Writer:	John C. Kelley, Donald P. Bellisario
Director:	Bradford May
Star:	Michael Weatherly (Special Agent Tony DiNozzo),  Mark Harmon (Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs),  David McCallum (Dr. Ducky Mallard),  Pauley Perrette (Forensics Specialist Abby Sciuto),  Sasha Alexander (Special Agent Kate Todd)
Recurring Role:	Pancho Demmings (Gerald Jackson),  Alan Dale (NCIS Director Tom Morrow),  Joe Spano (FBI Agent T.C. Fornell)
Guest Star:	Emilie de Ravin (Nancy),  Merle Dandridge (Marcy Carruthers),  Dar Dixon (Captain Tom Bradstone),  Gregory Itzin (FBI Director),  Sam Sarpong (Bobby Jackson),  Melissa Lee (Sarah Parker),  Chris Olivero (Dave Simmons),  Benny Nieves (Frank Trujillo),  Dempsey Pappion (Basketball Player),  Joe Torry (Darryl Wilkins),  Jodi Bianca Wise (Jenny),  Elena Lyons (Diane Fontaine),  Homie Doroodian (Seth Shakir),  William R. Moses (DEA Agent Kent Fuller),  Mark Holton (Sergeant Linn),  Miguel A. Gaetan (Carlos)

The song playing in the teaser is "What I Like About You" by The Romantics. (edit) Original International Airdates:
Croatia: August 03, 2005 on NOVA TV
Finland: September 16, 2006 on Nelonen
France: March 10, 2004 on M6
Germany: April 07, 2005 on SAT.1
Hungary: October 31, 2005 on TV 2
Sweden: July 04, 2004 on TV3
Denmark October 21, 2003 on TV3 (edit) Also known as: Dirty Little Secret (edit) CBS repeated this episode on January 27, 2004. (edit)

Gibbs: (seeing the terrorist had gotten six of seven numbers dialed) Lucky he wasn't phone savvy.
Kate: Savvy enough to wire three phones to the same number.
Gibbs: Yep. What if he'd used speed dial? (edit) Tony: Are you sure? I knew a granny in Baltimore hid a kilo of H in a horse's rectum.
Kate: No horse on the boat, Tony. (edit) Tony: Well that gives you a warm fuzzy feeling doesn't it?
Dobbs: What?
Tony: Knowing Gibbs trusts us with a contaminated crime scene. (edit) Tony: (looking at two girls sunbathing) If I only had the time.
Gibbs: What?
Tony: (quickly looking at his watch) Do you have the time?
Gibbs: Going somewhere?
Tony: Yeah, back to work. (edit) Abby: Are we submitting to the Sundance film festival?
Tony: Yeah, Best Terrorist Film Category. (edit)

GOOF: Kate says that by the time the power failure of August 15, 2003, reached Buchanan, NY, all the northeast and most of Canada was blacked out. The display on the screen shows clearly that nowhere near "most of Canada" was affected, in fact only parts of Ontario, Manitoba and Quebec were affected. Also, the blackout started on August 14th, not the 15th. (edit) TRIVIA: In the elevator, Tony said something to Gibbs in sign language that was never voiced. He signed, "I see." (edit) GOOF: When the reporter is filming her segment about what really happened, right as she is signing off, "This is Diane Fontaine, WXEK News," her microphone is facing so that you can see the logo "WXEK". But in the next shot, they zoom in closer on her, and the microphone shows a big "19". (edit)

Kate: I think I feel like mom felt when she burned her bra.

An allusion to the famous myth that feminists in the 60s burned their bras. Whilst some certainly threw them in the trash as a gesture of freedom from restriction, there is no proof that there were actually any big bra burning ceremonies. (edit) Kate: About fifteen seconds later, the Mary Celeste came roaring out of the dark and onto the beach.

The boat that hits the beach has nobody on it. Kate's reference to the famous case of the Mary Celeste is an allusion to the ship of the same name, which was discovered in 1872 sailing into Gibraltar, but with no sign of anyone on board, despite it having had a crew of seven and the master, his wife and young daughter when it set out. It has since passed into legend as a complete mystery, though there are many theories about what may have happened. (edit) Ducky: Where did you learn crime scene procedure? Watching Kojak reruns?

Kojak was a popular television series that aired from 1973 to 1978, starring Telly Savalas as a police lieutenant on the NYPD. (edit) Local LEO references the teens on the beach playing Beach Blanket Bingo.

This was a movie released in 1965 with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. A gang of kids are surfing and partying on the beach and wind up fighting bikers who are intent to kidnap one of their own. The most famous of the beach movies of the sixties. (edit) Kate: I didn't go over to the dark side.

Star Wars reference, Anakin was seduced by the dark side of the force and became Darth Vader. Kate left the Secret Service and joined NCIS. For those of you who don't know, "Star Wars" is a very popular SF movie. (edit)