WHEN GIBBS AND McGEE'S MISSION OVERSEAS IS COMPROMISED, THE NCIS TEAM RACES TO LOCATE THEM BEFORE A RUSSIAN MERCENARY GROUP, ON THE 12TH SEASON PREMIERE OF "NCIS," TUESDAY, SEPT. 23

"Twenty Klicks" - Gibbs and McGee travel to Russia to safely escort home an NCIS computer engineer connected to classified intel, but their mission is compromised and they are forced to go off the grid while hunted by a Russian mercenary group. Meanwhile, the team in D.C. frantically uses every asset and inter-agency contact they have in an attempt to locate their missing team members, on the 12th season premiere of NCIS, Tuesday, Sept. 23 (8:00-9:00, ET/PT), on the CBS Television Network.

REGULAR CAST:

Mark Harmon (Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs)
Michael Weatherly (Special Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo)
David McCallum (Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard)
Pauley Perrette (Abby Sciuto)
Sean Murray (Special Agent Timothy McGee)
Rocky Carroll (Director Leon Vance)
Brian Dietzen (Jimmy Palmer)
Emily Wickersham (NSA Analyst Eleanor "Ellie" Bishop)

GUEST CAST:

Ethan Rains (NSA System Admin Kevin Hussein)
Alex Veadov (International Mercenary Sergei Mishnev)
Lev Gorn (Russian Counselor Anton Pavlenko)
Alison Haislip (Navy Lt. Commander Hannah Banks)
Beau Wirick (Navy Lt. Joseph Hagen)
Regi Davis (Commander David Smith)
Konstantin Lavysh (Yuri)
Vaz Andreas (Dimitri)
Rudolf Martin (Ari Haswari)

WRITTEN BY: Gary Glasberg and Scott Williams

DIRECTED BY: Tony Wharmby