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 are then focuses on the

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and Colonel Merton Bell (

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), 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

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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, writer, producer, television director and former American football, football player. He is best known for playing the lead role of Leroy Jethro Gibbs on ''NCIS (TV series), NCIS'' ...

Leroy Jethro Gibbs Leroy Jethro Gibbs (born November 21, 1954) is a fictional character and the original protagonist of the CBS TV series '' NCIS'', portrayed by Mark Harmon in the original series and by Austin Stowell in the prequel series '' NCIS: Origins''. He ...

, NCIS Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) of the Major Case Response Team (MCRT) assigned to Washington's Navy Yard *

Michael Weatherly Michael Weatherly Jr. (born July 8, 1968) is an American television and film actor, producer, director, and musician, known for playing the roles of Logan Cale in the television series '' Dark Angel'' (2000–2002), Special Agent Anthony DiNoz ...

Anthony DiNozzo Anthony D. "Tony" DiNozzo, Jr.Season 3, Episode 9 "Frame Up" is a fictional character from the CBS TV series '' NCIS'' portrayed by American actor Michael Weatherly. Created by producer Donald P. Bellisario, he appears as a series regular i ...

, NCIS Senior Special Agent, Second in Command of MCRT *

Cote de Pablo María José de Pablo Fernández, known professionally as Coté de Pablo, is a Chilean-American actress and singer. Born in Santiago, Chile, she moved to the United States at the age of 10, where she studied acting. De Pablo co-hosted episode ...

Ziva David Ziva David (; Hebrew: זיוה דוד, , feminine form of Ziv: "Radiance"; birth date November 12, 1982, Beersheba in the Negev desert of southern Israel). She was born in Be'er Sheva, Israel. is a fictional character from the CBS television seri ...

, NCIS Probationary Special Agent, former

Mossad The Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations (), popularly known as Mossad ( , ), is the national intelligence agency of the Israel, State of Israel. It is one of the main entities in the Israeli Intelligence Community, along with M ...

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 (TV series), NCIS'' from 2003 to 2018. Early life Perrette was born in New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, ...

Abby Sciuto Abigail Beethoven "Abby \ Abbs" Sciuto is a fictional character from the American television series '' NCIS''. She is portrayed by Pauley Perrette; in the season 10 episode "Hit and Run," a young Abby was played by Brighton Sharbino in flashba ...

, Forensic Specialist for NCIS * Sean Murray as

Timothy McGee Timothy Farragut "Tim" McGee () is a fictional character from the CBS television series ''NCIS'', portrayed by Sean Murray. McGee specializes in cybersecurity and computer crime, and is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Murra ...

, 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 David Keith McCallum (19 September 1933 – 25 September 2023) was a Scottish actor and musician, based in the United States. He gained wide recognition in the 1960s for playing secret agent Illya Kuryakin in the television series '' The Man fr ...

as Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard, Chief Medical Examiner for NCIS

Also starring

Brian Dietzen Brian Dietzen (born November 14, 1977) is an American television actor who has played the supporting role of List of NCIS characters#Jimmy Palmer, Dr. Jimmy Palmer on ''NCIS (TV series), NCIS'' since 2004. In 2012, he was promoted to a series regu ...

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 cr ...

, Assistant Medical Examiner for NCIS

Recurring

Joe Spano Joseph Peter Spano (born July 7, 1946) is an American actor known best for his roles as Lt. Henry Goldblume on ''Hill Street Blues'' and FBI Special Agent Tobias C. Fornell on '' NCIS''. He also voiced the Chuck E. Cheese (at the time Chuck E. ...

as Tobias Fornell, FBI Senior Special Agent *

Darby Stanchfield Darby Leigh Stanchfield (born April 29, 1971) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Abby Whelan in the ABC political drama series ''Scandal'' (2012–2018). Stanchfield is also known for roles as April Green in the CBS po ...

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 ...

, Gibbs' deceased wife *

Muse Watson Muse Watson Gravel (born Robert Gravel; July 20, 1948), commonly known as Muse Watson, is an American actor. He is notable for his recurring roles of Mike Franks on ''NCIS'' and Charles Westmoreland / D.B. Cooper in ''Prison Break'', and film ...

as Mike Franks, retired Senior Special Agent for NCIS and Gibbs' former boss * Paul Telfer as Corporal Damon Werth *

Kent Shocknek Kent Shocknek is an Emmy-award winning American television and film personality who branched into acting toward the end of a successful career as a TV newscaster. Because of the length of his journalism career, duration of his broadcasts, and bre ...

as Guy Ross, ZNN news anchor *

Aviva Baumann Aviva Baumann ( Farber; born ) is an American actress. She is known for playing Nicola in the comedy film ''Superbad'' (2007), young Shannon Gibbs on the military police procedural series ''NCIS'', and Mandy on the sitcom '' Party Down''. Early ...

as young

, Gibbs' deceased wife *

Ralph Waite Ralph Waite (June 22, 1928 – February 13, 2014) was an American actor, best known for his lead role as John Walton Sr. on ''The Waltons'' (1972–1981), which he occasionally directed. He later had recurring roles as two other heroic fathers ...

as Jackson Gibbs, Gibbs' father *

Paula Newsome Paula Newsome is an American actress. She starred in a number of television series, most notable the ABC police drama '' Women's Murder Club'' (2007–08), and had recurring roles on ''NYPD Blue'', ''NCIS'', '' Barry'', and ''Chicago Med''. She is ...

as Jackie Vance, Leon Vance's wife *

Omid Abtahi Omid Abtahi (; born July 12, 1979) is an Iranian-born American actor. He is best known for his roles as Salim, in the Starz Original ''American Gods'', Penn Pershing in ''The Mandalorian'', Saleem Ulman in '' NCIS'', and Homes in the fourth insta ...

as Saleem Ulman, NCIS target *

Robert Wagner Robert John Wagner Jr. (born February 10, 1930) is an American actor. He is known for starring in the television shows ''It Takes a Thief (1968 TV series), It Takes a Thief'' (1968–1970), ''Switch (American TV series), Switch'' (1975–1978), ...

as Anthony DiNozzo, Sr., Tony's father * Michelle Pierce 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 Diane Neal (born November 17, 1976) is an American actress. She is best known for portraying New York Assistant District Attorney Casey Novak in the television series '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' from 2003 to 2012. She is also known for ...

Abigail Borin ''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 United States Navy, U.S. Na ...

, CGIS Special Agent in Charge * T. J. Ramini as Malachi Ben-Gidon, Mossad Agent *

Marco Sanchez Marco Sanchez is an American actor, producer, and writer. Filmography Film Television References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sanchez, Marco 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors American ma ...

as Alejandro Rivera, official in the Mexican Justice Department *

Jacqueline Obradors Jacqueline 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 ''Unstoppable'' ...

as Paloma Reynosa, leader of a Mexican drug cartel *

Meredith Eaton Meredith Hope Eaton Gordon (sometimes credited as Meredith Eaton-Gilden; born August 26, 1974) is an American actress. She is tall, and refers to herself as a "short-stature actress". She is known for portraying the attorney Emily Resnick on t ...

as Carol Wilson, immunologist and friend of Abby Sciuto *

Rena Sofer Rena Sherel Sofer (born December 2, 1968) is an American actress, known for her appearances in daytime television, episodic guest appearances, and made-for-television movies. In 1995, Sofer received a Daytime Emmy Award for her portrayal of Lois ...

as Margaret Allison Hart, Attorney *

Todd Lowe Todd Lowe (born May 10, 1977) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Terry Bellefleur, a PTSD-suffering Iraq War veteran who works as a short order cook at Merlotte's Bar & Grill on HBO's '' True Blood'' and as Zack Van Gerbig ...

as Chad Dunham, NCIS Special Agent

Episodes

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