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NCIS: Season 3 - Switch (2005) - (S3E5) - Cast & Crew — The Movie Database (TMDB) Share. 3x5. Switch (2005) ← Back to episode. Silver War (3x4) The Voyeur's Web (3x6) Season Regulars 6. Mark Harmon. Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Sean Murray. Timothy McGee. Michael Weatherly. Tony DiNozzo. Cote de Pablo. Ziva David. David McCallum. Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard.
Watch NCIS — Season 3, Episode 5 with a subscription on Paramount+, Netflix, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. Members of the NCIS squad investigate when a petty officer with...
- Thomas J. Wright
- September 23, 2003
- Mark Harmon
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- Trivia
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Switch is the fifth episode of NCIS Season 3 as well as the 51st episode of the entire NCIS series.
A Petty Officer is gunned down while talking to his wife on the phone but when Tony and Ziva inform the victim's C.O of the death, they discover that another man is posing as the victim. This leads the NCIS team into a possible case of mistaken identity, only to find that the victim left them a message before he died about who killed him.
The scene opens with Petty Officer Jerry Smith driving down a long stretch of road while talking to his wife with the two engaged in a conversation that quickly turns into an argument and it's all concerning their anniversary.
Smith then starts ignoring his wife who's still rambling and raving about her husband, calling him a bastard.
Suddenly, Smith sees something that causes him to attempt to duck for cover but the unknown assassin soon shoots him, causing a splatter of blood to appear on the window.
Smith then collapses over the steering wheel, dead.
As this goes on, his wife still calls her husband, unaware of what's happened.
The car then drives off a cliff and for a second, there's nothing but smoke.
In the NCIS squad room, as another work day begins, NCIS Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo Junior waltzes into the bullpen, wondering if his colleague, fellow NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee has finished that database yet.
McGee replies that he finished it yesterday.
As DiNozzo sits down, he tells McGee that it should have been on his desk yesterday.
McGee states that he didn't realize a compilation of nudie bars was that urgent.
DiNozzo states that it is and McGee wants to know why.
DiNozzo states that he doesn't have to explain himself to a Junior agent and as McGee wonders if this is work-related, DiNozzo changes his mind, stating that he will just this once and as he heads over to McGee's desk, DiNozzo tells McGee that it's a mercy mission and that a buddy of DiNozzo's is getting married to a particularly unpleasant beast of a woman.
In the hall, Petty Officer Jerry Smith wonders why anyone would want to impersonate him. Ziva then lists the possibilties: blackmail, espionage, terrorism, potential assassination. Smith then states that he's just a clerk and that he doesn't have a security clearance.
Ziva wonders what kind of clerk Smith is with Smith telling her that he's in a supply unit and that he's a SK2. Ziva then states that she's new to NCIS before telling him that he has to be more specific.
Smith tells her that he's basically a storekeeper and that he filled requests for tp, liquid soap, toilet seat covers and he also states that they call it "Getting a Head Day". Smith then states that the head is another word..
"For the toilet", Ziva says. "Yes, I know" before wondering if it has something to do with his personal life. Smith then states that it probably isn't because he doesn't really have one and that most nights he just goes home and surfs the Internet and even watches reality TV.
Smith also remarks that he's really into Survivor and Average Joe before stating that the Amazing Race is cool and he likes Extreme Makeover but...
Ziva then cuts him off by telling him that she doesn't own a TV which has Smith stunned and stating that he doesn't think he's ever met anyone who didn't..
In the bullpen, McGee states that the dead guy downstairs they thought was impersonating Petty Officer Smith is actually the real Petty Officer Smith and that the Jerry Smith DiNozzo and Ziva spoke to Norfolk is a fake before stating that it's all confusing.
"Like the pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle", DiNozzo says. "The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true". At everyone's confused glances, he states Court Jester, Danny Kaye before stating it's a classic.
Of course, Gibbs responds by giving Tony a Headslap which DiNozzo thanks him for. Gibbs then asks McGee who the fake Jerry Smith is. McGee reveals that the imposter is John Kirby and that they lifted his prints from his desk at Norfolk.
"His empty desk", DiNozzo corrects. "He didn't report for duty today".
McGee then explains that both Kirby and Smith had overlapping tours at Jacksonville in 2002 and that Kirby was discharged in 2003 with DiNozzo remarking that it was honorably. McGee then realizes that the two men had this planned from the very first day of Smith's new assignment.
"Think so, McGee?", Gibbs snaps before asking for Kirby's address. McGee reveals that Kirby lives on West Little Creek and that he's been there for about a year before giving Gibbs the information along with the warrant.
In the lab, while studying the case, Abby tells Gibbs that there are three wheels, numbered zero through nine each and that there's a thousand possibilities.
While writing it up, Gibbs remarks to Abby that her fingers better get busy.
Abby tells him to wait because she has more before revealing that the seams are filled with something that looks like an expoy material and that it might be for waterproofing.
Gibbs believes that it might be to hold explosive components in place until they're exploded.
"Bada-boom", Abby says.
Gibbs then asks about the x-rays with Abby stating that they didn't penetrate and that the metal's high-density steel, probably with a thin layer of lead sheeting. She then remarks that the nitrate sniffer came up negative.
•In the evidence garage, while she's saying "Very good, Gibbs", Abby's spider web tattoo is seen on the wrong side of her neck before swapping back to its normal side in the next shot.
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Season three stars Vanessa Lachey as Special Agent in Charge Jane Tennant, Alex Tarrant as Kai Holman, Noah Mills as Jesse Boone, and Yasmine Al-Bustami as Lucy Tara. Jason Antoon plays Ernie Malik, Tori Anderson is Kate Whistler, and Kian Talan is Alex Tennant. LL Cool J recurs as Sam Hanna.
Cast Main. Mark Harmon as Leroy Jethro Gibbs, NCIS Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) of the Major Case Response Team (MCRT) assigned to Washington's Navy Yard; Michael Weatherly as Anthony DiNozzo, NCIS Senior Special Agent, second in command of MCRT; Cote de Pablo as Ziva David, Mossad Liaison Officer to NCIS (episodes 4–24)
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NCIS Season 3 Cast; Name Occupation Portrayed by; Leroy Jethro Gibbs: NCIS Special Agent in charge of the main NCIS Major Case Response Team. Mark Harmon Anthony DiNozzo Junior: Senior Special Agent and second-in-command on the NCIS Major Case Response Team. Michael Weatherly Ziva David: Mossad Liaison to the NCIS Major Case Response Team. Cote ...
