NCIS Knockout
Original Air Date: March 17th, 2009
Angelique – Associate Staff Writer
angelique@thetwocentscorp.com
Ziva and McGee are in Chicago with Vance, on a protection detail when Vance hears that an old friend, Tyler Owens is killed. Chicago PD fished his body out of the water but he was shot to death. Vance requests the body to be send to Ducky in Washington for the autopsy. Vance also asks Abby to work on the evidence. He has told the team not to tell Gibbs what he asked them to do.
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Original Air Date: March 17th, 2009
Angelique – Associate Staff Writer
angelique@thetwocentscorp.com
Ziva and McGee are in Chicago with Vance, on a protection detail when Vance hears that an old friend, Tyler Owens is killed. Chicago PD fished his body out of the water but he was shot to death. Vance requests the body to be send to Ducky in Washington for the autopsy. Vance also asks Abby to work on the evidence. He has told the team not to tell Gibbs what he asked them to do.
Owens was a friend of Vance, he was a boxer who turned into a trainer. And well known among the neighborhood as a man with strong morals who thought kids to look after themselves. He wasn’t afraid to help those that wandered of the straight and narrow path.
Much to Gibbs annoyance Vance is taking control of the case and utilizing his team as he pleases. Besides that he has told both Abby and Ducky to keep the details from Gibbs. He obviously doesn’t like it when Vance ( or any other director for that matter ) utilizes his team for their own cases.
Gibbs has a CIA file on Vance, but he choose to not open it. He tells Vance that he deserved the courtesy of being asked if he could read it. Vance on his turn asks if he is prepared to hear ‘no’ from Vance. When Gibbs wants to hand over the file to Vance he tells him to keep it, that it will keep him honest. Vance’s past comes to haunt him and some things don’t add up and Gibbs knows it. Gibbs can’t find any evidence that Tyler was a marine, and therefor he questions if NCIS should be investigating the case. Gibbs warns Vance that his predecessor used the Director’s chair for her own personal agenda and that he would not let that happen again.
Vance thinks that he knows how things run in Chicago, but he has been away for too long. Things have changed, Joe Banks the man who used the call the shots is not running the show anymore as Vance suspected. Vance suspected that he was the one who wanted who Owens death. And if Joe Banks wanted someone death his wish was granted, at least it used to be. This time is different though.
At the gym a young boy nicknamed ‘Spit’ was bullied by the boxers. He used to think that no one noticed him, he killed Owens and started bragging about killing the champion. Vance figures it out too late. Some of the boxers took the right into their own hands and beat him up.
This episode will not be my favorite episode, though it truly had some lovable moments. For instance Abby telling Gibbs that she was not telling him anything. It was such a typical Abby scene. Utilizing her lab equipment, evidence and sign language to not tell him anything.
Vance kids and his wife in these very typical family scenes made him more human and more likable probably. Since a lot of fans still don’t really like Vance that was something he needed I guess.
And the scene where Gibbs is invited over for dinner by Vance’s wife. Especially when she keeps telling stories about the real Leon Vance, the father, the husband and the loyal friend. A side that we haven’t seen that much of so far. It was funny how she told Gibbs how they met, I am sure that Vance really liked that part of the evening.
It was a good episode, but nothing special in my humble opinion. I am looking forward to the next episode. I like this show a lot.
What did you think about the episode, did you like seeing a more private side of the character and the development of his role. Or do you prefer to see more of the case and leave out all of the personal stuff?