A Navy Petty officer hears shots fired and ends up getting shot too. McGee (Sean Murray) has killed a thousand people in a day, news courtesy of Tony. According to Tony (Michael Weatherly) Palmer (Brian Dietzen) the, 'autopsy gremlin' is in the office, it's apparent what happens when sunlight hits his skin. Commitment issues are part of this week's episode. Ziva (Cote de Pablo) says it's not a record killing a 1,000 people. Palmer has a henna tattoo. Gibbs (Mark Harmon) comments they shouldn't get him wet, cos as Gremlins do, he'll multiply, ha.
Two duds tell what they heard and saw. Gibbs tells them to use words, "helpful ones" and ask if they're sure there were 2 of them and not an echo. They drove off. McGee matches the fingerprints of one of the DB's. Ducky (David McCallum) asks if McGee's magical new machine can tell him how they died. Tony adds McGee should know it was a GSW to the head. He killed people in a video game. The other dead man was Petty Officer Roebuck (Andra Fuller) and the other DB was found hanging from the pier. Tony used to like spending time with McGee. McGee scans him too and an AFIS hit suggests to contact the FBI. The petty officer witnessed a hit.
Gibbs comments on Fornell's (Joe Spano) beard. Fornell's undercover and Gibbs says he thinks he's Kenny Rogers. Gibbs calls him 'The Gambler.' Delmar (Mark Allen Stewart) was part of organized rime, he turned State's evidence and was in witness protection. What about Gibbs and his beard/moustache in season 4, or should I say caterpillar!
Palmer scratches his back, he's around sand. Ducky tells him sand mites bit him. The COD is drowning and he had punctures on his feet. Delmar was in FBI custody so Gibbs suspects they have a leak. Tony starts to speak about middle school now and how the smart kids checked the dumb kid's homework. McGee asks which one Tony was? He doesn't answer so figure it out for yourselves. Tony hopes Rick Sack's was the leak. The FBI used Coopershawk Security, an outside contractor. Tony: "...can't take what career criminals say at face value." Therefore the punctures on the feet, pain doesn't give an accurate reading. So how does he know? Has he tried this when taking a polygraph?
Fornell asks the judge Evelyn Wallace (Isabella Hoffman) who sat on the last trial to grant an order, which she refuses. She was my suspect anyway. She does allow them to have access to Delmar's testimony. Fornell says he has a cup of coffee every morning and Gibbs says it's his fifth cup and it's not even 4 0'clock yet. McGee finds a way to hack into Cooperhawk's and he looked before they saw the judge. The personnel file comes up with Susan Grady (Jackie Geary) the NCIS polygrapher. Tony: "One of McGee's specialists - meaning she specializes in McGee." Susan got clearance from Director Shepherd (Lauren Holly) to go freelance. Gibbs tells her it's not his fault she feels guilty. The building explodes.
Abby (Pauley Perrette) uses a megaphone to give orders. McGee says the explosion wasn't an accident. Gibbs questions Susan. She and McGee didn't have a relationship. McGee adds she practically sexually harassed him. Susan hugs McGee. Vance (Rocky Carroll) has a surveillance camera in the conference room, but doesn't have one in the lift yet, so Gibbs' conferences are safe, for now. Gibbs wants to borrow Vance's TV. Vance replies everyone makes mistakes that's why God invented knocking. Susan is treated like a leper at NCIS, like she's going to discover their secrets. The Internet was down, so the techs came in. That was a clue. She believes fate brought her and McGee together again. Vance calls her lucky or Gibbs says she may be involved.
Palmer makes a joke about carrying a rabbit's foot for luck, should get his money back. Ducky: "If you've finished your multi-species insensitivity." Tony makes sickly faces over the DB, but it's not the first DB he's encountered throughout his career. He then tells Abby, Susan has taken a shine to McGee and she replies McGee is naive in matters of the heart. Was that from personal experience, Abby? However she mentions his last girlfriend tried to kill him. In 7.7 Endgame. Oh Ziva - where's she been all this time, goes on to ask my question when she wonders if Abby is speaking from personal experience. Abby responds it's classified. Also why has it taken Abby this long to be told Susan has a thing for McGee, surely she should have known already the rate they gossip at.
Cue McGee in Abby's lab with Susan, with a bed for her to sleep on. Abby listens in to them on her computer. Susan remembers not all the records were destroyed, she has some at home to study the data - she can't read people without her machines. When they log on, someone is stealing files from her home. Tony believes Susan knows something. They ID a missing Coopershawk employee as Gus Templeton, (Daniel Sauli) the janitor. McGee wants to go with Tony so he can avoid Susan.
Tony sees it as an opportunity to give McGee some lady advice, and McGee posits he'd rather get a lap dance from a nun. Palmer's 'out-girling' him. He should give Susan a chance, she's got a nice butt underneath. So he's been checking her out. Gus talks about arson and McGee says this wasn't mentioned to the media. Gibbs says he's lying. Ziva talks about subtle tells to notice he's lying but to Gibbs, it's all about the gut, he's never been wrong. Ziva thinks McGee might be playing hard to get with Susan. Gus is too scared to speak for fear of being killed. He had gambling debts and cleared them in exchange for his access card, allowing them to pose as computer techs: Peter and Arnold Rafferty, mentioned in Delmar's testimony.
Ziva thinks they've "hit a schamu." Susan corrects her, "snaffu." Look Tony's already mentioned that word before. Tony: "Roll with it." Abby finds the brothers killed the petty officer and Delmar, they were incinerated by the explosion; they weren't there to kill but to hide something and the gas exploded. Susan straps Gibbs to the polygraph machine and says there are questions involving each case. Oh she was getting a bit too close for comfort for Gibbs. Tony comments Gibbs has never taken a polygraph before. Vance shows up to see the spectacle, saying Gibbs has "been dodging this for years." Gibbs asks if he needs a buzzer and Susan says no as it makes the "test-ee" too nervous. Wrong choice of words there! Gibbs refuses to answer if he's ever been involved in a felony, cos we know he has from his flashbacks at the end of season 3 and in season 4. I.e after his wife and daughter were killed. Gibbs comments failure will lead to loss of security clearance and job.
Abby finds a list of clients of Coopershawk and this includes Judge Evelyn, who else. She was handpicked for a Federal nomination. Does Gibbs want anyone digging up his skeletons. They give Judge Evelyn a polygraph and it keeps going off on the 'no' answers. Fornell says Delmar's case ended up in her court. She went to Coopershawk to become a better liar. To "mete out vigilante justice from a higher bench." Gibbs tells her it was murder by proxy, the brothers did her dirty work. There was no evidence she was involved in any crime, except for the break-in, she left behind red hair. Fornell is disgusted, she was appointed judge, not jury and executioner.Tony tells them they found a hair but it wasn't red.
Tony: "Dear God someone fed him after midnight," referring to Palmer. He's allergic to henna. No one wants to apply balm to his back. Seems to me Palmer is allergic to many things. McGee asks Susan out and she refuses. Well he had his chance. Abby will be relieved, she's very protective of McGee, even to the point of excessive jealousy, for someone who doesn't have romantic feelings for him.
An episode highlighting vigilante justice is wrong and that even the highest judge can't escape the wrath of NCIS, or should that be Gibbs. Also directly referring to Gibbs, which is what he did, meted out his own brand of vigilante justice down Mexico way. But as is obvious, Gibbs doesn't want anyone knowing about his past, that's why he's evaded the dreaded polygraph for so long. As in this show and as they say, "truth will out" very soon. Which is just as well, cos it was kind of dragging on for about 3 years and now they can put it behind and concentrate on something new.Susan last appeared in 7.3 The Inside Man. Delmar was in 6.5 Nine Lives, so how come Fornell has to tell Gibbs what Delmar was involved in now ; if he's already been in the show. Why did McGee have to scan his prints for a possible ID, Gibbs should have recognized him. Unless it was just an oversight to get Fornell involved in the episode.
Tony calls Agent Sacks, Rick, instead of Ron, played by Don Franklin. He appeared in season 3.9 Frame Up, he questioned Tony when he was framed for murder and Tony joked he had a piece of spinach stuck in his tooth, making him self conscious. Then returned in 4.1 Shalom and in 4.10 Smoked. Tony calls him "Agent Slacks." So it's no surprise Tony would have liked him to have been the leak in the FBI.
Only Gremlins (1984) was alluded to here, though Fornell does allude to Gibbs being Batman - when he says, "I'll save him a trip to the roof to flash the Gibbs signal."
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