NCISAgent Afloat
Airdate: Sept 30th, 2008
Angelique – TwoCents Reviewer
angelique@thetwocentscorp.com
The title promises a lot of good things, I haven't seen it yet but the 'agent afloat' in question can only be one person. Tony the last member who hasn't returned to the team. I am still hoping for that power struggle between Gibbs and Vance, I want to see the glaring contest which I had expected to see last week.
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Airdate: Sept 30th, 2008
Angelique – TwoCents Reviewer
angelique@thetwocentscorp.com
The title promises a lot of good things, I haven't seen it yet but the 'agent afloat' in question can only be one person. Tony the last member who hasn't returned to the team. I am still hoping for that power struggle between Gibbs and Vance, I want to see the glaring contest which I had expected to see last week.
A man aboard of the USS Ronald Reagan jumps overboard, his uniform is found on the side of the deck and when a search on the ship proves that he is missing and the search and rescue doesn't recover his body. Tony needs help from his old team, he asks Gibbs' team to tell Evan's wife that her husband is missing, possibly dead. Ziva and McGee are send out to deliver the bad news to the wife when they find her death in the living room, murdered.
Both Ducky and Gibbs go to the scene as well and upon return they find Abby at Tony's desk. She is placing Tony's belongings back on his desk for his 'big return'. Gibbs asks her if she knows something they don't know, Abby insists that he will be back.
McGee has spend so much time with the cyber crimes unit that according to Ziva his investigative skills are getting dusty ... or was it rusty. But that is not the only problem McGoogle has computer troubles, he can't transfer his monitor to the flatscreen. And when his computer starts up he is greeted by the computer as 'Agent Keating'.
Later when Gibbs says that he is going to talk to Tony, Abby almost passes him saying that she wants to talk to him as well. Gibbs tells her that it isn't a social call upon which Abby backs down. Ziva on her turn follows Gibbs and when he suddenly stops and turns around she almost runs into him. Asking him if she can tag along. Very smooth agent David!
Vance tells Gibbs that he has to pick a new team member because he is still one man short. Gibbs tells Vance that he wants DiNozzo, of course Vance has other plans and tells him that he gets to choose between two men. Gibbs takes the files with him and brings them back later, telling Vance that they are indeed two fine men but that he wants Tony. Obviously Vance is not too happy about his persistance. Then Gibbs tells him that he sent Ziva to back to Israel to investigate the bombing on the Morrocan club. McGee to cyber crimes also with a reason, he needed McGee's computer expertise. But there is no reason why he send Tony to the USS Ronald Reagan, unless it is about punishment for what happened to Jenny in LA. Later in the episode Vance tells Gibbs that sending Tony afloat had nothing to do with punishment. But he doesn't say what his reasoning behind it was.
Tony finds out that Evan's credit card has been used three days after his departure from the main land to the USS Ronald Reagan. Since he is bored out of his skull he tells Gibbs that he can get to the main land in within two hours. Vance agrees when Gibbs asks him and both he and Ziva are on their way as well. He finds the body of Evan burried in a pile of mud. He calls McGee to tell what he has found out and when he asks where Gibbs is he gets a response he never expected to get. Gibbs and Ziva are standing behind him, McGee tells him that if he had given him a chance he would have told him that Gibbs and Ziva where on their way.
Finally he is reunited with his team, even though both Ziva and Gibbs can't stop teasing him about the fact that he still has three months of active duty as an agent afloat ahead of him. It is great to see the partners reunited, even though there is an awkward moment between Ziva and Tony where he asks her if she left something or rather someone behind in Israel. Ziva avoids answering the question by telling him that she doesn't want to talk about it.
The team finds out that the real perp is a guy who is trying to get Anthrax on board of the USS Ronald Reagan. He is staging to be petty officer Evan, and that is why he killed him. They find out who it is and when the perp tries to flee from the ship by a carrier, Gibbs takes an extreme risk when he tells the pilot to take off. Due to the speed at which the plane is catapulted from the ship the perp looses his balance and his gun and Gibbs is able to take him down.
Eventually Gibbs tells Tony that it is his case, his arrest so he should be the one who brings the perp home, Tony at first doesn't seem to realize what Gibbs is telling him and when he finally does he runs down the small coridors to retrieve his belongings. Ziva chuckles, and Gibbs has a huge smile on his face when he sees the eagerness of his senior agent. They bring the perp home where Tony retrieves the welcome from Abby that we had all been waiting for. A high pitched scream and a bone crushing hug, and of course rambling a hundred words a minute when she asks him if he is back for real.
I loved this episode, it literally had everything. We saw Abby and McGee working together to solve the crimes. Both trying to tell Gibbs first what they found out. We finally saw Ziva and Tony, together again. I know it has only been one episode where they where apart, but according to the NCIS universe it was four months. And I missed the banter and bickering between them, the chemistry was amazing. And of course there was Gibbs looking out for his team, working on getting them all back together.
And lets not forget the crime, again we saw a very interesting storyline. At first it seemed to be a very straight forward murder/suiside storyline, but I was proved wrong when I thought that. I am so looking forward to the next episode, are you?
It was the USS Seahawk, not the USS Ronald Reagan.
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