airdate: November 6, 2007
written by: Tony Wharmby
directed by: Shane Brennan

• The first scene after the credits, Abby nagging him like a little child nagging her Daddy for an ice cream.
  
  
• Ziva telling Tony that he only gazes at photos of women's body parts and Tony answering: "Since 1981 I have subscribed to National Geographic Magazine, some serious picture gazing right there!"
  
  
• Abby taking photos; "Gibbs!" Gibbs turns around with a frustrated/could care less kinda smile. But It's Abby, way say no to her?
  
  
• When Abby takes pictures of the team; DiNozzo looks like he's... in pain? Either way its hilarious!!
  
  
• When McGee told him there is a young woman waiting for him and Gibbs asked: "About?" McGee thought he was asking about her age.
  
  
• Abby tells Gibbs and Ducky to get out of her lab; "Sorry... this isn't my lab" Abby wasn't in her lab at the time.
  
  
• This is ground control to Major Tom.
  
  
• Tony's liberally alliterative linguistic license.
  
  
• Memory of funny moments: Gibbs flashbacks on kids laughing.
  
  
• Gibbs' first sip of Maddie's coffee and trying to swallow it.

• The Giblets know about Kelly: we knew that Ziva knew. And we assumed that once Director and Ducky knew, everyone in the team would know (Abby, Tony and McGee). We know that Fornell already knew (because he knew what buttons to press when his own daughter went missing in escaped and the ex-wives know from the legal papers for marriage and divorce about all prior marriages and divorces, to prevent bigamy).
  
  
• That Gibbs was a very private man and keeps his past close to his chest. The fact that Ducky didn't even know about his first wife shows that.
  
  
• Ducky knew all of 3 of Gibbs' ex-wives.
  
  
• So the secret was known but not discussed. We know that Gibbs was disconnected enough to not recall the name of his daughter's best friend yet knew the girl's father: so that caused the girl to doubt her own status as best friend. But she has been loyal to Kelly all the years and clearly does mourn the loss. We know that the move to Camp Pendleton was right before Gibbs' deployment to Iraq, so Gibbs was based in Washington and has had the house since he lived with Shannon.
  
  
• His house actually has memories of the wife/child and the garden was the time capsule burial ground. Gibbs reburying the time capsule means....well, what? That he is joining in with the time capsule idea/sharing the fun? Burying the past as he buries the capsule? (very literal allegory, if that is not too oxymoronic).
  
  
• Seeing how well Kelly's friend turned out reassures Gibbs somehow. Maddie lacks a dad and turns to Gibbs when she needs a hero. But she doesn't seem like recurring character material....
  
  
• Jen: jealous of the girl? Merely curious? Can read Gibbs like a book?
  
  
• Tony: defuses situations with idiotic behaviour which irritates but distracts them. Does not do it with Jen: is straight and serious with her. The Monty Python book of management styles must be Tony's guiding light? Tony has a love of punning and extraordinary words: "discombobulated" "perturbed". Ziva has bionic hearing: she can hear a fly buzzing over the sound of Johnny Cash lamenting.
  
  
• McGee just does not give up. Not at all. He keeps looking and thinking and thinking and thinking...and then Jen outsmarts them all: go Jen! Abby is a mess. She needs help. She falls apart at a hint of distress for Gibbs. She personifies his angst (well, it sounds good, doesn't it!) even in the face of his stoicism.
  
  
• Gibbs breaks his own rules. "Don't assume" is the big rule breakage in this episode.
  
  
• Of course it's a very sad and moving episode to see this human side of Gibbs so rawly exposed.

• TITLE NOTES: REQUIEM "Give rest O Lord to your handmaid who has fallen asleep"
  
  
• Our speculation as to requiem music is at the foot of this page: but the song for this episode (the requiem remembrance music) is "Hush little baby, don't say a word. Daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird" sung by Gibbs. It is the song that Kelly played for the piano competition: we heard the tape of her performance at the end of Ex-Files. It made Mann cry. But in this episode, Gibbs cheers up a bit.
  
  
• The original episode description was: "Gibbs helps out the best friend of his deceased daughter Kelly. She is stalked by a guy and Gibbs is the only one who she thinks can help her."
  
  
• Check out: NCIS Underwater Stunt - Requiem and see how this underwater scene was shot. Apparently it wasn't computer generated after all, but all the same very complicated and very hard work.
  
  
• Anne-Marie Johnson, known for her recurring role as "Congresswoman Bobbi Latham" on JAG. In JAG, she was (in 18 episodes!) never seen in a uniform, NCIS finally made it.
  
  
• Diamond Farnsworth, the stunt co-ordinator for NCIS and Mark Harmon's stunt double, has been nominated for a 2008 Emmy Award for his work on this episode.
  
  
• "All I Need" by Mat Kearney plays in the photo album scene at Maddie's house.
  
  
• On Maddies MySpace page we hear "The Kiss" from Karmina.
  
  
• Brenna Radding plays Gibbs daughter "Kelly" beginning with this 5th season.
  Before, "Kelly" was played by Mary Mouser.
  
  
• On the commentary on the DVD, Mark Harmon said that the scene when Tony went back down and Gibbs was still in the car, disturbed his mom a bit when she saw it.
  
  
• Nick Spano was on Even Stevens as Donny Stevens, now he plays an obsessive sergeant trying to get the smuggled money.

• ADD DISCUSSION THREAD
  
  
• ADD DISCUSSION THREAD

• 5.08 Designated Target
  

• Stelio Savante (Danny Coyle)
• Michael A. Sheppered (Mailman)
• Cameron Goodman (Maddie Tyler)
• Anne-Marie Johnson (Marine Col. Stacey Radcliffe)
• Mark Totty (Army Major Max Bourdais, Ret.)
• Nick Spano (Marine Sgt. Rudi Haas)

• Darby Stanchfield (Shannon Gibbs)
• Brenna Radding (Kelly Gibbs)

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