In the NCIS episode “She,” a malnourished and confused 9-year-old named Lily Burke (Sunnie Pelant, Bones) is found hiding in a storage unit. The NCIS team believes she might be the daughter of a Navy recruit who disappeared 10 years ago. During the investigation, Bishop (Emily Wickersham) finds notes about the Navy recruit’s disappearance kept by her predecessor Special Agent Ziva David (Cote de Pablo). The former Israeli Mossad officer first appeared on Season 3 of NCIS (2005). The character appears to have been killed in a mortar attack in Israel during Season 11 (2013 — see episode link below). NCIS fans are holding their breath that she didn’t really die and will eventually make a comeback.
Over the past six years, after NCIS, the Chilean-born actress (born María José de Pablo Fernández) has starred in the 2015 CBS mini-series The Dovekeepers as Shirah, the film The 33 with Antonio Banderas about the 33 miners who were trapped underground for 69 days in Chile. Cote de Pablo will appear next in the 2019 film Seneca with Tony Plana (Ugly Betty) and Susan Misner (Billions). NCIS airs Tuesdays at 8 pm on CBS. [Watch It Again: Stream any CBS show through Amazon Prime or CBS ALL-ACCESS. Both options offer free trials.]
In Season 6, as Ziva David, de Pablo sings the Tom Waits song “Temptation”…
