2010 NCIS "Rule 51" Season Finale Provides Closure

The 2010 NCIS season finale provided a nice end to the seventh season. The 2010 NCIS season finale might not be considered ground-breaking by any means, but there were several new story arcs that could really add interesting sub-plots to the eighth season of the show. There are going to be a few spoilers from the seventh season finale ahead, so be prepared for that if you want to keep on reading news about one of the more intriguing episodes.

Heading into the 2010 NCIS season finale, there had been a number of rumors that a major character was going to die, and when contract talks stalled between some of the stars and producers, it seemed like fuel to that rumor. Well let's put your mind at ease and reveal that no major character lost their life in the NCIS season finale. A supporting character did die in the form of Colonel Merton Bell (played by Robert Patrick), but that was a death that many fans might have cheered due to his nefarious existence on the show.

In the episode leading up to the 2010 NCIS season finale, Special Agent Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) found himself at the wrong end of a gun in Mexico. It turned out that one of the people working for Colonel Bell was pulling double-duty for a Mexican drug cartel. They took in Gibbs to try and blackmail him into helping them as a liaison in Washington D.C. He didn't play ball very well though, but was allowed to go back to Washington under the threat that he would have his family and friends attacked if he didn't work for them.

At the very end of the episode, it was revealed that the report that stated Gibbs had killed the man in Mexico who killed his family some years ago had not made it through the pipeline. It turned out that Margaret Allison Hart, who had been the lawyer for Bell and had been following Gibbs, had come into possession of it. She turned a friendly hand to Gibbs, acting as though she would help beat it. Just before everything went to credits, the scene switched to a candy shop where the father of Gibbs was working. It was then that the head of the Mexican cartel walked in his store.