Alfonso (Jeremy Ray Valdez) picks up a girl in a bar, or at least attempts to before seeing his brother Roman's (Yorlin Madera) car explode in a police chase. Tony (Michael Weatherly) finds a new fad, May 25th is national Tap Dance day and he wants to be prepared. Ladies are into parties. Ziva (Cote de Pablo) says McGee (Sean Murray) is wearing a tux as he's attending a wedding over the Internet. Tony: "I would be laughing if this wasn't so sad." Hey that's never stopped Tony from making fun before. He thinks McGee is taking technology too far, well he wasn't the one who started this whole technology revolution. There are some who would argue social networking sites etc take technology too far. Gibbs (Mark Harmon) gives McGee a minute to change and then tells him he's had his minute. At least he let McGee 'attend' the wedding.
They arrive at the scene of the explosion and Ziva says the blast was isolated. Lance Corp Roman Vega was the Vic. Acetone hydroxide was found in the boot (trunk) of the car, as Gibbs informs her. Ziva believes the explosion to be an accident. Palmer (Brian Dietzen) finds the torso. Ducky (David McCallum) tells them he needs DNA for a positive ID and several body parts are missing. McGee is carrying the head in a bag, or at least what's left of it. Found near a bowling alley of all places. No jokes now please, as this brings to mind the CSI season 10.8 Lover's Lane episode where the headless body of a man was found near a bowling alley and his head was actually used as a bowling ball. Ducky: "I do hope that when the time comes and you find the head removed from your body, it is treated with more respect." A joke in there unexpectedly, since when the time comes they won't know what's happened to their head.
McGee says he wasn't meant to be disrespectful. Tony on the other hand, can only see the funny side, as is Tony: "...weirder than you carrying your head around in a bag and forgetting about it." McGee finds the signal is close to the car. Tony comments about the dead spot like that near his therapist's office. Notice McGee missed that remark and has to stop and ask about the therapist. We didn't know Tony was seeing a therapist, and what for, not more fallout from Jeanne, let's hope not. Mind you he could have said he's seeing therapist, as in dating. Though Tony's dates don't tend to last for more than a day or night. Then he had to go and spoil the moment and add, physical therapist. He hurt his knee kneeling. What practising dancing or the other thing one does on one's knees and I'm not expanding on that! Just think Tony and extra curricular activities, or not. Agh, move on already!
McGee comments a Geiger counter causes RF interference. Tony says first the plague, now radiation poisoning, someone's got it in for him. That's the plague being mentioned twice this season and within the space of two episodes. Gibbs mentioned it to DiNozzo Senior in episode 12 Flesh and Blood. Tony being affected with the plague in the season 2 episode SWAK. This isn't about Tony, but his "little DiNozzo makers." Tony retorts McGee's kids will be smart, "but mine had a shot at being really beautiful" cos looks are everything to Tony. Mind you they'd probably take after their mother, ha. Abby (Pauley Perrette) jumps onto Tony in her Hazmet suit for a hug. There are only minute traces of radiation on the car. Tony: "Nice work, McPanic."
McGee finds the source of the radiation isn't from the explosion, but the car had Cobalt 60, used in dirty bombs. The X-ray machine being a clue. Ziva wonders where it is now and the story is already on the news. Tony adds it's good for ratings. McGee was working when Tony was showering for the third time. Vance (Rocky Carroll) has heard of Walter Kane (John Getz) he's been following his work. Gibbs asks "what on my Blog?" He's been tracking the Nueva protest against the US anti-drug policies in Peru. They've been planning an attack. Oh forgot to add Walter was my suspect. Roman is a link to their cell. Vance mentions the Defence Contractor Bill and spending money on things they don't need.
Alfonso logged onto the e-mail at the hotel. Tony asks Gibbs if he wants to break the door down. They forgot about Maggie, his lawyer, i.e. M Allison Hart (Rena Sofer) who is there. Ziva: "This is going to get ugly." But everyone likes ugly, especially all of them. Tony: "I hope so" but aren't allowed to stick around to hear what happens. Gibbs tells her he doesn't have a problem with the law. The others still listen in outside the room. She has Col Bell's men for security, they owed her a favour. Under the law, Gibbs has a right to talk to Alfonso, as long as she's around.
Tony brings drinks to the interrogation, Ziva's bringing popcorn. Gibbs informs her he's Special Agent Gibbs, not Mr. He needs answers and he wants answers too. He talked to Roman who told him to run. Allison tells him not to talk anymore. Gibbs tells her she's unaware Alfonso was a member of Nueva. He denies being involved with them. He wanted to back-trail the calls to a warehouse in Virginia and trusts Gibbs now. Ziva runs with the popcorn but she's missed everything, Gibbs helps himself to popcorn. Allison wants him to release her client as he's not been charged with anything. If he's involved with terrorism, he doesn't need to be charged, as a lawyer she should have known that. In which case she's hanging around too. Didn't she come across as so wanting Gibbs!
Tony talks about how Gibbs would go for a hand to hand gunbattle and Tony comments Allison's good with a blade. Ziva adds spirit is vital in a knife fight. Tony mentions the Geiger counter and Ziva says they don't have a warrant for the warehouse. Technically it's owned by people. Ziva doesn't think Allison would approve. Tony says she should spend a night working homicide, everything wasn't all black and white back then, when it was all red.
Ziva doesn't believe it's all black and white when life is threatened either. She recalls when she was a hostage, (7.1) Saleem justified his actions in a similar way. Going back to the season 7 opener, which no one has really talked about. She's not defending him, irrespective of his reasons for his actions, Ziva: "this country holds itself to higher standards - nation of laws to be followed." But only when it suits them to do so. Tony says she doesn't talk about it, in what appears to be a close moment for them. Ziva knows what Saleem did was bad but becoming like him is worse. Oh here we go, hypocrisy, what did she used to do as an assassin. She wasn't making the world safe for anyone using those killing tactics and they weren't justified either. They find acetone hydroxide, wires, timers. A bomb was being built.
Abby removes the Hazmet suit and finds prints belonging to the old occupants of the car. She blew up the car five times, most of it is still out there and analyzed the harddrive from the burnt computer. Gibbs times it perfectly as she's waiting for a hit and finds an encrypted Vic file where Roman talks about orders to detonate the package. Ducky finds the COD was dismemberment and the wound predates the blast. It was a from a cigarette lighter and wasn't self-inflicted. The dental impressions didn't belong to Roman, he's alive. They belonged to a John Cook, former sergeant. Vance says Roman and Cook made bombs and Roman gives the orders. Vance and Gibbs back it up since he went to the dentist, a new one every few days. Vance believes they need to prepare for the worst but the real threat is the panic. So a dirty bomb is a WMD and people are scared. His testimony was like overkill yesterday.
The dentist, Dr Shore ( Brad Greenquist) recalls he had perfect teeth and working on him was orgasmic, which McGee didn't want to hear.
In the robbery X-ray machines were taken which had Cobalt 15. There are sources for bombs everywhere, which is what Abby said. Allison's at their office and sits at Gibbs' desk, naturally; still calling him 'Mr'. She wonders who cuts Gibbs' hair. You can tell a lot about aman who cuts his hair. Her sister cuts hers, well that's not very adventurous of her then is it and is she saving money! Tony comments he spends more on his hair than it would cost to feed a Third World family for a year. Kate (Sasha Alexander) already had that conversation about Gibbs' hair in season 1.23 Reveille. Also Abby has mentioned it too. Gibbs orders her out of his chair. She's filing suit against Gibbs and NCIS, for violating State and Constitutional protections. Gibbs released Alfonso. Tony wanted to call security, which he should have done.
Gibbs plans on using Alfonso as a tail, he hopes he's not around when Allison finds out. Gibbs used Alfonso as bait, "or maybe I am." Roman signs a waiver against having a lawyer. He was working for the DOD who required Spanish speakers for a top secret training programme. Everything was a lie and they were recruited by Cook. He doesn't know anything about a terrorist attack. Tony finds traces of blood on the street where the car was found, belonging to Roman. Gloria his girlfriend was a nurse in Lima and no bomber would have a girlfriend like that, unless Gibbs' gut says otherwise. They needed a fall guy. Ziva finds the dentist is missing. The news reports of one dirty bomb being exploded a day within the hour. Tony hates dentists since Marathon Man (and Alias, thought I'd mention that myself.) Ha.
Vance bans Allison and two fatalities are reported in the city. McGee looks up oralhappiness.com, photos of a bus station were viewed from the Pentagon. McGee takes radiation sensors and accompanies Gibbs inside the bus station. Tony tells him not to make him say it. McGee: "be careful Tony." They find the bomb in the briefcase and McGee disobeys Gibbs' order to leave. He cuts the red wire. Similar to the bomb episode with the Korean women assassins, 3.14 Light Sleeper, where Tony and Ziva refused to leave Gibbs too. Abby tells him the bomb should have exploded when he cut any wire. He got an 'F' in chemistry. Gibbs suspects Kane, he's the expert. He doesn't think Vance should do anything. Vance says the Defence Bill is terrible and would never pass, but after the bombs it would. So Kane would make millions as a defence contractor. No one would vote against the Bill at threat level Red. Everything was traced back to his computer. Vance: "I guess we have better nerds." Ziva brings in the results after Kane's fallen for their bluff.
Allison is on Gibbs' couch at home. Gibbs says he's not the only one who needs a warrant. Gibbs says she never helped the wrong man get away. Roman doesn't pay for her clothes, but Bell does. She gets 5 requests a week for Pro Bono work but only accepts the cases Gibbs is on. He has a job and she keeps getting in the way.
Allison going on about the law and constitutional rights and so was Ziva, becoming a proper little citizen. With Tony and Gibbs on the other side. More references to Tony's little swimmers, back to the season episode when Ziva tricked him into revealing he'd been donating sperm. Then we get Abby jumping him and Allison after Gibbs.
So what's Allison's real motive for going after Gibbs, she's just been stalking him and he finds himself attracted to her, as he told Ducky a few episodes ago. But why, she's not his type and now all of a sudden he trusts her, when he doesn't even know her. That's a bit unbelievable for someone like Gibbs. Also Gibbs hates lawyers so why the turnaround now. Tony's line of hating lawyers more than Klingons in the season 4 Hallowe'en episode. Now what possible reason could Tony have for that. That's just following in Gibbs' footsteps again. How could Gibbs be attracted to his stalker like that - she's stalked and then attempted to seduce him - did he fall for it and her? Breaking into his house like that is classic stalker behaviour. Dina Meyer as Holly Snow was better even though she's "out of bounds" being a Madam, but is a redhead.
Another episode where you just don't know what to make of it. Ziva reveals some of her feelings to Tony about being held hostage but they're not really personal feelings, they're more to do with right and wrong and the fact she wants to become a citizen. Before getting here, she didn't really feel that strongly about such things.
The CS tape Gibbs carries around in the beginning seems to change from each scene from being around his waist, to being over his arm with the sling. Tony asking Gibbs if he wants to break down the door, when clearly Gibbs has a bandage, which Tony sheepishly remarks, he forgot about. Tony doesn't mention any movies this time, but there were plenty he could have alluded to.
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