Blowback (episode)

Blowback is the fourteenth episode in NCIS Season 4 and the eighty-fourth episode of the entire NCIS series.
==Synopsis==
With information received from Mossad, NCIS successfully capture an international arms dealer and they soon discover that "ARES", a highly classified weapons system, will be sold to an important and mysterious arms dealer known as "La Grenouille". The team then realize that if they want to stop the deal from going ahead, they will need to send someone undercover.
==Prologue==
Eli Lisack emerges from a jeweler's shop and heads to grab a paper.
As he does that, the window of a black van unrolls and a camera lens is seen with Goliath himself being focused on.
The camera takes a few photographs of Goliath who looks up.
Unnerved by the feeling the people in the black van are watching him, Goliath heads off.
In the van, the driver gets the engine while the driver's partner produces a gun.
Goliath continues walking down the street just as the black van leaves its parking spot.
In an attempt to throw it off, Goliath slips behind a huge green gate and watches as it drives past. However, he starts running once the van's tires are heard screeching, suggesting that those inside have spotted him.
As the van reverses, Goliath makes a run for it with the van in hot pursuit.
Almost instantly, Goliath rushes down an alleyway, the van right behind him.
Once he gets to the gate, Goliath attempts to jump but he can't move or budge any further while behind him, the van comes to a screeching stop.
Suddenly, two people clad in dark clothing appear behind Goliath, both tugging at his legs and as Goliath is dragged back down while protesting, the two drag him to the van.
After they've handcuffed him, one places a tap over Goliath's mouth while the other places a bag over his head with Goliath begin dragged into the back of the van.
One returns to pick Goliath's dropped bag.
As they get into the van, the door slamming shut, Goliath is still protesting and is held down by one of the mysterious figures while another injects him, presumably with a sedative.
Once Goliath has been knocked out, they leave him there.
It then cuts to the main area of the van where the two figures head there and as they sit down in their respective seats, they then pull off their masks, revealing themselves to be none other than NCIS Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo Junior and his partner, NCIS/Mossad Liaison Officer, Ziva David.
==Act One==
==Act Two==
==Act Three==
==Act Four==
In the bullpen, McGee explains that the area they're heading to is Aeroport de Sherbrooke, south-eastern Quebec and that it's thirty miles across the border from New Hampshire which means that La Grenouille will be right in NCIS's backyard.
"Did I miss Quebec becoming the 51st state?", Gibbs asks.
"I'm not going to watch that bastard fly again, Jethro", Jenny states.
"Again?", Gibbs says before heading back to his desk.
==Major Events==
*Ducky goes undercover for the first time.
*Gibbs and the team eventually learn about the operation that Tony and Jenny have been working on: to track down arms dealer René Benoit aka La Grenouille/The Frog, an international arms dealer.
*During a talk with Gibbs in MTAC, Jenny reveals that she's been trying to bring "La Grenouille" down for ten years.
*It's revealed that in stressful situations, Ziva reverts to her Mossad training.
*The team learn about 'La Grenouille'.
*It's also revealed that Trent Kort is actually an agent for the C.I.A.
*Ziva sees a photograph of Tony's secret girlfriend, Jeanne Benoit.
==Trivia==
*In the scene where the team is trying to break Goliath, there is a moment when Goliath talks about Ares. Tony answers with Cancer, Gibbs with Virgo, and Ziva with Scorpio. These astrological signs are the same birth signs as the actors who play the parts (i.e. Michael Weatherly is a Cancer and Mark Harmon is a Virgo while Cote de Pablo is a Scorpio).
*Armand Assante is credited as a Special Guest Star.
*In the Region 2 DVD, after the foof of McGee calling for medical attention, the next foof of Jenny standing in the squad-room is missing.
*NCIS threatens to take Lisack to Zaire but this may be a show research blooper as the has not been called Zaire since 1997.
==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.
Donald Mallard 	David McCallum 	NCIS's Chief Medical Examiner.
===Recurring Cast===
Name 	Portrayed by 	Notes
Cynthia Summer	Stephanie Mello 	Jenny's secretary.
Trent Kort 	David Dayan Fisher	An agent with the CIA.
Martin Quinn 	Corey Stoll 	An arms dealer.
Regine Smidt 	Sandra Hess 	An arms dealer.
René Benoit 	Armand Assante 	An international arms dealer originally from France.
===Guest Cast===
Name 	Portrayed by 	Notes
Eli Lisack 	Assaf Cohen 	An Israeli-born arms dealer.
Nick Hurley 	Jim Parrack 	A man who appears in the episode.
Max Phillips 	David Batiste 	Hurley's friend.
Charles Harrow	Fred Tate 	A retired weapons dealer responsible for designing ARES, a weapons system.
Rose O'Leary 	Serena Scott Thomas	An Northern Irish arms dealer known as "Black Rose". Uncredited role.
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