airdate: April 22, 2003
written by: Donald P. Bellisario, Don McGill
directed by: Donald P. Bellisario

• Tony: "Rookie panics, empties a full magazine into the body."
• Gibbs: "You know what I think DiNozzo?"
• Tony: "Don't tell me it's a myth man 'cause I was there."
• Gibbs: "I think you were the rookie."
• Tony: You redecorating?
• Abby: I thought I'd brighten the place up a bit.
• Tony: You take these?
• Abby: Yeah, that's a cross section of what a 12 gauge did to an L3 to L5.
• Tony: Shotgun-shattered backbone?
• Abby: Yeah, the middle one there is a cross section of an icepick to a cerebellum.
• Tony: (grimaces, then looks at another picture) Duodenum?
• Abby: Yeah I like to call it Duodenum with a lye chaser. It's a sad end of a Drano drinker.
• Tony: You need to get out more, Abby.
• Abby: Is that an invite?

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• Lt. Lori Singer was played by David James Elliott's real life wife, Nancy Chambers.
• Pauley Perrette who plays lab technician Lily, in this episode, would later co-star on the NCIS series as Abby, the Forensic Specialist. This could be considered a renaming of the same character, or a new character played by the same actress.
• 3/31/09 - Pauley Perrette IS actually addressed and spoken about with the name Abby within the episode. She does not go by the name Lily.
• Ducky's first assistant was named James Roger.
• Ducky was said to be 60 years old.
• Gibbs tells Tommy that he once saw something this awful when he was his age. Tommy is said to be 10-12 years of age.
• Director Tom Morrow, was said to be a 54 year old Clint Eastwood look-a-like.
• Gibbs calls Director Morrow, Sir.
• Abby is written as a 26 year old technician.
  

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• Mark Harmon (Special Agent Leroy Gibbs)
• Michael Weatherly (Special Agent Tony Dinozzo)
• Robyn Lively (Vivian Blackadder)
• Pauley Perrette (Lab Technician)
• Alan Dale (NCIS Director)
• Tom Jay Jones (Special Agent Dobbs)
• Faran Tahir (Amad Bin Atwa)
• William Francis McGuire (Scout leader)
• David McCallum (Dr. Donald Mallard)
• Rory Thost (Tommy)
• Wiley Pickett (State Trooper)
• Kevin G. Schmidt (Billy)
• Nicholas Bellisario (Marcus)
• Cathleen Gallagher (Heather)
• Brad Hanson (Pilot)

• REGULAR JAG CAST:
  
• Catherine Bell (Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie)
• Karri Turner (Lt. Harriet Sims-Roberts)
• Patrick Labyorteaux (Lt. Commander Bud J. Roberts, Jr.)
• David James Elliott (Cmdr. Harmon "Harm" Rabb, Jr.)
• Scott Lawrence (Cmdr. Sturgis Turner)
• John M. Jackson (Rear Admiral Albert Jethro "AJ" Chegwidden)

• RECURRING JAG CAST:
  
• Randy Vasquez (Gunnery Sgt. Victor Galindez)
• Zoe McLellan (PO2 Jennifer Coates)
• Chuck Carrington (PO1 Tiner)
• Tamlyn Tomita (Lt. Cmdr. Manetti)
• Jade Carter (Sergei Zhukov)
• Nanci Chambers (Lt. Loren Singer)

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