- "How did that feel, Tony? Did you enjoy the rush? The power?"
- —Daniel Budd's final words to NCIS Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo seconds after Tony has shot Budd in the left knee, Budd claiming he has children who are members of his group all over the world.
- "You're not a Bond villain, Daniel. You're a fraud. And frauds don't get to speechify like Bond villains. They do get to die like them. "
- —Tony seconds before he kills Budd.
Daniel Budd was a young man who was also the leader of The Calling, a terrorist group that recruits young children in order to find their "calling".
Budd continued his rampage before dying in Shanghai, China in May 2015 at the hands of NCIS Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo Junior.
Biography
Pre-Series
NCIS Season 12
NCIS Season 13
Personality
Physical Appearance
Victims
- The Hotel Al Maha bombing: Cairo, Egypt:
- Numerous unnamed civilians (either escaped or died as a result of the explosion)
- Ned Dorneget (died from deadly shrapnel after being too close in the explosion)
- The Grand Canyon bombing:
- Unnamed park ranger (died in the explosion)
- Three unnamed hikers (wounded, survived)
- The Shanghai computer factory bombing (no casualties):
- Joanna Teague (attempted, failed)
- Kenny Young (attempted, failed)
- Anthony DiNozzo (attempted, failed)
- Kenny Young (shot in the shoulder, survived)
- Anthony DiNozzo (attempted to shoot, but got killed first)
Victims by Proxy
- Navy Ensign Janine Wilt (stabbed to death by Sadiq Samar)
- The bus bombing (all committed by Bradley Simek, who died by suicide in the explosion)
- Numerous unnamed civilians (attempted, failed)
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs (caught in the blast, survived)
- Anthony DiNozzo (attempted, failed)
- Eleanor Bishop (attempted, failed)
- Timothy McGee (attempted, failed)
- Wendy Harris (shot to death by Sadiq Samar)
- David Harris (shot to death by Sadiq Samar)
- Agah Bayar (shot by members of the Calling; survived)
- Paula- (assaulted by an unnamed teenager)
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs (shot in the knee and chest by Luke Harris, survived)
- Matthew Rousseau (killed by members of the Calling in prison, disguised to look like suicide).