Colonel Merton Bell was a villain from the TV show NCIS. He was a former tank commander who, after leaving the army, founded and led a mercenary firm, First Defense PMC, the largest in the US. After spending two months in a Mexican prison thanks to the actions of NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Bell started to plan his revenge aided by M. Allison Hart, his lawyer, and Paloma Reynosa, who was the head of the Reynosa drug cartel and also had a grudge against Gibbs. In the final episodes of Season 7, Bell started to make his move against Gibbs and sent one of his men, Lieutenant JP Dean, to kill Special Agent Lara Macy before gathering his men to go to Mexico and kill Mike Franks and his family.