Season 1:
- Your basic probie, he has no stomach for acid covered victims and tends to follow Tony's word on everything, is a genius though which you can see Gibbs likes, especially when he discovers the identity of who is soon to be their worst enemy - Ari Haswari.
- Thinks Abby is cute and goes out with her, even getting a tattoo saying "MOM" on his butt. Towards the end of the season Abby tells Kate that they were at a coffee house poetry reading thing, and he told Abby he really likes her, and she says "Thanks?" In the finale he sleeps at her house, in her coffin- but he doesn't find out that it was a coffin until the next day.
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Season 2:
- He joins the team in See No Evil. He is often picked on by both Tony and Kate, so still not the gutsiest yet, but seems to be breaking out a bit, especially on his first case in Witness.
- In Red Cell, Frankel who is called "Urkel" by Tony gets McGee mad because he outsmarted him and almost got him fired and gets back at him by telling him to turn around and Tony slaps the cuffs on him.
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Season 3:
- He has grown up a bit. McGee is able to look at Kate's dead body, something we probably never would have seen in Season 1.
- Seems to be taking to their newest member, Ziva, nicely as it seems to be another step up from his probie stage. He's gotten confident since he is no longer the newbie.
- McGee was interrogated for a murder, which he was on the scene of, and is unsure if his shot was the kill shot. Tony and Ziva doubt McGee's liability. As Gibbs tells Ziva when Ziva distrusts McGee: "McGee is not your father and he is not Ari. McGee doesn't know how to lie." McGee shows great remorse and anxiety over the death of the person he potentially murdered. Tony even shows up to McGee's apartment to try to cheer him up.
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Season 4:
- In Season 4 there was definite chemistry between him and Abby. But, in an episode where people are dying in the same ways as characters in his newest novel, we find that Abby cannot/will not marry poor McGee. However, we know that when they first met, they slept together in her "box sofa" bed which McGee later finds out was the coffin that Abby uses for a bed. She points out that he did more than sleep in it. She also used to stay at his place and left behind a toothbrush (I think I am right in saying it wasn't actually Abby's toothbrush? She claims it isn't, if this is the ladybird toothbrush that is featured in the episode where she is being stalked --Miss Lena) (there is only one bed in McGee's apartment). We know that he declared how much he liked her and spooked her (because she tells Kate all about it in season 1 or 2). She wishes that men could just have sex and not want more.
- Tells Tony off for being too bossy when Gibbs quits the team. Is no longer afraid of him as well. Goes against policy for his little sister which improves on his confidence meter and is becoming very rich and famous which shows in his confidence when we find out about Thom E. Gemcity and Deep Six.
- Stops wearing ties and we finally see him drive a car.
- McGee is self-aware at some levels. He had a very traditional form of family, where the kids discussed their day with their parents and hid few things from them. He comments to Ziva, in Series 5 Episode 1, that "My parents raised a gentleman, and yours raised a killer" (thus he will give way to her and answer her question first as per her demand). He is loyal to his family, including his sister. He trusts his sister and puts his job on the line for her, going so far as to quit when the Director pushes him to put the NCIS before his family loyalty. Gibbs challenges him for keeping secrets and not going to Gibbs for help straight away: McGee, in his normal brutally honest fashion, explains that he could not take the risk, even with trusting Gibbs, when his sister's freedom was at stake. This extreme form of loyalty is something Gibbs can understand and so Gibbs accepts McGee's apology . It is a key moment in the development of the relationship, because McGee is not prone to standing up to Gibbs although he is prone to honesty.
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Season 5:
- Gibbs recognizes that, although McGee is very smart, he is not very street savvy and he is not a dominant personality. McGee recognizes this about himself, going so far as to invest in audio lessons in "How To Be An Alpha Male". Gibbs gives McGee tests which he knows McGee will pass, and builds McGee's confidence. But they are real tests where McGee has to exercise real judgement. In one episode, the test is to run a case and make all the decisions. Gibbs is, in effect, teaching McGee to not only trust his brain but to trust his gut instincts.
- Tony, in his extreme sport of making McGee's life difficult, accuses McGee of being effeminate. McGee goes overboard, trying to be macho. Gibbs warns him that he is "Trying too hard". But even Tony admits, on occasion, that McGee can be intimidating. He rarely gets to interrogate suspects but, when left alone with a school bully, McGee exacts revenge for all the bullying he himself suffered at school. The sincerity of McGee is sufficient to persuade the bully to tell what he knows.
- McGee genuinely enjoys cerebral activity. He loves to meet clever people and admire their work: in Honor Code, he is excited about the missing Navy Commander's dual PhD and starts to explain the content of the thesis to Gibbs. Gibbs is utterly uninterested and cuts him off. He takes pleasure in his computer work and gets excited firing ideas off alongside Abby.
- McGee's lack of street smarts shines through on occasion and makes Gibbs blink. When taking on the South American gang that has killed a marine, Gibbs threatens them with terrorist status and a trip to Gitmo. McGee, almost within their hearing, queries how they can get a terrorist charge. Gibbs hustles McGee into the car and tells him to be silent. And remarks, to the world at large, "Unbelievable!" in exasperated tones. In Angel of Death (finale of Series 4), Gibbs has McGee sign a "get out of jail free" letter and then hack into the CIA database and communications system, to find out what the CIA are looking for in relation to Dir Shepard. When Gibbs issues the order to search on Jenny's name, Gibbs has his back to McGee but doesn't have to turn around to know that McGee is standing open mouthed in disbelief: Gibbs says"When you look at me like that, McGee, I get this overwhelming urge to slap you" ...which makes McGee comply with the demand and start hacking the CIA for info about his own Director (i.e. doing something to bring down the wrath of CIA and the wrath of NCIS, if caught)
- McGee greatest naivete is in his book writing. One of the few times he lies is when he lies to himself about having based his national best selling book, Deep Six, on his colleagues. Even when forced to admit that he has given LJ Tibbs a love interest ("An army Lieutenant....(pause...Gibbs stares at McGee...McGee adds)....Colonel") McGee hesitates to admit the lover has the same rank as Gibbs' new girlfriend, yet he still tries to hide from himself that he has stolen his friends lives and put them in his books. The fictional things he has those friends do in his books tends to offend them even more than his use of real life (Pimmy Jalmer - based on Jimmy Palmer - is described as having sex with dead people, to Palmer's distress - and McGee writing Tony and Ziva's characters -Tommy and Lisa - as hiding feelings for each other is a hilarious cause for fury between the two of them).
- We know that McGee loves the Harry Potter novels: he is initially delighted when Ziva mentions them ("do you read them too?") and then, when Ziva looks askance, mutters "me neither" in an attempt to hide his interest. He likes science fantasy. He has more imagination than the others give him credit, but it is structured imagination that lets him logic out what happens with fictional characters (oh hey...just like we do on this wiki. Fancy that.)
- Seems to be the only one unable to accept Tony's death (besides Abby). Probably still guilty from the SWAK episode. Seems to be more of a smart alec now though.
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Season 6:
- Season begins with McGee being called "Boss" by fellow computer geeks in the cyber-crimes unit. This makes McGee feel good about himself yet embarrassed when Gibbs is around. This shows he still has enormous respect for Gibbs the true "Boss". Was given a special assignment by Director Vance which he didn't tell Gibbs about even though he wanted to, shows he has learned to act on his own actions instead of always seeking direction from Gibbs.
- Misses being with Gibbs and the team as he regularly keeps in touch with them, tells Gibbs he wants to be back working with him and "even Tony".
- Is able to stick up for himself at the women's prison in the episode "Caged"
- at the end of "Caged, he tells what the repairman should do to avoid problems and Dinozzo is surprised and Abby likes that time in the slammer changed him.
- Was 12 years old at Christmas 1989, which makes him born in 1977. "Love & War"
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Season 7:
- In Truth or Consequences (7.01), He goes to Somalia with DiNozzo to find Saleem to confirm that he is there and wound up getting captured and get tortured and get rescued by Gibbs and the assault teams. First time he traveled outside the country, like he should have volunteered to go to Baghdad in "In The Zone".
- In Truth or Consequences he is now on level ground with Tony, being treated like a man, he finally grew a pair.
- He starts to stand up to Tony and found out that Tony was the one that planted the virus in his computer.
- Meets a girl and goes out with her, but finds out she is using him to find Kai and is about to shoot McGee, but Kai saves him.
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