NCIS investigates the case of a Navy reservist whose body is found in a target car on a shooting range.NCIS investigates the case of a Navy reservist whose body is found in a target car on a shooting range.NCIS investigates the case of a Navy reservist whose body is found in a target car on a shooting range.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs
- (credit only)
- Donald Mallard
- (credit only)
- Leon Vance
- (credit only)
- Paul Lemere
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDon Swayze appeared in season two - Vanished (2004).
- GoofsDuring the evidence garage scene, Torres tells Knight that his very first car is the same make, model, and year as the one they were searching, and shows her a photo. The car in the garage is a 1968 4-door Chevrolet Chevelle, while the one in the photo is a 1967 2-door Chevrolet Chevelle.
- Quotes
Alden Parker: Autopsies sometimes flash me back to the Operation game I had as a kid, you know, with the annoying buzzer.
Jimmy Palmer: Yeah, yeah, that's still around. It's Victoria's favorite.
Alden Parker: Your daughter?
Jimmy Palmer: Yeah. She's also discovered Mouse Trap. Remember that one?
Alden Parker: Oh yeah, hell yeah. With the, uh, the - the - the marble and the mouse and the trap coming down.
Jimmy Palmer: Little plastic pieces that kids can choke on.
- ConnectionsReferences King Kong (1933)
This episode's gimmick is the condition of the body, and the challenges it presented to finding the killer. Of course Jimmy and Kasie work through it.
There were some side issues, and I liked the way they were handled.
First, Gary Cole is not Mark Harmon, and. Parker is not Gibbs. Parker's ideas of having a life outside of work are something different for NCIS, and not really a bad idea.
Second, there were the allusions to PTSD with both Kasie and Jessica. Kasie seems determined to work through her issues, recognizing that if there is a third time, Gibbs may not be there to save her.
Third, there was a quiet and intelligent discussion of the responsibility of gun ownership threaded throughout the episode.
All of these items were handled calmly and without preaching. Most refreshing for contemporary broadcast TV.
NCIS, like a lot of long running TV procedurals, has changed over the course of its run. The last few seasons are not the same as the era of Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo. I do not think it is simply the different actors, but like many newer procedurals, the addition of side issues that do not directly bear on the case at hand.
While this episode does have the side issues listed above, it worked them into the show in a mostly unobtrusive manner, and did not bring the show to a halt.
The only let-down was the resolution of the case itself, it seemed to be a little weak and anti-climatic.
Overall. I liked this episode, and I will be back next week.
- cpotato1010
- Nov 30, 2021