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Stars:: Pauley Perrette (Forensic Specialist Abby Sciuto); David McCallum (Chief Medical Examiner Ducky Mallard); Mark Harmon (Senior Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs); Lauren Holly (Director Jenny Shepard); Michael Weatherly (Special Agent Tony DiNozzo); Sean Murray (Special Agent Tim McGee); Cote de Pablo (Mossad Agent Ziva David)

Recurring Role:: Rocky Carroll (NCIS Asst. Director Leon Vance); Brian Dietzen (Jimmy Palmer)

Guest Star:: Stephen Saux (Suspicious Man); Jacob Moore (Richie Rose Tyler); Adam O'Byrne (Mike Norman); Christopher Darga (Skip Harris); John Hughes (Enis Watley Frank); Scott Checansky (Milo Suskavcevic)

GOOF: When Ziva beats Tim at Scrabble, she does so by placing Q on the board forming the Qi twice, the problem however is that a word can only be used one time in anyone game of scrabble (see official rules) thus Ziva's word would not have counted as it can only be used once and McGee would have one the game. edit »
TRIVIA: McGee still hasn't gotten over his fear of heights. edit »
GOOF: Setting for "Arlington Trailer Park" is impossible.
Part of this episode was set in an "Arlington Trailer Park". There are absolutely no trailer parks in Arlington, VA. Nothing even resembling a trailer park. And, said trailer park is situated in an area of much open space, with a beautiful mountain backdrop. Again, there is absolutely no open space in Arlington, VA. And the closest mountains are about two hours away. edit »
TRIVIA: Palmer's mother is named Eunice. edit »
TRIVIA: Before Ducky decided on medical school, he used to volunteer summers at a Tanzanian dig site. He planned on becoming an archaeologist, but it was not "in his bones". edit »

Original International Airdates:
Denmark: May 20, 2008 on TV3
Sweden: July 13, 2008 on TV3
UK: September 7, 2008 on FX UK
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Lauren Holly (Director Jenny Shepard) does not appear in this episode, even though she's featured in the opening credits. edit »
The episode was previously titled Demolition. edit »

Tony: Got to figure out what he was doing here.
Ziva: And with whom he was doing it.
Tony: Doing what with?
Ziva: Whatever it was he was doing when he was undone.
Tony: Done, what? edit »
Abby: (to Jimmy) You chased a crazy guy with a gun! You're a studmuffin! You're an iron fist with a velvet glove... you're baby Gibbs! edit »
Leon: Sounds like he's got a serious case of brain freeze.
Gibbs: Well, freeze can always thaw, Leon. edit »
Tony: (referring to an empty parking space previously occupied by a camping-car) Looks like we missed the twister. edit »
(referring to her facial recognition software)
Abby: It didn't ding. My dinger didn't ding. My dinger must be broken again. edit »

McGee: These boots are made for walkin'.

These boots are made for walkin' is the title of an old and famous song by Nancy Sinatra released in 1966 and recently brought back into the charts thanks to Jessica Simpson's remake (2005). The original version was previously chosen as a soundtrack in the film Full Metal Jacket. edit »
Tony's "mini-Mallard" comment refers to the Austin Powers character Mini-Me, who was a clone of Dr. Evil in the two sequels. edit »
Tony: So real driver's license, phony address and fake passport - it's like Jason Bourne. Shall we put out a BOLO for Matt Damon?!

Jason Bourne is the main character in several of Robert Ludlum's novels, and subsequent films. Matt Damon is most noted for playing him in the Bourne Trilogy of films, the first of which was released in 2002. edit »
Tony: You should have seen that one coming, Probie-Wan Kenobi.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is a character in the Star Wars films, created by George Lucas. Tony used the same nick-name in Dog Tags. edit »