Guest Stars

Aaron Hill As Marine Lieutenant Abernathy	Chris Brochu As Navy Petty Officer Simon Allen
DeSean Terry As Navy Petty Officer Lambert	Ellary Porterfield As Navy Petty Officer Smalls
Karl Makinen As Master Chief Brown	Leonard Robinson As Marine Staff Sergeant Jefferies
Shashawnee Hall As Contractor Leonard Wall	Todd Grant Kimsey As XO

Main Cast

Linda Hunt As Henrietta "Hetty" Lange	LL Cool J As Special Agent Sam Hanna
Chris O'Donnell As Special Agent "G" Callen	Daniela Ruah As Special Agent Kensi Blye
Eric Christian Olsen As LAPD Detective Martin A. "Marty" Deeks	Barrett Foa As Tech Operator Eric Beal
Renée Felice Smith As Intelligence Analyst Nell Jones

Recap

The episode begins on an aircraft carrier where two officers get into a fight. The XO is not happy and wants a full report on it. Next, we see that one of the officers is found dead. At the precinct, Kensi tells Deeks that she has no plans this year as she is planning to spend Christmas with her mother. Deeks asks her to get her mom along for snowboarding and also spend some time in his cabin. Nell arrives and tells them that they are being called to the ops. At the ops, Eric tells the team that NCIS special agent Jason Niles who was afloat was found dead and the COD is blunt force trauma. ..

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• Creator	Don McGill  |  Shane Brennan  |  Donald P. Bellisario
• Executive Producer	John Peter Kousakis  |  Shane Brennan  |  R. Scott Gemmill
• Co-Executive Producer	Frank Military
• Supervising Producer	Cheo Hodari Coker
• Producer	Dave Kalstein  |  David Bellisario  |  Rick Tunell
• Co-Producer	Joseph C. Wilson  |  Erik Whitmyre
• Consulting Producer	Joe Sachs  |  Gil Grant
• Production Designer	Thomas Fichter
• Editor	Robert Florio
• Music	Jay Ferguson (1)
• Director of Photography	Victor Hammer