airdate: October 4, 2011
written by: Nicole Mirante-Matthews
directed by: Arvin Brown

• Penelope flirting with Tony, Gibbs and going out for cocktails with Ducky.
• Penelope regaling Tony and Ziva about McGee wearing her red pumps everywhere when he was a child.
  
• Gibbs telling Palmer that for the rest of his life he won't know what a woman wants.
  
• Tony calling McGee a little cross dresser.
  
  
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• Penelope Langston is McGee's paternal grandmother. (i.e. she's also Sarah McGee's Grandmother.)
• Penelope doesn't like being called Grandmother, she prefers her grandchildren to call her Penny instead.
• McGee's Grandfather was an Admiral just like his father was so we know that McGee and his sister come from a naval family. We also learn that McGee's Grandfather has passed away. Furthermore McGee has Daddy issues like Ziva, Tony, and Gibbs.
• Penelope is an activist. Now she works at a Botanical Garden. She also worked for the same super secret agency/group that Lt. Booth worked for before his death.
• The founder of the super secret agency/group was alive and had faked his death, he was the one who killed Lt. Booth, then went after Penelope.
• McGee's father hates birthdays.
  

• Tony's comment "For the hundred and eighty-eighth time" refers to the actual episode number of NCIS.
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• Char about 9.03 The Penelope Papers.
  
  
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• 9.04 Enemy on the Hill: The NCIS team searches for the person and motive behind a contract killer targeting a Navy Lieutenant Commander. Meanwhile, Abby uncovers new information about her family after undergoing tests for a kidney donation.

• Lily Tomlin (Penelope Langston)
  
• Sam McMurray (John Westfal)
  
• David Clennon (Max Ellswood)
  
• Hillary Tuck (Justine Booth)
  
• James Connor (Andrew Pike)
  
• Matthew Alan (Navy Lieutenant Paul Booth).

• Brian Dietzen (Jimmy Palmer)
  

• The Penelope Papers recap
  
  
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• The Great Santini
  
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