Introduction

The Seventeenth season of the police procedural drama NCIS was originally broadcast between 24 September 2019 and 14 April 2020.

On 13 March 2020, CBS announced that the filming of season 17 had been suspended due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

Outline

Gibbs helps Phineas’s mom, Sarah, with a plumbing issue and notices a cut on her hand. She brushes it off as scraping it against a pipe. Meanwhile, Ziva’s landlady Odette instructs Bishop to retrieve a flash drive at a club in exchange for $100k, but instead of handing it to Odette (revealed to have been fired from a special CIA operation), she presents it to the team. The lone file on the drive is a picture of an unidentified man dragging Ziva’s friend Adam Eshel into an abandoned factory. Flashbacks show Ziva in the time elapsed from Eli’s farmhouse explosion. The investigation reveals that the “Sahar” killed previously (“Into the Light“, S17E02) is an impostor. Gibbs and Ziva arrive too late to save Adam, but he tells them that the real Sahar is “someone you know” before dying. They come to realise Adam was talking to Gibbs instead of Ziva, leading them to the conclusion that Sahar is Gibbs’s neighbour Sarah, and Gibbs is forced to kill her during her confrontation with Ziva. Odette offers “special training” to Bishop at Ziva’s office, and Gibbs reluctantly heads upstairs at his house to tell Phineas about his mother.

NCIS Series 16

You can find a full index of NCIS Series 17 here.

• Main NCIS TV Series Overview.

• NCIS: Los Angeles TV Series Overview.

• NCIS: New Orleans TV Series Overview.

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Production & Filming Details

• Director(s): James Whitmore Jr.
• Writer(s): Gina Lucita Monreal.
• Release Date: 17 December 2019.
• Running Time: 39-44 minutes.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.