SEASON SEVEN EPISODE TWENTY
MOONLIGHTING
I was looking forward to this episode as I knew Fornell was going to be in it -
and he is also good value. I love his interaction with Gibbs in particular, as
well as just loving Fornell for Fornell, and he didn't fail to disappoint me.
We actually had a case. Well, okay so the way they ended up being involved was
just a 'oh, let's kill a Naval man, then NCIS will get involved', rather than it
being a hard-core NCIS case - in fact really they didn't bother investigating
the killer of the poor Petty Officer. But that aside, at least there was a case
and it was focussed more on that than anything else. So that gets my approval.
And it did have some twists to it and worked well.
On top of that there were some good team moments, some wonderful lines, some
great banter and exchanges, humour, great interaction and it was nice to see
them involved. It was a tad light for some characters, but with three in effect
'guest stars' that wasn't surprising. But I felt no one really missed out, I
thought it was pretty evenly balanced overall. There were also various ship
moments for various pairings.
Susan Grady's voice is like fingers down a blackboard to me and I was reminded
of a mouse every time she spoke. Her character is really annoying and I wouldn't
want to be within five yards of her, but I think it's also a great character
actually. To be that clueless when you spend your life 'reading' people, okay so
she only operates the machines, but even so. I wouldn't want to have a
conversation with her or spend time with her, unless I could take her voice down
an octave or three, but as a character, she's great. Irksome as hell, but great.
So we begin with a Navy man jogging near to water and boats. He hears screams
and goes to investigate and is duly shot. At that point I was really excited as
I thought we were going to have a real honest to goodness NCIS case. Ah, well .
. .
In the morning, McGee and DiNozzo are coming out of the lift (once again they
arrive together as I'm sure DiNozzo/McGee fen will be happy to note). They are
talking about McGee and his 'kills' from his on-line game. Jimmy is at Ziva's
desk and they are talking. DiNozzo calls him Autopsy Gremlin and makes a comment
about him not being out in direct sunlight, but his tone is fond and more
teasing than anything. Jimmy is showing Ziva pictures of him and his
girl-friend, including one of them with huge, matching tattoos on their backs. I
was so glad to learn that Jimmy's was only henna. DiNozzo asks if he has
permanency issues and Jimmy confesses he does; he can't even put a bumper
sticker on his car. DiNozzo also says that McGee is addicted to his on-line game
and that they shouldn't be encouraging him to play. He knows McGee spent six
hours the previous evening playing his game and he says McGee needs to spend
time with real people. McGee points out his on-line gaming friends are real
people, but DiNozzo says he means living, breathing ones you can touch.
Gibbs arrives and says he has just the opposite: a dead Petty Officer washed up
on the beach at Maryland. Jimmy is very excited about this and gets a Gibbs look
and he realises it was inappropriate. DiNozzo comments that he was shocked as
well, but Ziva invited the gremlin up. Jimmy hurries off a somewhat bemused
Gibbs tells them not to get him wet.
At the crime scene, Ducky is telling Jimmy to be careful when going down the
steps to the body as it's very slippery, Jimmy assures him he'll be careful.
Gibbs and Ziva are talking to two young men, who are talking back in a language
that Gibbs can't follow. He tells them to use words he can understand. Finally,
they manage to ascertain that there were two shots (at first, from what the men
said and demonstrated, they thought there were six shots, but they told Gibbs it
was an echo) and two men drove off in a black car. Gibbs asks if they are sure
it was two men and not an echo - but it's lost on them; they are certain,
however, there were two men. It was a fun scene, actually. The two young men
really were speaking a completely different version of the English language and
poor Gibbs and Ziva were completely lost (as was I).
Back with the Petty Officer's body, McGee has a new toy: it's a portable
finger-print checker. He confirms the dead man is Petty Officer Roebucks, who
lived nearby. Ducky asks if his gizmo can tell him how Roebucks died and he
smiles. DiNozzo goes on about how McGee knows all about head shots and when
Ducky looks surprised, Jimmy explains it's an on-line game. DiNozzo then calls
Jimmy King of Dorkland, to which Jimmy responds with a slight edge to his voice
(I don't blame him, DiNozzo's tone wasn't quite a joking and friendly as it had
been in the squad room, it wasn't really off, but Jimmy's edge was warranted and
also good to see that Jimmy isn't in awe of DiNozzo and feels he can 'answer him
back') that he now has a girlfriend. So DiNozzo puts his hand on McGee's
shoulder and says 'The King is dead, long live the King'. McGee just looks at
him. Overall another fun scene, with some good interaction between the four men.
Gibbs and Ziva then appear and Gibbs asks what they have. McGee, followed by
DiNozzo, hurries up to Gibbs and tells him they found Roebuck's MP3 player. So
did Roebucks go into the water voluntarily, i.e. after someone or something, or
was he thrown in after he was dead? We learn that the tide was going down.
Suddenly someone calls to Gibbs that they've found another body. The man has
been badly beaten and it caught up in chains. McGee tries his fingerprint
scanner, but no joy. And then they get a red alert to call the FBI. The dead man
is Del Mar, an up and coming organised crime guy. It looks as though Roebucks
stumbled onto a hit.
Gibbs and Fornell are in the lift. Fornell makes a comment that it saves him a
trip to the roof to send out the Gibbs's signal. In turn Gibbs mentions the
beard that Fornell still has and asks if he's still undercover. Fornell says
he's worried and Gibbs chips in he would be too, saying if the beard gets any
longer he'll start calling Fornell 'Kenny Rogers' and mentions 'The Gambler'. [I
really like Kenny Rogers]. Fornell tells him he wasn't talking about the beard,
stops the lift and pushes the three files into Gibbs's hands. Del Mar isn't the
first informant to be killed; his is just the first body to turn up. He was
giving the FBI a lot of information and was about to go into the Witness
Protection Program. Someone is not doing a good job of protecting witnesses.
In Autopsy, Jimmy is sewing Del Mar up and he's scratching his back. Ducky,
who's looking into his microscope tells Jimmy there's some cortisone cream in
the cupboard, but Jimmy thinks it's all in his head (I guessed it wasn't; I
guessed it was the henna tattoo), Ducky says but he's scratching his back and
offers his professional services to Jimmy if he wants to tell him more. Jimmy
says he always starts to itch when he's around sand. As a kid he loved it and
used to bury his toys and then dig them up as an amateur archaeologist. He then
tells Ducky about a huge pile of sand neighbours of his had outside their house
once, but it wasn't good sand, it was bad sand. Ducky surmises it was to be
mixed up for cement and says Jimmy had been the victim of the sand mite. There
ensues some slight misunderstanding, as Jimmy thinks Ducky is saying 'might' not
'mite', until finally Ducky clarifies it.
Ducky is talking about it being simple allergy when Gibbs and Fornell arrive and
Fornell confirms the dead man is Del Mar. Fornell asks if that's what killed Del
Mar, an allergy, and Ducky says he died from drowning. Gibbs comments that
Roebuck was just being a good Samaritan and Jimmy comes out with another
inappropriate comment that 'no good deed goes unpunished'. He gets glared at by
Gibbs and turns back to his work.
Gibbs then, with his fond Ducky look on his face, tells Ducky that the FBI have
'lost' a few witnesses, this makes the third. Ducky echoes 'lost' and Fornell
says that whilst the FBI advise against it, some witnesses reject the protection
program. Ducky then says that whoever killed Del Mar had a personal involvement
as he was badly beaten. He says he also had an infection, he thinks tetanus, and
shows them a puncture wound in Del Mar's foot. He estimates it had been there
for a week, maybe two. Fornell confirms Del Mar was in the FBI's custody for
those two weeks. It looks as if the leak came from the FBI.
Up in the squad room DiNozzo hands an FBI file to both McGee and Ziva and keeps
one for himself. He comments how it reminds him of Middle School when the dumb
kids got the smart kids to check their work. McGee asks which one he was and
DiNozzo says the comment was fair enough, after all he'd labelled McGee as 'King
of Dorkland'. A nice little exchange, so lovely to see them both giving and
getting; lovely banter with no side to it at all from either man. Just the way I
like it. The three of them go through the files, calling out various things,
including investigating agent - DiNozzo is hoping it'll be Sachs who is the
leaker. However, there is nothing in common except for an security firm:
Cooper's Hawk. Fornell, who arrives with Gibbs, confirms the FBI use them a lot
and they specialise in polygraphs
McGee says he didn't think polygraphs were admissible as evidence, but Fornell
says they just use them from time to time to verify stuff; DiNozzo comments
about not taking known criminals' testimony at face value. Fornell talks to
Gibbs and wonders if maybe Del Mar punctured his own foot, as pain can upset the
base reading; if so the leak could actually be outside - but, as Gibbs says, it
could also be from Cooper's Hawk. Ziva suggest putting someone in undercover,
but Fornell's had enough of undercover. He wants to do it the easy way: get a
judge to sign off and allow them access to files so they can find out who
interacted with all three of the dead men. Gibbs agrees and he and Fornell
leave.
Gibbs and Fornell meet a lady judge - Evelyn Wallace - at an outside coffee
stand. She and Fornell clearly know one another as when coming down the steps to
the coffee stand she has her arm through his and also she tells him he can call
her Evelyn when she's not in her robes and she calls him Tobias. However, she
refuses to give them what they wanted, as it would violate all kinds of laws.
Neither Gibbs nor Fornell are happy that she won't let them have access, and
Gibbs reminds her Roebuck was killed simply by being there. She still won't give
a blanket violation of privacy, but agrees to let them have access to Del Mar's
full testimony. And she buys them coffee.
Back at NCIS Fornell is asking Gibbs about his coffee intake, pointing out he's
already had five cups and it isn't 4:00 p.m. Gibbs just does one of his hands
outspread gestures. McGee chips in and tells Gibbs he's found a way into
Cooper's Hawk's files. He adds it isn't illegal, it wasn't even hacking. Fornell
asks him if that was before or after the judge and McGee has to confess it was
before.
Fornell: "Thanks for doing it my way."
Gibbs: "Don't mention it."
Fornell: "I was being facetious."
Gibbs: "So was I."
Old married couple exchange comes to mind.
McGee explains how Susan Grady, NCIS's polygraph person, also works for Cooper's
Hawk - she's been moonlighting.
Gibbs and Fornell go to Cooper's Hawk and meet Susan. She says he had clearance
to work there, but admits it was from Jenny and that she hadn't got around to
updating the permission with Vance. She is acting guilty and Gibbs tells her she
is; she says he has an off-putting way of asking questions; he makes her feel
guilty. Suddenly there is a massive explosion from behind them - Cooper's Hawk
has blown up. Gibbs and Fornell both pull their guns and are scanning the
street, telling Susan to stay down.
In the evidence garage Abby, in her red coveralls, is speaking through a
megaphone giving instructions. McGee asks her if she needs to use it; she agrees
she doesn't need to - she's clearly just having fun. Gibbs and Fornell arrive
and McGee says the Fire Marshall hasn't yet signed off on the cause, but he does
agree it wasn't an accident. Gibbs asks where DiNozzo and Ziva are and McGee
says they are still out canvassing. He asks after Susan and Gibbs says she's in
the Conference Room and says McGee should go and talk to her. McGee starts to
object, remind Gibbs of how she all but sexually harassed him last time.
However, Fornell, says she's badly shake and they need a gentle touch. And for
that McGee is the ideal choice.
In the Conference Room Susan is sitting with a blanket around her. McGee goes
in, asks how she is and then she hugs him.
Meanwhile Gibbs has taken Fornell into Vance's office. Fornell comments about
the fact they now have a camera in the Conference Room and asks if there's one
in the lift. Vance, who had been crouched down almost under his desk, makes his
presence known and says they haven't - yet. Gibbs says they want to borrow
Vance's TV and he thought Vance was in MTAC. Vance comments they all make
mistakes and that's why God invented knocking. Fornell again asks about the
camera in the lift (he seems very concerned about the possibility, I wonder why
*g*) and Vance says if there is one, Fornell will be the first to know. They
then watch the footage.
McGee is gently questioning Susan and she admits it's strange being the one
being questioned, rather than the one asking the questions. She mentions their
previous meeting and says she thinks he's really cute. He brings her back to
Cooper's Hawk; she says she likes working there, as unlike the people at NCIS
who treat her almost as a leaper, at Cooper's Hawk she was just one of the guys.
She says she can't believe they are all dead. He shows her Del Mar's photo, but
she says she'd never polygraphed him. He asks if there was anything odd, she
says no, the Net was down for a while, but that wasn't odd. The tech guys came
out and fixed it - I was immediately suspicious of the 'tech' guys. She also
says she's glad it was him who asked her questions and adds it was as if fate
brought them together again.
In Vance's office Vance says maybe he should talk to her. If they think the leak
came from Cooper's Hawk, then she's important as she's the only one left alive.
Is she lucky or involved? Vance tells them not to let her out of their sight.
Down in Autopsy Jimmy brings a bone to Ducky as he can't identify it. Ducky
does; it's not human, it's a rabbit's foot - someone was carrying it for luck.
And Jimmy makes another inappropriate comment, which Ducky frowns at. Abby
arrives at that moment wanting more DNA. She asks how it's going and Jimmy tells
her it's slow as they have to separate the DNA out. Abby says if anyone can do
it, Ducky and Jimmy can. DiNozzo and Ziva arrive, DiNozzo comments about not
letting Abby give a speech at his wedding, and are obviously not happy with the
smell, nice and realistic. DiNozzo tells Ducky that Gibbs wants an update on the
body count. Ducky tells him there are ten bodies; they seem surprised, as
apparently eleven people were at work. But Ducky is adamant, rabbit aside, there
are ten bodies. So someone else did make it out alive.
Abby mentions Susan and wonders if they trust her, because she doesn't. Ducky
asks why and DiNozzo says that everyone knows she has taken a shine to McGee,
Ziva hits him to quieten him, but there's not quietening DiNozzo. Abby says that
McGee is a capable investigator but when it comes to matter of the heart, he's a
little naive. Ziva asks if she's speaking from personal experience and Abby says
that's classified and mentions his previous girl-friend who tried to kill him.
DiNozzo then comes out with a comment that Abby wants to cover McGee like a
protective blanket; Ducky adds or an over-protective panther. Abby says they
should just keep Susan out of her hair and goes. Ziva asks DiNozzo if they
should tell Abby; DiNozzo says 'no way'; Ducky wants to know what the something
is. Overall, Jimmy's comment, aside it was another fun scene with some good
interaction between the five of them.
Down in Abby's lab, McGee and Susan are blowing up a bed. McGee had volunteered
Abby's lab for a place for Susan to crash, but says if it's a problem, she can
crash at his place. Susan approves; Abby does not. Crafty Timmy, he knew full
well that Abby would not want Susan to go to his apartment. Abby goes off saying
they are closing in on the killer. Susan says to McGee that Abby doesn't like
her (so she can read some people), McGee starts to talk to her, but then hurries
over and 'turns Abby off'.
Susan asks if they really are closing in on the killer and he says it's not easy
as all the records were destroyed - they didn't have back-ups that were kept
outside of the building? A security firm with that kind of data, didn't have
secure back-ups? Please . . . She then confesses to having taken copies of some
files and polygraphs home. McGee asks why and she tells him so she can learn to
read people better; she can read their profiles perfectly, but when it comes to
non-work, she's virtually clueless. She says the data is on her home computer
and they can access it. She leaves her computer on all day when she's not there?
And it can be accessed so easily from outside? *Boggles* Anyway, Abby does her
bit, gets in and they see files being accessed by someone else. McGee asks if
Susan has a web cam; she does. He accesses it and they see a figure by the
computer. Then the person garbs the computer and goes.
McGee tells Gibbs and Fornell that Abby is working on trying to enhance the
image, but not to hold their breath. DiNozzo and Ziva turn up to say the person
had gone by the time they got there - well, yes - and the door had been forced
and the place ransacked. A neighbour had seen someone lurking, but couldn't give
an ID. McGee says he managed to get a wee bit of data from the files before the
computer 'vanished' but it wasn't much. They ask McGee if Susan knows anything;
he says she doesn't - he'd been up half the night with her. DiNozzo then
comments that as the 'sole survivor' (but he knows she wasn't) she has to know
something.
Fornell: "We know that whatever she knows -"
Gibbs; "Is worth killing for."
Then Gibbs's phone rings. It's Abby. She has the details of the 'other' survivor
- Gus Templeton, the Janitor at Cooper's Hawk. Gibbs sends DiNozzo and Ziva to
find out why he wasn't at work. Fornell goes off saying he'll update people.
Susan appears holding up two coffees. McGee sees her and asks Gibbs if he can go
with DiNozzo instead of Ziva - who despite being ordered by Gibbs to go is still
standing there. Gibbs see Susan and agrees.
I thought that scene was somewhat shoddy with the 'sole' survivor comment one
second (when DiNozzo knew she wasn't) and the next second we get the name of the
other survivor. And then Ziva having not gone, when DiNozzo had, despite Gibbs's
orders, it felt very messy and cobbled together.
At Templeton's house, DiNozzo is offering McGee advise on dating; McGee doesn't
want any. Then DiNozzo points out that given Jimmy is dating and McGee isn't; he
needs it. He suggests McGee give Susan a chance, saying she seems like a really
nice person. McGee says how mature that is of DiNozzo. DiNozzo then spoils it by
saying he's sure she also has a really nice butt. That's DiNozzo.
Templeton finally opens the door, carrying a bucket which he's been throwing up
in. They conduct the interview outside, from a distance. Templeton claims to
have been sick for two days with food poisoning. They ask if he knows about the
fire at Cooper's; Templeton replies he's the Janitor, if someone wanted to torch
the place, he wouldn't know about it. McGee points out the information released
about the fire didn't mention arson - ooops.
Ziva and Susan are watching Gibbs and Templeton in Interrogation. Templeton says
as he told McGee and DiNozzo, he knows nothing. Gibbs says Templeton is lying.
Susan asks how he knows that. Ziva explains about a few signs that give a liar
away, but adds that in Gibbs's case, it's his gut. Susan asks if it's ever been
wrong; Ziva says not that she remembers. Susan says she doesn't have much of a
gut. She'd thought McGee was really interested in her, but was just playing hard
to get. Ziva says maybe he was, but didn't know it.
Gibbs shows Templeton the bodies of the dead people from Cooper's; Templeton
doesn't want to look, but Gibbs makes him. Gibbs wants to know how a guy who
makes $30,000 per annum just spent $40,000 on a new fishing boat and says
Templeton killed the ten people. Finally, Templeton told him he had gambling
debts and one day two men turned up and offered to just wipe them away. All they
wanted was Templeton's card to allow them access to any room in the building,
they were going to pose as computer technicians (told you). Had he had any idea
what they were planning, he wouldn't have agreed. I believed him; more
importantly so did Gibbs.
Gibbs, McGee and Susan are looking at the prints lifted from Templeton's house.
They belong to Peter and Arnold Rafferty, who were mentioned 127 times in Del
Mar's testimony. Susan wants them caught that moment, DiNozzo and Ziva arrive to
say they have a small problem - the Rafferty brothers have gone underground.
Abby then turns up saying there is foulness afoot and takes Gibbs back to her
lab.
There she tells him the Rafferty brothers definitely killed Del Mar and Roebuck
and that she has the Fire Marshall's report that is more like a book, Gibbs cuts
off her babble. She says the murder scene wasn't the only place they found DNA
from the Rafferty brothers. It was also found at Cooper's Hawk, and the reason
two more bodies weren't found was that they literally were incinerated in the
fire. She has a small jar with ash - it's the Rafferty brothers. Is that
possible? And if so, would the 'ash' be able to be proven to be a particular
person/person? I found that was a stretch of credibility. The explosive was
actually very, very small. The plan was simply to destroy the computer files,
but it penetrated a nearby gas main. However, given Del Mar's testimony about
the brothers was already on file, what were they trying to hide?
Back in the squad room, Fornell is wondering just why they went to so much
trouble. McGee has found out the files were the polygraph ones. Gibbs, Fornell,
McGee, Ziva and DiNozzo all turns to look at Susan. Gibbs asks what is in the
files and she says audio recordings, questions and answers, the standard ones,
Gibbs will have heard them. DiNozzo pipes up with the information that Gibbs has
never taken a polygraph test - ooops, not a very good thing to say, Tony. Susan
is amazed.
Susan is setting up a polygraph test for Gibbs, he's wired up and she attaches a
final sensor on the chair between his thighs, it's the sphincter sensor. He asks
about a buzzer, but she says that would make the people too nervous. An amused
Fornell is sitting watching, saying he wouldn't miss it for the world. And then
Vance also appears to watch. She starts off asking him easy and general
questions for him to confirm, his name and place of birth. Then she moves on to
other ones, asking if he's ever stolen more than $100 from an employer - Fornell
looks at Vance and says that one always gets him.
Then comes to biggie: has Gibbs ever committed a felony. And just in case we
haven't got the Mexican references and Shannon and Kelly's killer being killed
by Gibbs, we get it again. We flash back to Gibbs's shooting Hernandez. Subtle,
they are not. Mexico has been pushed so many times this season, in fact it's
been mentioned in one way or another in every one of several of the most recent
episodes. He tears the leads off him and says it's over. He asks Vane what
happens if someone fails a test. Vance says at NCIS their security clearance is
taken away and they'll most likely lose their job; Fornell says it's the same at
the FBI.
I have to say the whole Gibbs suddenly takes a polygraph test was shoe-horned
into the episode, purely to bring up with felony and give us this week's Mexico
reference. I find it hard to believe that mid-case they'd stop and trot off to
do a polygraph test on an employee, 'just like that'. I also know they wanted to
get in the fact that normally it doesn't beep, but it was rather clumsily done.
Then Abby appears; McGee ha managed to pull information off the file - it reads
like the Who's Who of Senate appointees. She gives it to Gibbs, who reads it,
hands it to Fornell who follows Gibbs out of the room, after giving the list to
Vance.
Gibbs and Fornell meet Judge Wallace again and ask about her being a client of
Cooper's Hawk. She finally tells them that two years ago she'd been hand picked
for a Circuit Court Judge in a small town in Illinois. She says they really dig
into people's pasts and she wanted to be confident that she could sit a
polygraph test, as she'd never taken one, without giving mis-information. She
says she hadn't wanted anything embarrassing to come out. Gibbs asks if that was
personally and she says perhaps and asks him how he'd like someone digging up
his skeletons - which we know Hart and Bell are doing. She said she didn't go to
Cooper's to learn how to beat the test. Gibbs wants her to take another test.
They take her to HQ and Susan sets her up. Vance asks Gibbs what he think she
knows and says they can't just accuse a judge, but Gibbs only wants to ask her
some questions. He asks her about the People vs. Perkins and how he'd been found
guilty of three counts of murder; Fornell arrives with the trial file and gives
it to Gibbs. Gibbs then goes on to say the witness had gone missing after the
trial and did she know what happened. She denies it, but the polygraph starts to
beep; he says he had one of his agents wire it up for bells and whistles.
Fornell then talks about Del Mar and how he was granted immunity after
confessing to multiple murders and how he's now dead. Gibbs asks if she can
stand to watch such people walk free, even though they deliver much larger fish.
The machine goes mad again. Gibbs asks if she leaked IDs of protected witnesses
to those who had grudges. The machine beeps again. Fornell asks if she used
Cooper's to become a better liar. She finally pulls the leads off and stands up.
She says they have no admissible evidence that she was involved with the
killings and she'll have their badges. She tries to leave, but the door is
locked.
Gibbs and Fornell continue their double act, saying the Rafferty brothers did
her dirty work for her. Except, they went too far. Gibbs then says they do have
a red hair that was found in Susan's home, they know it was her. It was the
first time she actually had to get her own hands dirty. Fornell says it doesn't
matter that she thought the men she arranged to be killed had it coming; she was
appointed judge, not jury and executioner as well.
Outside Susan is asking McGee, Ziva and DiNozzo if Gibbs really had the hair as
she couldn't read him; they tell her it takes an expert to read Gibbs.
In the squad room poor Jimmy is waiting for them. He's allergic to henna (I knew
it wasn't all in him mind and knew it would be the tattoo) and it's all red and
sore. He can't reach it all himself and wants some help. However, DiNozzo and
Ziva both hurry off into the lift, refusing to help. Jimmy follows and with all
three of them talking at once the lift doors close. It was very unfair and
unfriendly and even unkind of them not to help the poor man.
Meanwhile McGee is left with Susan. He asks her out to dinner saying that now
he's seen her work, he'd like to get to know more. She says he's sweet to say
that, but she knows he doesn't meant it and she goes. He stands calling after
her that he really does.
OVERALL
I thought it was another good episode. Not overly taxing and somewhat lighter
than some, but then I guess the tempo will be increased for the final four
episodes. But still very good. Lots of good banter and exchanges and scenes
between everyone. Well shared out so that the focus wasn't just on one or two
people.
An actual case is always good, even if the 'N' part of it really got swept away,
as they were more interested in Del Mar than Petty Officer Roebuck. I know once
they found Del Mar's killer they'd find Roebuck's, but the poor man barely got
mentioned.
Irks.
- Jimmy's inappropriate comments - so many of them; too many.
- The 'sole' survivor/name of the other survivor and Ziva still being there when
Gibbs had sent her off scene.
- Gibbs's polygraph test - shoehorned in so that we could get Mexico into the
episode and were once again be reminded that Gibbs killed Shannon & Kelly's
killer.
Best scenes:
- Gibbs, Ziva and the two non-English English speaking men.
- Gibbs and Fornell in the lift.
- Ducky and Jimmy in Autopsy re: scratching and sand.
- Gibbs, Fornell and Vance in Vance's office.
- Ducky, Jimmy, Abby, Ziva and DiNozzo in Autopsy.
- Gibbs and Fornell's double acts.
Pairing of the week:
Gibbs/Fornell
Character of the week:
Fornell.
Actor/Actress of the week:
Jackie Geary (Susan) The character annoys me, but she's very well played.
Storyline: 9.50
Enjoyment: 9.50
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