'NCIS' goes hunting for sunken treasure

At some point I have to assume that "NCIS" is going to hit a Jessica Fletcher-Cabot Cove moment, one where we realize that enough dead members of the Navy and/or Marines have shown up in the D.C. area that there simply can't be that many left. Of course, with a dead lieutenant appearing on the beach in a wetsuit but without anything resembling flesh covering his skull I'm happy that's not yet, because Lt. Jensen made for a pretty good dead body.

What really worried me before the first commercial break wasn't so much the cause of Jensen's death as it was the incredibly bad search Tony and Gibbs did of Jensen's house. They missed not one, but two different people with guns in the house. How lucky were Tony and Gibbs that the folks with guns were members of the Coast Guard Investigative Service and not, you know, bad guys? Yes, the CGIS folks were on the job, but Gibb and Tony still should have picked up their scent, and the fact that they didn't distressed me greatly.

The Coast Guard team, lead by one Abigail Borin ("Lady Gibbs" if you will), was on the tail of a murderer, a murderer they thought might be Jensen. He wasn't, it was much more of a double homicide thing, with the first dead guy, a civilian boat captain, hunting for some sunken treasure with Jensen. Good stuff, right? Who doesn't like a nice treasure hunt.

If Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt have taught us anything, it's that treasure exists everywhere in the ocean and all one has to do to get it is spend a little bit of time and energy, ward off the supervillain, and finally scuba dive down to it. With two guys dead here though, it was pretty clear that Jensen and company messed up on the second part of that equation, letting the supervillain get the best of them. Pitt would never let that happen to him.

Of course, Jensen and the captain didn't either - while the captain was dead, the other guy wasn't Jensen. That would have been a shocking revelation except that it was the only thing that possibly made any sense. Gibbs and company had a dead guy who had bit through his regulator while diving and drowned despite having ample oxygen (actually an inappropriate for conditions Nitrox mixture, but that would still have worked). The only way to fit the story together was to have the dead guy not be Jensen, and it wasn't, it was the missing treasure hunt backer/doctor who was about to get sued and lose a small fortune.

That, my friends, made Jensen our Clive Cussler-esque supervillain. And, much like one of those supervillains, the good guys brought him down in the end. The disappointing bit is that he got brought down because the beauty pageant runner-up he was dating bought an airplane ticket in his name. Jensen wasn't stupid enough to get on the plane with her, that would have been massively disappointing, but the would-be beauty queen did reveal that Jensen knew the doctor's wife which. In TV-speak that meant that he was in cahoots with the wife. Can we at this point all learn that being in cahoots is never good. That never works out, someone says something they shouldn't and the entire operation comes crashing down as it did here.

Let me ask you this before I go, what does it say about Tony that he was intrigued by the Lady Gibbs from CGIS? Was that just Tony's predilection for attractive women or was it that he has a thing for Gibbs? Awww heck, let's put it in the poll, shall we?

Bits and pieces:

• All parts of "Jaws" are classic.
• I too might call Gibbs' house "stoic," and if you're being honest, you probably would too.
• "You can call me Abby." "No, no, that's not going to happen." Nice.
• They contemplated changing the formula for Caf-Pow?!? Sacrilege!!

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