NCIS

TRIVIA: The Commander punches in a five number code to the Dry Storage Bay, with the last few numbers of the code being "4-5-2". Later in the show when Tony goes down to punch in the code we see him press "9-3-5-6". Later, the third time in the show when Tony and McGee are pretending to be painters, Zell punches in a four digit code, though we only see the last two numbers "5-6." This might mean that the Commander gave Tony a sub-code to the door, especially since most 9-digit touchpad door locks have a master code (for the boss/owner or in this case, Commander), and several sub-codes for certain employees.

GOOF: When Abby pulls the credit receipt out and flips it over, it's in a vertical position. In the next shot, the closeup shows it's being held horizontal.

GOOF: At the beginning of the show prior to the theme song, the killer tucks the gun under the midway point of the helix. After the intro during the camera flashes, it shows the gunshot by the earlobe.

GOOF: Artist Dina Rici is said to have a secluded cabin somewhere on Mt Piños near Yuma, Az. But the terrain near Yuma is mostly flat, and there is definitely no Mt Piños in Arizona, though there is one in California. Mt Piños is also not located in the Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Parks where the episode was actually shot, but rather in the Los Padres National Forest.

TRIVIA: It seems strange that Gibbs says that he notified Director Vance about Agent's Patterson's death, but that he didn't reach him personally because it was after midnight in Singapore, where the Director presumably was. The time difference between the eastern United States and Singapore is twelve hours, which would mean that it was early afternoon while they are at the scene of the assassination. But they were called to the scene just after McGee arrives at work. Even though he was said to be late due to traffic problems, it would still seem that it should be morning there.

TRIVIA: The location standing in for the Arizona desert in the final scenes is actually Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park in northern Los Angeles County. Named for bandit Tiburon Vasquez, the park has been used for countless tv and movie productions, one of the most notable is the battle between Captain James T. Kirk and the Gorn in the Star Trek episode "Arena."

GOOF: When Agent Patterson was shot at the beginning of the episode we can clearly see that the four shots that he received in his chest were in very close small pattern, all four on the left side of his chest, approximately where the heart is. Later when his body was lying on Ducky's table we can see that he received 2 bullets in his right chest and 2 in his left in very symmetrical and equal spread pattern.

GOOF: At the beginning of the episode, when DiNozzo is on the phone trying to reach Mr. Hubbard (his great-uncle's solicitor), the phone he is holding switches between his cell and his desk phone between shots.