“Blow Back” first aired February 6, 2007.
Could anyone play a dangerous foreign (never mind the nationality) operative with the effortlessness of Armand Assante? Doubtful. NCIS is graced with Assante’s virile presence, ever so brief, in “Blow Back.” The journeyman actor plays the mysterious arms dealer whose code name is "La Grenouille" (The Frog). His presence and the revelation of several side relationships marks the best, most integrated NCIS episode of the 2006-2007 season.
The story begins with the apprehension and kidnapping of an Israeli arms intermediate, Eli "Goliath" Lisack (Assaf Cohen) by mysterious forces that turn out at the end of the segment as Special Agent Tony Dinozzo (Michael Weatherly) and Mossad Agent-on-loan Ziva David (Cote de Pablo). Lisack, having been sedated during the kidnapping, awakens on a small jet plane with DiNozzo and Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon), where he is relentlessly taunted by the two, who tell him a variety of tales about their destination.
Ziva enters the cabin and stops short of issuing Lisack a now famous NCIS female ass kicking for being a treasonous Israeli. Just when Lisack thinks he is going to be turned over to a foreign concern to be disposed of, he finds himself deplaning in Washington DC. En route, Lisack gives up rogue American arms operative (with former ties to national intelligence) Charles Harrow (Fred Tate), who, as Lisack reveals, has agreed to sell the U.S. Navy’s intelligence software, Ares, to the highest international bidder.
At NCIS headquarters, Special Agent Tim McGee (Sean Murray) and Forensics Specialist Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette) discover more information about the mysterious Charles Harrow. Discovering his address, Gibbs sends Ziva and McGee (couldn’t find DiNozzo, who was wooing the comely Dr. Benoit on the cell phone) to Harrow’s address. DiNozzo and Gibbs begin scouring intelligence about Harrow and stumble upon a Trent Kort (David Dayan Fisher) who turns out to be a suspect that NCIS Director Jenny Shepard (Lauren Holly) had DiNozzo watch in a previous episode. Gibbs notes the surprise on DiNozzo’s face at seeing Kort and asks him if he knows Kort. DiNozzo lies to Gibbs.
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1 - MARY
NCIS IS A GREAT PROGRAM...PLEASE FIND A WAY TO KEEP ZIVA ON THE SHOW...SHE KEEPS TONY ON HIS TOES LIKE NO ONE ELSE INCLUDING GIBBS...ABBY AND MCGEE ARE PERFECT PARTNERS INVESTIGATEING USING THE COMPUTER...THEY EACH COMPLIMENT EACH OTHER...PLEASE COME BACK FOR SEVERAL YEARS....I HAVE A REAL HARD TIME DECIDING BETWEEN NCIS OR CIS MIAMI....
2 - MARY
PLEASE LET ME SCREAM MY SATISFACTION OF THE NCIS PROGRAM...PLEASE KEEP DIVA ALIVE..THE ACTRESS THAT PLAYS THE PART PERFECT IS COTE dE PABLO...PLEASE KEEP HER...SHE MAKES THE CHARCTER SEEM SOOOO REAL WITH HER COMMENTS AND EXPRESSIONS....THANKS FOR LETTING ME LET YOU KNOW....