The Frog

La Grenouille (RenÐ"© Benoit)

NCIS character

La Grenouille (right) with an undercover Ducky Mallard

La Grenouille

Rank None

Gender Male

Hair color Grey

Actor Armand Assante

First appearance Blowback

Last appearance Bury Your Dead

RenÐ"© Benoit, alias La Grenouille ("The Frog") was an arms dealer from France, who Director Jenny Shepard had been pursuing for some time in an obsessive manner, similar to the one that Leroy Jethro Gibbs displayed while hunting Ari Haswari. Director Shepard had been hunting La Grenouille for over ten years. The exact nature of their connection is unknown, but it appears to involve her father, Colonel Jasper Shepard, who is suspected of having sold Warsaw Pact weapons to La Grenouille.

La Grenouille had three children and two grandchildren. Daughter, Jeanne Benoit, from his marriage to Helen Berkley, a doctor. They are now divorced and Dr. Berkley once described him as an "intestinal parasite", indicating a poor separation, but Jeanne was on very good terms with him, but appears not to have known what her father really was.

Although he had connections to Iran, the CIA appear to have tolerated him as a method of funneling faulty information to them. Trent Kort, one of his top lieutenants, is a CIA informant.

According to a psychological profile by Dr. Mallard, La Grenouille, while a "merchant of death", was not a violent man by nature. He viewed himself as a businessman, and a sophisticated one as well. Ducky believes that he was more likely to use his sophistication as a weapon than any gun he has