re: Ziva & DiNozzo set to resume roles...

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mark harmon and pauley perret couldn't be bothered to pay tribute to mccallum?

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Pauley has said she is done with the show and will never be back. After Harmon's dog bit someone and no one seemed to care, she was hasta la taillights.

I think I saw that the showrunner said that bringing Harmon back was considered, but that considering Gibbs and Ducky's long friendship, they would have needed to tell the story through Gibbs's eyes, and they wanted to let it be told through Palmer's lens. I think that was especially true given that Brian Dietzen co-wrote the episode.