The Worst Storyline In NCIS Season 6

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Everyone hated the new team, including Gibbs

Only a few minutes into "NCIS" Season 6, Episode 1 ("Last Man Standing"), it becomes very obvious that something is wrong. Within seconds of laying eyes on the NCIS squad room, viewers should recognize that the new team is an entirely dysfunctional duplicate of the former group. Instead of offering amusing jokes like DiNozzo, NCIS Special Agent Brent Langer (Jonathan PaPaglia) trades obnoxious and moronic taunts with his various coworkers, including McGee and Ziva's respective replicant replacements, NCIS Special Agents Daniel T. Keating (Jonathan Mangum) and Michelle Lee (Liza Lapira). Though Gibbs never seems especially amused by his regular team's office banter either, he appears noticeably more annoyed by the results of these three.

The resulting months apart are fairly traumatic for a variety of NCIS employees, specifically the three directly impacted by the move, as well as Gibbs and NCIS Chief Forensic Analyst Abigail Sciuto (Pauley Perrette). Luckily for NCIS and "NCIS" audiences everywhere, it is eventually revealed that the team's breakup is part of an elaborate ruse to lure out a suspected mole within the agency. By the end of Season 6, Episode 2 ("Agent Afloat"), all three original team members are back in the bullpen. Though it's not immediately clear what becomes of Keating (he is never seen again), neither Lee nor Langer manage to make it out of Season 6 alive (via Villains Fandom).

Though some apparently mourned Langer's loss, it doesn't appear that "NCIS" broke many hearts by removing all three characters in relatively short order.