Ravenous (episode)

Ravenous is the seventeenth episode in NCIS Season 3 and the sixty-third episode of the entire NCIS series.
==Synopsis==
NCIS is called in after a group of teenagers discover the half-eaten body of a Navy Petty Officer in a park but things take a turn when Ducky reveals that the victim died after being stabbed and that he was already dead. The team discover that the victim was with a woman who has also disappeared but the case descends into a nightmare when further investigation reveals that numerous deaths in the park which were all ruled accidental or natural might not be those after all which has Gibbs fearing the worst: a serial killer is on the loose in the park and they're using the deaths to cover up a much worse crime: murder.
==Prologue==
In Shenandoah National Park, Park Ranger Bobbi Hendricks is leading a group of young male teenagers through a forest.
One teenager, Jerry (Ravenous), voices his hope that they'll be at their destination within the next five minutes but Hendricks remarks that they've still got five miles to go much to the group's dismay.
Hendricks then calls the group over when she discovers a pile of fresh bear crap in the grass and Jerry volunteers to do the poking.
Hendricks soon gives him a stick and then tells the others what the bears have been eating as Jerry begins using the stick to dig into the bear scat.
Hendricks asks Jerry what the bear's been eating with Jerry telling her that it may have been people.
Sure enough, dangling from the stick is a pair of dog tags.
It then cuts to Hendricks who looks stunned at the discovery as the dog tags dangle in front of her.
==Act One==
==Act Two==
==Act Three==
==Act Four==
==Trivia==
*When Ziva gives Abby black roses, she says, "Yom Huledet Same'ach" which means "Happy Birthday" in Hebrew.
*Just before Abby opens Gibbs's birthday present when they are looking at evidence, Abby is holding a bag with gloves on. Then when Gibbs turns to leave, we see her hands without glove. When they are back to talking, we briefly see Abby's hand and she has the gloves back on in seconds. Then she puts her hands together with no gloves. Then suddenly, she puts finger up with gloves on and they stay on. There is no way she could change them in that amount of time.
*Todd Allen who plays Park Ranger/serial killer James Landis played the brother of Mark Harmon's character on the medical drama "Chicago Hope."
*The song playing the first time Ziva, Tony, and McGee enter Jackrabbit Slims is "Your Man" by Josh Turner while the song playing in Abby's lab after she calls Gibbs to her lab and ends up getting her present is "Evil Night Together" by Jill Tracy.
*When the team studies the list of people deceased in the Park, they state that only eight people died over the last seven years in Shenandoah Park from natural or accidental causes. This contradicts Season 2's fifteenth episode Caught on Tape in which a Marine Sergeant, William Moore, is assassinated in the Park.
*The episode appears to be based on the case of serial killer Gary Michael Hilton.
==Cast==
===Series Regulars===
Name 	Portrayed by 	Role
Leroy Jethro Gibbs 	Mark Harmon 	NCIS Special Agent in charge of the main NCIS Major Case Response Team.
Anthony DiNozzo Junior	Michael Weatherly 	The Senior Agent of the main NCIS Major Case Response Team and also the second-in-command.
Ziva David 	Cote de Pablo 	The Mossad Liaison Officer to NCIS.
Abigail Sciuto 	Pauley Perrette 	NCIS's Chief Forensic Scientist.
Timothy McGee 	Sean Murray (actor)	Junior Agent of the main NCIS Major Case Response Team.
Jennifer Shepard 	Lauren Holly 	NCIS Director. Despite being credited, Holly does not appear in this episode.
Donald Mallard 	David McCallum 	NCIS's Chief Medical Examiner.
===Recurring Cast===
Name 	Portrayed by 	Role
James Palmer	Brian Dietzen	Ducky's assistant.
===Guest Cast===
Name 	Portrayed by 	Role
James Landis 	Todd Allen 	A Park Ranger and also the serial killer.
Bobbi Hendricks 	Michelle Harrison (actress)	A Park Ranger.
Wesley Rowan 	Chris Payne Gilbert 	General manager and owner of Jackrabbit Slims, a national store in Shenandoah National Park.
Jason Edom 	Scott Anthony Leet 	A man originally thought to be the killer but who is later found innocent.
Jerry (Ravenous) 	Alex Frost 	A teenager who finds Reilly's dog tags in some bear poo.
Benjamin Reilly 	Tony Besson 	The main murder victim. Uncredited role.
Park Ranger (Ravenous) 	Phillip Whiteman 	A man who appears in the episode. Uncredited role.
Naval Officer (Ravenous)	Anne Lockhart 	Uncredited role.
Delinquent 	Spencer Andrews 	Uncredited role.
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Category:NCIS Episodes
Category:NCIS Season 3 Episodes
Category:NCIS Episodes written by Richard Arthur
Category:NCIS Episodes directed by Thomas J. Wright
Category:NCIS Episodes featuring James Palmer