Writer:	Shane Brennan
Director:	Thomas J. Wright
Star:	David McCallum (Dr. Ducky Mallard),  Cote de Pablo (Mossad Agent Ziva David),  Lauren Holly (NCIS Director Jenny Shepard),  Mark Harmon (Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs),  Michael Weatherly (Special Agent Tony DiNozzo),  Pauley Perrette (Forensics Specialist Abby Sciuto),  Sean Murray (Special Agent Tim McGee)
Recurring Role:	Scottie Thompson (Jeanne Benoit),  Muse Watson (Mike Franks)
Guest Star:	Navid Negahban (Jimmy Shaloub),  Stephanie Venditto (Dr. Jane Leisten),  Steven Elder (Nick Taylor),  Jeremy Roberts (Marine Cpl. Liam O'Neill)

Original International Airdates:
Australia: June 12, 2007 on TEN
Brazil: December 14, 2007 on AXN
Germany: October 7, 2007 on SAT.1
Italy: October 28, 2007 on RAI 2
Spain: August 9, 2007 on La Sexta
Sweden: November 11, 2007 on TV3
The Netherlands: October 3, 2007 on Veronica
UK: August 7, 2007 on FX UK
Denmark March 27, 2007 on TV3 (edit) Lauren Holly (NCIS Director Jenny Shepard) does not appear in this episode, although she is credited in the opening credits. (edit)

Tony: Well, well. Look who's finally here.
Ziva: Yeah, cause you've never been late in your life, come in early, or gone mysteriously missing.
Tony: Oh no that's my point exactly. It's whats expected of me. In fact tardiness is my middle name. You on the other hand have become the poster girl for punctuality. (edit) Gibbs: Any tattoos Ducky?
Ducky: Ahh, a direct query, demanding a direct response, which in this case is a direct no. (edit) Mike: (to Gibbs) We're getting more alike you and me, Probie. Even feeling the same pain. I don't know how you didn't go crazy when you lost your little girl, maybe you did for awhile; maybe you still are. But I just know I've got to do what's right for my boy... I owe him that. (edit) Tony: Ever tell your dad what you were up to Probie?
McGee: Everyday!
Tony: ... wrong person to ask. (edit) Abby: (her eyes are closed) Do you think it's ESP? (Gibbs walks out) I mean, that you always know when I find something, and if it is ESP, are you reading my mind, or am I sending you some sort of brain thoughts out of my head and into yours? (she turns around, opens her eyes, realising he's not here and shuts them again) Come back Gibbs. Come back Gibbs. (edit)

GOOF: How does the 'Iceman' get to Ducky's slab alive? If he were found and presumed dead, especially under possibly suspicious circumstances, a coroner would have been called to the scene and a liver probe taken, as they often do in other episodes of NCIS. Taking a liver probe on a still living being would result in death from internal bleeding, as even a nick on the liver causes immense blood loss. (edit) GOOF: When Tony calls the hospital looking for Jeanne, he immediately asks for Dr. Jeanne Benoit. The woman on the other end of the phone never says "XXX Hospital." We only hear her respond to him after he asks about Jeanne. (edit) GOOF: When they show the driver's license on the plasma, the city is listed as Silver Springs, Maryland. The name of the city is Silver Spring. (No S) Right after that part on the license the county code is given as "AA" which means it is in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. There is a Silver Springs in Anne Arundel County. In fact that address works when put into Google Earth.

Addendum to Goof:The Silver Springs error pops up for the Pagoda Investments call log entry on the cellular phone, too. There is no s at the end of Silver Spring; the "city" (actually, unincorporated area) known as Silver Spring only had one spring, and the name has always reflected that. Silver Spring is in Montgomery County. Entering Silver Springs, MD into Google Earth brings you to Silver Springs, VA. (edit) TRIVIA: When Ziva came in to work the morning after they found the Marine in the snow she was wearing the orange watch cap from Roy, who died of radiation poisoning in the episode "Dead Man Walking". (edit)

Tony: He woke up from the dead just like Lazarus.

Lazarus was the man that Jesus restored to life after he had been dead four days. The story is in chapter 11 of the Book of John in the New Testament of the Bible. (edit) Ziva: I've had enough of dead men walking.

This is a reference to NCIS episode 4x16 "Dead Man Walking" in which Ziva falls in love with a man who is killed by radiation poisoning. (edit)