The seventh season of the

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drama ''

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'' 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 arc then focuses on the Mexican Drug War and Colonel Merton Bell (

Robert Patrick Robert Hammond Patrick (born November 5, 1958) is an American actor. Known for portraying villains and honorable authority figures, he is a Saturn Award winner with four other nominations. Patrick dropped out of college when drama class sparked ...

), 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

Main

Mark Harmon Thomas Mark Harmon (born September 2, 1951) is an American actor. He is most famous for playing the lead role of Leroy Jethro Gibbs in '' NCIS''. He also appeared in a wide variety of roles since the early 1970s. After spending the majority of ...

Leroy Jethro Gibbs Leroy Jethro Gibbs is a fictional character and the original protagonist of the CBS TV series '' NCIS'', portrayed by Mark Harmon. He is a former U.S. Marine Corps Scout Sniper turned special agent who commands a team for the Naval Criminal I ...

, NCIS Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) of the Major Case Response Team (MCRT) assigned to Washington's Navy Yard * Michael Weatherly as Anthony DiNozzo, NCIS Senior Special Agent, second in command of MCRT * Cote de Pablo as Ziva David, NCIS Probationary Special Agent, former

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Liaison Officer *

Pauley Perrette Pauley Perrette (born March 27, 1969) is an American retired actress and singer. She played Abby Sciuto in the television series '' NCIS'' from 2003 to 2018. Early life Perrette was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised throughout the so ...

Abby Sciuto Abigail "Abby" Beethoven Sciuto is a fictional character from the '' NCIS'' television series on CBS Television, and is portrayed by Pauley Perrette. In a season 10 episode entitled "Hit and Run", a young Abby was played by Brighton Sharbino in ...

, Forensic Specialist for NCIS *

Sean Murray Sean Murray may refer to: * Sean Murray (field hockey) (born 1997), Lisnagarvey player and senior Ireland international * Sean Murray (footballer, born 1993), Dundalk FC player and Irish youth international * Sean Murray (Gaelic footballer), Dubli ...

as Timothy McGee, NCIS Special Agent *

Rocky Carroll Roscoe "Rocky" Carroll (born July 8, 1963) is an American actor and director. He is known for his roles as Joey Emerson on the Fox comedy-drama '' Roc'' (1991–94), as Dr. Keith Wilkes on the CBS medical drama ''Chicago Hope'', and as NCIS Direc ...

Leon Vance Leon Robert Vance Jr. (August 11, 1916 – July 26, 1944) was a Medal of Honor recipient who served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Early life and family Leon Robert Vance Jr. was born and raised in Enid, Oklahoma. Van ...

, NCIS Director * David McCallum as Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard, Chief Medical Examiner for NCIS

Also starring

* Brian Dietzen as

Jimmy Palmer '' NCIS'' is an American police procedural television series, revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which investigates crimes involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The series was ...

, Assistant Medical Examiner for NCIS

Recurring

* Joe Spano as

Tobias Fornell '' NCIS'' is an American police procedural television series, revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which investigates crimes involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The series was ...

, FBI Senior Special Agent * Darby Stanchfield as

Shannon Gibbs ''NCIS'' is an American police procedural television series, revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which investigates crimes involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The series was c ...

, Gibbs' deceased wife * Muse Watson as Mike Franks, retired Senior Special Agent for NCIS and Gibbs' former boss * Paul Telfer as Corporal Damon Werth * Kent Shocknek as Guy Ross, ZNN news anchor * Aviva Baumann as young

, Gibbs' deceased wife * Ralph Waite as Jackson Gibbs, Gibbs' father * Paula Newsome as Jackie Vance, Leon Vance's wife * Omid Abtahi as Saleem Ulman, NCIS target * Robert Wagner as Anthony DiNozzo, Sr., Tony's father *

Michelle Pierce Michelle Pierce is an American actress. Life and career Pierce was born in Palo Alto, California. She has two sisters and one brother. Her great-grandmother was Helen Bray, star of many silent films during the early 20th century. Pierce attend ...

as Breena Slater, Jimmy Palmer's girlfriend * Jackie Geary as Susan Grady, NCIS Polygraph Specialist * Jack Conley as Danny Sportelli, Metro P.D. Detective * Diane Neal as

Abigail Borin ''NCIS'' is an American police procedural television series, revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which investigates crimes involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The series was c ...

, CGIS Special Agent in Charge *

TJ Ramini T. J. Ramini is a British actor known for his role as DC Zain Nadir in ''The Bill'' and Tarin Faroush in '' 24''. Career Ramini's other parts include guest appearances in the television series ''Casualty'', ''The Inspector Lynley Mysteries'', ...

as Malachi Ben-Gidon, Mossad Agent *

Marco Sanchez Marco Sanchez is an American actor, producer, and writer. Life and career Sanchez studied theater throughout junior high and high school and graduated from the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television in 1992. His television work includes ...

Alejandro Rivera ''NCIS (TV series), NCIS'' is an American police procedural television series, revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which investigates crimes involving the U.S. Navy and United States ...

, official in the Mexican Justice Department *

Jacqueline Obradors Jacqueline Danell Obradors (born October 6, 1966) is an American actress. She has appeared in films such as ''Six Days, Seven Nights'' (1998), '' Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo'' (1999), ''Tortilla Soup'' (2001), ''A Man Apart'' (2003) and ''Unstoppa ...

as Paloma Reynosa, leader of a Mexican drug cartel * Meredith Eaton as

Carol Wilson Carol Wilson is an American operatic soprano and, from 1998, a principal artist at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. In 2012 she became associate professor of voice at the University of North Texas. Wilson attended Iowa State University and recei ...

, immunologist and friend of Abby Sciuto * Rena Sofer as Margaret Allison Hart, Attorney * Todd Lowe as Chad Dunham, NCIS Special Agent

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References

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