airdate: September 26, 2006
written by: Steven D. Binder, Christopher Silber
directed by: Dennis Smith

• Abby was in her lab with photos of Gibbs all over her monitors. She is so used to talking to Gibbs on the screens that when he answers her she just continues the conversation. Belatedly she realizes that he is standing behind her. She jumps up to greet him, hugging him close, turns off the Gibbs images on the monitors as she says they are not needed now that he is back, and asks, "that is your badge, right?." Gibbs says his return is only temporary.
• Gibbs telling McGee to gargle Caf-Pow "before the rest of us go snowblind."
  
• Abby and Agent Lee are gossiping about Gibbs. Lee expresses her opinion that Gibbs takes a "biblical" approach to things and that the agency is better off without him. Abby rebukes Lee and says "Gibbs is staying" and, without looking around, asks "Right Gibbs?" Gibbs enters. He doesn't confirm that he will stay. Disgusted, Abby restores the photos to the monitors, as if Gibbs has already left. There is some minor discussion of the case. Lee looks uncomfortable (how long was Gibbs standing there?) She finds out when Gibbs mentions that maybe the murderer is looking for something a little more "biblical".
• Fornell and Gibbs share juice boxes (rather than their "usual stuff").
  
• McGee's over bleached teeth (twinkle).

• In this episode Gibbs comes out of retirement especially for Fornell indicating he still cares for his "friends" and would do anything to save them also indicated in the previous episode "Shalom."
  
  
• Gibbs is able to handle remembering his past and not be as pained about it.
  
  
• Gibbs says "please" for the third time in recorded history.
  
  
• Gibbs is back at NCIS and agent Lee is back in the legal department.
  
  
• Abby gets mad when Lee says that the agency is better off without him.
  
  
• Ducky is reviewing with Palmer for his exams for his degree in forensic psychology to add the psychological autopsy to his arsenal
  
  
• Jenny was sneaky by putting Gibbs's retirement package with his unused leave time which had six days left before she has to file it.
  
  
• McGee figures out where money was and helps clear the petty officer and solves the case.

• The show opens with the song "Perfect Day" by Hoku. (Hoku Ho is the daughter of Don Ho.)
  
  
• They use live feed from the lab set to the monitor in the squad room while filming.
  
  
• At the end of the episode, when McGee is pointing out how Mickey Stokes (played by Hal Holbrook) has "hidden" the bank robbery money in plain sight with expensive antiques and collectibles, he points out a first edition of the book Huckleberry Finn, which is nod to Holbrook's award-winning portrayal of author Mark Twain in his one-man show Mark Twain Tonight.
  
  
• The name of the accomplice in the bank robbery, Russell Nash, is the same as Connor MacLeod's identity when we first meet the character in the original Highlander movie.
  
  
• The team's costuming is less formal with Tony in charge--evidenced by McGee's t-shirts rather than suits.

• ADD DISCUSSION THREAD
  
  
• ADD DISCUSSION THREAD

• 4.03 Singled Out An abandoned car is found full of blood, registered to a missing Navy lieutenant.

• Courtney Gains (Gary Silverstin)
• Harriet Marguilies (Older Woman)
• Janiece Jary (Woman)
• Sarah Spiegel (Young Woman)
• Paul Clausen (Young Man)
• Judyann Elder (Marn Mathers)
• Brandon Barash (Ex. Petty Officer Derrick Paulson)
• Wayne Pere (Stanley Springer)
• Hal Holbrook (Mickey Stokes)

• Joe Spano (FBI Agent T.C. Fornell)
• Brian Dietzen (Jimmy Palmer)
• Liza Lapira (NCIS Special Agent Michelle Lee)
• Payton Spencer (Emily Fornell)
• Mary Matilyn Mouser (Kelly Gibbs)

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