Bait (03x18)
The actor playing Kody is great. I say that a lot about the guest stars on this show, because it's true. The actor was 21 at the time, but really gave the feel of a persecuted 15 year old who missed his mom.
If she really had asthma that severely, there's no way she'd leave her inhaler in her locker. Especially if the asthma were stress or exercise induced. I think this actress does an okay job of imitating an asthma attack, not a great one. Then again, when you don't have asthma it's not exactly easy to sound as if you do.
Another bulletin board comment I need to reply to: someone said it was a goof that Ziva looked at the screen on her digital SLR because, they said, you can't do that. Well, I'm here to tell you that is incorrect. I have a digital SLR (Pentax) and you can, indeed, take a picture while looking at the screen instead of through the viewfinder.
I like the Tony scenes, even when he's not the one who comes up with the ideas. He's the one in charge and they defer to him-as they should when Gibbs is not around. This episode is a good demonstration of the way he thinks outside the box, for example, by letting Gibbs know the kid's mother is dead by saying Agent Todd is looking for her.
Ziva sure picked a bad time to twit Tony about not being Gibbs. He needed her support. The writers sometimes seem to be afraid to let Tony be competent for too long at a time.
I wonder whether it's seeing the way he handles this that makes the director tap Tony for the undercover work in season four. I think he was right to tell her off (so does Ducky, and even Jenny realizes it).
I very much like this episode, except for the end. Why is it that Tony gets no credit at all for his solution as soon as the others realize it came from a movie? When anyone else finds inspiration from something, they get told "good thinking" by the rest of their peers but because it's Tony it's "Oh, well, that wasn't your idea." I generally turn off the episode before we get to that part so I can pretend it ends the way it should-without a put down.
If she really had asthma that severely, there's no way she'd leave her inhaler in her locker. Especially if the asthma were stress or exercise induced. I think this actress does an okay job of imitating an asthma attack, not a great one. Then again, when you don't have asthma it's not exactly easy to sound as if you do.
Another bulletin board comment I need to reply to: someone said it was a goof that Ziva looked at the screen on her digital SLR because, they said, you can't do that. Well, I'm here to tell you that is incorrect. I have a digital SLR (Pentax) and you can, indeed, take a picture while looking at the screen instead of through the viewfinder.
I like the Tony scenes, even when he's not the one who comes up with the ideas. He's the one in charge and they defer to him-as they should when Gibbs is not around. This episode is a good demonstration of the way he thinks outside the box, for example, by letting Gibbs know the kid's mother is dead by saying Agent Todd is looking for her.
Ziva sure picked a bad time to twit Tony about not being Gibbs. He needed her support. The writers sometimes seem to be afraid to let Tony be competent for too long at a time.
I wonder whether it's seeing the way he handles this that makes the director tap Tony for the undercover work in season four. I think he was right to tell her off (so does Ducky, and even Jenny realizes it).
I very much like this episode, except for the end. Why is it that Tony gets no credit at all for his solution as soon as the others realize it came from a movie? When anyone else finds inspiration from something, they get told "good thinking" by the rest of their peers but because it's Tony it's "Oh, well, that wasn't your idea." I generally turn off the episode before we get to that part so I can pretend it ends the way it should-without a put down.