A driver/bodyguard, Walid (Yan Feldman) clicks the car alarm and gets blown up when the car explodes. Tony's (Michael Weatherly) on the phone and says Anthony Di Nozzo Jnr is in Washington. Anthony Di Nozzo is in New York City. McGee (Sean Murray) comments on Tony conversing, junior, Senior and asks if the conversation is coherent. Ziva (Cote de Pablo) says Tony's calling his father to straighten things out. (Yeah like Ziva did with her father last season and this season - eventually.) Tony talks about a cruise for Spring Break and when Ziva asks about it, he replies, "none of your business." Gibbs (Mark Harmon) tells them they have a DB at Pax River, a foreign national. Tony refers to the cruise as a 'need to know' and she doesn't need to know. He's not too old for Spring Break. Not Spring Break again, Tony has already been to tonnes of those and more recently, loosely discussed, this with Kate (Sasha Alexander) in the season 2 episode Conspiracy Theory when threatening to reveal her Spring Break wet T-shirt photos.
Prince Sayif (Amir Arison) rented the car. Ducky (David McCallum) doesn't find any burns or blistering on the DB's hands but finds the presence of blunt force trauma. "If the explosion had knocked his socks off," would've sounded better. Sayif is on the Navy Marine Corps Strike Pilot Programme and Gibbs believes the bomb was meant for him. Sayif comments assassinations are part of the Saudi royal family life. Gibbs has a say in the US Navy and could have his training stopped if he doesn't agree to protective custody, at the Adams House Hotel. Vance (Rocky Carroll) thinks the 'Freedom Warriors' could be a part of the attempt on his life and Prince Omar (Alon Aboutbool) is a major part of the family.
McGee tells Tony he's got a visitor, neglecting to tell him who and Tony crouches behind the railing like a little child. Anthony Di Nozzo Snr (Robert Wagner) tells Ziva, Junior (Tony) mentioned her , she's stunning and suggests she should wear her hair down, which she does anyway at times. Tony was trying to sort out the mix up at the bank and Senior's name is still there as trustee. He hasn't seen Tony in a while so he took the train down; obviously cos of money problems. Which should have got Tony's radar flashing but it doesn't; so much for him being senior field agent. Tony asks if Ziva's got anything to do.
Senior notices Sayif, he knows his father when they met in Monte Carlo. Tony wants him to spill the beans on why he's here and then says he can't talk about it, it's work, but then he does mention the car bomb and also where he is, which happens to be the same place Senior is staying and also that Sayif's father is arriving. Ziva knows Arabic and can understand Sayif and his brother Abdallah (Mido Hamada) (my suspect) doesn't like Sayif's Western ways and that's why he claims Sayif was attacked. Sayif selects Ziva as his bodyguard during protective custody.
Ducky talks with Vance and not Gibbs, that COD was blunt force trauma. The Saudi embassy wants the DB released quickly. Vance asks Ducky about his mother, who is "losing touch with reality." (The clock on the wall behind seems to be going backwards.) Vance replies, "I've had days like that."
Abby (Pauley Perrette) calls it 'Mismatched Monday' cos of her socks and shoes. Gibbs: "Make my day Monday for me." She found trace of nitromethane and the timer. Vance says the satellite Echelon will have chatter, the IP address of the computer is traced as it's sending a message with the words: Prince Omar, Assassination, contract and killer. Tony and Ziva find Senior on the computer at the hotel. Abby: "Maybe Tony didn't have a mother, maybe he was cloned." (Oh what like Dark Angel, ha.) Ducky mentions the strong familial resemblance between Tony and Senior. Senior: "meet the real Tony Di Nozzo." Senior says he was contacting a business association, the Prince is known as 'Al' to his friends and was notifying investors. He's staying at this hotel too. Ducky's been to the Roof Top Grill too. Gibbs says Senior has to stay away from the family. Abby came to see what Senior looks like and she didn't meet him. Gibbs thinks Senior's got an agenda.
Tony and Senior share a drink at the hotel and Tony has a non-alcoholic beer and a "lecture from Senior." Tony gets to carry a gun. Senior wasn't disappointed Tony chose to become a cop, he was supportive but failed to tell Tony this. He's proud Tony found a career he's passionate about. Tony tells Senior he didn't know where Tony was or what he was doing when he was little. But Senior thinks they had great vacations together. Tony recalls their trip to Maui where he left him in the hotel. He had to close a deal. He mentions his ex-step mother, Karen, it was Phoebe. Tony gives him condolences and his congratulations too. McGee looked at the surveillance cameras when the car was serviced. The mechanic is clean.
Ziva calls Sayif a royal pain in the tush, she got that term right and they should hire someone to protect Sayif from her cos he's a chauvinist. Vance asks if there are any other leads, cos they only had one. Gibbs mentions the Amendments to the Constitution, he was born here so he doesn't need to study them unlike Ziva. Ziva's hair is different here than at the end of the episode, and she calls Senior 'Tony.' He likes her hair. Sayif had a party in the hotel and naturally it was on Tony's watch, who attempts to do some yoga. Gibbs hits him with the cowboy hat several times, party's over. Their father's plane has landed. Tony didn't think Gibbs would be here for another hour - honestly.
Senior intercepts the Prince in the lift. McGee tells Abby to show hers first, her findings that is. The bomb maker was an amateur as the timer didn't set it off, it was 30 minutes earlier and was set off by the plane overhead. Abby: "Show me yours." McGee knows the car went to the hotel garage and Pax River. The GPS shows the car was driven to a part of the base where there aren't any security cameras (not very efficient security for a base). Abdallah wants to take back the DB. Vance says the DB's not been released yet. Senior insists that funds are available in the account. Of course Tony had to get McGee to check his computer. Complementing McGee on being a good investigator. Ziva's hair has changed again.
Gibbs gives him Senior a tour of their office. The armoury is their conference room. Tony: "get your skinny butt up here now." Gibbs talks about Tony who, "hides behind the face of a clown" but he's the best agent he's worked with. Four years ago, Tony came close to dying, (season 2.22 SWAK, the plague episode) in terms of seasons it would be 5 seasons ago, so longer than 4 years. But his father didn't show up then, they don't keep in touch. Gibbs: "Tony inherited his personality from you." Senior is missing out on Tony's life, something Gibbs would never do with his child if he had had the chance. Hey I just said that and now Gibbs says it, that he didn't see his daughter grow into an adult, but he can with Tony. Tony thinks the world of Gibbs.
Abby says trace evidence swabbed by Ducky were molecules of nitromethane. McGee: "Victim was his own killer." Abby calls this hinky. Ziva wonders what the motive was for planting the bomb, which was already revealed by Abdallah, that he didn't like what Sayif was getting up to, partying and the like. Abby got to meet Senior on the tour. Abby: "I think I showed him everything on tour." Senior replies, "Well, not everything." Hint, hint. Prompting Gibbs to give one of his looks! Gibbs says they need to look at Walid like a murderer. Tony broke Rule number 6: never say you're sorry. Gibbs quotes Rule number 18: "better to seek forgiveness than ask permission." Gibbs says he's not forgiven and he doesn't know his father. Tony tells him Senior is broke. Tony confesses to Gibbs but Senior has a chance for a score when the Prince is here.
Tony refers to this as being his father's last con, the end game when he checks out of the hotel and tries to pay his bill. McGee asks how long they were friends, since Sayif was assigned his bodyguard by Abdallah and if Walid and Abdallah were friends he'd have done anything Abdallah wanted. Omar sent Abdallah home - part of his diplomatic staff and he'll take care of his son. Abdallah admitted he attempted to kill Sayif due to his lifestyle. Omar: "fathers do what they have to do for their children." He'll be in Monte Carlo next month and he and Senior can meet.
Senior says it was great to see Tony and should talk more. He loves Tony. Tony shares steak dinner with Gibbs at his place (so if ever you have dinner with Gibbs, expect steak and beer.) Since when does Tony get invited round. Tony paid for the hotel bill with his cruise money, but Tony can't fool Gibbs, he doesn't need a Spring Break cruise he's too old for that, or so feigns Tony. Gibbs: "...conned a con man - runs in the family." Tony still has to stick up for him, "he's my father, he is who he is." The same can be said for Tony. "Sometimes it's better to keep things to yourself."
An episode about fathers and sons this time round just for Tony and insight into his father, well he was mentioned long enough, so it was only right he should make an appearance now. Knew Tony would pay his bill cos he found out about Monte Carlo for next month and he feels sorry for him; not wanting him to realize Tony knows that he's really a con man. Gibbs thinks of Tony as a son more than his own father does.
This was NCIS 150th episode. Senior is quite the ladies man and you can see where Tony gets that from, since he mentioned he hired great women at NCIS, as well as his fear of commitment. So the saying like father, like son is true as far as Tony's concerned. Though he may not like to admit that. Though in some ways, Tony is different, he isn't a con man per se, but he knows how to get his own way more times than not. Especially specializing in sweet talk and being charming. All except to his colleagues that is. Tony says he was 8 when his mother died, but there's been talk she was still around when he was 10, in past episodes.
This was Vance's first time in autopsy. Tony doesn't mention any films this time round, though there were a few choice father/son movies he could have mentioned. Tony was a bit serious this episode with so much on his mind and it's Gibbs that he feels comfortable sharing his feelings with. Is Tony finally growing up, at least as far as Senior goes. It's been noted the resemblance between Michael Weatherly and Robert Wagner, but Michael kind of reminds me more of George Peppard in his younger days. Think Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961.)
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