While in Los Angeles for a former agent's funeral, Jenny realizes a decade-old covert mission she and Gibbs worked on in Paris has resurfaced. Sensing she is being hunted, she ditches her security detail—Tony and Ziva—to handle the threat privately with the help of Mike Franks . The episode ends with a brutal shootout at a desert diner where Jenny successfully kills four assassins but ultimately succumbs to her wounds.
These episodes introduced Leon Vance as a permanent, albeit initially divisive, fixture of the NCIS command. Episode Review. Season 5x18/19 - Judgment Day - LiveJournal [S5E18] (18-19)Judgment Day Part 1-Part 2
The season was shortened due to the 2007–2008 writers' strike , which led to some subplots (like Jenny's illness) being compressed into these final episodes. Viewer Perspectives Major Impact on the Series While in Los Angeles for a former agent's