Nikki Jardine

Nikki Jardine is an NCIS intelligence analyst. She appears for the first time in season 5. 
She has a brother named Eric who is a Marine. He was badly injured in Bagdad many years ago and they were really close. 
==Biography==
===Pre-Series===
===NCIS Season 5===
She appears for the first time in Leap of Faith (episode). 
In In the Zone (episode) she volunteers to go to Bagdad, Iraq. Throughout the episode it becomes clear she did not only want to go to Iraq because it looks good on her resume, but also because she wants to see where her brother was badly injured and give back to the Iraqis that helped him. 
In her last scene, she has returned from Bagdad after solving the case with the team and she visits her brother in a facility. She tells him about the people she met there and talks to her brother who is revealed to be in a coma.
==Personality==
She is incredibly smart and seems very eager to do a good job. Jardine is also very ambitious and wants a career within the NCIS. In the episode where she travels to Iraq she shows courage and resourcefulness and helps the team solve the case. She appears to have germophobia and do not handshake or touching things that might not be clean. Her germophobia hinders her in her daily life as she is unable to shake peoples hands or touch door handles ect. if she is not covering her hands. She is described by DiNozzo as surprizingly messy for a germophobe. She is also caring and family-oriented and takes care of her comatose brother, who is in 24/7 hospital care, which explains her germophobia. She doesn't want to bring any germs to the hospital that could possibly infect her already weakened brother's state. You can see see this as she touches her brothers hands and other things throughout the hospital. 
==Physical Appearance==
She is young, african american and lean in build. She has dark hair, brown eyes and looks to be around medium height. 
Category:Americans in NCIS
Category:Recurring NCIS Characters