NCIS (promoted as Navy NCIS in season one), aka Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service or NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
The concept and characters were initially introduced in a two-part episode of the CBS series JAG (episodes 8.20 and 8.21). The show, a spin-off from JAG, premiered on September 23, 2003 on CBS and, to date, has...
Leon Vance
Portrayed by Rocky Carroll. Vance was introduced in the episode "Internal Affairs" as Assistant Director in Season 5. He is made the new Director after the death of Jenny Shepard. He has a wife, Jackie, and two children, a daughter, Kayla and son, Jared.
He trained to be a boxer while growing up in Chicago. At one point, he signed up to join the Marines but never served due to having undergone surgery to repair a displaced retina that he suffered during his boxing career.
Jimmy Palmer
Portrayed by Brian Dietzen, he first appeared in the episode "Split Decision". After Gerald was incapacitated, Palmer became Mallard's medical assistant both in the field and in the morgue. In the episode "About Face", Jimmy became a central character of the episode who must recover his memory to find a suspect to the murder case and his attempted killer. He self-identifies as a sufferer of a "mild" case of diabetes mellitus in the episode "In The Dark". He is terrified of Gibbs[citation needed]. Part of the reason that Doctor Mallard and he are not at the crime scene when...
[edit] Jenny Shepard
Portrayed by Lauren Holly, she first appeared in the episode "Kill Ari (Part 1)". She replaced former NCIS director Thomas Morrow, at the start of the third season after Morrow took a Deputy Director's position with the Department of Homeland Security. She was Gibbs' former partner and also his former lover. She was killed in the episode "Judgment Day (Part 1)". At the time of her death she was already dying from brain cancer. In several episodes before her death in the episode "Judgment Day (Part 1)", Ducky is shown to be ordering a test on a blood sample to Abby,...
Special Agent Caitlin "Kate" Todd (portrayed by Sasha Alexander) is a fictional character in the CBS drama NCIS.
Biography
Caitlin was a former Secret Service Special Agent; she was hand picked to protect the President. She broke the rules by dating a co-worker, and chose to resign, before she was fired. NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs made a fast move and hired Caitlin right after she resigned.
Cailtin had a great relationship with Gibbs, he was her mentor and believed she could become a great agent. Kate had a lot of respect for Gibbs, and worked...