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== F-J ==
* [[Fair Cop]]: [[Your Mileage May Vary|Arguably]] the entire main cast. Sean Murray as Agent McGee would seem to be the only one to avert this, but then he lost a good amount of weight entering Season 7, and now we can pretty much include the whole crew.
* [[False-Flag Operation]]: The whole point in the end of "Devil's Triangle".▼
* [[Family Relationship Switcheroo]]: At the end of one Season 6 episode, a young Marine mentions that his mother took care of Gibbs when he was wounded on a mission in her country. {{spoiler|Gibbs tells the Marine that his mother was already pregnant when they met. Seconds later, in Vance's office, Vance asks Gibbs if Gibbs told the young man that his mission had been to kill his father.}}
* [[Fan Service]]: Abby, mostly. At times, Director Shepard, especially after wardrobe started putting her in tight skirts and [[Sweater Girl|sweaters]]. And let us not forget [http://www.celebrity-pictures.ca/Celebrities/Cote-De-Pablo/Cote-De-Pablo-1221371.jpg Ziva in the season 6 opener]. And there's also {{spoiler|the pic of Kate in the wet T-shirt contest}}, plus numerous butt shots from [[Male Gaze|Tony's POV]].
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*** [[Team Dad]]: Gibbs
** In the first two seasons, Kate was [[The Lancer]] and Tony was [[The Big Guy]]. Ducky and Palmer are [[The Medic]] and The [[Tagalong Kid]] respectively for both arrangements.
▲* [[False-Flag Operation]]: The whole point in the end of "Devil's Triangle".
* [[Fridge Horror]]: Of the in-universe type. The team finds the corpse of a cannibal serial killer (identified due to the fact that he still had a victim's toe in his stomach) where he fell into an abandoned chimney. Fornell had been chasing this guy for years, but eventually they realize his wife was the killer, and hadn't stopped at her husband's death.▼
{{quote|'''Fornell:''' Just think...if he hadn't fallen down that chimney, she would have just kept killing for who knows how long.▼
'''Gibbs:''' I'll do you one better.▼
'''Fornell:''' ''(chuckles)'' I doubt it.▼
'''Gibbs:''' {{spoiler|How did the toe get in his stomach?}} }}▼
* [[Foreshadowing]]: This is actually a standard feature of the show. The two-second black & white sequence at the beginning of each segment is the last image you will see before the ''next'' commercial break. So if you see a dead body, or Abby looking frightened, or a car crashing, then you know that you will see events leading up to that situation.
** Some specific instances: The fourth season's slow leadup to the finale/premiere. Also, as early as season one, {{spoiler|Gibbs had a vision of Kate being shot by Ari. Cue the season two finale...}}
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** Also, the season 3 episode Frame Up where Tony was pointed out as the killer through the evidence collected, no matter what Abby did. {{spoiler|She did clear Tony in the end, it turned out to be her lab partner Chip, who wanted revenge on Tony for costing him his job.}}
* [[Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind]]: Abby.
▲* [[Fridge Horror]]: Of the in-universe type. The team finds the corpse of a cannibal serial killer (identified due to the fact that he still had a victim's toe in his stomach) where he fell into an abandoned chimney. Fornell had been chasing this guy for years, but eventually they realize his wife was the killer, and hadn't stopped at her husband's death.
▲{{quote|'''Fornell:''' Just think...if he hadn't fallen down that chimney, she would have just kept killing for who knows how long.
▲'''Gibbs:''' I'll do you one better.
▲'''Fornell:''' ''(chuckles)'' I doubt it.
▲'''Gibbs:''' {{spoiler|How did the toe get in his stomach?}} }}
* [[Funny Background Event]]: In [[Milestone Celebration|Life Before His Eyes]], if you look at the foreground carefully, you can see {{spoiler|Ari and Leon Vance are playing chess.}}
* [[Gay Aesop]]:S8 Ep12, "Recruited"
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'''Tony''': (''checks his copy with the inside facing away from the camera'') I always thought that was an urban legend. }}
* [[Hearing Voices]]: Subverted in one episode. A woman was diagnosed with schizophrenia after she said was hearing voices. The reveal? {{spoiler|She was being assaulted via a remote audio transmitter so that she would be declared insane}}.
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Eli David. Though not a [[Complete Monster]] he has crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] a number of times. And it is obvious that he does so because of his determination to protect his people against vicious enemies.▼
* [[Her Codename Was Mary Sue]]: Averted in-universe. McGee doesn't make himself the big hero of his books...he does that for his Gibbs [[Captain Ersatz]].
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Gibbs has a history of marrying red-heads, or having liaisons with them on undercover missions in Paris, or getting picked up by them on his way home from work...[[You Know What I Mean|you get the idea]].
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** Gibbs and Ducky
** Gibbs and Fornell. They also share a common ex-wife.
▲* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Eli David. Though not a [[Complete Monster]] he has crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] a number of times. And it is obvious that he does so because of his determination to protect his people against vicious enemies.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: McGee's writing career and, far more importantly, Tony's growing maturity. Unfortunately, Tony seems to have been getting more and more [[Flanderization|Flanderized]] and less mature in the most recent seasons, although this may just be [[Obfuscating Stupidity]].
* Hollywood Atlas: In series premiere "Yankee White" The Wichita County Coroner shows up to fight for the body. Wichita County, KS is in the far western part of the state. The city of Wichita is in Sedgwick County. This was most likely done so as not to confuse those who don't live in "Flyover Land"
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* [[Ignorance Is Bliss]]
* [[I Know Mortal Kombat]]: Justified in S7 Ep09, "Child's Play", which focuses on child prodigies using video games, one of which is ''[[Call of Duty]] [[Modern Warfare]] 2'', in which they compare the situations in the game to real life military situations and analyze them.
* [[I Never Said It Was Poison]]:▼
** The killer mentions the man who (supposedly) shot the lieutenant will get away. "How did you know she was shot?"▼
** S7 Ep07, "Endgame", has Amanda, McGee's love interest for that episode, coming to visit him at work. The next morning McGee reveals to her that {{spoiler|he never told her where he works}}. It turns out {{spoiler|she was hired to kill the North Korean assassin the team is trying to catch}}.▼
* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: The rest of the team with Ducky (in his 70s) and Gibbs (in his 50s). In early seasons Ducky and Abby even indulged in occasional intergenerational flirtation, while Gibbs and Abby still do.▼
* [[Impaled Palm]]: Ducky suffers this when he's attacked with a knife at a crime scene.
* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: Justified in "Yankee White", since the guy in question is trying to fire an MP5 submachine gun on full auto one-handed while raising it from his side. He misses Gibbs by a foot and change.
* [[Implausible Synchrony]]: The Cyber Vid Character gives the time of his victims' deaths and then broadcasts the murder over the internet. One example especially strains plausibility. He lists the time of death as five minutes to midnight. Two clocks were shown when the victim died, and they both showed the precise time, despite the fact that the poison that killed him was administered hours ago. The in-episode explanation makes it sound plausible.
* [[Improbable Age]]: Ziva David is less Improbable Age and more ''Impossible'' Age. She joins the show in her early twenties, supposedly after she's graduated high school, served her two years in the IDF, attended college, applied for Mossad, become immediately tapped for inclusion into an elite and highly competitive special operations unit with a training period of several years, and still have enough time to become "an experienced agent" with multiple missions under her belt. And this is at a age the youngest CIA intelligence officers would be ''beginning training''. (It's worth pointing out, however, that she is the daughter of the Director of Mossad, and it is heavily implied that she was all but raised from the cradle to be a Mossad operative.)▼
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: In "Jetlag":
{{quote|'''Ziva''': "I once killed a man with a credit card."}}
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** Later in that episode aboard the plane, the air marshall is found dead in the lavatory, stabbed in the neck with a knitting needle taken from one of the sleeping passengers. And then the assassin {{spoiler|(who is actually the stewardess) tries to kill her target by giving her a pillow covered with peanut dust, trying to trigger fatal anaphylaxis from her peanut allergy.}}
** Ziva has also threatened that she can kill Tony eighteen different ways with a paper clip. Safety recommends that she be believed - after all, the bullpen's probably got plenty of paper clips lying around.
▲* [[I Never Said It Was Poison]]:
▲* [[Improbable Age]]: Ziva David is less Improbable Age and more ''Impossible'' Age. She joins the show in her early twenties, supposedly after she's graduated high school, served her two years in the IDF, attended college, applied for Mossad, become immediately tapped for inclusion into an elite and highly competitive special operations unit with a training period of several years, and still have enough time to become "an experienced agent" with multiple missions under her belt. And this is at a age the youngest CIA intelligence officers would be ''beginning training''. (It's worth pointing out, however, that she is the daughter of the Director of Mossad, and it is heavily implied that she was all but raised from the cradle to be a Mossad operative.)
▲** The killer mentions the man who (supposedly) shot the lieutenant will get away. "How did you know she was shot?"
▲** S7 Ep07, "Endgame", has Amanda, McGee's love interest for that episode, coming to visit him at work. The next morning McGee reveals to her that {{spoiler|he never told her where he works}}. It turns out {{spoiler|she was hired to kill the North Korean assassin the team is trying to catch}}.
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* [[Innocent Innuendo]]: Numerous instances...along with the not-so-innocent kind.
▲* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: The rest of the team with Ducky (in his 70s) and Gibbs (in his 50s). In early seasons Ducky and Abby even indulged in occasional intergenerational flirtation, while Gibbs and Abby still do.
* [[Internal Affairs]]: [[Perspective Flip|Perspective Flipped]], as NCIS often takes the role of internal affairs towards the suspects-of-the-week. They are fully aware of how this makes them look to those being investigated.
* [[Intimate Healing]]: Played with. Abby is very fond of hugs. Also, in the first "Hiatus" episode, after Abby blows up at Ziva and each slaps the other a coupla times, Tony disciplines them in the office area:
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'''Tony''': OOF! Now we feel better. }}
* [[Iron Lady]]: Director Shepherd
* [[It Will Never Catch On]]: Joked about in S7 Ep11, "Ignition."▼
{{quote|'''Ziva''': There's nothing good on the internet anymore.▼
'''McGee''': [[Sarcasm Mode|Yeah, I think that internet thing has just about run its course]]. }}▼
* [[It's Personal]]:
** Even if a case doesn't involve anyone the main cast knows personally, Gibbs takes his ties to the military very seriously. His {{spoiler|hunting down the man who murdered his family}} goes without saying.
** Amusingly, Gibbs' Rule Number 10 is: Never get personally involved in a case. He admits he has trouble with that one.
** Jenny Shepard's {{spoiler|possibly unwarranted}} hunt for René Benoît is this, since {{spoiler|she believes Benoît killed her father.}}
▲* [[It Will Never Catch On]]: Joked about in S7 Ep11, "Ignition."
▲{{quote|'''Ziva''': There's nothing good on the internet anymore.
▲'''McGee''': [[Sarcasm Mode|Yeah, I think that internet thing has just about run its course]]. }}
* [[Jack the Ripoff]]
* [[Jerk Jock]]: Though not in high school, Tony, especially in early McGee episodes. Incidentally, his major was Phys. Ed.
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