Airdate: March 1, 2011
Written by: Jesse Stern
Directed by: Michael Weatherly

• Tony introducing Barrett to Gibbs, "EJ, LJ; Gibbs. She's new. He's old."
  
• Abby and McGee talking about leather and tanning hides, then Ziva saying she and Tony were talking about tanning hides.
  
  
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• Special Agent Barrett was offered and took the job and team in Spain that Jenny offered Tony back in season 4 after Gibbs returned from what Jenny affectionately nicknamed his "Margarita Safari".
  
  
• Tony tells Ziva about the job that Jenny offered him and then Ziva revealing that she already knew about it.
  
  
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• This episode marks Michael Weatherly's directorial debut on NCIS. Michael is the first NCIS cast member to direct an episode.
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• 8.18 Out of the Frying Pan: Gibbs questions Vance's motives when he is asked to interrogate a teenage boy accused of killing his retired Marine father.

• Sarah Jane Morris (Special Agent Erica Jane "E.J." Barrett)
• Jobeth Williams (Leona Phelps)
• Enrique Castillo (Ruleo Medilla)
• K Callen (Grace Mullen)
• Scott Lowell (Terry Thomas)
• Leonard Earle Howze (Security Guard Wilson)
• Jimmy Jax Pinchak (Jason)
• Zoey Deutch (Lauren)
• Julie Wittner (Female Inmate)
• Chuck Ashworth (Corvette Guy)
  

• Brian Dietzen (Jimmy Palmer)
  

• NCIS Exclusive First Look: Trouble for 'Tiva'?
  
  
• Michael Weatherly Speaks on NCIS Directorial Debut
  
  
• First Look: NCIS' Michael Weatherly Gets His Shot
  
  
• NCIS Sneak Peek: Behind the Scenes with Michael Weatherly

• Michael Weatherly Talks About Directing NCIS and How a New Woman Will Revive Tony's Spirit
• Michael Weatherly's Episode Commentary Featurette.
  

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