McGee (Sean Murray) takes the stairs. Tony (Michael Weatherly) comments, "You have been looking increasingly Kate Mossish there McTim. What are you down 2-3 lbs?" Yet another reference to McGee's weight. Been a lot of that this season since Sean trimmed down. Perhaps Tony should take a leaf out of his book! Ha. Ducky (David McCallum) asks everyone to spend Thanksgiving with him, but they all have plans. Tony's attending a poker tournament. Ziva (Cote de Pablo) asks after Ducky's mother and comments she hardly recognizes Ducky these days. Gibbs (Mark Harmon) tells them of the DB in the cornfield and Ducky gives him his invite. Gibbs returns the favour; an invite to a cornfield. Tony talks about maize, which is the Indian word for corn. Ziva corrects him the Indian word for corn is "makki." He meant the American Indian, in which case he should've said Native American.
Ducky thinks about corn chowder as a first course for his dinner. The DB was recently shot but not here and has a missing hand. His name is Trevor, a corporal in the marines. Tony comments perhaps the crows took his hand. Ziva tickles Tony with a feather. Tony recognizes he has a tattoo of the PCs, a local gang, lasered off. Gibbs makes Ziva stand on Tony's shoulders and makes her look around the field. Ziva aks Tony to "bend over," which causes Gibbs to smile. Tony wants her off him now.
Gibbs finds Trevor has been at a Government Think Tank for over 6 months, the Sateler Institute. Tony suggests "Smarty Pants McGee" should go there. At the institute Krista (Lisa Sheridan) asks how Trevor died and Tony says, "not very nicely." The children at the institute test adult intelligence (no wonder Tony's there, ha.) He had to try out the bike video game, did he think he was in Top Gun. He associates this with a movie, Real Genius ( with Val Kilmer. Trevor, was a bodyguard. Angela (Madeline Carroll) was close to him. Tony then has to try out the guitar. Gibbs is impressed with the artwork. Greg (Gabriel Olds) is the Youth programme Director .Gibbs questions Angela, she did the paintings and she offers him a cupcake. Just as well Tony wasn't there. He notices a fountain outside her window.
Trevor's car is located with a bullet in the door. The fuel line was cut and there's a phone inside. He was called by Eddie (Francis Capra). Tony calls them both "esses." Eddie had unfinished business and calls him Zorro. Tony asks if he had an alibi and Eddie refers to it as a lullaby. Ziva says Trevor's hand was needed to access the door, which requires a palm print. Two of Angela's collages are missing. Angela is placed in protective custody. Abby (Pauley Perette) attempts to recreate her Great Aunt's cranberry sauce recipe in the lab. Abby: "What can I do for you, Gibblet?" Abby asks if he's going to Ducky's, cos someone's gotta carve the turkey, eat too much pie. Gibbs tells her the recipe needs more sugar. Again, Tony could have eaten all the pie! Ziva asks Tony if he's "letting some blonde bombshell baste his bird?"
Ducky determines Trevor suffered a GSW to the head. He's going to conduct a Psych evaluation on Angela. Ducky asks where Gibbs goes on Thanksgiving? D'Arcy McKinna (Carlease Burke) is asked in to be Angela's Guardian and Gibb's remembered what soda she likes to drink, as in episode 6.19 Hide and Seek, it's orange soda. Angela asks Ziva if she's killed anyone. Ziva has to tell her no, cos what else do you tell a child. Angela stopping the lift, a la Gibbs. Ducky talks about his first pet, a guinea pig named Hunker Munker and concludes Angela has secrets, she's a sensitive girl. Eddie wanted Trevor to talk to his cousin. Tony thinks Eddie was jealous of Trevor, as he couldn't get into the corps for himself.
Abby finds Angela has her own language code, she turned her art into letters and wrote a poem about a 'lady in a fountain'. Well several clues there then. Firstly it's the fountain that Gibbs saw through her window and secondly she must have seen someone in the fountain, or at least knows what happened. The code relates to a frequency jamming signal for navy and marine ships and planes. There were three deposits made into her mother's account for $60,000, so someone was selling the codes. Tony thinks her painting looks like dolphins in the moonlight from those 'Magic Eye' posters. Gibbs slaps Tony, he needs to focus. (Which is what you do in one of those posters.)
Tony comments on the movie Bad Seed this time and wonders if Angela's seen it. Ziva tells him she's just a girl. Kristin's sister, Debra is missing. So she must be the lady in the fountain. Another movie reference from Tony in the form of this being Hannah and Her Sisters meets The 39 Steps. Gibbs plays chequers with Angela and if she wins she'll tell him everything and replies she wasn't hiding anything. Angela's mother says the money belongs to Angela for college. Debra is found in the fountain at the Institute. Angela saw what happened and runs away from Ducky's house when he and Ziva are charged with watching her. Gibbs blames both Ducky and Ziva for Angela being missing.
Krista admits they sold the info to China to be made into games. The info was old, but Gibbs adds it was still classified, so technically they committed treason. Debra was seeing someone, no surprises for guessing who, Greg anyone? Ducky posits Angela had everything in her room from the outside world, but there was nothing of herself. Angela uses Ducky's credit card and is heading home. Abby finds the connection between Trevor and Debra, she drowned in oil-based paint. Thus paintings and thus the killer is Greg. Who holds Angela at gunpoint to secure his escape. Gibbs asks Angela the probability of Ziva missing her kill shot. Calculated at 99.6%. Of course she wouldn't miss, she's an assassin. Thereby also answering Angela's question, well practically demonstrating it, she may have replied no, but she's killed Greg now, in front of her.
Everyone ends up at Ducky's Thanksgiving dinner, including Gibbs, who couldn't get any rolls. Well another routine episode for NCIS; could have been better. Another girl for Gibbs to relate to like his own daughter. Ducky's on his own, but not everyone's noticed he isn't his usual self. When Ziva called Angela's mother, the phone was off the hook, causing Ziva to get a busy tone, she says no one answered.
Angela asking Ziva if she's killed anyone and Tony thinking of the movie Bad Seed, in which a girl was suspected of killing a boy near the lake on a school picnic, with her ballet shoes. Did Tony really suspect Angela of being a killer here.
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