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 OH While I watched, the memory of Baldwin's NCIS guest star role came to mind. Levi, on the other hand, has played the civilian thrust into spydom with a blend of touching sweetness and solid determination. The cover of Charles Carmichael is when the ...

By C. Michael Bailey “Corporal Punishment” first aired Tuesday, November 27, 2007.The opening scene reveals a uniformed Marine officer approaching his car at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Washington. After gaining entrance and preparing to drive off, the driver’s side window is imploded by a raging man. T...

Lost and Found" first aired Tuesday, November 20, 2007."Lost and Found" further develops the character of Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) against the backdrop of a plot that borders on 30 seconds of human interest on Good Morning America. But effective it is, making this ep...

By C. Michael Bailey “Designated Target” first aired Tuesday, November 13, 2007.Following the splendid “Requiem”, an equally fine “Designated Target” shows a promise of the show gaining purchase with the dramatic traction of the new writing blood infused into the series.Navy Rear Adm. Kenneth Kirkland’s...

By C. Michael Bailey “Chimera” first aired Tuesday, October 30, 2007.I would like to say that this Halloween Special lived up to last year’s Witch Hunt, but it cannot be said. What could have been a descent script disintegrates into ravenous particles long before a cogent plot is ever allowed to have normal dev...

By C. Michael Bailey “Identity Crisis” first aired Tuesday, October 16, 2007.Some things are more than we could ever hope for. NCIS’s fourth season had its share of women issuing ass kickings. If the first three episodes of season five are any indication, we can expect the same brutality about every other episo...

By Katie McNeill When the body of a Marine is found while Commander Coburn and his team are tracking down the gang members, it only complicates matters. The body turns out to be a Marine who has been missing for 17 years. While processing the body the NCIS unit finds a link to the murder of a Naval Officer’s daugh...

By C. Michael Bailey It is a Friday night and Shepard calls all hands on deck to the NCIS headquarters (most of whom are doing shooters at a local bar). Only NCIS Medical Examiner Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard (David McCallum) and Mossad Agent-on-Loan-to-NCIS Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) remain. Ziva attempts to cal...

By C. Michael Bailey “Trojan Horse” is two episodes in one. NCIS Director Jennifer "Jenny" Shepard (Lauren Holly) is in Paris, attending a security conference and leaves Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) in charge, much to the chagrin of Shepard’s Girl-Friday, NCIS Tech Cynthia Sumner (Steph...

By C. Michael Bailey Crime scene analysis by NCIS Medical Examiner Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard (David McCallum) revealed that the Petty Officer had been stabbed with a folding knife found at the scene. The deceased’s dog tags had been ripped from his neck and Mossad Agent-on-Loan-to-NCIS Ziva David (Cote de P...

By C. Michael Bailey The Le Grenouille storyline on NCIS has its roots in earlier episodes “Suspicion” and “Blow Back”. “Suspicion” had NCIS Director Jenny Shepard (Lauren Holly) directing Special Agent Tony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly) in an undercover operation without the knowledge of DiNozzo’s boss...

By C. Michael Bailey “Iceman” welcomes back one of the show’s most compelling characters, Former NCIS Special Agent Mike Franks (Muse Watson), the man who trained Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) upon the latter’s release from his Marine Corps commission. His brief return develops his chara...

By C. Michael Bailey Wet and dripping is the motive of this episode of NCIS. Indeed there are “Skeletons,” but there are also copious amounts of gelatinous matter and the requisite effluvium — a sticky situation indeed. Speaking of sticky situations, Army Lt. Hollis Mann (Susanna Thompson) makes her way back i...

By C. Michael Bailey Mossad Agent Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) begins the first segment with a strange ... Specialist Abigail "Abby" Sciuto (Pauley Perrette) to strip completely so that he ... The scene breaks to Gibbs and Special Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo ...

By C. Michael Bailey International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspector Navy Lt. Roy Sanders (Matthew Mardsen) enters NCIS headquarters with Special Agent Timothy "Tim" McGee (Sean Murray) (wearing a $2000 Armani Jacket - the spoils of his writing career) requesting Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (M...

By C. Michael Bailey Things move quickly. NCIS Medical Examiner Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard (David McCallum) notes advanced liver disease and a high blood alcohol. First indications show death through overdose misadventure as several other agents were identified in the sailor’s blood. Forensics Specialis...

By C. Michael Bailey At NCIS headquarters, Special Agent Tim McGee (Sean Murray) and Forensics Specialist  Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette) discover more information about the mysterious Charles Harrow. Discovering his address, Gibbs sends Ziva and McGee (couldn’t find DiNozzo, who was wooing the comely...

By C. Michael Bailey Back at headquarters McGee is talking to Abby about Gibbs and Mann while Abby executes a computer program that shows what the child product of two photographs, namely Gibbs and Mann would look like, while Gibbs and Mann catch them doing so. While looking at a schematic Gibbs and Mann share s...

By C. Michael Bailey A murder is discovered in a no-tell motel out in the hayseed town of Edenvale. Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) video-conferences with Marine Major Bradley Raines (Mark Derwin), learning that the recently deceased was a high level Marine Intelligence officer, Marine Lt. R...

By C. Michael Bailey Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) video-conferences with Marine ... outsider Mossad Agent Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) shamefully having fun at the ... Forensics Specialist Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette) discuss the mystery of ...

By C. Michael Bailey The instructor is not used to the likes of Forensics Specialist Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette), who is instructed to now ask before she hugs the team, Special Agent Tony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly), who wants to know if it is ...

By C. Michael Bailey At NCIS, the team is attending a required sexual harassment seminar being presented by a humorous woman who color codes personal contact as green, yellow, and red. This sets up the comedic allusions for the rest of the episode. The instructor is not used to the likes of Forensics Specialist...

By C. Michael Bailey And, Special Agent Tony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly) and girlfriend Jeanne Benoit (Scottie Thompson) consummate their relationship. But for Tony, things never seem so simple. He still plays with Ziva, though not as much and not as ardently as he did in “Sandblast” and he is now running spe...

By C. Michael Bailey Forensics Specialist Abigail "Abby" Sciuto (Pauley Perrette) is smitten with ... Sara McGee (Troian Bellisario), who threatened to kill a former boyfriend in ... to headquarters to face Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and ...

By C. Michael Bailey While at a highbrow social function honoring the retiring Secretary of Defense (who looks suspiciously like Donald Rumsfeld) held at a local DC hotel, NCIS Director Jenny Shepard (Lauren Holly) is nearly hit by the falling body of a veteran Marine, Sgt. Ryan Wright. Shepard informs Speci...

By C. Michael Bailey The subsequent investigation brings together Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs’ (Mark Harmon) NCIS team with Army Lt. Col. Hollis Mann’s (Susanna Thompson) Army Criminal Investigative Division (CID), the latter of which has beaten Gibbs ...

By C. Michael Bailey Jurisdiction at the scene is complex as the murder occurred at the Army-Navy Club, giving both CID and NCIS authority and a sturdy turf battle. Gibbs’ and Mann’s introductions are cool, reflecting Gibbs’ suspicious state of mind and old school attitude. However, the observer’s eyebrows...

By C. Michael Bailey Mossad Agent on loan Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) flirts with DiNozzo as he ... ensuing heckling were just getting started when Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) rounds up ... Forensics Specialist Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette) Special Agent Tony ...

By C. Michael Bailey The team arrives at the residence and find Gen. Custer dispatched to the hospital and the dead skeleton on the living room floor. Back at the morgue, Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard (David McCallum) declares the dead skeleton’s cause of death was blunt force trauma to the neck, but needs Forensic...

By C. Michael Bailey Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) calls all hand on deck and discovers ... and Gibbs has Forensics Specialist Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette) run DNA ... empty to agents Tim McGee (Sean Murray) and Ziva David (Cote de Pablo). ...

By C. Michael Bailey In the meantime, Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard (David McCallum), using his newly anointed psychological forensics, interrupts Gibbs’ interrogation of Jody Carvell to tell him that she is telling the truth. Gibbs is nonplussed and returns to the interrogation while Ducky starts his own wi...

By C. Michael Bailey The apprehended driver, carrying a false ID, is identified as Russian arms dealer Nikolai Puchenko (Ravil Isyanov) - he had “an accent as thick as Polish Sausage” - who turns out to be wanted by the Department of Homeland Security. Once Puchenko is identified, Gibbs does a bit of backgroun...

By C. Michael Bailey Special Agent Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) goes undercover, dressed as the ... DiNozzo is worried about Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and wants to stay on for a ... forensics specialist Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette), but begins to warm up to ...

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By C. Michael Bailey Gibbs is certainly not his “old” self and everyone notices. Ducky is unusually cool, even downright hostile with Gibbs, possibly angry that Gibbs did not attend his graduation from forensic psychology class. Shades of Ducky’s displeasure with Gibbs were seen in the last episode, “Esca...

By C. Michael Bailey Just a week after saving Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) from being framed and arrested by the FBI for espionage, Gibbs (Mark Harmon) is once again lured from retirement when a past conviction rears its head. FBI special agent Tobias Fornell (Joe Spano) and his daughter Emily Fornell (Payton Sp...

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