Continuity mistake: When the Russian agent is talking to the bad guy, the Russian agent's coat collar changes position in just about every shot.
Continuity mistake: When Gibbs meets with Tom Morrow at the dinner, Tom asks Gibbs if he is going to upgrade to a smart phone. Gibbs opens his phone, the shot changes and his phone is now closed. (00:15:15)
Continuity mistake: In the final scene, Gibbs is working on his boat wearing safety glasses and has a pencil behind his right ear under the frame. When he learns Sergei has survived his pulls his glasses off in disbelief and the pencil is no longer behind his ear. After a cut away to the director and back to Gibbs again, the pencil has returned and remains there for the rest of the scene, including the black and white closing transition.
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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