Shalom (NCIS)

Infobox Television episode | Title = Shalom
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Series = NCIS
Season = 4
Episode = 1


Airdate = September 19, 2006
Production = 4x01
Writer = John C. Kelley Donald P. Bellisario
Director = William Webb
Guests = Muse Watson as Mike Franks Liza Lapira as NCIS Special Agent Michelle Lee Saba Homayoon as Faatin Amal
Episode list = Episode chronology
Prev = Hiatus (Part 2)
Next = Escaped

"Shalom" is the 71^st episode of the drama television series "NCIS".

Plot

DiNozzo's leadership post-Gibbs is tested when Ziva becomes a fugitive after witnessing a Mossad agent carrying out an assassination not authorized by Mossad.The beginning of the episode shows Ziva driving to work. As she pulls up at a traffic light, two men on a black motorbike pull up alongside her. Ziva recognizes them and follows them for several streets as they speed ahead. As she passes a building, it explodes and she drives her car into the footpath. The next part of the show shows Ziva talking to an old man at the Israeli Embassy. In the following conversation, Ziva is told that, since she left her car at the site, she is now a suspect and there is a warrant for her arrest. She is then told that she must stay at the embassy until her father sorts the whole thing out. The man tells a guard to escort Ziva to the guest quarters and to confiscate all weapons. He leaves and Ziva knocks out the guard and leaves also, taking the laptop of the man with her.

Abby is shown staring at a huge picture of Gibbs on her plasma screen and asking the picture to call her. Her phone rings and Abby grabs it, expecting Gibbs but Ziva answers instead. Ziva tells Abby that she can't tell anyone that Ziva called and that she needs her help. The show cuts to a house in Mexico, where Gibbs and Mike Franks are both relaxing around the house. A woman approaches Gibbs and tells Gibbs that he has a call. Gibbs asks who it is, and the woman replies that she doesn't know. Gibbs picks up the phone, and he and Ziva get into a one-sided conversation. Ziva tells Gibbs that she is in big trouble and Gibbs replies, exasperated, "Well, what do you want me to do?", to which Ziva replies, "I don't know. Save me?".

Back at NCIS HQ, Tony has rallied a team (Abby, McGee, Ducky, Palmer and himself) to help Ziva out. He moves around the table handing out orders, but when he gets to Abby, she says to him, "I talked to Ziva yesterday." Tony asks her for more details, such as where she is, but Abby replies, "I don't know. All I have is this number." Tony calls the number and asks Ziva what is going on, but Gibbs grabs the phone and tells DiNozzo that he has ten seconds to tell him why he is not back in Mexico. After a harried length of time in which we learn that Ziva has made the FBI's Most Wanted List, they discuss possible motives for framing Ziva and come up with one possibility: to hurt relations between Israel and America. They also find a lead: A safe house where the motorbike driver has been placed. They go there and finds the driver dead. The real criminals are shown: A pair of Iranian spies watching Ziva and Gibbs through a hidden camera in an air vent. Gibbs finds the camera and breaks it. Then Ziva realizes something important: the last time her safe house was compromised, it was blown up. The house is blown up, but Ziva and Gibbs make it out safely.

Leaves Ziva in his house, Gibbs goes to the HQ of NCIS and manages to convince the director to raid the hotel where the criminals are. He lets Ziva know, and tells her to stay put, but she leaves for the hotel. At the hotel, the woman and the man are in an argument over who is in charge, which she seemingly forfeits, but then pulls out a gun and shoots the man, and then shoves a pillow over his face. Ziva enters several minutes later, and finds the dead man. She in the woman get in a fight, with Ziva appearing to lose in order to find out the woman's plans. She succeeds and overpowers her before NCIS enters. She is then cleared and the episode ends on a happy note, except that Gibbs has not yet returned.