James "Jim" Kidwell was a Major in the United States Marine Corps who worked for the CIA under Jack Canton. At some point, a random mission ended in disaster and while the CIA paid the ransom money which was two million dollars, Canton who had gone rogue took the money for himself and began planning to stop NCIS from investigating by posing as the Marines's C.O and then NCIS Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo. Unfortunately, Kidwell had called his wife, insisting that he wasn't dead, forcing Canton to step up his plan.