Extreme Prejudice (NCIS)
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Episode 1
| "Extreme Prejudice" | |
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| NCIS episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 10 Episode 1 |
| Directed by | Tony Wharmby |
| Written by | Gary Glasberg |
| Original air date | September 25, 2012 |
| Guest appearances | |
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"Extreme Prejudice" is the first episode of the tenth season of the American police procedural drama NCIS, and the 211th episode overall. It originally aired on CBS in the United States on September 25, 2012. The episode is written by Gary Glasberg and directed by Tony Wharmby, and was seen by 20.48 million viewers.[1][2]
In this episode, NCIS and the FBI hunt down Harper Dearing after being ordered by the President to "terminate him with extreme prejudice" for the NCIS bombing.
Following the events of the season nine finale, the NCIS team regroup in the aftermath of the Navy Yard bombing. Gibbs, Abby, and Vance escape the explosion with only a few cuts, while McGee is hospitalized after being impaled in the stomach by a shard of glass. Ziva and Tony remain unaccounted for, trapped in an elevator, though they are able to escape. At the same time in Florida, Ducky manages to survive his heart attack, while Palmer is forced to leave his side and return to the Navy Yard to autopsy the dead. Angered by the bombing of the Navy Yard and NCIS Headquarters, SECNAV Clayton Jarvis conveys that the President has authorized the use of "extreme prejudice" to bring Dearing to justice. The FBI, CIA, and Homeland Security are called in to aid in the hunt for Harper Dearing, with FBI Agent and Gibbs' close friend Tobias Fornell leading the effort. Dearing sets a trap, however, that results in the murder of multiple FBI agents. Realizing that Dearing simply wants to be left alone, now that he has accomplished all he set out to do, NCIS creates a fake announcement that they have arrested Dearing's ex-wife for aiding and abetting, in hopes of forcing Dearing to continue playing the game that he started. However, the pursuit ends when Dearing seemingly kills himself to avoid capture.
Two months later, Gibbs is still unconvinced of Dearing's death, his suspicions confirmed when Ducky and Palmer discover the dead body is not Dearing, but rather his previously deceased brother. After Gibbs puts pressure on Dearing's sister-in-law Joann to reveal his location, NCIS and FBI raid Dearing's bomb-making cabin in the Appalachians, only to find that he has once again eluded them. Gibbs convinces Vance that the only way to approach Dearing is to approach him alone; Vance hesitantly agrees, and Gibbs is finally able to confront Dearing, who compares himself with Gibbs and the pain of unjustly losing a child. Gibbs stabs and kills Dearing in self-defense before Dearing can shoot him, as the latter man planned to do, ending Dearing's threat permanently. The episode ends in late September with Gibbs passing by a memorial to the victims of the bombing, while a conversation between Dearing and his deceased son Evan plays in the background.
