Leroy Jethro Gibbs
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| Leroy Jethro Gibbs | |
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| Rank | Supervisory Special Agent (NCIS) Gunnery Sergeant (USMC) |
| Gender | Male |
| Hair color | Gray, (was brown) |
| Eye color | blue |
| Actor | Mark Harmon |
| First appearance | Ice Queen (JAG) |
| Last appearance | Current Character |
Supervisory Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs is a fictional Chief investigator from the NCIS television series by CBS Television, played by Mark Harmon.
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[edit] Biography
A former marine, Gibbs is a consummate organiser, disciplined and demanding of his A-team often standing between them and pressure from other authorities. Though a demanding boss everyone respects, he takes an interest in their personal struggles and watches over them like a hawk. The team is more like a group of highly-specialised children to his father-figure.
Gibbs is a married and divorced three times man who[1] once had a romantic relationship with the recently appointed director of NCIS, Jenny Shepard. In the first season, he was occasionally seen in the company of a mysterious (and never-identified) redheaded woman[2].
Throughout the series, Shephard occasionally invites Gibbs to re-connect to their former relationship, keeping open the possibility from her point of view, but he adamantly refuses.
A couple of very early episodes suggested an attraction existed between Gibbs and Caitlin Todd,[1] but any possibility of this going beyond flirting and jokes evaporated when he indicated to her that it was a bad idea for NCIS operatives to have a relationship (a possible reference to Jenny Shepard).
When a team member succeeds in a particularly clever way, they tend to begin explaining to Gibbs in highly technical language (demonstrating their elite knowledge and capabilities) so that he replies, "Give it to me in English", to get quickly to the point as well as making it accessible to the TV audience.
In season three (episode 11, Model Behavior), Gibbs is awarded the NCIS Meritorious Service Medal (MSM), but does not attend the award ceremony at which Tony accepts the medal on his behalf. When Gibbs shows no interest in it, Tony locks it in a box containing several similar presentation cases, all of which presumably contain similar kinds of medals awarded to Gibbs.
He is a dedicated coffee drinker[3] a fact played out with his team setting up someone to innocently drink or spill his coffee, incurring Gibbs' ire. In one episode[4] when McGee drinks Gibbs' coffee unawares, an on-base security officer explains that rule #23 is "never to come between a marine and his coffee". At episode end, Gibbs endows McGee with his coffee as a thankyou.
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[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Warneke, Ross. Death of Sunday movies. Retrieved on 2008-06-06.
- ^ Owen, Rob. TV Preview: 'Navy NCIS' attempts to cover new ground. Retrieved on 2008-06-06.
- ^ Keveney, Bill. 'NCIS': CBS' invisible success. Retrieved on 2008-06-06.
- ^ Forced Entry, December 07, 2004, 32 (2x09)
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