And as a bonus, we learn Quinns big (sad) family secret.
Any bets on whos the best shot and whos the most competitive?
I say Gibbs and Torres, in that order.
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Gibbs tells him to mind his bidness.
But we know where she was: racing to her mothers house after receiving a 911 emergency text.
At Chases office, McGee tells him to just pay the $500 ransom, which seems incredibly cheap.
And yet Chase refuses.
Forty-one years in the Navy, I have never surrendered to the enemy.
I am not about to start now.
Now is not the time to stand on your moral high ground, sir.
Pay the ransom and get your system back.
OMG JUST PAY THE RANSOM.
Also, um, what kind of pictures?
Because that could get awkward.
In the meantime, all their cellphones are quarantined in a glass box and theyre handed clunky flip phones.
Next thing you know, Quinns mom is being escorted into the big orange room by Torres.
(Hey, thats my preferred fall-off-the-bone cooking method, too!)
Oh, I bet they do.
Then Torres leans on Quinns deskagainand asks what secrets Quinns holding back, but she refuses to spill.
Because this all feels very we definitely had a fling to me.
So they leave, griping about their stone-age technology.
Its like Im living in 1997, Bishop moans, and Reeves agrees.
I know, right, it took me like 10 minutes to text hello.
Yeah, Im with the young Turks on this; old phones are crazy frustrating.
So thats kinda suspicious.
And no, Im not being facetious.
That is the worst.
Meanwhile, Gibbs and Torres have checked out the self-storage unit and found it empty.
But Abby knows what put him in that solid state: liquid nitrogen.
Oh, God, high school math flashbacks of trains leaving stations at 30 miles per hour!
McGee, of course, thinks its ridic.
Worse, they discover bodies inside.
But its not against the law, so why the secret homemade chamber?
One possible answer is that the people were still alive and didnt enter the tank willingly.
(Freeze, Torres orders.
See what I did there?
Seriously, when did Torres become my favorite??)
Yates/Hackett grudgingly enters the decryption code and releases everybodys computers.
This happens with zero bells or whistles, disappointing Torres, who clearly expected something more dramatic.
Not a computer guy, that one.
Under questioning, Hackett begs them to put his subjects back on ice.
(But not enough to begrudge him getting his late wifes photos back.)
Quinn gently explains that her fathers been dead for three years.
You dont remember a lot, Quinn says.
Quinn looks grim as she realizes what she has to do.
Later, the women flip through a family photo album, where Marie says her own grandmother had dementia.
Apparently, it skips a generation, which is good news for you, baby.
Marie confesses that shes known about her memory slips for some time now.
Its like a window that keep closing a little bit and a little bit more.
Quinn tells her theyll fight it together and vows not to put her mother in a nursing home.
What happens when I forget who you are?
she cries, afraid of becoming a burden.
Quinn hugs her and promises, Youre not a burden.
How many living rooms across the country has this very conversation happened in?
Like she says, if life is a bowl of cherries, why do I always get the pits?
Gibbs tells her he never understood that.
If youve got a bowl full of pits, it means you ate the cherries.
He assures her its okay to be scared.
Like I said, good boss, better friend.
