'NCIS': Hakuna Matata... pass it on

March 24, 2009 11:29 PM

This will be a short and sweet "NCIS" recap thanks to my terminally ill laptop refusing most every request I make to save my notes during the show. I'm just thankful it saved some of my notes... otherwise this entry would have been nothing more than a Twitter tweet.

Speaking of Twitter, the Spoilers have the keen ability to make a point in exactly 140 characters. Can you say you have the same mad skills?

One of the major television networks really needs to revive the "after-school special" genre, because kids these day just don't know to stay the hell away from guns and drugs. Three boys find a gun; one of them stashes it in his room, next to the dirty magazine. Once the gang catches wind of the gun's existence, they examine it to find brain residue on it. Gibbs has the children lead on to where they initially found the gun, then later to the wooded area where there's nothing more than maggots and part of an ear. So Mike Tyson is the prime suspect?

McGee dons his Scouts persona to lead DiNozzo on a chase for the rest of the body. Tire tracks, bird poo and buzzards lead the dynamic duo to the badly decomposed body of the local school bully. The gun used has really been around the block a few times. Abby is the first to note the gun being involved in a crime NCIS investigated four years before. A couple of robberies later, and now a troubled teen is dead.

My notes were eaten by the dog at this point, so I'm going to long-story it from here...

Noah, the snot-nosed kid who had the gun at the start, initially admits to killing the kid, but Gibbs sees through the lie. Circumstantial evidence points to the Navy dad who asked for early deployment under shady details. He freely admits to hating the guts of the delinquent, but wouldn't go as far as murder to solve that problem. Even the last owner of the gun (working under the nom de plume of Eddie Felson) admits to previously unsolved robberies and also shows no love for the dead kid, but not to killing anyone.

Dead kid and a boy named Joey used to be friends until Joey was turned bad. Joey just happened to find the gun that Fast Eddie discarded and wanted to finish off his bad influence... except he chickened out and instead committed suicide because his life was spirling out of control. This in turn angered his girlfriend, who ultimately pulled the trigger and dumped the body with the help of a Radio Flyer knockoff.

The brother was just trying to save his sister from a fate worse than death. Can't say that I blame him.

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Hey, I know you lost your notes but what about cast interaction & relationship development -

An | March 25, 2009 5:36 AM

Um, the brother surely didn't know his sister had done it - since he accused his father - so I'm not sure how he was "saving" her. And her fate was merely to be caught and face the consequenses, hardly a "fate worse than death".

Isembard | March 25, 2009 5:44 AM

I think the "Pranks" Tony keeps playing on McGee are getting way past "good fun" and bordering on just plain mean. Trying to out bid him on the golf clubs was not at all funny to me. I am starting to dislike Tony.

Kathy | March 25, 2009 7:32 AM

Good Episode. Abbey with her "babies" was crazy and funny. I've seen Tony treat McGee far worse, but I like their relationship. It's very sibling-like and usually whatever Tony tries to do to McGee back-fires, like the clubs. I still like Tony. Can't wait to watch the episodes that focus on him, coming up in the next few weeks, I hope.

Dot | March 25, 2009 8:10 AM

I disagree, Kathy. Tony picking on McGee is very typical of a close sibling relationship - trust me I have 2 brothers and a sister. The "fun" never stops! But if it did, you'd be worried.

If Tony really wanted to be mean to McGee, he'd ignore him. Besides, most of the time whatever he's doing backfires on Tony - like getting the left-handed clubs.

They could probably tone Tony down just a notch but he's always dead-on professional when it matters so what's the big deal? Being goofy is how he copes with an extremely stressful job.

Abby was adorable. My mom watched for the first time and called to say "Is the weird girl ALWAYS like that?" LOL. Yes.

stickymittens | March 25, 2009 8:38 AM

Also, the sister claimed that she was showing the baddy the gun used in the suicide to illustrate the result of his bullying. Then he grabbed it from her and it went off. (I'll believe it - thousands wouldn't. Yeah, I know, it was EVIL.)

The episode reminded me of that cable series "Dead Man's Gun", which followed a gun in the old west.

Maureen | March 25, 2009 8:44 AM

Isembard,
He wasn't outbidding. He was trying to show that he is a better sniper. Dinozo never took it from him. He did a new auction, which McGee would have never done because it was the wrong handed.

Heather | March 25, 2009 9:27 AM

Yes, I, too, like the "sibling" rivalry & relationship the TEAM has. And it's explicitly shown in last nite's repeat ep LAST MAN WALKING - where the "new" team didn't jell with one another. I could really see - and feel - the difference. Love it when Ducky called the "new" team Gibbs' B Team - which I thought was so very appropriate, i.e. the Regular Team being Gibbs' A TEAM. Am so very glad the A TEAM is BACK -- Gibbs is a Natural being - and acting like - the "Father" of the "Siblings". They truly are like a somewhat dysfunctional Family - but that's what makes this A TEAM so lovable. And it creates a humorous atmosphere for the show. Keep it up, writers - NCIS is still one of my Most Favorite Shows... LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT.

Shanae | March 25, 2009 11:15 AM

Mmm...this reminded me of that episode of Hawaii Five-0 called "Diary of a Gun"

Anyone else?

Eve | March 25, 2009 11:38 AM

No, I was probably in bed when Hawaii 5-O was on in primetime. :P

What it did remind me of, though, was of a short, summer-run series called Gun that was shown about ten years ago that traced a single firearm as it p***ed through a series of owners/thieves. It wasn't bad, but I'm glad it was only on for six episodes or so.

People keep saying how "mean" DiNozzo is to McGee. Waah. Why do we always have to be hearts-and-flowers nice all the time, I'd like to know? That gets boring. As someone mentioned above, if the teasing stops, that's when McGee really would have to worry, because in all likelihood, he would have done something that would make DiNozzo completely distrust him to the point that he wouldn't venture even a mild insult. DiNozzo does need to be reined in from time to time, true, but he is like a big brother who was give too much leeway when he was a kid. I would imagine, given DiNozzo's wealthy family, that he probably had a very lonely childhood, without a lot of true friends, maybe without any siblings (I don't recall there being any mentioned). McGee is, whether he wants to be or not, both faux-brother and hopeful friend for DiNozzo. If McGee ever does make it clear that he has had enough, I'm sure that DiNozzo would back off.

This is all presuming, of course, since these are not real people, that the writers would produce the scripts this way. :P

Kara Mel Apples | March 25, 2009 12:27 PM