Chained.

[gibozzo]

I love this episode.  Suspenseful and yet still amusing.  Lot's of Tony which is always good.

Type your cut contents here.  My favourite bits;
"Do I seem like the kind of guy that would drive a squishy little car?"
Hell no, and that's why we like you.

"Who's Tony Curtis?  Who's Tony Curtis?  You are!"
I love the bits when Tony is comparing him and

Comments

[sammie28]

I'm still saying that it'd take a special kind of person to handle the Gibbs we see on-screen... and I don't think Kate's got what it takes - don't even think she'd make the effort. But I'd love to hear from the Kate/Gibbs people out there, and see what they think.

lol - you opened a can of worms asking for a Kate/Gibbs person's opinion! ;-)

There are a couple things that I believe someone who marries Gibbs has to be able to handle.
1. understand his commitment not necessarily to the job but to catching bad guys, and put up with those moods to a certain extent (Remember at the end of "Hometown Hero", the case was over. There was still paperwork, but Gibbs left before doing it and didn't plan on early or on time on Monday to do it. He was going to funeral.) This a lot of people can cover. Everyone works with him, they understand that drive. His later wives did not.

2. keep Gibbs at a manageable level of emotional health. In this respect only Ducky and Kate ever appear to try. They try to engage him on how he's feeling, they try to get him to talk something other than shop, they interfere even when they KNOW he won't like it - they do it not because they think he wants it, but because he needs it. Tony worries, but he rarely confronts Gibbs.

3. not let Gibbs dictate. This is related to #2 - like Ducky and Kate not doing something because Gibbs likes it, but because he needs it. Ducky knows how to do it, and he does interfere (e.g. "Mind Games"; or he teaches the team how to do it in "Enigma"). Kate we know doesn't kowtow to Gibbs either.

In this respect I feel that Tony and McGee are too deferential. For McGee, Gibbs is still kind of his hero. Tony will joke with Gibbs, but he won't talk about his own feelings with Gibbs and he won't confront Gibbs on an emotional level either. The once he did it in Seasons 1-2 ("Reveille") I cheered. She even defends Tony before Gibbs when she feels Gibbs has gone too far ("Minimum Security", "Split Decision"), even though it has nothing to do with her.

I believe this is an aspect of Kate that Gibbs finds attractive. She doesn't think he's all that, and while she respects him, she isn't in awe of him.

This independence Gibbs respects, and imho, he respects Ziva for it, too. But, at least in Season 3, Gibbs walked all over the new director because of her lack of it. Shepard let him get away with way too much - it was a poor personal decision (if we're talking about relationships) and an even poorer professional one. Gibbs' marked respect for Morrow was in clear contrast to the way he treated Shepard. He treated her worse than he did his own people.