Great ep!! I was bouncing up and down in my chair and nearly biting my nails during parts of it... they really had me going on where all the little twists and turns were leading to!
One of the fun bits I liked was seeing Ducky recognize his missing corpse; then railing at Gibbs later on in front of Tony, only to have both of them finally come clean and reveal to Tony that it was all okay, Ducky was in on it, it wasn't Vance's fault, and was all Gibbs' idea...
*whew* Had to take a breath after that run-on sentence!
Vance liked the idea of Gibbs having to be the "bad guy" this time, and Gibbs certainly didn't seem to mind it all that much, either. Once again, I'm really loving the dynamic that Vance and Gibbs have, and this ep appeared to show that they've been working a little closer and friendlier than we, the audience, might have suspected, before now. Great stuff!
SecNav was a big, loutish, camelhaired toad.
I
was a little surprised that they went that way, with the character. Abby was driving me nuts with her door-locking antics in her lab, but in the beginning I didn't think it was related to the case, I figured she was doing something totally unrelated for her own self or something, and it would end up accidentally throwing suspicion on her. Didn't figure out that she was actually in on Gibbs' & Vance's Mole Hunt, until Tim came banging at her door that last time and was eventually joined by security, and there's Abby in her lab, simply sitting and waiting impatiently for them, then I knew. I love the friendship between Abby & McGee!
Ziva kicked butt in this ep, loved it!
That's a return to the old Ziva we saw in the beginning, and I couldn't have been happier! And I had to laugh with a slightly shame-faced Jimmy Palmer, confessing his affair with Lee to the group, only to find out they already knew
Agent Lee... hmmmm, still not sure about her. The writers were
verrrry clever, making sure they never wholly revealed if she is indeed a terrified pawn with a kidnapped daughter, or if she is using that to play on their sympathies (particularly Gibbs) and is actually an all-out villian. And if she actually
is "playing" Gibbs (and Vance), then heaven help her, she'll need it! Looks like we'll find out much more, next week!
