airdate: May 15, 2012
written by: Gary Glasberg
directed by: Tony Wharmby

• Tony isn't really interested in learning whether the Director wears boxers or briefs.
  
  
• "So, how much do you like my mom? On a scale of 1 to 10. You can round up if you wish."
  
  
• "This is an assault, Ziva, on everything that's good in the world." "Abby, everyone is upset about what Harper Dearing has done." "Oh, I wasn't talking about that."
  
  
• Tony's dream: "I'll retire to a simple tropical island with simple topless women fanning me with simple banana leaves until the day I die."
  
  
• "Hey, Leon, if it makes you feel any better, I wouldn't take a bullet for you."
  
  
• Tony's regifting of a movie. "It's not regifting if you've already watched it on NetFlix."
  
  
• Tony and Ziva trying to convince themselves that they don't really want to go to Palmer's wedding. They fail.
  

• Gibbs and Parker Ryan meet for the first time.
• Dr. Ryan fears her ex-husband, Liam Dunham, so much that she runs away taking Parker and won't even tell Gibbs where she's going into hiding.
• Ducky professes a fatherly love for Palmer.
• Palmer wants to sing "Wind Beneath My Wings" to Breena at their wedding.
• Ziva hinted at elopement to Tony, then blushed when he looked at her in surprise.
• Palmer asked Breena to bring their ceremony time forward so that he could rejoin the team.
• A bomb explodes outside the NCIS building. Everyone on Gibbs' team is endangered by the explosion. More than one person dies, although we don't know who.
• Jonathan Cole perhaps redeems himself in death trying to disarm the bomb.
  
• When he learns about the explosion and deaths, Ducky has a heart attack. When we last see him, he's lying unconscious on a deserted beach.
  

• A ketubah is the wedding contract made between bride and groom. It is sometimes decorated and displayed as a work of art.
  
• Richard Schiff and Sheila Kelley playing Harper Dearing and his ex-wife, respectively, are married in real life.
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• 10.01 Extreme Prejudice Harper Dearing’s latest act of terrorism ripped through NCIS headquarters in last season’s cliffhanger finale, sparking a cross-agency manhunt for the criminal mastermind.

• Sheila Kelley (Victoria Dearing)
  
• Daniel Polo (Parker Ryan)
  
• Cassius Willis (NCIS Special Agent Russell Wallace)
• Debbie Jaffee (Waitress).

• Brian Dietzen (Jimmy Palmer)
  
• Jamie Lee Curtis (Samantha Ryan)
  
• Scott Wolf (Jonathan Cole)
  
• Richard Schiff (Harper Dearing)
  
• Michelle Pierce (Breena Slater)

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• Contempt (1963)
  
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