"The North Pole" is the twelfth Christmas episode of the CBS drama NCIS, produced and aired in its seventeenth season.
Summary[]
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Gibbs and former team assist Ziva with "the one thing" she said she would need to take care of before returning to her family.
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 was 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 realize Adam was talking to Gibbs instead of Ziva, leading them to the conclusion that Sahar is Gibbs's neighbor 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.
Cast[]
| Actor/Actress | Character |
|---|---|
| Mark Harmon | Leroy Jethro Gibbs |
| Sean Murray | Timothy McGee |
| Wilmer Valderrama | Nick Torres |
| Emily Wickersham | Ellie Bishop |
| Maria Bello | Jack Sloane |
| Brian Dietzen | Jimmy Palmer |
| Diona Reasonover | Kasie Hines |
| Cote de Pablo | Ziva David |
| Damon Dayoub | Adam Eshel |
| Louise Barnes | Sahar |
| Jack Fisher | Phineas |
| Elayn J. Taylor | Odette Malone |
| Usman Ally | Victor Mir |
| Jeremy Batiste | Security Guard Joe |
| Sam Asghari | Security Guard Russell |
| Tatiana Turan | Supervisor |
| Eva and Vera Portugues | Tali |