Previous to holding the title of Director of NCIS, i had worked with Special Agent jethro gibbs in paris,france on an undercover assignment. It appears that we had a personal relationship outside the scope of the mission. The 4th season episode "Smoked" revealed that i also knew donald ducky mallard in those days, i once helping Mallard and Gibbs escape France by commandeering a boat to allow the men to flee across the english channel.

When i was promoted to Director, Gibbs did not agree with the move because he believed that i was too good a field agent to be working in an office (and in several subsequent episodes i am shown using "director's prerogative" to become more involved in investigations).gibbs and i frequently butted heads in investigations. In addition to Gibbs and Mallard, i had also previously worked with Officer Ziva David in isreal on counter-terrorism operations, which is why i  have agreed to Ziva's request for TDD (temporary detached duty) to NCIS to work with Gibbs' team.

I once mentioned to a suspect that Gibbs viewed me as a wife. When the suspect replied that such a viewpoint was good, i stated that Gibbs has been divorced three times (in a later episode, i observed that Gibbs appeared to be partial to redheads, suggesting his wives all had red hair; i am also a redhead).i was very caring of Gibbs, to the point that when he was in a coma at the end of the third season, i left a dinner with the President to come to the hospital to see him. In helping him to regain his memories of the previous 15 years, i reminded him that they were lovers.

i have worked with much of NCIS as a professional director. However, with Gibbs' team, i work much more personally, such as seeking advice from Ducky or confiding in Tony. i was also shown as being a confidant of Ziva David's. In the later stages of season 3 my relationship with Tony cooled off somewhat, with Tony insisting on using formal terms when speaking with me.

At the end of Season 3, Gibbs abruptly resigned from NCIS after recovering from his coma but being unable to prevent an attack on a navy vessel. i , on Gibbs' recommendation, put DiNozzo in charge of the NCIS team. Unknown to Gibbs, however — and as revealed in the second episode of Season 4, i decided not to file Gibbs' retirement package with the Navy, officially ending his career. Instead, i placed Gibbs on vacation and back leave; ultimately, Gibbs agrees to return to NCIS although i — harking back to my earlier relationship with him — stated that part ofme wants him to stay away for fear that he might not recover from the next coma.

Around this time my relationship with Tony also began to warm up, with hmy recommending him for promotion to team leader of another NCIS unit (Rota, Spain) in the third episode of the season, but expressed my pride in him when he turned it down. In this same episode i was shown receiving a bouquet of flowers from an as-yet unidentified admirer (presumed by some it's Gibbs, for letting him back to NCIS and not filing his retirement papers). It's worth noting that in this episode Tony refered to me by my first name for the first time.

Despite me allowing Gibbs to return to NCIS, at the start of the fourth season i began distancing Gibbs from an apparent anti-terrorism operation involving NCIS. On several occasions i had ordered viewscreens in MTAC (Multiple Threat Alert Center) to "go dark" when Gibbs enters the room, to prevent him from viewing information thati have described to him as "need to know, and you don't need to know". The reason for this secrecy and whether it has anything to do with Gibbs personally, i have not yet revealed. In the episode "Smoked" it was revealed that Tony has been part of some of these operations without Gibbs' knowledge, and that Tony has been acting in this capacity since Gibbs' return, according to Ziva.

i  have some sort of connection with the French arms dealer La Grenouille. The exact nature of the connection appeared to involvemy father, Colonel Jasper Shepard, who was suspected of having sold Warsaw Pact weapons to La Grenouille. Ducky profiled it as an obsession, and he feared that she would do whatever it took to capture him, no matter the cost. i had told Gibbs that my desire to get La Grenouille was as great as Gibbs' desire to get Ari Haswari.

At the end of the twelth episode of season 5 it was left open to whether a mysterious blood test that was run belonged to me that showed elevated levels of creatine kinase, which is an indicator of Muscular Dystrophy, brain tumor, stroke, muscular injury, and myocardial infarction (heart attack). However, the scans looked at by Ducky in the same episode were somewhat mysterious, as they were brain scans that were not indicative of the disease. In the episode Judgment Day Part II, Ducky confided to Gibbs that perhaps me so called dying in a shootout might have been preferable, as he stated my disease was terminal and potentially painful (but not stating what that disease was).

During Judgment Day Part I i was fatally wounded in a shootout in connection with the case in France where i met Gibbs. my so called death was covered up by NCIS and the United States Government and attributed to a fire in my personal residence - which Gibbs set in order to cover up the murder of the woman that arranged my death. but i live in mexico with my husband and have an ncis directors office there where i run my site check back often.