Split Decision (NCIS)

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“Split Decision”
NCIS episode
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 21
Written by –
Production no. 1x21
Original airdate 11 May 2004
Season 1 episodes
  1. Yankee White
  2. Hung Out to Dry
  3. Seadog (NCIS)
  4. The Immortals
  5. The Curse
  6. High Seas
  7. Sub Rosa
  8. Minimum Security
  9. Marine Down
  10. Left for Dead
  11. Eye Spy
  12. My Other Left Foot
  13. One Shot, One Kill
  14. The Good Samaritan
  15. Enigma
  16. Bête Noire
  17. The Truth is Out There
  18. UnSEALed
  19. Dead Man Talking
  20. Missing
  21. Split Decision
  22. A Weak Link
  23. Reveille
List of NCIS episodes

"Split Decision" is the 21st episode of the drama television series NCIS.

[edit] Plot

Several boys discover the body of a Marine in a forest. NCIS investigates and discovers that he may have been attempting to sell military weapons on the black market. A local pawn shop may have been involved as well as a second Marine. Tony goes undercover as a potential supplier and the team is surprised when they discover that the pawnshop owner is actually an ATF undercover agent herself.

Believing the buyers to be militia members, the team set up a meeting between the buyer, pawnshop owner and supplier, with Gibbs going undercover as the supplier. Led to an abandoned warehouse, the militia members test out the merchandise and are furious when some are revealed to be faulty. Gibbs is fatally shot and the head of the militia demands the pawnshop owner find another supplier. She placates him by contacting a supplier who pulls up in a van nearby, only to be apprehended by Tony and Kate. This second supplier turns out to be a fellow Marine.

In a final twist, the head of the militia (an ATF agent himself) helps Gibbs off the floor and it is revealed that the entire exchange had been a setup in order to catch the ATF agent. She had been under surveillance for some time for arms dealing.

[edit] Notes

This is the first appearance of Jimmy Palmer

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