Let’s open with the latter mystery.
Bishop agrees, calling it a sandpit of crushing self-realization.
“That expensive, huh?”
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Slowly, his compatriots realize he owns owns!
his elegant, spacious apartment with a doorman and a view.
“Loan from your dad?”
“Generous cougar?”
“Dead body,” Gibbs says.
Oh, but he’s not playing the game.
“They already come with customers.
Thatisa good deal,” the daughter deadpans.
Hey, she really puts the fun in well, you know.
In the end, NCIS nabs jurisdiction.
“Are you kidding me?
International and state borders?
It’s a paperwork nightmare,” Fornell chortles.
“Tell me how it turns out.”
Ah, not so fast.
Vance tells Fornell that the FBI still needs to ride shotgun.
Insert Nelson Muntz laugh here.
I adore that cranky little gnome.
Unfortunately, they’re too late to catch the escapees or to stop them from murdering a janitor.
Gibbs moves further into Lazer Zone and announces, “It gets worse.”
Man, when certified ray of sunshine Leroy Jethro Gibbs says that, you know it’s true.
It’s Okafor; she and the janitor are dead from gunshot wounds.
She’s it," Fornell says.
Weirdly, he does not put on hissunglasses as the Who wails in the background.
Meanwhile, DiNozzo’s been investigating the building as only DiNozzo can: in full laser tag gear.
But if Okafor gave them what they were looking for, why kill her?
Vance and Morrow confab about whether Scott wants to get back into the espionage business.
At NCIS, Gibbs and Fornell board the Elevator of Schemes and Secrets.
(I assume so he can marry and divorce her?)
When Fornell drops the words “sex life,” Gibbs starts the ‘vator back up again.
But Fornell stops it himself and explains online dating to Gibbs, guessing it’s Gibbs’ worst nightmare.
Furthermore, she was injecting herself with the chemicals women take when they’re trying to get pregnant.
This makes her an accomplice, not a hostage.
Oh, and they also find a picture of Scott, Okafor, and an unidentified blond woman.
(Like Chekhov’s gun, this will come into play later.)
NEXT: Forget about the murders what’s the deal with Tony’s apartment?
Naturally, they start to wonder about blackmail or some sort of underworld connections.
He’s waiting in the drive-though line for his morning donut (respect!)
when his assistant calls to chide him for being late for the conference call with the British prison warden.
He threatens Vance’s children and tells him to drive.
The team creeps into the data center and finds Vance locked in a secure room.
He’s fine, but Scott escaped with stolen intel.
It’s just names, no info, so why murder two people to get it?
Bishop starts hacking to uncover why.
But never mind that.
McGee’s cracked the case.
No, not the murders.
“Amazing what a good paint job will do.”
“It was Gibbs' idea,” DiNozzo says.
Oh, but it doesn’t if Tony’s pensive face is any indication.
It really doesn’t.
Okay, fine, back to the actual case.
Gibbs and Fornell stake it out and engage in more uncomfortable relationship talk.
He wants to know if it’s too soon after Diane’s death.
Gibbs gives his blessing in the most curmudgeonly way possible.
It’s like watching a clown car empty.
Seriously, how did all those strapping agents hide in tiny foliage so effectively?
For my money, this is the funniest scene inNCISthis season.
“He’s been playing you,” Gibbs says.
Furthermore, Scott didn’t escape to get back into the spy game.
No, he’s out for revenge.
It’s a hit list, and Morrow’s on it.
