We begin with Navy Capt. Paul Smith and his son, Ryan, fighting over Ryan losing his job that day. Not only that, but it’s Ryan’s birthday, and he doesn’t feel up to dinner. Credit: Monty Brinton/CBS The captain gets worked up and blows a stop sign, causing chaos in the intersection. Horrified, Ryan races to his father’s body. Ducky offers some advice: “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” He takes off running without a word to anyone else....
(This message has been brought to you by your friendly neighborhood family law attorney.) Be as startled as you want, man, but hang onto the pie. The woman is Maya Kettering, home on leave from theUSS Tallahassee. Credit: Sonja Flemming/CBS When the team arrives, Ducky declares her cause of death to be strangulation. Hes starting to get warmed up when the sheriff arrives on scene. As you’ve got the option to imagine, this generates great curmudgeonliness from Gibbs....
Of course you do. With Gibbs MIA, McGee sends the team on the hunt. Bishop and Quinn head to Gibbs house while McGee and Torres check out the diner. Credit: Cliff Lipson/CBS (Consistency of dining habits is useful if theres a chance youll someday vanish.) Neither Bishop nor Quinn is thrilled about poking through Gibbs empty house, but they get over it quickly. Oh, but then. Quinn breaks the plate Kelly made for her parents, featuring stick-figure drawings of the three of them....
Torres recognizes nearby tire marks as belonging to a dirt bike and the small truck it was loaded onto. Why is he so certain? Because its his bike! Credit: Sonja Flemming/CBS Torres wants to leap directly into the case, but Gibbs frustrates him by keeping him sidelined. Also frustrated are Palmer and Ducky, who cant identify the substance under Campbells fingernails. (We also get another shot of the head wound....
The murder involves Petty Officer Gregory Jones, a culinary specialist whos found dead in his bunk. the food freezer) and Jones body missing. This will complicate the autopsy, Palmer deadpans. Credit: Sonja Flemming/CBS They summon the rest of the team for a more thorough search of whats presumably now a crime scene. The drugs interacted and stopped Jones heart. So the MDMA went to the wrong victim. One of those sailors turns out to be Stoddard, who found Jones body....
Tonight, Clayton Reeves makes his first step toward being a Gibbs. Todays flight is for Vietnam veterans, and all participants are required to travel with a guardian. (His disdainful interpretation of friendship? Credit: Patrick McElhenney/CBS Its for people who think ordering a pie with two forks is good. Reach for my pie, pull back a stump.) Unfortunately, Henry comes into NCIS orbit when Beck suddenly foams at the mouth and drops dead....
What do you do?What do you do? If youre Timothy McGee, you hem and haw and eventually do (mostly) the right thing. So yeah, McGee comes home to find two men ransacking his apartment. Credit: Cliff Lipson/CBS He shoots and kills one, and the other escapes. Hes dismayed to find his lovely new place, a.k.a. Whos a licensed furrier anymore, anyway? Was that still a thing 15 years ago? Quinn asks, speaking for us all....
As goodbyes go, it was emotional, bittersweetand flashback heavy. “Don’t worry, Clay. You’re in good hands,” he whispers, stroking his friend’s head. Credit: Patrick McElhenney/CBS This leaves McGee to keep watch over Abby until she wakes up, no matter how long it takes. She regrets not telling him that he was like a brother to her when she had the chance. Palmer took his clothes to the lab for analysis, but who will do it?...
Andthatswhy you dont steal packages off of porches, kids. Then Gibbs hustles everyone out the door for the case of the week. Yeah, a wholesome wife whose husband thinks shes the one who sent the bomb. Credit: Sonja Flemming/CBS Stardom changed Sheba, but she wont divorce Todd for fear of losing her reality show money. Todd made up an affair hoping shed end things, and instead, she threatened him with castration....
Wow, did those diamond smugglers pick the wrong NCIS agent to drug and kidnap. I’m sure he’s got a story." (She claims it’s because she wanted his help with paperwork. Credit: Sonja Flemming/CBS “Paperwork.") When they ping his phone, it shows him at a Virginia Beach marina, three hours away. And who’s the first person he bumps into? Gibbs is there to get to the bottom of things. Torres remembers going to his gym and then…nothing....
Neil Gaiman is nervous. Its a meeting hes been anticipating for a while. But that probably wont happen because most people seem to like it so far. Credit: Christopher Raphael; Inset: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images And how could they not? (At one point, Terry Gilliam was attached to do a film version.) Terry never asked for anything in 30 years of friendship, Gaiman explains. Amazon Studios You have to make this, and I want to watch it....
Afterwards, I just thought, thats awful. The idea that some guy, to make a buck, was that pushed. And that had sort of stuck. Credit: Starz (Fuller goes in-depth in EWs postmortem show here.) And I want to see more of that. Abtahi confessed to nerves ahead of watching the scene with his wife. I just felt, God, I hope its not raunchy. Im so proud to be a part of it....
If you choose links we provide, we may receive compensation. Mythology is at the heart of Neil Gaiman’s work. He’s even expounded on it in hisnonfiction, penning an essay on the topic. Credit: Beowulf Sheehan ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Why put a fresh spin on these myths? NEIL GAIMAN:Mythologies tell us about being human. They are glorious, they are timeless. They need to be retold. I’m saying, “Here are the stories. I have polished them, and I am now handing them to the world....
