Jimmy Palmer actor Brian Dietzen told me that NCIS’s 500th episode would be “very atypical” compared to the show’s past milestone episodes, and man, he was not kidding. Wi

The milestone 500th episode featured an unexpected character's death

“NCIS” dropped a bombshell Tuesday night — and this time, it wasn’t the explosive kind.

NCIS killed off Director Vance in a shocking twist for the 500th episode, and Rocky Carroll shared his initial reaction of asking why Vance had to die.

No major character has gone out onscreen on "NCIS" for a long time -- and certainly not in the way that it happens in the show's 500th episode.

NCIS celebrated a milestone on CBS, airing its 500th episode, and it killed off one of the beloved characters from the long-running military police procedural.

With its 500th episode, which features a major character death, the show ranks among the longest-running scripted, live-action American prime-time series.

It was basically presented to me that the studio and the network wanted to do something really spectacular, really big, and something that would really send shockwaves through the ‘NCIS’ fan base and the community,

Although it's been a while since Pauley Perrette's Abby Sciuto exited "NCIS," the show's 500th episode managed to pay homage to the popular investigator.