport differs when McGee asks to have a look at it. Note her middle finger is on the back of the passport and visible at the top in the middle. However, from behind, her hand is not on the back of the passport. (00:01:50)
Broken Arrow - S8-E7
Continuity mistake: At the end, DiNozzo Sr.'s hat changes position on the table while talking to Tony Jr. (00:38:20)
Broken Arrow - S8-E7
Continuity mistake: When Ziva is speaking about the Swiss court case, she has her hands clasped in front of her and is either pointing or not pointing depending on the shot. (00:28:10)
Continuity mistake: When we first see Mason he puts his hat on the table by his phone. His hat then disappears from the table only to be replaced by Mason when Gibbs walks in. (00:06:20)
Continuity mistake: When the grandfather is talking to Bibbs and gets the phone call his hands/arms are off the table. As the shot changes to a longer one, his arms are now on the table. (00:08:09)
Short Fuse - S8-E3
Continuity mistake: When the bomb timer is discovered, Dempsey is stood next to the bomb as seen on Monitor 1 of the control room. The camera pans across, past monitor 2 and onto Monitor 3 which is still the same room but a different angle. On Monitor 3, Dempsey is now around 3-4ft away from the bomb. (00:14:00)
Short Fuse - S8-E3
Continuity mistake: When Gary's wife is talking to Fornell and Gibbs, she either has her hand on the rake handle or lowered depending on the shot. (00:24:30)
Continuity mistake: When speaking to Conrad about taking the internship at NCIS, the clock behind Conrad changes drastically. (00:04:25)
Continuity mistake: The way Abby holds out the bells for the intern to wear changes depending on the shot. In one shot she has the string over all 4 fingers and in another only over 1. (00:09:20)
Continuity mistake: The writing on the board changes style at the very start. Note the 1st A in Satan. (00:00:15)
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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