Tribes (episode)

Tribes is the eleventh episode of NCIS Season 5 and the 105th episode of the NCIS series.
==Synopsis==
The team investigate when the body of a Muslim Marine is discovered near a mosque that the FBI suspect is guilty of terrorist recruitment. Examinations soon reveal that the victim was shot and then poisoned. However, the investigation threatens to grind to a complete halt when the victim's father begs Ducky not to perform an autopsy due to the fact that if Ducky does, then the victim himself will never find any peace in Heaven. Further investigation leads the team to a terrorist who is known as the Recruiter who may be responsible for the Marine's death.
==Prologue==
In a mosque, various Muslims are engaged in prayer while Abdul Bakr looks deeply conflicted.
The leader of the prayers then heads to a podium and remarks that Allah, in his wisdom and greatness has given us each a gift, a gift they must share with others, even if they do wish to accept it.
In the crowd, Bakr is restless.
The leader then remarks that it is their obligation to share Islam with nonbelievers so that they may save them from themselves.
Bakr looks back and forth, obviously paranoid over something.
In the crowd, Bakr then rubs his eyes.
A while later, everyone exits the mosque although some are hanging around, talking to each other and as Bakr heads off, he glances back and forth.
In a street, Bakr looks back and sees someone who's wearing a hood following him.
This has Bakr increasingly agitated.
Sometime later, Bakr turns into an alleyway and hides against a dustbin but he collapses to the ground, revealing himself.
The hooded figure arrives in, standing in front of Bakr.
Bakr draws his gun and attempts to fire, only for the poison that has been flowing through him to take control, causing Bakr to drop the gun to the ground.
With Bakr dead, the hooded figure grabs the gun and shoots Bakr in the neck before removing Bakr's ring, watch and wallet while also leaving the gun behind.
It then cuts to a close-up of the chains around Bakr's neck, revealing that they are dog tags and that Bakr is in fact a Marine.
==Act One==
NCIS Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo arrives in for work, even greeting a female passer-by before he heads to his desk.
As he does so, throwing his coat and backpack over to where his desk is, he spots his partner, NCIS/Mossad Liaison Officer Ziva David watching something on her computer which prompts him to call Ziva's name although Ziva shushes him.
==Act Two==
==Act Three==
==Act Four==
==Act Five==
==Major Events==
*Brent Langer, an Agent with the FBI, is introduced for the first time.
*It's revealed that Abby likes to give her lab the nickname "Labby".
== Trivia ==
* In Bethesda, Ziva states she used to spend her summers in Haifa, as Abdul Bakr's father saying he and his family had been there. Haifa is a big city in northern Israel, being famous for its cosmopolitanism and mixed neighborhoods containing Christians, Muslims and Jews.
==Cast==
===Series Regulars===
Name 	Portrayed by 	Role
Leroy Jethro Gibbs 	Mark Harmon 	NCIS Special Agent in charge of the NCIS Major Case Response Team.
Anthony DiNozzo Junior	Michael Weatherly 	Senior Special Agent and second-in-command of the NCIS Major Case Response Team.
Ziva David 	Cote de Pablo 	Mossad Liaison to NCIS and also a member of the NCIS Major Case Response Team.
Timothy McGee 	Sean Murray (actor)	NCIS Junior Special Agent and a member of the NCIS Major Case Response Team.
Abigail Sciuto 	Pauley Perrette 	Forensic Specialist, NCIS.
Jennifer Shepard 	Lauren Holly 	Director of NCIS.
Donald Mallard 	David McCallum 	Chief Medical Examiner, NCIS.
===Recurring Cast===
Name 	Portrayed by 	Role
James Palmer	Brian Dietzen	Ducky's assistant.
===Guest Cast===
Name 	Portrayed by 	Role
Brent Langer 	Jonathan LaPaglia 	An FBI agent who was originally a member of Gibbs's own team.
Khalid Mohammed Bakr	Shaun Toub 	Abdul Bakr's father.
Abdul Bakr 	Walid Amini 	The main murder victim.
Ryan Sikes 	James Parks (actor)	A man who appears in the episode.
Jim Mills 	David Haydn-Jones 	A man who appears in the episode.
Donna Dunlap 	Jennifer Hetrick 	A woman who appears in the episode.
Sunni Man 	Fred Toma 	A man who appears in the episode.
Stevedore 	Maria Zambrana 	A woman who appears in the episode. Uncredited role.
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♦ Bury Your Dead (episode) ♦ Family (episode) ♦ Ex-File (episode) ♦ Identity Crisis (episode) ♦ Leap of Faith (episode) ♦ Chimera (episode) ♦ Requiem (episode) ♦ Designated Target (episode) ♦ Lost and Found (episode) ♦ Corporal Punishment (episode) ♦ Tribes (episode) ♦ Stakeout (episode) ♦ Dog Tags (episode) ♦ Internal Affairs (episode) ♦ In the Zone (episode) ♦ Recoil (episode) ♦ About Face (episode) ♦ Judgment Day Part 1 (episode) ♦ Judgment Day Part 2 (episode)
Category:NCIS Episodes
Category:NCIS Season 5 Episodes
Category:NCIS Episodes written by Reed Steiner
Category:NCIS Episodes directed by Colin Bucksey
Category:NCIS Episodes featuring James Palmer
Category:NCIS Episodes featuring Brent Langer