Why do they call ducky on ncis

However, even I was surprised the depth of my captivation. Jane Doe , he has to have been working for them for at least twelve years. He has a fairly noticeable limp, which seems to increase in prominence as the working day goes on. Ducky comes from a well to do, wealthy family, that employed a variety of servants.

The school is steeped in tradition, and its rather ornate, some might consider old-fashioned uniform, might well have had an impact on the way Ducky dresses today. He would have received a traditional education, in which the Classics would almost certainly have featured.

During his time at Eton he played cricket and ran short distances. What is interesting is that despite the fact that Ducky has been brought up by wealthy parents in a home where there were servants, and went to one of the top Public Schools in the country where at least some of his fellow pupils would have been minor royals or have had titled parents, he is a very down-to-earth man.

There are no elements of snobbery or an 'I'm better than you attitude', about him, quite the opposite. Although he does have a habit of often addressing people by their full forename, e.

Abigail, Caitlin, Timothy, Anthony, at times, rather than by the shortened versions. He is also somewhat old fashioned, extremely courteous and although he clearly believes in equality between men and women, he does also see women as needing to be protected to an extent by men. He says to Gibbs in Kill Ari following Kate's death, that in both Gibbs's and his eyes, women will never be equal to men, until they are equal in death.

However, he is referring to both of them having the in-built belief that really women do need a degree of protection from men, nothing else. He trained as a Doctor at Edinburgh University, where he also played cricket.

His work, according the many of the stories he tells, appears to have taken him around the world. In The Bone Yard , we learn that he also served in a tour of Vietnam.

Whether he has any siblings is a slightly grey area. Also, from what we see of his house, evidence points to him indeed being an only child. His father is deceased, and his parents at some time divorced, seemingly because his father was somewhat miserly with money.

He lives in a large house in Reston, Virginia, and his 96 year-old mother, who is suffering from Alzheimers or some other kind of senility, lives with him, along with her four Corgis.

Although Ducky's mother is suffering with memory problems, there is also evidence that she was always slightly scatty. We learn in Hiatus that when Ducky was a baby she forgot she had him with her, and left him on a bus. There is no evidence that he has ever been married or indeed even involved in any long-term relationship. He tells one or two stories about past young lady friends, is always extremely gallant and courteous to the ladies, chivalrous even, and he clearly enjoys their company, but that appears to be all.

In Heart Break , he has a brief date with a fellow doctor , who later turns out to be responsible for the death of the Naval Commander the team was investigating. The date consisted of a tour of the basement of the Smithsonian Museum, where they also had dinner. Although he clearly liked Janice Byers company, his main interest seemed to be the fact that he could share his fascination with the history of medicine with a fellow doctor.

Indeed at the end of the episode, after it has been revealed that Dr. Byers was responsible for the death of her patient, and Gibbs seems concerned that his friend is upset, Ducky makes it clear that his main problem is that she was going to accompany him to the opera. Especially one you didn't know that well. I have two tickets for the opera tonight. She was going to accompany me. He drives a vintage Morgan, which he restored himself Kill Ari. He also plays golf The Curse and Deception and appears to have some abilities with a sword The Immortals.

He also keeps a supply of alcohol in Autopsy Kill Ari and Untouchable. He also likes books, art and museums, and history, and talks quite passionately about all of them. As well as travelling the world with his job, he also visited nine European cities when he was eighteen, courtesy of his grandfather presenting him with a Eurail pass to celebrate Ducky's advancement to University.

He knows Latin and Greek, and his knowledge would not just have come from his medical studies. He also speaks French, German, Hebrew and Swahili.

From Family Secret. Yeah, I know. He is an expert in his own field, and if one believes his ramblings, an expert in just about every other field too - even tattooing. From Sub Rosa. Remember that discoloration on the forearm we thought might be a birthmark? Well, it wasn't. You know, the history of tattooing is fascinating. There were five, but the Philadelphia left at He is also highly respected within his field and knows a vast number, if not all of the other Medical Examiners and Coroners around the country.

He also appears to exchange food, maybe as a means of doing deals with them. From Yankee White. Ducky's buds with coroners across the country. See if you can't get one of them to hold the body until we get there. How'd you like those steaks I air-expressed you? Look how long it took him to get here.

About those soft-shell crabs? Uh, you'll have them by the weekend. He is eccentric, he talks to the corpses as though they were still alive, explaining when asked, that dead or not, they are still human. From Heart Break. What we do is very invasive and impersonal. It helps me establish a relationship. He also tells, as every opportunity, long rambling stories about his experiences, or indeed about anything else.

Usually, if really studied, the stories he tells do have some bearing on or relationship to the case in hand, but all too often we don't get to fully appreciate the link, as Gibbs tends to stop him mid-story.

One also has to wonder just how many of his stories do have actual endings, are 'real stories, or indeed how involved he is in telling them, as there is one occasion in Red Cell when he is telling Jimmy Palmer a story about an English Earl, when Gibbs arrives and interrupts the story. When Gibbs has left the following short exchange takes place. Although moments before Ducky was intent on the story, seemingly almost more involved with it than with the autopsy, all it takes is Gibbs to ask one or two questions about the case, and Ducky's story is forgotten.

Ducky also occasionally displays an evil sense of humour when it comes to his story telling. If it is clear that one of the junior agents is becoming particularly irritated by his story, but Gibbs hasn't stopped him, Ducky deliberately seems to make the story even longer and more involved and irritating.

The twinkle in his eye that is always present when he is involved with one of his stories increases at such times. Even when he is not telling a specific story but is offering a suggestion or assistance to the team, he still often takes time to get to the point. This exchange, part of a longer one, between Abby and himself occurred in Sub Rosa. All we have to do is get photos of those five crew members from an independent source. Yes, in our last year, we, ah, made the division finals.

Grant you, I was only on the reserve. Despite being a Medical Examiner, Ducky also appears to act as the in-house doctor for the team. In The Curse we learn that he stitched Gibbs up when his third wife hit him with a baseball bat. In Caught On Tape, when McGee inadvertently found himself in a patch of Poison Ivy, it is Ducky to whom he goes to ascertain what the problem is, and to get treatment. In SWAK it is Ducky who takes blood from the team, when it is feared that they may have been infected by the white powder found in an envelope DiNozzo opened.

In Twilight he checks DiNozzo following his tumble down a hill. And again in Under Covers he gives DiNozzo a brief check-up after he had been beaten up. The majority of the time Ducky is very mild mannered, affectionate, friendly and easy going, someone who is everyone's favourite uncle. Nonetheless he has a temper, especially when it comes to people interfering with a crime scene. He shouldn't be a school crossing guard.

Here, move. Duck, this crime scene's a mess. Can we move the body? The imbecile obviously has. In Conspiracy Theory Ducky speaks very sharply to the Psychiatrist whose patient had just been found dead in her room, the belief at the time being that she had committed suicide.

Ducky is angry that the she was left alone for so long, without anyone checking on her on a regular basis. A young, troubled girl being left alone all night is negligent at best. The Psychiatrist, Commander Witten, Appears. Did she leave a note?

If she did, what would she have written? How could you have allowed this young woman to be left alone all night? None were considered suicide risks.

Reprising the role for so long, you know he takes the part seriously. Yet, you may not know just how seriously; he actually became an expert in pathology that resulted in him becoming an important consultant on the show, ensuring certain elements are factual. Bring it in NCIS fans.

Always love my time with David. Ducky pic. The scenes with Gibbs and Ducky are always heartwarming and the best. I missed him! For his medical training, he studied at the storied University of Edinburgh Medical School. As he reveals in the season 2 episode "Bikini Wax," Ducky considered going into teaching after he graduated from the University of Edinburgh, but, in a bit of irony, didn't think he was suited to delivering "those long, rambling, esoteric lectures.

The job would see him traveling to war zones all over the world, and would unfortunately result in him enduring several traumatic events. Despite being sent to some of the best schools in Great Britain, Ducky's family life was marked by chaos and difficulty. His parents divorced, and after his father remarried, he had another son, Ducky's half-brother Nicholas Andy Walken. Neither Ducky's father nor his step-mother were particularly adept at parenting, so Ducky often found himself caring for his younger brother.

He believed his brother to be long dead, until the episode "Spinning Wheel" from the show's 13th season. During an investigation, Ducky discovers that his brother changed his identity and immigrated to the US, but by the time the two are reunited, Nicholas is unfortunately suffering from early-onset Alzheimer's.

His mother didn't have much luck in love after the divorce. During flashbacks in the season 14 episode "The Ties That Bind," we learn that Ducky's mother was briefly involved with a conman. Young Ducky Adam Campbell chased the philanderer off, only to later discover that his mother knew what type of man he was, but insisted that they were in love, all the same. Ducky himself was no stranger to bad romance early in his life.

Season 12's "So It Goes" details a love triangle between Ducky and two close friends, which ends with the young doctor heartbroken and moving to America, and the two friends getting married.