I've been enjoying NCIS, but I think it's maybe just that it's better than anything else I'm watching right now. :) But you're right - Ziva felt very OOC to me as well in that episode. It wasn't until the end that I figured out that it wasn't shooting the guy that rattled her, it was that she screwed up and almost got herself killed. But still...eh. I lurk at an NCIS community and several people mentioned that they felt like the writers wrote Ziva as Kate that week, and I could see that, especially the looking-at-the-body scene.

And yeah, I did think Abby's dog defense was OTT. I enjoyed last night's episode a lot though, and I'm intrigued about what's going on with the director - I don't think that situation is just going to go away.