It was an unseasonably warm Friday night for March. To make things more unusual, NCIS Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs was hosting a poker game at his house.
The players were Gibbs; NCIS Director Jenny Shepard; NCIS Deputy Director Leon Vance; Gibbs' Senior Field Agent Tony DiNozzo; Tobias C. Fornell (from the FBI); Abby Sciuto, NCIS Forensics Analyst; Agent Ziva David; Mike Franks, Gibbs' mentor; Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard, the NCIS Medical Examiner; and Mossad Director Eli David.
"Ladies and gentlemen," Gibbs said, "I make it 1900 hours. We're all assembled. Let's begin."