NCIS’s storyline of Ziva’s captivity began with her return to Mossad, but its long-lasting effects included her becoming an NCIS agent and survivor.
NCIS season 6 ended with Ziva’s return to Mossad after Tony killed her boyfriend, Mossad officer Michael Rivkin. She was then captured by terrorist Saleem Ulman during a mission to take him down.
NCIS’s storyline of Ziva’s captivity began with her return to Mossad, but its long-lasting effects included her becoming an NCIS agent and survivor.
However, the show goes beyond the circumstances of Ziva’s captivity and instead explores the changes in her identity and conflicting loyalties to Mossad and NCIS.
NCIS, season 7, episode 4, “Good Cop Bad Cop” unearths Mossad’s secretive mission on the voyage to Somalia where she and other officers killed the entire ship’s crew.
Ziva and Gibbs also realize that her father, Mossad director Eli David, wanted to pin the blame of the mission on her so that she would not leave Mossad. The episode ends with her addressing her pain and the approval of her application to become an NCIS agent.