airdate: January 15, 2008
written by: Reed Steiner
directed by: Colin Bucksey

• Ziva trading movie lines and titles with Tony.
  
  
• McGee's big coffee mug, which Tony calls "Seussical"
  
  
• SA Langer gets fined for using $3 words.
  
  
• Ziva checking out Brent Langer's butt.
  
  
• "Get it? Got it. Good.” exchange from the 1956 Danny Kaye film, The Court Jester.
  
  
• Tony rambling about Patton when Gibbs says, "patterns"

• FBI special agent Brent Langer. Old chum of Jethro Gibbs. A former NCIS agent himself, he seems to have made quite an impression on one Ziva David. And made Tony jealous.
  
  
• Ziva likes Muslims, growing up in Israel among them. Her best friend was an Arab Muslim, who was killed when she was 12 by an Israeli missile strike.
  
  
• Ducky shows his sensitive side when he refused to perform an autopsy on the Muslim Marine because the case brought back memories of a mass grave in Bosnia during the Bosnian civil war in '93. Ducky did 44 autopsies in five days, mostly children under 12; who were all Muslim; The parents begged him on their knees not to do autopsies on their children, but he had no choice.

• This was the last episode completed before the writers strike halted production on this and many other shows.
  
  
• We learn that the boat Gibbs is working on in his basement is his third.
  
  
• We know Jonathan LaPaglia from 66 episodes of 'Seven Days' and again 66 episodes of 'The District'. Pauley Perrette was working with Jonathan's brother Anthony LaPaglia and played "Gwen" in 10 episodes of 'Murder One' as his assistant. There is another co-star from Jonathan LaPaglia in 'Seven Days': Don Franklin. He plays the "FBI Agent Ron Sacks".

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• 5.12 Stakeout
  

• Shaun Toub (Khalid Mohammed Bakr)
• Jonathan LaPaglia (FBI Special Agent Brent Langer)
• David Haydn-Jones (Marine Captain Jim Mills)
• James Parks (Brian Sykes)
• Jennifer Hetrick (Dr. Donna Dunlap)

• Brian Dietzen (Jimmy Palmer)

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• Double Indemnity
  
• Full Metal Jacket
  
• A Few Good Men
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Three Days of the Condor
• Bullets Over Broadway
• Paycheck
• Patton