The big surprise at the end of Season Five was that Director Jenny Shepard (Lauren Holly) died in a shootout in California. Her replacement, Director Leon Vance (Rocky Carroll), broke up the team and sent them all packing. Agent Ziva David's (Cote de Pablo) liaison term was ended and she was sent back to Israel. McGee (Sean Murray) is moved to cyber crimes, DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly) is reassigned as the agent afloat a navy ship. Gibbs (Mark Harmon) is given an entirely new team, with one familiar face. After seeing this, I'm wondering how they're going to continue the show!
This season opens with Ziva in Morocco as a sexy lounge singer in a club, definitely a different Ziva from what we've seen before! Suddenly a bomb goes off in the club, right in front of her. What a way to open the series back up! We find out that it's four months later from Gibbs' new team. Apparently, they really did break up the team and we've got all new guys. Agent Lee (Liza Lapira) is a familiar face by now. She is joined by Special Agent Brent Langer (Jonathan LaPaglia) and Special Agent Daniel Keating (Jonathan Mangum) to make up Gibbs' new team. Of course, Ducky (David McCallum) and Abby (Pauley Perrette) are still there. It turns out there is a reason that Vance broke up the team. They do start to come back together, but I've got to say that was a very exciting episode, and left so many possibilities open. Of course, they have to make it more difficult on Tony to get back home, just because he's DiNozzo.
Once they're all back together and things get back to normal, well, normal isn't very safe for this crew. Everybody seems to want a piece of Gibbs this season. When a serial killer is determined to get Gibbs' attention, things are going to get interesting. Gibbs is also going to have to deal with his past several times. We even get to see Gibbs' hometown and meet his father Jack (Ralph Waite) when a murder investigation takes the whole team there. Franks (Muse Watson) also comes back for an episode just to shake things up. McGee isn't the main focus of many episodes, but when he gets stuck in a woman's prison where the inmates have taken over, it's big trouble and very amusing at the same time. Abby is just as weird as ever, "like the first time you put your feet in jello weird." If that doesn't tell you enough, we also find out that she has names for all her teeth. I do still love Abby, she's still my favorite character on any show!
The interactions between Ziva and Tony are really going to be tested this season. We all know there's sexual tension between the two, there has been for years. They're just two people that are polar opposites, but there's still something between them. This season is really going to test them, as Ziva has a new lover. He's also a Mossad officer, and he ends up in Washington quite a lot. Needless to say, Tony isn't going to be happy with Michael Rivkin's (Merik Tadros) actions and intents towards Ziva.
Like the previous season's DVDs, NCIS: The Sixth Season has quite a lot of wonderful special features to watch as well. My personal favorite one is the acoustic version of Pauley Perrette's song "Fear." I had no clue that she could sing as well as act. The song is really quite good, and it's always fun to see the actors as themselves instead of their characters.
NCIS is a really wonderful series and it just gets better and better every year. I highly recommend that you go pick up NCIS: The Sixth Season today!
