airdate: May 12, 2009
written by: Jesse Stern
directed by: Tony Wharmby

• Tony, Ziva and McGee's initial impressions and rundown of the crime scene at the SecNav's House.
  
• Tony's introduction of, "Doctor Donald 'Ducky' Mallard. The first, and only M.E. under the big top."
• Abby's rant at Tim about Jules Forest-Yates' "bug stomp"
  
• Abby's analysis of the poker game and McGee's confusion
• Ziva and McGee's "Up a Tree" conversation
  
• Ducky puts Fornell in a sleeper hold.
• Gibbs' amused reaction to Ducky's sleeper hold on Fornell.
• Tony's rant on taking orders from Fornell
• Abby vs Jules in Abbyville
• Fornell craves a burrito/equates Jules to one "What? I'm hungry."
• McGee's shock at the possibility of Gibbs and Fornell apologizing
• Gibbs "hosting" SecNav by blowing dust out of the jars before he pours drinks.
  
• Abby telling McGee that Jules was flirting with him and he denies it.
• Tony and Ziva using Gibbs' "conference room" to get information from Jules.

• We learn Gibbs was an only child.
• More clues from SecNav that there is something "hinky" about Director Vance.
• Director Vance could have been a marine (SecNAV tells Gibbs: "We do not hit our brothers")
• Ziva's apartment was used at one point by someone and Tony knows it was Rivkin.
• Tony fighting Rivkin and really getting it on with him.
• We are shown that SecNAV believes Gibbs, not Ziva, killed Ari.

• Tony can eat a bucket of chicken in one sitting
  
• There is something "hinky" with the liaison position created by former director - Jenny Shepard.
• We first met the Secretary of Navy (SecNav) in 6.08 Cloak
• The page that Dir Vance removed from his file: can anyone read it? (Approximate Text of the page here)
• When casing the security summit, Vance's car has a Virginia license plate, but McGee looked it up in the District of Columbia DMV system.

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• 6.25 Aliyah Ziva's homecoming to Israel (Aliyah in the episode title means immigration to Israel in Jewish) with Gibbs and the team is not a happy reunion with her father, the enigmatic and powerful head of Mossad. As tensions rise, Gibbs is forced to make a decision that sends shockwaves through NCIS.

• Joe Spano (FBI Agent T.C. Fornell)
• Merik Tadros (Michael Rivkin)
• Jude Ciccolella (Sec Nav. Phillip Davenport)

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