(NOTE TO EDITORS: The following episode of NCIS has been substituted for the one previously scheduled for Dec. 27).

THE NCIS TEAM INVESTIGATES A CASE OF IDENTITY THEFT WHEN A PETTY OFFICER IS GUNNED DOWN IN HIS CAR, ON A REBROADCAST OF "NCIS," TUESDAY, DEC. 27

"Switch" -- The NCIS team is called in when a Petty Officer is brutally gunned down on the freeway, on a rebroadcast of NCIS, Tuesday, Dec. 27 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Tom Wright directed the episode from a script by Gil Grant. (Originally broadcast 10/18/05)

As the investigation unfolds, Gibbs and the team discover that the Petty Officer had been living a double life and had switched identities with a former colleague whose job of illegal transporting gives the team their first lead to the murderer. But the break in the case is short-lived when Abby uncovers a message the Petty Office left before dying that leads them in an entirely different direction.

NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Mark Harmon
NCIS Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Michael Weatherly
Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard: David McCallum
Abby Sciuto: Pauley Perrette
NCIS Agent Timothy McGee: Sean Murray
Ziva David: Cote de Pablo
Jimmy Palmer: Brian Dietzen
Wendy Smith: Merritt Wever
P.O. John Kirby: Wil Bethel
P.O. Jerry Smith: Andrew Caple-Shaw
Navy Cmdr. Robert Morris: Geoffrey Lower
Police Lt. Jody Hampton: Richard F. Whiten
Young Woman: Maria Bertrand
Nervous Man: Vern Urich

RATING: TV14-V