Hail & Farewell (episode)

Hail & Farewell is the 20th episode of NCIS Season 16 and the 374th episode of the entire NCIS series.
==Synopsis==
NCIS investigates the death of a Marine Major who was thought to have died in the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon when human remains are discovered at a construction site with Gibbs vowing to solve the case due to his own personal history with the victim.
==Prologue==
==Act One==
==Act Two==
==Act Three==
==Act Four==
==Act Five==
==Major Events==
*Gibbs is revealed to have been engaged to Major Wallace at some point before her death, an engagement he ultimately broke off due to feeling it was better off for her if she didn't marry him in the long run.
**Gibbs is also revealed to have felt guilty since he did not answer the phone in what was ultimately her last call to him.
*McGee invokes Rule 10 and removes Gibbs from the case briefly when his relationship becomes a focus of the case.
==Trivia==
*This episode shares its title with two episodes of JAG, Hail and Farewell Part 1 which was the JAG Season 8 finale episode and Hail and Farewell Part 2 which was the JAG Season 9 premiere episode.
*The episode appears to take major aspects from two cases:
** The disappearance of Sneha Anne Philip, a doctor who went missing on 9/11 and was presumed to have been a victim of the World Trade Center collapse. Despite numerous investigations, she or her remains have never been found, and an exact explanation of her disappearance and possible death have never been confirmed.
** The murder of Chandra Levy, a US government intern who went missing for two years and was later found reduced to a skeleton in a park forest in 2003. Her murder has never been officially solved, despite her revealed affair with a Democratic politician and the conviction of a now deported suspect.
==Cast==
===Series Regulars===
Name 	Portrayed by 	Role
Leroy Jethro Gibbs	Mark Harmon 	Special Agent in charge of the NCIS Major Case Response Team.
Timothy McGee 	Sean Murray 	Senior Special Agent and second-in-command of the NCIS Major Case Response Team.
Nicholas Torres 	Wilmer Valderrama	Special Agent for the NCIS Major Case Response Team.
Eleanor Bishop 	Emily Wickersham 	Special Agent for the NCIS Major Case Response Team.
Jacqueline Sloane 	Maria Bello 	NCIS Forensic Psychologist.
James Palmer 	Brian Dietzen 	Medical Examiner for the Major Case Response Team.
Kasie Hines 	Diona Reasonover 	NCIS Forensic Specialist; Abby's replacement.
Leon Vance 	Rocky Carroll 	Director of NCIS. Despite being credited, Carroll doesn't appear in this episode.
Donald Mallard 	David McCallum 	NCIS Historian. Despite being credited, McCallum doesn't appear in this episode.
===Guest Cast===
Name 	Portrayed by 	Role
James Wallace 	Garrett M. Brown 	Retired Marine General and victim's father.
Daniel Kent 	Doug Savant 	Marine Brigadier General.
Ellen Wallace 	Erin Cummings 	Marine Major and murder victim, supposedly killed in 9/11 and Gibbs's ex-fiancée.
Amy Tano 	Cassandra Creech 	
Franklin Morrison 	Andrew Bilgore 	
Omar Lewis 	J. Teddy Garces 	
Taylor Southard 	JJ Hawkins 	DOD Cyber Engineer.
Unnamed ZNN Newscaster	Danielle Demski 	ZNN Newscaster.
Construction Worker 	Alexander Aleynikov	Uncredited role.
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♦ Destiny's Child (episode) ♦ Love Thy Neighbor (episode) ♦ Boom (episode) ♦ Third Wheel (episode) ♦ Fragments (episode) ♦ Beneath The Surface (episode) ♦ A Thousand Words (episode) ♦ Friendly Fire (NCIS episode) ♦ Tailing Angie (episode) ♦ What Child is This? (episode) ♦ Toil and Trouble (episode) ♦ The Last Link (episode) ♦ She (episode) ♦ Once Upon a Tim (episode) ♦ Crossing The Line (episode) ♦ Bears and Cubs (episode) ♦ Silent Service (NCIS episode) ♦ Mona Lisa (episode) ♦ Perennial (episode) ♦ Hail & Farewell (episode) ♦ Judge, Jury... (episode) ♦ ...and Executioner (episode) ♦ Lost Time (episode) ♦ Daughters (episode)
Category:NCIS Episodes
Category:NCIS Season 16 Episodes
Category:NCIS Episodes written by Jennifer Corbett
Category:NCIS Episodes directed by Michael Zinberg