She’s smart, funny, and tough, and she does it all without even having daddy issues. Ziva who?
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When Cote de Pablo left NCIS after eight seasons and took the tough-talking Ziva David with her, the show's central crime-solving team was short its female agent. The replacement they settled on in Season 11 was Emily Wickersham's Ellie Bishop, an NSA analyst who appeared mid-season looking for an acronym change.
Wickersham, who looks like she's in her twenties, is working opposite Agents DiNozzo and McGee (Michael Weatherly and Sean Murray, respectively); both the agents on her level look markedly older than she does. Ellie appears to be an obvious ploy to inject youth into the office: She works sitting cross-legged on the floor; she wears ripped jeans and plaid shirts; she listens to music at work. But, though she appeared out of place on NCIS at first, she quickly became the best part of the show.
She's instantly coded as a Gibbsian hero.
She's sitting on the floor working and listening to music when we first see her; a co-worker intentionally startles her. This is her first line: "I thought we discussed Rule No. 1, Flyn. When my earbuds are in, flash the desk light."
She's not only setting a boundary, she's also laying bare the code she lives by, just like the older, masculine Gibbs (Mark Harmon). And since she lives by her own code, she'll question Gibbs' authority.
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She's a damn genius.
Her NSA boss describes her as a "reclusive data freak" — he calls her reclusive presumably because the writers of NCIS don't know what "reclusive" means, but he calls her a data freak because she is smart as hell. She's an excellent NSA analyst, and that's because she's a genius. She studies data and people intensely and predicts future events. She dreams up smart crimes and writes papers about them. She's pleased when she's right about stuff. A cocky lady — it's so refreshing.
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