Re: The NCIS Thread!
I loved that part of the episode too, AlyssaluvsDanny. He was totally into it and then just stops and fixes his hair. That was hilarious. Knowing me, I jumped at the opportunity to see a NCIS magazine article so that means I bought this weeks tv guide and this is the whole article:
A tense turn of events for the NCIS team this week leads to a dramatic transformation for Special Agent Anthony 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 student at a Quantico, Virginia, high school takes a classroom hostage with a bomb strapped to his body. He demands to see his presumed dead mother.
The would-be bomber sends a student out to get an inhaler for an asthmatic classmate in severe distress, and Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon)-the taciturn, stubborn leader of the NCIS team,-grabs the medicine and goes in. Gibbs 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."
NCIS 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 of DiNozzo's prowess and prone to malapropisms, "asks him if he thinks he has the
cazones," says Weatherly.
DiNozzo's biggest decision involves whether to order a SWAT team to shoot the young bomber in the head. "He may be wearing a dead-man switch, an automatic destruct mechanisim so that if he stops breathing or lets go of the button, he blows up and takes everyone with them," Weatherly says. "And, remember, Gibbs is in jeopardy along with the kids."
DiNozzo coolly takes charge of the situation, which suprises everyone even Weatherly. "You would think that he would be saying something stupid like, 'Woo-hoo, I am the boss man! I'm driving my Dad's Cadillac.'"
But NCIS creator Don Bellisario saw an opportunity in this script to develop DiNozzo's maturity. "It was a chance to take Tony the man-boy :lol: 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 ride," Weatherly says. "But I have to turn him off at nigh. He's just too much to be around 24 hours a day."
This article was written by Mary Murphy.