Last season, NCIS ended with an in-the-middle-of-a-Jack-Bauer-esque-torture-session Ziva, and it picks up a few months later with the same Middle Eastern torturer

Cold open on Ziva driving in her Mini asking for an extraction. The episode opens with her POV during the last minute of last week's episode-

NCIS opens with a intrusion via a dead man smacking into the window looking in at a poker party at Sec Nav's pad with heads of CIA, FBI, and ICE.

The second part of this mediocre two-parter of NCIS begins with Ziva identifying Michael Rivkin (the man Ziva met secretly in the park in the previous installation)

The episode opens on the unfortunate new NCIS spin off crew, in a two episode effort to introduce to you the spin-off of a spin-off… so, really the Bellisario version