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* [[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 seasonSeason 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]].
** One of the most blatant instances of potential fanservicefan service (Ziva in a fairly skimpy bikini) actually ended up being a half-subversion, as she's lying on her side reading a book and the audience never gets a good look... unless you count the screensaver McGee made from Tony's pictures of her.
** Kate as an adult version of a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD0NGf1YEk4 'Catholic Schoolgirl' and as a Dominatrix]. This was the lighter side of a very serious episode.
* [[Fatal Attractor]]: The entire cast. With relatively few exceptions, every date any of the characters go on will be with someone evil.
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* [[Fatal Family Photo]]: The ending of the episode "Rekindled" features a Marine out at sea on an amphibious carrier accidentiallyaccidentally dropping his cell phone through the grates, reassembling it to see his family photo, only to find flickering lights underneath the door to the electric room (strongly implied to be the arson electrical bomb trap from earlier) before he is knocked back in an explosion that's heavily implied to have sunk or at the very least severely damaged the ship.
* [[Feuding Families]]: The Reynosas vs Gibbs and his father and teammates.
* [[Film At Eleven]]: In one episode, Gibbs doesn't show up and the rest of the team suspects something happened to him (he lives alone and no one would know, after all). Tony, in his usual style, parodies the concept, complete with [[Lampshade Hanging|desk lamp shade]] and a coincidental ZNN news report in the background.
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* [[Five-Man Band]]: It depends on the episode.
** Configuration one:
*** [[The Hero]]: Gibbs.
*** [[The Lancer]]: Tony.
*** [[The Big Guy]]: Ziva.
*** [[The Smart Guy]]: McGee.
*** [[The Chick]]: Abby.
** Configuration two:
*** [[The Hero]]: Tony.
*** [[The Lancer]]: McGee.
*** [[The Big Guy]]: Ziva.
*** [[The Smart Guy]]: Abby.
*** [[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.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: This is actually a standard feature of the show. The two-second black &and 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 leaduplead up to the finale/premiere. Also, as early as seasonSeason oneOne, {{spoiler|Gibbs had a vision of Kate being shot by Ari. Cue the seasonSeason twoTwo finale...}}
** The seasonSeason twoTwo finale is crammed full of these.
* [[Frame-Up]]: In the seasonSeason 9 premiere "Nature of the Beast,", Tony DiNozzo ended up framed for killing a fellow NCIS agent, Cade, whom he was also intending to bring into custody for stealing equipment from the watchers. Cade also implies in what ultimately turned out to be his last moments that he was actually framed for stealing the microchips and selling them onto the black market. {{spoiler|It was later revealed that a fake FBI agent as well as the Director of Special Operations, both of whom were in Watcher 8 were the ones who were actually doing this action.}}.
** Also, the seasonSeason 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,Season 8 Episode 12 "Recruited".
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Tony. [[Wrong Genre Savvy|Pity it's sometimes the wrong one]].
** There's also Harper Dearing from late Season 9, and its for this reason that he {{spoiler|ends up succeeding at the end of the season.}}.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Tony and Ziva are investigating and decide to try the back door of a house. Ziva advises him to be prepared, he suggests shoving her through the cat-flap -- crouching down by it at the exact moment [[Cat Scare|a cat rushes out]]. Tony starts backwards and draws his firearm, cueing the line "Don't tell me you're afraid of a little pussy... cat, Tony!"
** Ziva also gave us this nice one: "Does a bear sit in the woods?"
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]:
** Abby, occasionally.
** Child genius Angela in S7Season Ep09,7 Episode 9 "Child's Play.".
* [[Give Away the Bride]]: When {{spoiler|Ziva}} is considering marrying {{spoiler|Ray}}, everyone assumes Gibbs would walk her down the aisle. {{spoiler|It does ''not'' happen, and never will. Marrying Ray, that is, not Gibbs walking her down the aisle. Still holding out hope for the second bit.}}.
* [[The Glomp]]: Abby, usually to Tony and McGee (especially if they're injured, which seems to be a minor [[Running Gag]]).
* [[Glove Snap]]: Tony does this comically quite often.
* [[The Government]]: Interagency cooperation (and competition) comes up a ''lot''. And Benoît? {{spoiler|He was working with, or for, the CIA.}}.
* [[Grade School CEO]]: A bit character from one early episode runs a nightclub while still in high school.
* [[Grievous Harm with a Body]]: In episode "Singled Out", Ziva threatened a guy who grabbed her ass that she'll rip his arm off and beat him to death with it.
* [[The Grim Reaper]]: In the fourth season finale "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Angel of Death]]", Dr. Jeanne Benoît encounters [[Creepy Child|a little girl]] outside the hospital who [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane|may or may not be the Angel of Death]]. An odd example from a show usually so completely grounded in reality, especially since {{spoiler|it's heavily implied to the viewer that she really is the Angel of Death}}.
* [[Gun Stripping]]: Ziva mentioned once that she cleans her gun every day, even when she hasn't fired it. Of course, unless someone with a gun is wallowing around in extremely dusty or gritty places, cleaning the weapon ''every day'' is unnecessary, but given that Ziva's Mossad background means she spent most of her time with her life in danger, her behavior is understandable. She was also shown cleaning her gun while hiding out in Gibb's basement during seasonSeason 4's "Shalom", and Gibbs has also been shown cleaning his gun a few times.
* [[Halloween Episode]]: "Witch Hunt", "Murder 2.0", and "Code of Conduct".
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Jerry, a witness in a murder investigation, points out several characters' psychological problems ({{spoiler|Abby doesn't admit she likes Tim because she's [[Married to the Job]] and doesn't want to risk him being The One and missing out; Gibbs shows that he misses his late wife by keeping his house better than a single man who's never home or locks his door should; Ziva most definitely has feelings for Tony}}), however, it appears he's just really good at reading people and ''really'' bad at reading the atmosphere. He later atones by {{spoiler|helping Tony rig a surprise Christmas confetti bombardment}}.
* [[Happily Married]]: Vance.
** Gibbs' first marriage was, from all evidence, happy...not so much since then.
* [[Head-Tiltingly Kinky]]: Page 57 from S3Season Ep04,3 Episode 4 "Silver War". Tony shows Ziva an FHM/Maxim-esque magazine called "[[Bland-Name Product|GSM]]".
{{quote|'''Tony''': You want something to read?
'''Ziva''': What do you have?
'''Tony''': (pulls out magazine) GSM. It's a men's magazine. Most women find it objectifies them.
'''Ziva''': (pulls out same magazine in Hebrew) I read it on the plane. I especially liked the article on page fifty-seven. In my experience, it works every time.
'''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}}.
* [[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]].
** Whenever a character hears about a witness or suspect flirting with Gibbs, someone inevitably asks [[Lampshade Hanging|"Is she a redhead?"]]
** In "Life Before His Eyes", we see that Gibbs got this from his father.
** Colonel Mann is the only exception to this rule so far for Gibbs. They did have a relationship, but then she realized that he'd never be able to forget his wife and daughter. She moved to Hawaii after breaking it off with him. (Andand even she's a suspiciously reddish shade of blonde!).
** McGee fell for a redhead in a coffee shop. {{spoiler|She turned out to be an assassin}}.
** Ducky and Dr. Jordan Hampton.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]:
** {{spoiler|Amnesiac}} Gibbs' reaction to {{spoiler|his [[Mentor]] telling him about 9/11}}.
** Tony goes into one in the seasonSeason 7 premiere when he thinks Ziva is dead.
** Everyone when {{spoiler|Mike Franks is killed in "Swan Song"}}. Everyone also had one when {{spoiler|Caitlin Todd is killed as well.}}.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]:
** {{spoiler|Agent Cassidy, who saves the team from a suicide bomber.}}.
** {{spoiler|Agent Lee when she decides that [[Redemption Equals Death]].}}.
** Subverted by {{spoiler|Agent Todd. She takes a bullet to save Gibbs' life, but is saved by her Kevlar vest... and then gets head-sniped by Ari.}}.
** {{spoiler|Jonathan Cole ends up doing this to disarm the bomb in the Season 9 Finalefinale. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to ''start'' disarming the bomb before Dearing activated it. Also qualifies as a [[Redemption Equals Death]].}}.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: For just being former NCIS partners, Franks and Gibbs seem awfully close together. When Gibbs was retired, he actually went to live with Franks in Mexico, and they bickered like a married couple.
** The place that Franks has is one they used to stay at when they would go fishing in Mexico -- so they even went on vacation together at one point, apparently.
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* [[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", Thethe 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".
* [[Hollywood Hacking]]: McGee and Abby.
* [[Hollywood Healing]]: Consistently averted; characters who suffer injuries at the end of one episode are typically still sporting the signs of them in the next one... except glaringly in season one when Gibbs recovered from grenade fragments in the shoulder between episodes.
** Played [[Incredibly Lame Pun|painfully]] straight in the 200th episode, where Gibbs is shot in the shoulder at the beginning. At the episode's end, set the very next day, he's perfectly fine.
* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: McGee and Palmer.
* [[Hot Amazon]]: Ziva.
* [[Hypocritical Heartwarming]]: In the episode "Guilty Pleasure", we are introduced to Det. Philip [[Mc Cadden]]McCadden of Baltimore PD. He was a [[Flanderization|Flanderized]] [[Expy]] of Tony and the two [[The Movie Buff|movie buffs]] became fast friends. But when Tony saw [[Berserk Button|McCadden disrespecting McGee]] during an NCIS case ([[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and not caring if he got some movie trivia wrong]]), [[Disproportionate Retribution|Tony effectively ended their friendship, without even telling McCadden why]].
* [[I Call It Vera]]:
** Abby's "Major Mass Spec", and, apparently, her own ''teeth'', though they appear to be masculine names - one is Frank.
** In one episode, she gives {{spoiler|the bugs she is raising as evidence}} male names, such as George, Norman and the like. {{spoiler|George ends up being Regina}}.
* [[Idiot Ball]]: {{spoiler|They retrieve Director Vance's car when it was handled by a terrorist and since they found no prints, they don't strip it down for explosives or other traps.}}.
* [[Ignorance Is Bliss]]
* [[I Know Mortal Kombat]]: Justified in S7Season Ep09,7 Episode 9 "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.
* [[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''. (Itit'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."}}
** Possibly a a shout out to Trevanian's "Naked/Kill" techniques where an Israeli operative uses a credit card on a plane to kill someone. Everything matched perfectly.
** 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]]:
** The killer mentions the man who (supposedly) shot the lieutenant will get away. "How did you know she was shot?"
** S7Season Ep07,7 Episode 7 "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 intergenerationalinter-generational 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 couplacouple times, Tony disciplines them in the office area:
{{quote|'''Tony''': Abby! Front and center. You too Ziva. Let's go! I know what happened.
[''Abby and Ziva start talking at the same time'']
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'''Tony''': Now a [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|deep tongue kiss]].<br />
[''Abby and Ziva punch him in the chest at the same time'']<br />
'''Tony''': OOF! Now we feel better. }}
* [[Iron Lady]]: Director Shepherd.
* [[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 S7Season Ep11,7 Episode 11 "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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