Hometown Hero (02x19)
The last appearance of Faith Coleman, this time in civvies. I have to wonder (since I didn't watch the show and don't feel like looking it up) whether it's the last because they cancelled JAG. Makes a good theory, anyway. I always like the episode this woman shows up in. At least, for once, she's on their side.
Tony's having a really bad day even before he finds out what's going on. The acting is very good when he finds out his car was stolen, not towed. He doesn't say a word. On the other hand, I get very tired of the way he carries on in this episode. Everything juvenile brings back memories for Tony at this point, and he can't keep his mouth shut about it. Ending it on the car crash is okay, but I could've done without the lack of sympathy of his teammates.
Tony is in a nasty mood and it's not all because of having his car stolen. I do like it when he tells McGee we won't ride in an elevator with someone who doesn't know who Gary Cooper was.
McGee on the other hand had a Camaro and crashed out. It's interesting that he said he had a "slight thing" and Tony immediately knows it was a head on accident. He also manages to show sympathy without making a bad joke or a crack. The way they've written Tony to this point, he feels more sympathy for the car than for McGee. I'm glad they didn't play it that way.
Poor Abby and Kate, they lose their spa weekend. Abby sets up Jimmy with the massage. First to reference to Tony turning into Gibbs when Gibbs' isn't around. I like Kate watching Coleman and Gibbs under her eyebrows.
Jimmy and Ducky are funny together, especially in the scene in the storage locker. Ducky is very observant, which you'd expect, since he's a medical examiner. I think he deliberately downplays that he's as observant of the living as he is of the dead. His method of reminding Jimmy that the hyoid bone isn't connected to anything else is memorable. And his line to Gibbs "I can spend forever finding nothing."
They give this an interesting twist with the contrasting background between what the hometown says about the petty officer and what the marines does. I do consider what the small town sheriff does to be interfering with the federal investigation. It's also interesting to me that Emmy commits suicide before Gibbs can put a lot of pressure on her.
Gibbs has a great line: "several marines witnessed Petty Officer Dobbs saving lives; no one witnessed him taking one."
Another sicko pedophiliac villain, although this one seems have maintained his interest in the girl once she was fully and legitimately a woman. The stepfather is obstructive because he doesn't want them to figure out how his stepdaughter died.
This time, they're out to catch a killer, not so much to find out who dunnit as to clear the name of someone who didn't. Another insular small town problem. As part of that, while I'm not glad the one character commits suicide, I am glad that it's suicide. Within the plot I mean, suicide instead of another murder.
The writers do a good job of parceling out the important information during the course of the episode.
Tony's having a really bad day even before he finds out what's going on. The acting is very good when he finds out his car was stolen, not towed. He doesn't say a word. On the other hand, I get very tired of the way he carries on in this episode. Everything juvenile brings back memories for Tony at this point, and he can't keep his mouth shut about it. Ending it on the car crash is okay, but I could've done without the lack of sympathy of his teammates.
Tony is in a nasty mood and it's not all because of having his car stolen. I do like it when he tells McGee we won't ride in an elevator with someone who doesn't know who Gary Cooper was.
McGee on the other hand had a Camaro and crashed out. It's interesting that he said he had a "slight thing" and Tony immediately knows it was a head on accident. He also manages to show sympathy without making a bad joke or a crack. The way they've written Tony to this point, he feels more sympathy for the car than for McGee. I'm glad they didn't play it that way.
Poor Abby and Kate, they lose their spa weekend. Abby sets up Jimmy with the massage. First to reference to Tony turning into Gibbs when Gibbs' isn't around. I like Kate watching Coleman and Gibbs under her eyebrows.
Jimmy and Ducky are funny together, especially in the scene in the storage locker. Ducky is very observant, which you'd expect, since he's a medical examiner. I think he deliberately downplays that he's as observant of the living as he is of the dead. His method of reminding Jimmy that the hyoid bone isn't connected to anything else is memorable. And his line to Gibbs "I can spend forever finding nothing."
They give this an interesting twist with the contrasting background between what the hometown says about the petty officer and what the marines does. I do consider what the small town sheriff does to be interfering with the federal investigation. It's also interesting to me that Emmy commits suicide before Gibbs can put a lot of pressure on her.
Gibbs has a great line: "several marines witnessed Petty Officer Dobbs saving lives; no one witnessed him taking one."
Another sicko pedophiliac villain, although this one seems have maintained his interest in the girl once she was fully and legitimately a woman. The stepfather is obstructive because he doesn't want them to figure out how his stepdaughter died.
This time, they're out to catch a killer, not so much to find out who dunnit as to clear the name of someone who didn't. Another insular small town problem. As part of that, while I'm not glad the one character commits suicide, I am glad that it's suicide. Within the plot I mean, suicide instead of another murder.
The writers do a good job of parceling out the important information during the course of the episode.