The seventh season of the police procedural drama NCIS premiered on September 22, 2009 with NCIS: Los Angeles Season 1 premiering afterwards. At the end of season six, Ziva had left the NCIS team in Israel, returning to work as a Mossad officer. In the closing seconds of that season, Ziva was shown to have been captured and tortured for information about NCIS.
In the first episode of season seven, Ziva is rescued by Gibbs, Tony and McGee and upon her return to Washington, she eventually becomes an NCIS agent after resigning from Mossad for good. Much of the season's story are then focuses on the Mexican drug war and Colonel Merton Bell (Robert Patrick), a suspected murderer who hired the lawyer M. Allison Hart to represent him. Hart quickly becomes a thorn in Gibbs' side by regularly showing up and protecting possible suspects while they are being investigated, claiming that they were her clients.
The season draws to a close as Gibbs is later kidnapped by someone working for Paloma Reynosa, the daughter of the late Pedro Hernandez, a drug dealer Gibbs himself shot dead twenty years previously as Hernandez had been responsible for killing Gibbs' first wife Shannon and daughter Kelly. While Gibbs is held prisoner, Paloma informs him that he would work for her or she would have everyone he ever knew and cared about die if he did not go through with her demands.
It also ends in a cliffhanger with Paloma herself traveling to Stillwater and confronting Jackson Gibbs in his shop, leaving his fate unknown.
The series aired alongside season one of NCIS: Los Angeles, and the NCIS episode "Endgame" continued on the events that had taken place in the NCIS: Los Angeles episode "Killshot".
Cast and characters
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Also starring Brian Dietzen as Jimmy Palmer, Assistant Medical Examiner for NCIS
Recurring
Episodes
Ratings Episode Ratings Original airdate Viewers(millions) Rank Night Week "Truth or Consequences" September 22, 2009 20.60 1 1 "Reunion" September 29, 2009 21.37 1 1 "The Inside Man" October 6, 2009 20.70 1 1 "Good Cop, Bad Cop" October 13, 2009 21.04 1 1 "Code Of Conduct" October 20, 2009 21.25 1 1 "Outlaws and In-Laws" November 3, 2009 20.18 1 3 "Endgame" November 10, 2009 20.96 1 2 "Power Down" November 17, 2009 20.34 1 1 "Child's Play" November 24, 2009 20.27 1 2 "Faith" December 15, 2009 20.69 1 1 "Ignition" January 5, 2010 21.37 1 4 "Flesh and Blood" January 12, 2010 20.85 2 5 "Jet Lag" January 26, 2010 20.22 2 4 "Masquerade" February 2, 2010 19.23 2 6 "Jack-Knife" February 9, 2010 19.75 2 6 "Mother's Day" March 2, 2010 19.62 2 5 "Double Identity" March 9, 2010 19.58 2 3 "Jurisdiction" March 16, 2010 18.00 2 3 "Guilty Pleasure" April 6, 2010 16.45 2 5 "Moonlighting" April 27, 2010 16.29 2 4 "Obsession" May 4, 2010 15.10 2 5 "Borderland" May 11, 2010 17.23 2 4 "Patriot Down" May 18, 2010 15.96 2 4 "Rule Fifty-One" May 25, 2010 16.30 3 5
DVD special features The Future Is Now: NCIS Meets the Jet Pack - The NCIS cast and crew discuss the jet pack that was used during the Season 7 episode, "Ignition". Gimme Two Steps: Staging the Bar Fight - A behind-the-scenes at the bar fight that occurred during the Season 7 episode, "Faith". Celebrating Episode 150 - A behind-the-scenes feature showing the NCIS cast and crew as well as personnel from CBS celebrating NCIS's 150th episode, the Season 7 episode, "Flesh and Blood". Cast Roundtable - The main NCIS cast along with TV journalist Laura Spencer look back at the episodes of NCIS Season 7. Lucky Number Seven - The NCIS cast and crew reflect on NCIS Season 7. Personnel Effects - Associate Producer, Chad W. Murray gives a tour of how various items seen during NCIS Season 7 such as profiles of military personnel and NCIS agents were created for use in episodes associated with Season 7. NCIS: A Sound Investment - A behind-the-scenes look at how the soundtrack for NCIS Season 7 episodes was put together. Home Sweet Home: Creating the Gibbs House - A behind-the-scenes look at how the house of NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs was created. Cast and Crew Commentaries on Selected Episodes (Region 1 only): Commentary on episode "Faith" with Mark Harmon, Arvin Brown and Gary Glasberg. Commentary on episode "Flesh and Blood" with Michael Weatherly and Robert Wagner.
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