The third season of the
police procedural drama
NCIS was originally broadcast between September 20, 2005 and May 16, 2006 on
CBS. The third season opens in the aftermath of "
Twilight", with the entire team in shock and Gibbs on a vendetta to seek revenge for Kate's murder. Matters are complicated by the intervention of Gibbs' former lover and new NCIS Director
Jenny Shepard, and
Mossad Officer
Ziva David.