Past, Present, and Future (NCIS)

The episode is written by Gary Glasberg, Scott Williams and Gina Lucita Monreal and directed by James Whitmore, Jr., and was seen by 19.98 million viewers.

[1] Gibbs and the team continue the hunt for Parsa and his growing terrorist ring while Tony heads to Israel to track down Ziva.

Meanwhile, Gibbs continues to try to track down Parsa and the men responsible for the bombing that killed SECNAV Clayton Jarvis.

They discover that Tomás Mendez, the member of an anti-terrorist business organization, is a potential target, and Fornell is assigned to be his bodyguard.

"Past, Present, and Future" was written by Gary Glasberg, Scott Williams and Gina Lucita Monreal and directed by James Whitmore, Jr.

[7] Gary Glasberg wrote a letter to the fans, and started with "That was quite a summer, [...] I did not plan on the departure of Ziva David".

When it was announced, Glasberg had to change the story and start "making this work and handling the situation with the utmost care and delicacy".

[8] "Past, Present, and Future" was seen by 19.98 million live viewers following its broadcast on October 1, 2013, with a 3.5/11 share among adults aged 18 to 49.

[10] Joyce Eng and Kate Stanhope from TV Guide named it the week's "Most Underwhelming Exit", saying, "On NCIS, Tony tracks down an MIA Ziva -- who's on a soul-searching trip to her native Israel -- based on a dream he had (yeah, we know) and tries in vain to convince her to return with him to D.C.