So when Ziva comes back from the dead so to speak, whatever cover she is breaking, whatever undercover operations she’s leaving behind, that it becomes a very real thing to her because obviously now she’s jeopardizing family, but she’s also jeopardizing people who have helped her along the way.
We needed to make that a very real thing.
Whatever she has done has been obviously in secret.
We thought that the best thing is that she’s been working in undercover operations, which has led her to run for years and in many ways, by staying quote-unquote ‘dead to the rest of the world,’ she’s been able to really save her daughter from potential harm.