NCIS - 5x14 - Internal Affairs
Hee! The episode opens with Tony walking, sipping his coffee. Ziva startles him, almost making him drop it. McGee quickly pokes his head up when he hears that Tony has a drink.
"Keep it over there, please. Backing up three years of case files. The bulk of our lives is in these cables right now flying back and forth in 0s and 1s."
Tony pretends to drop his drink, sending paper flying everywhere. McGee freaks out until he realizes that he was tricked.
Gibbs storms in, ticked that they haven't been answering the phone. Except they aren't working. And then, suddenly, the computers go dead.
Cue the entrance of Fornell and the FBI.
They've just identified René Benoit (La Grenouille) as the body they pulled out of the bay a few months earlier. And now they're investigating NCIS, because they suspect that it was one of them who killed him.
Down in evidence lockup, the team's being guarded. Poor Abby's going a little nuts at being locked up down there, though the rest of the team's taking it fairly well.
Upstairs, Fornell takes Gibbs into the interrogation room. There's somebody watching the investigation, an African-American man, though we don't see his face as this point. Fornell shows Gibbs a photo of La Grenouille's body and tells him that he was killed the day that they last saw La Grenouille. Right before they found him missing from his yacht.
"Are you protecting anybody now?"
Fornell suspects that Jenny killed La Grenouille, and he wants to know if she has an alibi.
Gibbs: If you're gonna accuse the Director of NCIS of murder, that evidence better be damn good.
Fornell: Do you think I'd be here if it weren't?
The man who was watching Gibbs and Fornell goes up to visit Jenny in her office. His name's Leon Vance, and he's the Assistant Director who's usually assigned to San Diego.
Jenny hands him her gun and badge. He's going to temporarily be in charge, until the case is solved.
I get the impression that Leon and Gibbs aren't exactly the best friends.
McGee: What do I say?
Gibbs: The truth, McGee. You haven't done anything wrong.
McGee immediately thinks back to his hacking into the CIA. He can't help but be a little nervous about doing it.
Fornell tells McGee that he knows that McGee's hacked into pretty much everything out there, but he doesn't care about any of that right now. He wants to know why McGee investigated the suicide of Jasper Shepard, so he tells him that it was because Gibbs asked him to do it because he was suspicious.
And then Fornell asks him about the incident in Canada.
Cut to Ziva being interrogated by Fornell. He's specifically asking her about what happened in Canada - whether or not she was there to kill him.
Ducky's looking at La Grenouille's picture now. He only met him once, but he was impressed by him.
Fornell wants Ducky to create a psychological profile on Jenny, based on her actions in the past. He reluctantly tells Fornell that she seemed obsessed with him.
Down in evidence lockup, Ducky asks Gibbs if he thinks Jenny could have done it. Gibbs doesn't answer, and Ducky knows what that means.
Leon says that the four of them who've already been interviewed can leave, but they can't investigate the case. Gibbs tells them that they can, however, investigate the FBI.
Cut to Gibbs's basement. He's digging around, looking for something, when McGee and Ducky head downstairs. Ziva's out ditching the FBI agents that were tailing them. And Gibbs wants McGee to hack into Fornell's computer.
Hee! Gibbs was looking for this ancient computer that's probably almost as old as me.
Gibbs: Here, use mine.
McGee: This doesn't have a wireless signal though.
[Gibbs lays a screwdriver down on top of it.]
McGee: I'll figure it out.
Ducky, in the meantime, is supposed to go charm his way to getting his hands on La Grenouille's autopsy report.
"It's all very exciting, isn't it? Like a cat and mouse game. Reminds me of . . . a part of my life that I will share with you later."
Okay, be honest. How many of you immediately thought of Man from U.N.C.L.E. the moment Ducky said that?
McGee: Boss, I may be able to hook up my phone and piggyback the signal, but I'm gonna need an ID to get access to the FBI mainframe.
Gibbs: [holds up the ID of the FBI agent from the evidence lockup] Questions?
McGee: Yeah, how do you get the boat out?
Gibbs: Just break the bottle.
The poor FBI agent just realized that his ID has disappeared.
Meanwhile, Abby and Tony are bored to death. Abby's going through the evidence from a case that's long over, and she's found some tarot cards.
"Call the spirits. Tell them to bring pizza."
Fornell walks in, and Tony immediately jumps to attention. He's there for Abby, though, not him.
Tony: Gibbs gave you a mission. Everybody's counting on you. Just do what you do best.
Abby: Dance?
Tony: Talk.
As Abby walks away, Tony turns over the tarot card that she's already put down on the table. The Hanged Man.
Hee! I love that Fornell gave Abby a Caf Pow - and she's not answering any questions until she downs about half of it in one gulp.
And now she's telling him about her theories on Gibbs.
Abby: The man is magic. Like dark magic. He has eyes and ears everywhere. He appears like a mist. And whenever I get a clue, he just materializes.
Fornell: Maybe he bugged your lab.
Abby: No. [grins] I checked.
Fornell: What's that like? It sounds aggravating.
Abby: No.
Fornell: Does he every get angry?
Abby: Never! He only uses his powers for good.
Oh, Abby. They told her to ramble, and by God she's going to ramble.
McGee's managed to hack into Fornell's computer. He's got an eyewitness, and they have the address for him or her.
Gibbs: [handing Ziva a knife] The FBI car out front.
Ziva: [smiles] Got it.
Gibbs: Ziva, their tires. Not their throats.
Wow. Gibbs's printer is even older than the computer.
And Abby's still doing her best to keep Fornell and Leon occupied.
Cut to the hotel where the eyewitness has been staying. It's Jeanne.
In Gibbs' basement, Ducky's laid out photos of La Grenouille's body out on a table. He's studying it closely, trying to figure out what happened to him - whether it was a murder or suicide.
Ducky notices something on La Grenouille's hand.
Now Fornell's finally interviewing Tony. And he's asking him all about his undercover mission.
Fornell: You developed feelings for her. That wasn't very professional, Tony. How'd that happen?
Tony: Gradually.
Jeanne went to Africa, trying to escape what had happened. It didn't help.
Ziva: Duck.
Ducky: I only let Jethro call me that, Ziva.
McGee: I think she means duck, Ducky.
Ducky, McGee, and Ziva are trying to figure out what might have happened on the yacht.
"Yeah, she was in love with me. We were in love. What else do you want to know?"
And now Fornell's trying to accuse Tony of killing La Grenouille. That's who Jeanne told the FBI killed him.
Fornell: You killed La Grenouille.
Tony: I did what?
The expression on Tony's face when Fornell says that is perfect. It's obvious that's the last thing in the world he was expecting.
La Grenouille's death is identical to Jasper Shepard's suicide. Right down to the bruise on his hand.
Jenny's pissed as hell when they tell her that Jeanne's their witness.
In the interrogation room, Jenny gets Jeanne to tell the truth. She was supposed to meet her father that night, but she decided to just run. So she never saw her father.
And, is it just me, or is it pretty damn obvious that Jenny killed La Grenouille? :-/
As Jenny gets up to leave, Gibbs pokes his head in to talk to Fornell and Leon as they watch.
Gibbs: How's the case?
Fornell: Falling apart. Better not be here, Jethro, it'll just create more problems.
Gibbs: No, I'm here to solve it.
La Grenouille's CIA handler claims that he was ordered to kill him - so he did.
Gibbs doesn't think that it's over. There's just a look about him, like he's put two and two together but got a different answer than everyone else.
As the CIA guy walks by, Tony punches him right in the face. The two of them are about to get into a fight when Ziva steps up, and they break apart.
Jeanne walks past, and both she and Tony avoid looking at each other. Ziva tells him that he has to speak to her, though.
"Be a man, Tony."
Jeanne: Was any of it real, Tony?
Tony: No.
He really did love her - enough that he lied straight to her face to protect her.
"I wish I never met you."
Jenny's taking a few weeks of personal time, so I'm assuming Leon's going to be in charge for a few episodes.
Gibbs: Fairytale ending?
Jenny: The frog is dead and the jesters have been kicked out of the kingdom.
Gibbs: And the queen's back on her throne?
Jenny: If you're expecting some sort of knighthood, I'm sorry to say I've misplaced my sword.
Gibbs: Maybe it's with your gun.
Gibbs remembered seeing La Grenouille put down Jenny's gun on her desk. He didn't take it with him. In other words, she really did kill him. And Gibbs knows it.
"Long live the queen."
I haven't seen the rest of the season yet, so please don't spoil me. I'm going to try getting caught up tomorrow (thank whatever deity's listening for days off), but I have to finish some homework so I don't know if I'll make it or not.