NCIS - 915 Life Before His Eyes 200th Episode

Nine Seasons, 200th Episodes and still going strong, with 20 million viewers every week, NCIS is a house hold name. Each week brings something new and exciting. This week the Cast and Crew were celebrating their 200th Episode. A milestone that many don't get to reach and certainly not while they are the number one TV drama.

The show took a look at what life would have been like if team leader Leroy Jethro Gibbs had made different choices, how it would have affected everyone around him. What if he had seen Ari before Ari had a chance to kill Kate? What if he never killed the man who murdered his family? What if Ziva was never part of NCIS? What if Gibbs had never join NIS? Where would that have left everyone? Would it still lead them all down a path that would at some point have them interact with one another?

In the first scenario, What if Gibbs at seen Ari and was able to protect his team? You got to see what would have happened if Kate Todd was still alive. Not only was she still an Agent, but married to Tony DiNozzo with a new born baby. Not only that but you got to see that McGee and Abby also ended up together. It just meant Ziva never joined the team, there for she was still in Mossad. If Ziva was never part of NCIS, then a lot of things never happened. One of the big things that comes to mind is Michael Rivkin. If Ziva was still part of Mossad, then everything that happened with NCIS, Tony, Ziva and Michael never happened. Wither or not she still dated him, we didn't get enough information for that one. Things we do know is that without Gibbs not seeing Ari and Kate Todd’s death, Ziva would not be the Agent or person she is today.

In the second scenario, What if Gibbs never killed the man who murdered his family? Though the show only mentions Abby knowing about the secret, Jenny took it to her grave and Ducky still knows. In fact Ducky knew the moment Jenny said that they never found their killer that Gibbs would have gotten his revenge. This what if showed that if Gibbs never murdered Hernandez that the loss of Shannon and Kelly would soon be too much and he wouldn't be able to take it anymore. It looks like Gibbs still had joined NIS, but somewhere along the way Gibbs left NCIS, leaving behind everything he's had. Once again Kate is alive and she's just had a baby. Abby tells Gibbs that Kate named her daughter Kelly and wither or not in this what if is Kate married to Tony, don't think it was actually told, but it was most likely implied. This scenario showed more of the impact it would have if Gibbs let his grief consume him.

In the third scenario, What if Gibbs never lost Shannon and Kelly? It showed us that not only would Gibbs have not joined NIS, but he would have stayed a marine. Though he would have had his girls, it would have ended up being them that had to deal with the loss. That Gibbs would never have changed the lives of Tony, Kate, McGee, Abby, Ducky and Ziva. That he would have no team and all the lives that he changed, touched and saved would never have happened. He might have saved two lives, but lost all the other lives.

Though each scenario had its own theme, it all proved that though the choices you make might not seem all that important to you sometimes, they are that important. If one thing didn’t happen or one thing wasn't said or done, then things could have ended up much different. That you don't realize the true impact you have on someone’s life. Gibbs has learned that he had impacted so many different people that if he changed one thing in his life everything would change. That in the end he wouldn’t want to change a thing, because everything that has happened in his life had taken him to where he was and it was a good place.