her love for him. Deeks and Kensi finally marry and become husband and wife with Hetty officiating their ceremony. In season eleven, Deeks and Kensi are happily married and begin to think more about having children together after Kensi has a false alarm, believing she might be pregnant. Eventually, they decide they are ready to have a baby together. In season twelve, Deeks and Kensi are ready to start a family together when they begin to strongly consider fertility treatments to get pregnant. However, they begin struggling financially when Deeks’s position as the LAPD liaison is terminated due to police reform. Deeks begins to face serious pressure when he discovers his job has been terminated permanently and that he has been furloughed by the LAPD until their budget issues surrounding the reform are resolved, and learns that he cannot attend FLETC due to being too old at this point, forcing him to leave NCIS for good. In order to help with their finances, Deeks decides to sell the bar. However, thanks to Hetty’s efforts, Deeks learns that he has been accepted into FLETC, allowing him to become an official NCIS Special Agent and rejoin the team. Although he has difficulty with the training and supposedly washes out just before graduation, it's revealed that Hetty had arranged for Deeks to get his badge by her, officially making him an NCIS Special Agent at long last. However, his credential indicates he is an NCIS Investigator, and not a Special Agent. Nell Jones Penelope "Nell" Jones (portrayed by Renée Felice Smith) is Eric's partner as an NCIS analyst. Introduced as a recurring character in the season two episode "Special Delivery", Nell joined the main cast as of episode 2.11 "Disorder". She has a red pixie cut hairstyle (which she grows out as the series progresses) and is of small-medium stature (being able to wear a Hetty-sized sweater—just barely—in the episode "Disorder"). In the episode "Harm's Way" she demonstrates at least a functional knowledge of written Arabic when she is called upon to translate the contents of a terrorist laptop. In the episode "The Fifth Man" Hetty states that Nell has the highest I.Q. of anyone currently serving in NCIS but the actual number is never stated. In the episode "Cyber Attack", Sam asks Callen if Hetty is grooming her for higher things after seeing Nell running things around the office. In the episode