God, sometimes I really can't stand Tony and Gibbs. Both annoyingly insensitive and in addition the latter is a grumpy old man before he's even properly old.
Rewatching stuff one episode after another makes noticing some things easier: Season 9 went really crazy with the Tony/Ziva stuff, and at the end not anymore. That was weird. Instead there was Jamie Lee Curtis's character for Gibbs. Dorneget was great. And then suddenly gone again. I wonder if they'd brought the character into the show as a red herring, if they wanted to make it look like they'd set him up to be the replacement for a main character who would die in the deadly season finale.

OMG, HOW COULD THEY EVER CANCEL THIS SHOW?!