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NCIS Shcoker!
When his boss is taken hostage, Michael Weatherly's DiNozzo gets his shot.
A tense turn of events for the NCIS team this week leads to a dramatic transformation for Special Agent Tony DiNozzo - and a delicious opportunity for the actor who plays him. "It's a completely different Tony than audiences have ever seen, "says Michael Weatherly, who normally views DiNozzo as a "swirling dervish of political incorrectness."
DiNozzo abandons his class-clown act when a 15 year old Quantico, Virginia, high school student takes a classroom hostage with a bomb strapped to his body. He demands to see his presumed dead mother.
The would be bomver sends a student out to get and inhaler for an asthmatic classmate in sever distress, and Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) - the taciturn, stubborn leader of the NCIS team - grabs the medicine and goes in. Gibbgs ends up a hostage, and second in command DiNozzo is forced to supervise the field operation.
"Tony gets a brand spanking new personality." Weatherly says. "He's serious."
NICS director Jenny Shepard (Lauren HOlly) doubts DiNozzo can handle this Columbine-like crisis. And so does Ziva David (Cote de Pablo), the ex-Mossad agent assigned to the team. David, teasingly skeptical DiNozzo's prowess and prone to malapropisms, "asks him if he thinks he has the cazones," says Weatherly. I can hear the Tony fans screaming in rage now
DiNozzo's biggest decision involves whether to order a SWAT team to shoot the young bomber in the ehad. "He may be wearing a dead man switch, an automatic destruct mechanism so that if sh stops breathing or lets go of the button, he blows up and takes everyone with them," Weatherly says. "And, remeber, Gibbs is in jeopardy along with the kids."
DiNozzo cooly takes charge of the situation which surprises even Weatherly. "You would think that he would be saying something stupid like, 'Woohoo! I am the boss man! I"m driving Dad's Cadillac."
But NCIS creator Bellisario saw and opportunity in this script to develop DiNozzo's maturity. "It was a chance to take Tony the manboy and show the man-man side of him."
For his part, Weatherly cut back on his on-set coffee consumption during the week the episode, entitled Bait, was being shot, so that DiNozzo would seem less cranked up. "I [usually] put Tony on in the morning and let it red," Weatherly says. "But I have to turn him off at night. He's just too much to be around 24 hours a day."
NCIS Shcoker!
When his boss is taken hostage, Michael Weatherly's DiNozzo gets his shot.
A tense turn of events for the NCIS team this week leads to a dramatic transformation for Special Agent Tony DiNozzo - and a delicious opportunity for the actor who plays him. "It's a completely different Tony than audiences have ever seen, "says Michael Weatherly, who normally views DiNozzo as a "swirling dervish of political incorrectness."
DiNozzo abandons his class-clown act when a 15 year old Quantico, Virginia, high school student takes a classroom hostage with a bomb strapped to his body. He demands to see his presumed dead mother.
The would be bomver sends a student out to get and inhaler for an asthmatic classmate in sever distress, and Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) - the taciturn, stubborn leader of the NCIS team - grabs the medicine and goes in. Gibbgs ends up a hostage, and second in command DiNozzo is forced to supervise the field operation.
"Tony gets a brand spanking new personality." Weatherly says. "He's serious."
NICS director Jenny Shepard (Lauren HOlly) doubts DiNozzo can handle this Columbine-like crisis. And so does Ziva David (Cote de Pablo), the ex-Mossad agent assigned to the team. David, teasingly skeptical DiNozzo's prowess and prone to malapropisms, "asks him if he thinks he has the cazones," says Weatherly. I can hear the Tony fans screaming in rage now
DiNozzo's biggest decision involves whether to order a SWAT team to shoot the young bomber in the ehad. "He may be wearing a dead man switch, an automatic destruct mechanism so that if sh stops breathing or lets go of the button, he blows up and takes everyone with them," Weatherly says. "And, remeber, Gibbs is in jeopardy along with the kids."
DiNozzo cooly takes charge of the situation which surprises even Weatherly. "You would think that he would be saying something stupid like, 'Woohoo! I am the boss man! I"m driving Dad's Cadillac."
But NCIS creator Bellisario saw and opportunity in this script to develop DiNozzo's maturity. "It was a chance to take Tony the manboy and show the man-man side of him."
For his part, Weatherly cut back on his on-set coffee consumption during the week the episode, entitled Bait, was being shot, so that DiNozzo would seem less cranked up. "I [usually] put Tony on in the morning and let it red," Weatherly says. "But I have to turn him off at night. He's just too much to be around 24 hours a day."