NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service

Kill Ari: Part 2 - S3-E2

Continuity mistake: While Tony and Ziva are outside Ziva's hotel eating pizza, Ziva is eating the pizza in one shot with the slice in the shot, in the shot directly before this and directly after, the pizza is no where to be found and she is no longer chewing.

Boobra

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Silver War - S3-E4

Continuity mistake: When Ziva, Ducky, and Dr. Burns find the graveyard, Dr. Burns is visible between Ducky and Ziva's shoulders. She then disappears in the following wide shot, and appears again in the closeup. (00:39:40)

Cubs Fan

Silver War - S3-E4

Continuity mistake: When inside the Smithsonian, Tony is fooling around with a bear. The baseball hats on all 3 agents have black trim on the brim, then white trim, then black trim. Zeva says her hat has a 9mm hole, and pokes a finger through a hat with a black trim. Gibbs says it is for ventilation. Then she drives home, the hats have white trim, and hers has no hole.

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Under Covers - S3-E8

Continuity mistake: When the assassin is getting ready to take Ziva to her room, he has a jacket covering his silenced pistol. However the jacket is constantly moving in relation to the end of the silencer. (00:35:00)

Ssiscool

Under Covers - S3-E8

Continuity mistake: In S1 E15 "Enigma", about 30 minutes in, Gibbs takes out his flask and the engraving is "For Good Luck, Your Loving" with the bullet on it. At the end of this episode it's engraved with "Jethro, For Good Luck Love Shannon and Kelly".

Frame Up - S3-E9

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Chip first brings the evidence to Abby (after getting it from Mr. Palmer), in one shot, her spiderweb tattoo is on the right side of her neck, and Chip is standing to her right. In the next shot, her tattoo is on the left side of her neck, as it normally is, and Chip is standing to her left. (00:08:20)

Frame Up - S3-E9

Continuity mistake: On their way to their crime scene, Ducky and Ziva accidentally fall into a river. Just a few moments later, when Ducky is observing the severed leg, his clothes are relatively, if not completely, dry.

Cubs Fan

Boxed In - S3-E12

Continuity mistake: While Gibbs and McGee are searching the dock area for Ziva and Tony they find the dead terrorist, and in all shots of the deceased his arms are raised, but in the one overhead long shot the arms are down by his sides. (00:23:25)

Super Grover

Deception - S3-E13

Continuity mistake: When Tony sees Ziva arrive at work, he is seated at his desk and starts to lean back in his chair. He is then instantly seated upright with his arms on his desk, then leaning back in his chair again. (00:01:35)

Cubs Fan

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Shalom - S4-E1

Visible crew/equipment: When Gibbs and Ziva are in the "safehouse" Ziva set up for Ari, a crew member and his boom microphone are seen on the left of the screen, right before Gibbs climbs the ladder to remove the hidden camera spying on them. (00:30:10)

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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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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.

Raykvega423

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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