I really liked this episode, it had a lot of areas that were really funny, especially the part where Dinozzo and Mcgee were interogating the russian criminal with the cookies, that scene was priceless and mega funny, this was a great episode for the christmas holidays.
I like the story arc of Palmers fiance and Palmer's fiance's (Breena's) father being a bit too... rude, we later see in the episode that things change, the suspense in this episode was also very good. This episode had a good storyline flow with an added arc within it.
In my opinion episodes that have arcs for different characters within the show makes the episodes much better as it isn't just focussed on the case, adding these arcs makes the episode more entertaining in that we see character development or at least more character development than we would see in the regular 'standard' episodes that focus mainly on the case.
I liked the ending with Gibbs and Dinozzo and there little 'talk', I have been watching NCIS over this year and have gone from Season 1 to now this episode in Season 9, the episodes are really starting to get a lot better (not that they weren't already good) but we are starting to see a lot more character development.
I also liked the part with Gibbs helping the women give birth to the baby and Ziva protecting them, the music in this scene and along with the baby finally coming out and the crying just made me tear up, the music was perfect and in the right place at the right time.
I realise that this episode is from 2011 however I wanted to say that this was a good episode.