NCIS season 7

The seventh season of the police procedural drama NCIS premiered on September 22, 2009 with NCIS: Los Angeles Season 1 premiering afterwards. At the end of season six, Ziva had left the NCIS team in Israel, returning to work as a Mossad officer. In the closing seconds of that season, Ziva was shown to have been captured and tortured for information about NCIS.

In the first episode of season seven, Ziva is rescued by Gibbs, Tony and McGee and upon her return to Washington, she eventually becomes an NCIS agent after resigning from Mossad for good. Much of the season's story arc then focuses on the Mexican Drug War and Colonel Merton Bell (Robert Patrick), a suspected murderer who hired the lawyer M. Allison Hart to represent him. Hart quickly becomes a thorn in Gibbs' side by regularly showing up and protecting possible suspects while they are being investigated, claiming that they were her clients.

The season draws to a close as Gibbs is later kidnapped by someone working for Paloma Reynosa, the daughter of the late Pedro Hernandez, a drug dealer Gibbs himself shot dead twenty years previously as Hernandez had been responsible for killing Gibbs' first wife Shannon and daughter Kelly. While Gibbs is held prisoner, Paloma informs him that he would work for her or she would have everyone he ever knew and cared about die if he did not go through with her demands.

It also ends in a cliffhanger with Paloma herself traveling to Stillwater and confronting Jackson Gibbs in his shop, leaving his fate unknown.

The series aired alongside season one of NCIS: Los Angeles, and the NCIS episode "Endgame" continued on the events that had taken place in the NCIS: Los Angeles episode "Killshot".

Main

 * Mark Harmon as Leroy Jethro Gibbs, NCIS Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) of the Major Case Response Team (MCRT) assigned to Washington's Navy Yard
 * Michael Weatherly as Anthony DiNozzo, NCIS Senior Special Agent, second in command of MCRT
 * Cote de Pablo as Ziva David, NCIS Probationary Special Agent, former Mossad Liaison Officer
 * Pauley Perrette as Abby Sciuto, Forensic Specialist for NCIS
 * Sean Murray as Timothy McGee, NCIS Special Agent
 * Rocky Carroll as Leon Vance, NCIS Director
 * David McCallum as Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard, Chief Medical Examiner for NCIS

Also starring

 * Brian Dietzen as Jimmy Palmer, Assistant Medical Examiner for NCIS

Recurring

 * Joe Spano as Tobias Fornell, FBI Senior Special Agent
 * Darby Stanchfield as Shannon Gibbs, Gibbs' deceased wife
 * Muse Watson as Mike Franks, retired Senior Special Agent for NCIS and Gibbs' former boss
 * Paul Telfer as Corporal Damon Werth
 * Kent Shocknek as Guy Ross, ZNN news anchor
 * Aviva Baumann as young Shannon Gibbs, Gibbs' deceased wife
 * Ralph Waite as Jackson Gibbs, Gibbs' father
 * Paula Newsome as Jackie Vance, Leon Vance's wife
 * Omid Abtahi as Saleem Ulman, NCIS target
 * Robert Wagner as Anthony DiNozzo, Sr., Tony's father
 * Michelle Pierce as Breena Slater, Jimmy Palmer's girlfriend
 * Jackie Geary as Susan Grady, NCIS Polygraph Specialist
 * Jack Conley as Danny Sportelli, Metro P.D. Detective
 * Diane Neal as Abigail Borin, CGIS Special Agent in Charge
 * TJ Ramini as Malachi Ben-Gidon, Mossad Agent
 * Marco Sanchez as Alejandro Rivera, official in the Mexican Justice Department
 * Jacqueline Obradors as Paloma Reynosa, leader of a Mexican drug cartel
 * Meredith Eaton as Carol Wilson, immunologist and friend of Abby Sciuto
 * Rena Sofer as Margaret Allison Hart, Attorney
 * Todd Lowe as Chad Dunham, NCIS Special Agent