Jurisdiction (episode)

Jurisdiction is the eighteenth episode in NCIS Season 7 and the 156th episode of the entire NCIS series.
This episode also marks the debut appearance of recurring character, CGIS agent Abigail Borin.
==Synopsis==
The NCIS team investigate the death of a Navy diver with the investigation leading them to their counterparts with the Coast Guard Investigation Service with whom they share many common traits. However, the investigation takes a turn when it's discovered that the body in question is not that of the navy diver but someone else, leading the team into a case that seems to get more and more complicated at every turn.
==Prologue==
On a small beach in Virginia, a group of Marines run along it, chanting with Sergeant Davis Carter providing the singing as the group respond.
However, during the jog, Private Fricker spots something that has him breaking away form the group.
Carter tells Fricker to get back into the formation but Fricker doesn't reply.
This prompts Carter to tell the platoon to halt and he tells them "At ease".
As the rest of the group wait further orders, Carter then storms over to Fricker, telling Fricker what part of "fall in" doesn't Fricker understand?
Fricker tells Carter that they've got a problem.
Pissed, Carter tells Fricker to shut his suck.
Fricker glances at Carter with Carter yelling at Fricker not to answer him or even look at him with Carter demanding to know what Fricker's doing.
"Over there, Sergeant", Fricker replies.
He points over to the distance where there's a body lying in the sand.
Holding his right hand up, Carter then approaches the body while Fricker looks on from a distance.
It then shows that the bag has the name "Lt. Jensen" on it.
Carter just looks grim-faced.
It then cuts to a close-up of the body which is also wearing a wet-suit and carrying diving equipment before focusing on the main head which has its skeletal frame exposed, the flesh having been stripped away.
It then pans back, revealing an overhead shot of the entire beach as Carter looks at the beach with Fricker watching from a distance while the main group of Marines still stand there, awaiting orders.
==Act One==
==Act Two ==
==Act Three==
==Act Four==
==Act Five==
In the bullpen, Borin wonders if that the body in Autopsy isn't Lieutenant Jensen, then who's in Autopsy?
Gibbs remarks that's the first question with McGee wondering what the second question is to which Borin replies, "Where is Lieutenant Jensen?".
==Major Events==
*CGIS Special Agent Abigail Borin aka "Abby" is introduced for the first time.
==Trivia==
*When the NCIS team are on the beach examining the remains, a dolphin can clearly be seen surfacing in the background.
*The white star necklace that Abby is wearing is the same necklace that she wore in the episodes Stakeout (episode) and Truth or Consequences (episode).
*The theme of this episode, a team that resembles the members of the NCIS team, was also done in the episode Doppelgänger (episode).
*The set used for the Mavrey's house is the one that was used for Director Shepard's house.
*The song playing in Abby's lab when she becomes increasingly frustrated with failing to get into the victim's laptop is "Chaotic" by Collide. Interestingly, the same song was heard in the NCIS: Los Angeles episode "Random on Purpose" in the scene where Abby was kidnapped by a serial killer named the Phantom.
*This is also the second episode where the team are seen processing the remains of a victim on a beach, the first being in the NCIS Season 1 episode Eye Spy (episode).
==Cast==
===Series Regulars===
Name 	Portrayed by 	Role
Leroy Jethro Gibbs	Mark Harmon 	Special Agent in charge of the NCIS Major Case Response Team.
Anthony DiNozzo 	Michael Weatherly 	Senior Agent and second-in-command of the NCIS Major Case Response Team.
Ziva David 	Cote de Pablo 	NCIS Probationary Agent and also a member of the NCIS Major Case Response Team.
Timothy McGee 	Sean Murray (actor)	Junior Special Agent of the NCIS Major Case Response Team.
Abigail Sciuto 	Pauley Perrette 	Chief Forensic Specialist of the NCIS Major Case Response Team.
Leon Vance 	Rocky Carroll 	Director of NCIS.
Donald Mallard 	David McCallum 	Chief Medical Examiner of the NCIS Major Case Response Team.
===Recurring Cast===
Name 	Portrayed by 	Role
James Palmer	Brian Dietzen	Assistant Medical Examiner.
===Guest Cast===
Name 	Portrayed by 	Role
Abigail Borin 	Diane Neal 	Special Agent with CGIS.
Kyle Omagi 	Eddie Shin 	Borin's second-in-command.
Michael Jensen 	Brody Hutzler 	Lieutenant in the United States Navy.
Missy Dawkins 	Shanna Moakler 	Michael Jensen's girlfriend.
Andrea Mavrey 	Gabrielle Miller 	The grieving widow who was actually Lt. Michael Jensen's accomplice.
Hubble 	Larry Brandenburg	A man who appears in the episode.
Davis Carter 	Richard Tillman 	Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps.
Fricker 	Haran Jackson 	Private in the United States Marine Corps.
Victor Kalsa 	Aaron Lustig 	A Doctor and surgeon who performs the online surgeries for Dr. Mavrey.
Molly Choi 	Hong Chau 	FBI Lab Tech.
Nurse (Jurisdiction)	Pamela Shaddock 	A woman who appears in the episode. 
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♦ Truth or Consequences (episode) ♦ Reunion (episode) ♦ The Inside Man (episode) ♦ Good Cop, Bad Cop (episode) ♦ Code of Conduct (episode) ♦ Outlaws and In-Laws (episode) ♦ Endgame (episode) ♦ Power Down (episode) ♦ Child's Play (episode) ♦ Faith (episode) ♦ Ignition (episode) ♦ Flesh and Blood (episode) ♦ Jet Lag (episode) ♦ Masquerade (episode) ♦ Jack-Knife (episode) ♦ Mother's Day (episode) ♦ Double Identity (episode) ♦ Jurisdiction (episode) ♦ Guilty Pleasure (episode) ♦ Moonlighting (episode) ♦ Obsession (episode) ♦ Borderland (episode) ♦ Patriot Down (episode) ♦ Rule Fifty-One (episode)
Category:NCIS Episodes
Category:NCIS Season 7 Episodes
Category:NCIS Episodes written by Lee David Zlotoff
Category:NCIS Episodes directed by Terrence O'Hara
Category:NCIS Episodes featuring James Palmer
Category:NCIS Episodes featuring Abigail Borin