Head Case (03x15)
There's a nice scene between Tony and Ziva just after the break (although the subject is pretty gross). He starts out with part of a story of his first decapitation. From the little we heard, it sounded to me as if it would've happened when he was a beat cop, not a detective. It also made me wonder whether we've ever heard Tony reminiscing about being a cop in Philadelphia? Ziva's story is very telling, although when she does get captured, she does not kill herself (Truth and Consequences).
Ducky's lecture on the guillotine says Guillotin invented it, which is not true. David (IIRC) invented it. Guillotin only advocated its use as a more human method of execution.
Abby makes the brownnosing sign at Palmer, who looks confused. I think he's for real; he really does find Ducky's stories fascinating and amazing. He's not trying to score points.
It's nice that even though Tony proves himself all wrong about the attorney, Ziva doesn't give him a hard time about it. She just picks up on his (apparently abandoned) lawyer hatred. I'm glad they showed that Tony does know procedure. There's no way he'd've been a cop this long without knowing, but there's been no sign of that before now.
Even though she doesn't appear, they make reference to Faith Coleman. She's giving them legal advice on how they need to proceed to get a search warrant in order to find out the information they need to for the owner of the car.
Tony reveals more family information. He knows about Nevis because his father liked to use it as an off-shore corporate domicile. It has strict confidentiality laws, and Tony says that's why his father liked it. He also says that his uncle Vincenzo is or was a butcher on Long Island.
Ziva tells the director that she loves it in the U.S. and that Gibbs is a great teacher. It turns out that Jenny is Ziva's contact who might be able to get them information about the company in Nevis.
When Ziva is talking about Broussard's room and Abby comes up behind her is a cute scene. Tony sees Abby approaching but lets Ziva continue. Her switch when she hears Abby is smooth, although you can tell from her grimace that she knows she's put her foot in it with Abby, yet again. We have not yet reached the point where Abby considers Ziva one of 'her' agents.
Tony is very good at picking out the key papers. Although I'm sure the writers didn't know this, that actually is a sign of experience. When you spend hours and hours reviewing documents, you learn to recognize key ones.
McGee dresses down a lot less often than Tony or Ziva. Somehow, though, when he's in a suit he doesn't look as dressed up as Tony does in a suit. I think it has to do with posture. McGee and Tony's relationship appears to be taking a turn for the worse. The teasing is no longer light-hearted in this episode.
I have to say, I saw the lawyer coming; I saw the fact that they would find the assistant in the body parts truck. I didn't see the ME.
I liked this one. I like the way it begins by showing us that not everything our team does is a homicide. I like that they drop background tidbits for Ziva that are not of the "I'm so tough and competent" school. I thought the mystery was competent (seems to be my favorite word for this episode).
Ducky's lecture on the guillotine says Guillotin invented it, which is not true. David (IIRC) invented it. Guillotin only advocated its use as a more human method of execution.
Abby makes the brownnosing sign at Palmer, who looks confused. I think he's for real; he really does find Ducky's stories fascinating and amazing. He's not trying to score points.
It's nice that even though Tony proves himself all wrong about the attorney, Ziva doesn't give him a hard time about it. She just picks up on his (apparently abandoned) lawyer hatred. I'm glad they showed that Tony does know procedure. There's no way he'd've been a cop this long without knowing, but there's been no sign of that before now.
Even though she doesn't appear, they make reference to Faith Coleman. She's giving them legal advice on how they need to proceed to get a search warrant in order to find out the information they need to for the owner of the car.
Tony reveals more family information. He knows about Nevis because his father liked to use it as an off-shore corporate domicile. It has strict confidentiality laws, and Tony says that's why his father liked it. He also says that his uncle Vincenzo is or was a butcher on Long Island.
Ziva tells the director that she loves it in the U.S. and that Gibbs is a great teacher. It turns out that Jenny is Ziva's contact who might be able to get them information about the company in Nevis.
When Ziva is talking about Broussard's room and Abby comes up behind her is a cute scene. Tony sees Abby approaching but lets Ziva continue. Her switch when she hears Abby is smooth, although you can tell from her grimace that she knows she's put her foot in it with Abby, yet again. We have not yet reached the point where Abby considers Ziva one of 'her' agents.
Tony is very good at picking out the key papers. Although I'm sure the writers didn't know this, that actually is a sign of experience. When you spend hours and hours reviewing documents, you learn to recognize key ones.
McGee dresses down a lot less often than Tony or Ziva. Somehow, though, when he's in a suit he doesn't look as dressed up as Tony does in a suit. I think it has to do with posture. McGee and Tony's relationship appears to be taking a turn for the worse. The teasing is no longer light-hearted in this episode.
I have to say, I saw the lawyer coming; I saw the fact that they would find the assistant in the body parts truck. I didn't see the ME.
I liked this one. I like the way it begins by showing us that not everything our team does is a homicide. I like that they drop background tidbits for Ziva that are not of the "I'm so tough and competent" school. I thought the mystery was competent (seems to be my favorite word for this episode).