Blowback (NCIS)

Infobox Television episode
Title = Blowback
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Series = NCIS
Season = 4
Episode = 14


Airdate = February 6, 2007
Production = 4x14
Writer = Christopher Silber
Director = Thomas J. Wright
Guests = Armand Assante as René alias La Grenouille David Dayan Fisher as Trent Kort Assaf Cohen as 'Goliath' Eli Lissack
Episode list = Episode chronology
Prev = Sharif Returns
Next = Friends and Lovers"Blowback" is the 84^th episode of the drama television series "NCIS".

Plot

NCIS captures an Israeli weapon smuggler who sold faulty weapons to Zaire. As a favor to Mossad, they are returning him to Zaire in exchange for information that Mossad desires. During the plane trip the smuggler reveals that ARES, a top-secret Navy weapon system, is on sale on the black market. In the light of this new information, Gibbs and his team return back to D.C. where they tail a man who developed the system and is now selling it to the highest bidder. During the investigations the team discovers that a man who has been watched by Tony during a special mission assigned to him by the director is amongst the bidders. Ziva and McGee are told not to bring the weapon's specialist in but rather to tail him. Unfortunately he discovers that he is under surveillance and tries to run, but dies of heart failure in the chase. To catch the weapon dealer interested in ARES, Ducky has to go undercover to Canada as the now dead specialist.

Notes

* At the start of the episode Gibbs is doing a crossword and reads out a clue looking for the name of a TV drama. Gibbs grins when DiNozzo suggests St Elsewhere, a 1980s hospital drama which Mark Harmon appeared in.
* The Republic of Zaire had actually changed its name to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1997.