alone from then on, something to which then-Director Jenny Shepard agreed. It has also been mentioned numerous times that she is a devout Roman Catholic and is on a bowling team with several nuns. In the 2009 NCIS: Los Angeles episode "Random On Purpose", Abby is described as being in her late 20s, suggesting she was born in the early 1980s. (Actress Perrette was born in 1969, and was 40 when this episode first aired.) However, in a flashback in the 2013 NCIS episode "Hit and Run", Abby is shown to be 10 years old in the early 1980s, implying that she was born in the early 1970s. Resignation In the Season 15 episodes "One Step Forward" and "Two Steps Back," the character of Clayton Reeves, an MI6 agent, dies protecting Abby from a hitman hired to kill her. Abby is severely wounded in the attempt, but recovers and tracks down the man who arranged the hit―a black-ops expert whom she had encountered several years earlier. She tricks him into believing that she has spiked his coffee with a fatal dose of cyanide, then offers to give him the antidote in exchange for his confession; the ploy succeeds and he is quickly arrested by the agents. Abby subsequently resigns from NCIS to accompany Reeves' body back to England and start a charity in honor of Reeves and his mother to help the homeless. Relationships The character of Abby gets along well with all the rest of the team. She is very fond of Ducky, who uses her full name, Abigail. She is called Abby or Abs by almost everyone else, except Director Leon Vance, who calls her Ms. Sciuto. Abby is fiercely loyal to the team, and considers them family, which is shown by her distress when one or more of them is in serious danger. Likewise, the team are generally fond of her and describe her as "the favorite". Before her death in the line of duty, Special Agent Caitlin "Kate" Todd was a close friend of Abby's. They often hung out after work, and Abby is one of the few characters on the show to know what Kate's tattoo actually is. She is friendly with Medical Assistant Jimmy Palmer. She has helped him with an autopsy and Rolfed him when he injured himself in the morgue in "Life Before His Eyes". In "Newborn King", Palmer brings his future