McGee Creates NCIS’ 1000th Episode Biggest Plot Hole By Lying About Gibbs’ Original Team

Warning! Spoilers ahead for the NCIS’ 1000th episode.

NCIS 1000th episode’s biggest plot hole is surprisingly created by Tim McGee when he misremembers Leroy Jethro Gibbs’ original team. Not long after marking its first two decades on the air, NCIS once again crosses a major milestone with its 1000th overall episode. Celebrated primarily in the mothership show, NCIS season 21, episode 7, “A Thousand Yards,” sees the agency under attack from an unknown threat who seems to have intimate knowledge of its history. This prompts Alden Parker’s team to dig into the past for clues to solve their case.

Ultimately, NCIS’ 1000th episode features a case that has ties to the very first one that Leroy Jethro Gibbs and his team cracked on screen. In the episode “Yankee White,” the agency responded to the mysterious death of an officer aboard Air Force One. Eventually, they caught a sleeper agent whose plan was to assassinate the president on the plane. While the perpetrator was apprehended, his disillusioned daughter followed in his footsteps and attempted to finish the mission in NCIS season 21. Aside from the actual case, it also marked Gibbs’ first encounter with then-Secret Service agent Caitlin Todd.

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Long before the case is solved, Parker and the agents connect the dots from the succeeding bombings that rocked Washington DC. One of the targets is Todd’s sister’s office. Since he is the only member of the active team who knew the late member of Gibbs’ team, Tim McGee catches up the rest of the squad about her identity and how she ties to the case in the briefest way possible. Interestingly, however, he wraps up his explanation by saying that Todd was her partner, but that cannot be further from the truth, primarily because of the timeline.

Despite Gibbs catching the suspect, Todd still lost her job at the Secret Service. This led to her joining the original NCIS team under Mark Harmon’s character. At that point, Tim still wasn’t a member of the core squad. While his character debuted in NCIS season 1, he wasn’t introduced until much later in the year. Even then, he was mostly a recurring character, only popping in whenever the case of the week needed his expertise. By the time he joined Gibbs’ original team, McGee became a probie — a role he played for several years beyond Todd’s death.

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While McGee wasn’t Todd’s partner, it doesn’t mean that she didn’t have one. When she joined, she was partnered with Tony DiNozzo Jr., who was the most senior member of Gibbs team then. Granted that NCIS doesn’t have a strict buddy system as agents can work on their own, Todd and DiNozzo worked in tandem for the most part of her time in the agency. In any case, there wasn’t much option for either of them. Gibbs had a small squad. Ducky Mallard and Abby Sciuto worked in the labs, leaving the pair to be the only field agents.