Continuity mistake: When Tony spots Wilkerson's car in the mall's garage, in the first closeup of the Jetta the trunk has neither the Jetta badge nor the VW emblem, but in following shots both the Jetta badge and VW emblem are attached to the trunk. (00:14:55 - 00:16:55)
Continuity mistake: When Tony and Abby determine where the car holding Lt. Cmdr Wilkerson hit a pair of railroad tracks, Tony has a napkin tucked into his shirt like a bib. In the next shot, the napkin has disappeared from his shirt, and he is holding it in his hand instead. (00:25:10)
Continuity mistake: When the woman gets the baby out the car at the start she closes the car door. A few seconds later, the second woman closes the same car door. (00:00:30)
Continuity mistake: When Ziva and McGee are walking up the stairs at the start, the people following them suddenly appear a lot further down the stairs. (00:02:00)
Continuity mistake: When McGee and Ziva are headed toward the sensitivity training seminar, and they notice Tony hitting on a woman at the top of the stairwell, Tony has a document in his right hand, which then jumps to his left, and then back to his right. (00:02:30)
Continuity mistake: Duckey is examining the two victims and taking the liver temperature. When doing this he is on one knee. Camera changes to Gibbs asking for a "T.O.D" and Duckey is stood up. (00:05:00)
Continuity mistake: When Gibbs, Tony and Ziva Rendezvous with McGee outside the enlisted club, to search for Sgt. Porter, McGee puts his NCIS ballcap on twice. (00:09:15)
Continuity mistake: When Abby walks into the lab carrying the box with the Beretta Cougar she is barehanded, and two shots later she's wearing her latex gloves as she reaches for the bullet, but next shot she's barehanded again as she picks up the bullet to show Gibbs. Then, when Abby thanks Gibbs for getting her out of the sensitivity training, the latex gloves suddenly reappear, but they disappear in the next shot. (00:12:10)
Continuity mistake: McGee knocks into Gibbs who drops his coffee. The position of the cup in relation to the lid changes drastically between the long shot and the close up. (00:12:40)
Continuity mistake: When NCIS is staking out the grocery store in Koreatown and they see Lee Sung answer the phone, the phone instantly switches hands, and the hand that was holding the phone inexplicably appears on top of the phone frame. (00:27:20)
Continuity mistake: When Ziva is showing the marine the photos of his wife, she lowers her arm with the phone in. Camera changes and her arm is outstretched again. (00:32:00)
Continuity mistake: The hostage was shot above his right knee, but when he is being medically tended to, the bandage is wrapped under his knee.
Continuity mistake: At the very, very start we see a clipboard on the trolley with the clip to the left. As the camera changes to outside the clip is now on the right. (00:00:05)
Continuity mistake: When Ziva tells Tony to get on with the work she is looking downwards. Camera changes and she is looking upwards. (00:04:50)
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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