Adriana Gorgova (NCIS)

Adriana Gorgova (Elena Satine) is a villainess from "Defiance," episode 8.15 of NCIS (airdate February 15, 2011). She is a doctoral student and the daughter of Andor Gorgova, the Defense Minister of the (fictional) nation of Belgravia.
Andor was instrumental in negotiating a treaty with the United States government that would establish a U.S. forward base in Belgravia, but Adriana (who detested her father's politics) was set on preventing the treaty. In this she was partially influenced by her mentor, Professor Carl Fleming, who had Belgravian ancestry and masterminded an assassination attempt on Andor outside the U.S. Embassy in Belgravia. The attempt failed, but Andor placed Adriana under NCIS protection, much to her protests. She was guarded by Tony DiNozzo, Ziva David, and Timothy McGee; all the while, Adriana appeared to be smitten with McGee to the point where she would flirt with him. However, the flirting was part of Adriana's plan to stage her own kidnapping to delay (and even prevent) the signing of the treaty.
The scheming villainess lured McGee to the bathroom of her home under the pretense that one of the lights was broken, doing so after she phoned her co-conspirators to go through with the plan. Adriana was "abducted" while McGee was checking on the light, and Andor received a threat that she would be killed if the treaty was signed. During NCIS' investigation, DiNozzo revealed that the lights were fine, and he later found a cell phone in the toilet; the phone Adriana used to signal her co-conspirators.
The evidence revealed that the kidnapping was staged, but the plan went sideways when the second conspirator, Adriana's classmate Judd Stern, shot and killed Fleming, and changed the kidnappers' demands to a $10 million ransom. Adriana was later rescued from Stern, after which she confessed to her complicity in the plot, claiming that all she had wanted was to prevent the treaty from being signed, before Judd succumbed to greed. She also claimed to have had no idea, until Judd told her, that Professor Fleming had been behind the assassination attempt on her father. She was even more shaken when McGee coolly informed her that Professor Fleming was dead, having been killed by Judd.
Thanks to diplomatic immunity, Adriana could not be charged with any crime, but she was immediately deported back to Belgravia, accompanied by her father, just after the signing of the defense treaty. It is unknown how her father chose to deal with her.
== Trivia ==
* Elena Satine previously played Countess Andrenyi, one of several members of a murderous conspiracy, in the episode "Murder on the Orient Express" of Agatha Christie's Poirot, also starring Eileen Atkins and Jessica Chastain (the Rogue FBI Agent and Lucille Sharpe in Crimson Peak).
* Elena Satine later played evil femme fatale Lorelei on Marvel's Agents of SHIELD.
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