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Feb 27, 2007 · Skeletons: Directed by James Whitmore Jr.. With Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, Pauley Perrette. A family crypt in a mausoleum explodes when unsealed; Gibbs and company investigate; Ducky says that parts of at least three skeletons occupied the vault.
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- Action, Crime, Drama
- James Whitmore Jr.
- 2007-02-27
- Overview
- Synopsis
- Prologue
- Act Three
- Major Events
- Trivia
Skeletons is the seventeenth episode in NCIS Season 4 and also the eighty-seventh episode of the entire NCIS series.
NCIS investigate an explosion at a military cemetery mausoleum with the discovery turning up the dismembered bodies of many victims, leading the team to believe that they're dealing with a serial killer.
At a military funeral in James River National, as six military soldiers stand guard over a coffin, the priest reads, stating in pain, may they find comfort, in sorrow, hope and in death, resurrection.
A while later, the same six soldiers assume the position and now armed with guns, fire off two shots on the instructions of their leader.
As this goes on, Kenneth Dixon walks the cemetery before he turns around and heads into the mausoleum.
As he reaches another area where his friend, Lloyd Jackson is, Dixon tells Jackson that they're almost finished out here.
Jackson just wonders what Dixon wants to tell him before Jackson says that he can't get the damn thing open.
"Stripped?", Dixon wonders.
In the elevator with Mann and Gibbs, Ducky is stating that if the bodies recovered from the mausoleum were the result of mass-murder, then one might except a certain modicum of consistency in the manner of death.
"One might", Gibbs replies and as they enter the morgue, Mann covers her nose, obviously disgusted by the smell.
"Yes and one would be wrong", Ducky states before revealing that the victims were shot, stabbed, strangled, bludgeoned before heading to the remains that contain Miss Undetermined Torrance.
He then states that the victims were composed of three women and two men with the age range varying from 19 to 70 and that three are Caucasian, one Asian and one African-American.
•It's revealed that Roy Sanders who Ziva befriended in the previous episode died from the radiation poisoning.
•The episode is inspired by the Donald Henry Gaskins case.
•The footage of the Marines performing the gun salute at the funeral which is played at the beginning of the episode is actually footage that first aired during "Coming Home", the Season 9 episode from NCIS's parent series, JAG.
•Brian Markinson (Sgt. Trask) and Susanna Thompson (Col. Mann) both later appeared together in the pilot episode of the CW series Arrow, where they portray Adam Hunt and Moira Queen, respectively. They both also appear in the episode "Year's End" of that series.
•Abby is upset over her abrupt break-up with Marty Pearson, who does not appear in the episode. Pearson was written out of the show after his actor, Michael Gilden, died December 5, 2006 by suicide at the age of 44.
Apr 5, 2019 · The NCIS team investigates a crypt explosion that reveals five dismembered and decomposed bodies. They face a mystery of who, how and why the victims were killed and dumped in a family crypt.
Find out who starred in the NCIS episode Skeletons, which aired in 2007. See the full list of actors, directors, writers, producers, and other crew members on IMDb.
Skeletons. Help. S4 E17 44min TV-14. When Ducky and Abby confirm that they have identified the remains of at least five people, the NCIS team immediately begins notifying the families in the hopes of making some connection between the seemingly random selection of victims.
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- 44 min
- February 27, 2007
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Skeletons. NCIS. Summaries. A family crypt in a mausoleum explodes when unsealed; Gibbs and company investigate; Ducky says that parts of at least three skeletons occupied the vault. The team identify and check out a suspect, and Gibbs and Hollis get a major surprise.
