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.
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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?
He also had a dossier on Abby, which turns this into a murder-for-hire investigation.
So which of the hundreds of people Abby helped put away might have wanted revenge?
One suggestion isTerry Spooner, who ordered a hit on Abby before his 2006 embezzlement trial.
But he’s on probation and walking the straight and narrow with a location-tracking ankle monitor to prove it.
So that’s one red herring eliminated.
In the hospital, McGee takes a call from DiNozzo.
A tearful McGee tells Abby how scared he is and begs her to wake up.
When she finally does, her first question is about Reeves.
Two days later, nobody’s slept.
The guard tells Gibbs that King plans to leave the country once he’s tied up some loose ends.
They’re in her apartment, which looks…well, exactly the way you’d expect.
Remember last season when everybody was complaining about the cost of housing in the area?
Well, dang, Abby must’ve made some smart investments, is all I’m saying.
When Bishop, Gibbs, and McGee free him, Torres is shaken.
“You know what goes through a person’s head when they’re locked in a coffin?”
“I don’t like this new Abby.”
It makes her realize that every time they put a bad guy away, another one takes his place.
“Kate, Jenny, Dorneget, Ziva, Reeves.
I am tired of my hero friends dying while villains like you get to live.
Everyone has their breaking point, and this was mine.”
As King sweats and struggles to breathe, he confesses that he ordered the hit.
(Kingmayhave taken a gun butt to the nose courtesy of Gibbs during the scuffle.)
Then the doorbell at Chez Gibbs rings, and he finds a letter from Abby taped to the door.
In the present, Gibbs looks out his window and sees Abby across the street, watching him.
