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Mike Franks

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Mike Franks is played by Muse Watson

Occupation/Title: NIS agent (retired), Former Marine, Vietnam Veteran

Personality type: Organized, true blue, direct, and compassionate.

Signature look: Scruffy with his western style suit and cowboy boots

Endearing trait(s): loyal, good sense of humor, calls Gibbs probie

Annoying trait(s): smoked cigarettes too long......

CHARACTER CONNECTIONS

Family members:

Son, Corporal Liam Michael O'Neill (deceased)
Iraqi daughter-in-law
granddaughter (Gibbs is her godfather)

Romance(s):

Mother of his son (he didn't know she was pregnant when he left her)
From Hiatus II:

Franks: My brother and I married the same woman twice.
Gibbs: Twice!
Franks: She was a hell of a woman, Probie.

Friends:

Gibbs
Camilla Charro (the waitress who teases him, plays receptionist and delivers groceries)
Jenny
Abby

Enemies:

old spooks who got in the way
anyone who hurts his friends or family
Arkady Kobach kept him awake for 15 years until Franks shot him

Character Backstory:

Season 1:

Season 2:

Season 3:

Franks first appears in Hiatus I and Hiatus II. He is introduced through a series of flashbacks. Franks was the NIS agent at Camp Pendleton investigating Kelly and Shannon's death. Gibbs came to ask him questions and he was unable to answer. He "left" the room, leaving the sniper file on the desk. This ability to bend the rules when he feels it best serves justice is a trait he obviously shares with Gibbs.
Gibbs joined NIS because of Franks, he was the Probie. According to Franks "I investigated crime scenes. You schlepped." He even tells Gibbs "Never say you're sorry. It's a sign of weakness." Franks retired to Mexico in 1996 after his warnings about the Khobar Towers were ignored. He has since cut himself off from "El Norte," building himself a place on a beach in Baja. "No TV, no radio, no newspapers. I fish. I drink beer. Listen to old eight track tapes. Drive to a cantina up the coast when I want company… when the pickup’s running."
Jenny calls him in Hiatus I, asking him to return in the hopes of jogging Gibbs memory. He is shocked to find that NCIS is now run by a woman.

Season 4:

It is to Franks that Gibbs goes when he retires. He has been staying with Franks 4 months by the time Ziva calls in Shalom. Gibbs has been trying to fix the roof, hurricane season is coming and the house is rotting around them. Franks wants him to lay off, build a hot tub.
The case the team is working in Faking It involves an old case of Franks. He is called back to help the investigation and catch the man who had eluded him before. He comes because “These scumbags have been selling weapons to tyrants and terrorists ever since they gave us the slip … It’s time it ended.” He gives Tony the slip and goes out on his own, bending the rules again to take down the criminal.
In Iceman we find out that Franks has a son which he's only known about for about 2 years. The son was smuggling his Iraqi fiancée and daughter to America when things went wrong and he is left in a coma. Franks risks everything to finish what his son started and to catch his son's killer. His behavior tests his relationship with Gibbs, but Gibbs understands what family means and helps.

Season 5:

Jenny called Franks to help her in "5x18 Judgment Day 1". He was uncertain to help at first but when he found out Gibbs was involved he immediately said he'd help. At the diner, Franks went outside to get water, but when he did the 4 gunmen came in to kill Jenny. Franks fired a few times then later came in and shot the gunmen to make sure they were dead. He "did what he could."

Season 6:

In "6x15 Deliverance", Franks comes back when Gibbs sees his service number in blood and he knew that Rose, the woman that Mike brought from Colombia in 1991, knew that number, but she is dead and Mike did not tell Gibbs that Rose had a son, who was a year old when Mike brought her to the states, knew his number from Rose and Mike helps during the investigation

TRIVIA:

Mike Franks has appeared in 7 episodes (depending on how you want to count): Hiatus I 3x23, Hiatus II 3x24, Shalom 4x01, Faking It 4x04, Iceman 4x18, Judgment Day I 5x18, Judgment Day II 5x19

Franks retires from NCIS in 1996 after the June 25th bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia.

He retires to a beach south of El Rosario. The same place he and Gibbs used to fish.

As a clue for Gibbs he registers at the hotel under the name Camilla Charro. (Faking It)
Takes his coffee black, no sugar.
when he said," Charlie shooting at my ass" means he served a marine in Vietnam. His lighter showed that he was a marine.

UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTER QUOTES

In ‘Nam I packed twice what you’re carrying through monsoon mud with Charlie shooting at my ass and still went faster than you!

How many damn assistants does the Director have?

Sun's hot. Ocean's warm. Beer's cold. Got no complaints.

Tony: You're in safe hands. Franks: I've seen your hands, DiNozzo. They don't impress me.

You know, if I needed to interrogate someone when I worked at Camp Pendleton, I 'D take them into the broom closet with a telephone directory.

DEFINING EPISODES | MEMORABLE SCENES

Faking It / shootingArkady Kobach

Judgement Day I & II / risking his life and helping Jenny because of what she had meant to Gibbs

Hiatus I & II / When Gibbs wants out ....... he comes to Mike Franks.

PHOTOS

Caption	Hiatus II

Hiatus II	Faking It

Faking It	Shalom
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