This is a list of episodes for the fifth season of the police procedural

Police procedural

The police procedural is a subgenre of detective fiction which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. While traditional detective novels usually concentrate on a single crime, police procedurals frequently depict investigations into several...

 drama

Drama

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 NCIS

NCIS (TV series)

NCIS, formerly known as NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural drama television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S...

. The fifth season premiered on September 25, 2007 and marks the end of Donald Bellisario

Donald Bellisario

Donald Paul Bellisario is an American television producer and screenwriter who created and sometimes wrote episodes for the TV series Magnum, P.I., Airwolf, Quantum Leap, JAG, and NCIS...

's involvement as show runner

Show runner

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. It concludes the La Grenouille storyline which ended with a cliffhanger

Cliffhanger

A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma, or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction...

 in season four's finale, "Angel of Death". The fifth season also reveals more background information about Gibbs

Leroy Jethro Gibbs

Leroy Jethro Gibbs is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the CBS TV series NCIS. He is portrayed by Mark Harmon.-Background:...

' past before NCIS.

The strike-shortened

2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike

The 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, more commonly referred to as simply the Writers' Strike, was a strike by the Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West ....

 season ended with its 19th episode on May 20, 2008; the strike-caused gap is between episodes 11 and 12. The season ended with a two-part season finale

Season finale

A season finale is the final episode of a season of a television program...

 called "Judgment Day". The season featured the departure of recurring characters Colonel Hollis Mann and Jeanne Benoit, as well as the death of Jenny Shepard, one of the main characters.The Writer Guild strike limited episode production and the DVD set had only five discs instead of six.

From this season on, the opening sequence was shorted to an even 30 second duration instead of the normal 37-44 second duration in the previous seasons.

Cast

Character	Portrayed by	Main cast	Recurring cast
Leroy Jethro Gibbs Leroy Jethro Gibbs Leroy Jethro Gibbs is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the CBS TV series NCIS. He is portrayed by Mark Harmon.-Background:...	Mark Harmon Mark Harmon Mark Harmon is an American actor who has been starring in American television programs and films since the mid-1970s, after a career as a collegiate football player with the UCLA Bruins. Since 2003, Harmon has starred as Leroy Jethro Gibbs in the CBS series NCIS.-Early life:Harmon was born Thomas...	entire season
Anthony DiNozzo Anthony DiNozzo Anthony "Tony" D. DiNozzo Jr. is a fictional character from the CBS TV series NCIS. He is portrayed by Michael Weatherly.-Background:Tony comes from a wealthy family from Long Island, New York. He is an only child, but has been cut off from his family's fortune. His mother, maiden name Paddington,...	Michael Weatherly Michael Weatherly Michael Manning Weatherly, Jr. is an American actor, best known for his roles as Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo on the television series NCIS, and Logan Cale on the television series Dark Angel.-Early life:...	entire season
Ziva David Ziva David Ziva David is a fictional character from the NCIS television series by CBS Television, portrayed by Chilean actress Coté de Pablo....	Cote de Pablo Cote de Pablo María José de Pablo Fernández, better known as Coté de Pablo , is a Chilean-American actress and recording artist. De Pablo has won an ALMA Award for her role as NCIS Special Agent Ziva David in the television series NCIS...	entire season
Abby Sciuto Abby Sciuto Abigail "Abby" Sciuto is a fictional character from the NCIS television series by CBS Television, and is portrayed by Pauley Perrette. Like Jethro Gibbs, Anthony DiNozzo and Donald Mallard, Abby was first introduced in the episodes "Ice Queen" and "Meltdown" in the television show JAG, and has...	Pauley Perrette Pauley Perrette Pauley Perrette is an American actress, best known for playing Abby Sciuto[p] on the U.S. TV series NCIS, a role that has made her the most popular actress on U.S. primetime television. She is also a published writer, a singer and civil rights advocate.-Early life:Perrette was born in New Orleans...	entire season
Timothy McGee Timothy McGee Timothy "Tim" McGee is a fictional character from the CBS television series NCIS. He is portrayed by Sean Murray. Timothy McGee is a special agent investigating crime in this police procedural show...	Sean Murray	entire season
Jennifer Shepard	Lauren Holly Lauren Holly Lauren Michael Holly is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Deputy Sheriff Maxine Stewart in the TV series Picket Fences, as Mary Swanson in the 1994 film Dumb & Dumber, and as Jenny Shepard on the TV series NCIS. She was married to comic actor Jim Carrey from 1996 to...	entire season
Donald 'Ducky' Mallard	David McCallum David McCallum David Keith McCallum, Jr. is a Scottish actor and musician. He is best known for his roles as Illya Kuryakin, a Russian-born secret agent, in the 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., as interdimensional operative Steel in Sapphire & Steel, and Dr...	entire season
Jimmy Palmer	Brian Dietzen Brian Dietzen Brian Dietzen is an American actor who has played the supporting role of Jimmy Palmer on NCIS since 2004.-Early life:Dietzen was born in Colorado...		entire season
Leon Vance	Rocky Carroll Rocky Carroll Roscoe "Rocky" Carroll is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Joey Emerson on the FOX comedy-drama Roc, as Dr. Keith Wilkes on the medical drama Chicago Hope, and as Leon Vance on the CBS drama NCIS and its spinoff NCIS: Los Angeles.-Early life:Carroll was born Roscoe Fulton Carroll...		episode 14 onwards

Episodes

No. in series		|Title		|Written by		|U.S. viewers (millions)

Special Features on DVD

• Cast and Crew Commentaries on Selected Episodes
• Requiem Revisited
• N.C.I.S. Season 5: Stem to Stern
• The Dressing Room: The Costumes and Wardrobe of N.C.I.S.
• N.C.I.S. on Location
• From Pauley to Abby: Hairspray, Lipstick and Tattoos