Writer:	Reed Steiner
Director:	Colin Bucksey
Star:	Lauren Holly (Director Jenny Shepard),  Cote de Pablo (Mossad Liaison Officer Ziva David),  Sean Murray (Special Agent Tim McGee),  Pauley Perrette (Forensic Specialist Abby Sciuto),  Michael Weatherly (Special Agent Tony DiNozzo),  David McCallum (Chief Medical Examiner Ducky Mallard),  Mark Harmon (Senior Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs)
Recurring Role:	Brian Dietzen (Jimmy Palmer)
Guest Star:	Walid Amini (Marine Lance Corp. Abdul Bakr),  Jennifer Hetrick (Dr. Donna Dunlap),  James Parks (Brian Sikes),  David Haydn-Jones (Marine Capt. Jim Mills),  Jonathan LaPaglia (FBI Special Agent Brent Langer),  Shaun Toub (Khalid Mohammed Bakr),  Fred Toma (Sunni Man)

International Airdates:
Denmark: March 4, 2008 on TV3
The Netherlands: May 21, 2008 on Veronica
Sweden: May 25, 2008 on TV3
Australia: June 3, 2008 on TEN
UK: July 27, 2008 on FX UK (edit) CBS repeated this episode on March 11, 2008. (edit) This was the last episode completed before the WGA strike that started on November 5, 2007. (edit) CBS scheduled to air this episode on December 18, 2007, but a day before the episode aired, they replaced it with a repeat episode. (edit)

McGee: Baghdad is safer than this neighborhood. (edit) Abby: It takes a lot of TLC to keep my children [the equipment] happy, and fully functioning in the lab of Abby, or, 'Labby,' as I like to call it.
(whispers to the mass spectrometer) You're my favorite!
Gibbs: Labby? (edit) Gibbs: You are still a pain in the ass.
Langer: You know I learned from the best. (edit) Tony: (about Agent Langer as he walks away) What an ass!
Ziva: (admiringly) Yes, indeed! (edit) McGee: I'll flip you for it.
Ziva: If I flip you, you'll get hurt. (edit)

TRIVIA: The body on the bed in the last scene bears a great resemblance to the deceased German actor Klaus Kinski. (edit) GOOF: James Parks is credited as Brian Sikes in this episode but when Tony explains the case to Gibbs he calls the person who dealt with the poison as Brian when on the big plasma is clearly seen Sykes, Ryan. (edit) TRIVIA: The background music Abby was listening to when she found out the information on the poison was The Last Firstborn, by Celldweller. (edit) TRIVIA: The episode opens with a previously started Muslim prayer. The part shown is the last half, third or quarter of the prayer. In the show the Imam (leader of the prayer) first proclaims "Allah is great" (a takbir), then the first chapter (sura) of the Koran is recited. After that, three more takbirs and he finishes off with "Peace and Allah's mercy be upon you" (a tasleem). (edit)

Ryan: Ryan is my slave name.

This was previously said by Cassius Clay after he converted to Islam and was given new name Muhammad Ali. (edit) Ziva:
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next
- Butch Cassidy and the Sunrise Kid

These should be:
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (edit)