Episode: 4.7, Sandblast
Air Date: November 7, 2006. I turned 30 the week this aired. I spent that following weekend on Coronado Island off the coast of San Diego. I did not see any SEALs training, or any NCIS Special Agents investigating the murder of any SEAL trainees.
The Victim: Colonel Frederick Cooper, USMC.
Emotionally Traumatized, But Ultimately Irrelevant, Witness Who Finds the Body: We’re playing golf. A father and a son. Dad is in the sand trap, but he says he’s going to blast out and two-put and break 90 for the first time in his life. Dad is making plans for after his next deployment to Iraq (which seems like jinxing oneself, but I suspect he has more immediate worries). Junior is going to Princeton but says the old man can visit every other weekend. Junior steps away and razzes Dad about his form. Dad hits the golf ball and a massive explosion occurs, decimating him. Junior is thrown back and looks on in horror from the grass.
Plot Recap: Tony is putting an amount of sugar in his coffee that is frankly horrifying. He says it’s an attribute of his “people.” He means Italians, but McGee figures his people are “Long Islanders.” Ziva arrives and Tony is still waxing triumphant about Italian contributions to society.
Fortunately, this goes nowhere, and we get down to business in Director Shepard’s office. She’s on the phone while Gibbs flips through the service record of our exploded father. Shepard hangs up and announces the DHS threat level has been raised to orange. Gibbs agrees given that the Army Navy Club is a high value target. Shepard looks at the service record as well, for Colonel Frederick Cooper. She notes that he was set to deploy to Iraq tomorrow and says at least he got to spend one last day with his son. Gibbs grimly says that’s one way of looking at it and leaves.
The team arrives at the golf course and Gibbs tells them to process a 100-meter blast radius from the sand trap. Tony corrects him and says it’s a bunker. Hmmmm…per above, I need correcting too. Although, Gibbs and I come from similar backgrounds, so I guess it’s not surprising that the wealthy Tony would have the advantage with respect to country club terminology. McGee balks at working the wooded area around the golf course because of poison ivy (continuing his streak of being squeamish about all things crime scene). Gibbs doesn’t care.
Gibbs meets Lt. Col. Hollis Mann, Army CID. They measure. Gibbs says CID will support NCIS’ investigation. Lt. Col. Mann says it will be a joint investigation and CID will have lead because it’s the Army Navy Club, not the Navy Army Club. Gibbs points to our victim and says, “That is a dead Marine” and that seems to settle the point.
Lt. Col. Mann says she had EOD sweep the rest of the sand traps, and they did not find any bombs. Gibbs, ever applying acquired knowledge, tells her it’s called a bunker and acts like she’s a moron. Lt. Col. Mann says Col. Cooper’s son thought he saw a spider-web type construct in the bunker and Ziva wonders if it was a trip wire. Lt. Col. Mann says there’s not a whole lot of information to go on. Also, they have a lot of land to cover. Gibbs suggests his team will work the crime scene and CID can look at the other 18 holes. Lt. Col. Mann doesn’t feel like rolling over and/or playing dead and says if Gibbs asks nicely, she might give him the body. Gibbs gestures at Ducky’s arrival and says he doesn’t have to asks because his ME arrived first. Lt. Col. Mann apprises Gibbs that if he would like to have a pissing contest, she hopes he brought an umbrella.
Tony wanders up and asks Ziva what is going on. Ziva points out that Gibbs just found his fourth ex-wife. Fortunately, Tony brought his A-game. Having checked the wind and the trash can at the neighboring tee, he comes back with part of a detonator that the wind carried out of the blast radius. Even Lt. Col. Mann must admit she’s dealing with seasoned investigators, since she checked the area herself and missed it.
In autopsy, Ducky is talking to Col. Cooper’s corpse about his own golfing inadequacies. Lt. Col. Mann arrives with Gibbs and, like all new visitors to autopsy, thinks Ducky’s corpse talk is weird as hell. Ducky has an easy COD. Lt. Col. Mann wants physical evidence of the explosive. Ducky agrees that it’s a difficult task and says that Abby was complaining about the lack of evidence at the crime scene. The bombshell was plastic so most of it disintegrated, but Ducky says that some of the fragments were cooled by the liquid in the Colonel’s body, and he was able to collect samples. NCIS 2; CID 0. Gibbs manages not to smirk and tells Ducky to get the fragments to Abby.
Josh Cooper, Col. Cooper’s son is bandaged for burns on his hands and forearms and is giving a statement. To Tony, who has more empathy than usual. Josh saw a spider web in the bunker and wishes he’d said something. Tony says there was nothing Josh could have done. Josh bristles at the cliché (in fairness he dinged himself earlier in the conversation for saying, “I can’t believe he’s gone”). This leads to Tony saying he’s got a million of them and Josh wanting to hear Tony lay out all the stupid shit we say when people die. This is a good, subtle, awareness segment because this show has a lot of viewers and I imagine a lot of well-meaning people don’t realize they’re doing more harm than good when they lead with empty clichés in trying to comfort people who have lost loved ones. Shit like “Everything happens for a reason,” and “His time was up,” and “Accidents will happen.” Josh doesn’t think this was an accident, though; and Tony doesn’t hide anything from him. Josh wonders: if the point of fighting terrorists in Iraq was to not fight them at home, then maybe the people in Iraq need more men. Tony tells him to focus on Princeton and NCIS will find his father’s killer. “Like you found bin Laden,” Josh retorts.
Ouch.
McGee puts up a photo of an old Toyota, complete with license plate. Security cleared everyone who left the club, but they have no record of this car. It’s registered to a greenskeeper so McGee tells an arriving Tony that he must have snuck it out a service entrance. Tony tells McGee, “Nice catch,” but Lt. Col. Mann, needing a victory, makes sure to let Tony know it was her catch. Tony makes a “meh meh meh” face at her when she’s not looking.
Gibbs and Shepard emerge above from MTAC to observe Lt. Col. Mann and McGee talking. Shepard asks what Lt. Col. Mann is like and Gibbs is curious as to what Shepard means. “Is she up to the job?” Shepard clarifies, and Gibbs says he’ll let her know.
Gibbs’s car pulls up to an Army CID arrest and he and Tony and Lt. Col. Mann get out. Gibbs directs Tony to see to the perp. Lt. Col. Mann says the perp is already in CID custody and they can handle the interrogation. Tony hesitates and Gibbs tells him to go anyway. Lt. Col. Mann figures Gibbs for a divorced guy. He lets her know she’s off by three. She’s surprised it’s only three. They observe as CID guys hesitantly open the trunk of the sought-after vehicle…and there’s a big old cinderblock of weed inside. Gibbs starts smirking. Lt. Col. Mann says the drugs don’t mean the guy didn’t plant the bomb. Gibbs smiles bigger and tells Lt. Col. Mann she can have the interrogation after all, and he’ll look for the actual bomber.
In his basement, Gibbs is stenciling what looks to be “Kelly” on his boat. Lt. Col. Mann arrives at his house (presumptuous?) She claims she rung the bell for three minutes, but Gibbs has been meaning to fix that. Since the door was unlocked…“This would be trespassing, not breaking and entering,” Gibbs finishes. Lt. Col. Mann is indifferent. She asks about the name on the boat, and look, Gibbs isn’t going to discuss his dead family with a near stranger, so he asks, “Is there a reason you broke into my house?” She says she thought they could share information. He tells her to go get a beer. Lt. Col. Mann is dressed down, having traded her fatigues for a short sleeve blouse and a tasteful skirt. Gibbs surreptitiously checks her out as she walks across the room and then ducks back down behind his boat when she turns. It’s charming. Lt. Col. Mann (along with every woman over 40 watching this show), also surreptitiously checks out Gibbs’s ass while he’s bent over working on his stencil. She tells him the swabs from the suspect’s car came back positive for fertilizer and diesel fuel, which are used in bombs. These materials are also used in greens keeping, Gibbs observes. Lt. Col. Mann admits it was a bad lead and asks if there’s anything he’d like to share. He offers her sardines, but she meant about the case. Lt. Col. Mann looks at the boat again and asks if “Kelly” is his girlfriend. Gibbs shakes his head grimly and she seems to get it.
Well, maybe. She had his ass profiled by Army intelligence and very exactingly lays out all his assets and liabilities. Gibbs is annoyed and sort of firmly, but gently removes her hand from picking at his boat. But he asks if there’s anything he needs to know about her “before we get involved?” She balks at “involved,” he clarifies that he means the case, but we all know what he means. She tells him that she could have NCIS do a profile on her, but Gibbs says he likes surprises. She rolls her eyes and drinks her beer.
Tony is out on a date with a pretty lady. This show doesn’t really showcase personal lives unless it’s case-related, soooo…anywho…Tony seems to be helping the pretty lady prepare for some kind of exam. Since he made her answer in the form of a question, maybe she is trying out for Jeopardy! They conclude and she asks him how a cute guy who does shitty impressions is still single. He answers in the form of a question, “What are commitment issues?” But she’s not buying it because a dozen hot co-eds have walked by in the last hour and his eyes haven’t wandered once. I’m amazed by this as well- did Tony take a Xanax? Although, great response, “Clearly, yours have.” The lady says she is very traditional, however, and that he shouldn’t get his hopes up for any girl-on-girl. She presses her question, and he supposes he is patiently waiting to find the right girl. She asks if he thinks he’ll ever find her, and Tony says he’s getting more and more confident by the day. Smooth.
Hmmmm…more later.
Back at the squad room, McGee has poison ivy again, this time, near his junk. Tony videos McGee turned around and scratching so it looks like he’s wanking it. Tony shows the video to Ziva and they laugh. McGee laments that he should have told Gibbs “No” when Gibbs asked him to work the woods. Gibbs appears and agrees. He gives McGee a home remedy but stops him when he leaves to go apply it. They have a terrorist to catch.
McGee reports that all the Club guests check out, Tony can find no traces of surveillance of the club, and Ziva says that her Interpol contacts report no uptick in chatter prior to the attack.
McGee visits Abby, but she’s pessimistic. And weirded out by the way McGee keeps grind-scratching his junk area on her table. The bomb was made of biodegradable materials, she’s thinking some kind of green technology jug. She gives McGee some of Gibbs’s home poison ivy remedy and then, for some reason, is OK with him applying it to his balls in her lab while she talks about not being able to trace the bomb fragments. Even the fuse is off-the-shelf, and the biological material on the fuse is too degraded form the blast to provide DNA. So they got nothing.
In MTAC, Shepard continues to monitor ops related to the search for Le Grenouille. They don’t catch him this time either, though. A tech tells Shepard that Gibbs is attempting to access MTAC. Shepard tells the tech to go dark and let him in. One wonders why she’s keeping this from him, but she excuses it to Gibbs by pointing to the escalated threat level. Gibbs thinks the investigation into Col. Cooper’s death is going in the wrong direction, and Shepard hands him a file from CIA on a homegrown terrorist cell, complete with suspects. This seems a little pat and Gibbs wonders why they’re just hearing about it now. Shepard shrugs and references 9/11 pilot lessons. She tells Gibbs that she has informed CID and Lt. Col. Mann will meet him on-site at the reported location for the cell.
The teams arrive and raid a warehouse. There are no terrorists present, but there’s “Death to America” graffiti and a map of soft targets. Then Tony looks up into the rafters and sees a giant bomb and figures the target is, “Us.”
Lt. Col. Mann tells her troops to secure the building. Gibbs sends Tony and Ziva out the back to secure things until EOD arrives on scene. But Ziva returns after Gibbs exits and says she can disarm the bomb. She doesn’t want it to detonate and destroy evidence before EOD arrives. Tony is not OK with this plan, but he’s not leaving her and follows her as she climbs various equipment up to the bomb. They perch next to the bomb and Ziva hands Tony the cell phone trigger. She starts working the bomb with her knife. Trying to keep things loose, Tony says he can see down her shirt. Ziva thinks his new girlfriend won’t like that. He feigns ignorance, but Ziva says he no longer checks out every woman who walks by. Tony reiterates that he’s staring down her shirt. She asks if he sees anything good, and he says, “Real good,” but he doubts it’s anything worth dying over. She says she’ll remember that and zips up. Tony asks for takebacks if he says it is worth dying for, but Ziva says, “Now you’ll never know.” She finishes disarming the bomb.
Back at HQ, Ziva reports that the cell phone attached to the bomb was pre-paid and disposable and has never been used. BUT, Ziva’s efforts have preserved a warehouse full of evidence. Gibbs tells Ziva, “Nice job.” Then he tells her that if she pulls something like that ever again, “I’ll kick your ass back to Israel.”
Lt. Col. Mann says CIA won’t let them directly talk to their protected source o for information n this terrorist cell. Gibbs has that covered. McGee hacks DHS and they should have some back-up archives that the team can use to figure out the CIA source. Lt. Col. Mann thinks her superiors won’t care for that. Gibbs has a simple solution: “Don’t tell ‘em.” Lt. Col. Mann thinks smart and devious is a dangerous combination. Gibbs thinks she forgot “charming.” McGee thinks, what the hell am I watching? Lt. Col. Mann tells Gibbs she didn’t forget.
McGee is inside the DHS system. He gets name and background on the informant, Mamoun Sharif. He owns a convenience store but is on CIA retainer. McGee hands Lt. Col. Mann the address. She and Gibbs head out, but don’t invite anyone else.
At the convenience store, a homeless guy is shoplifting Sharif. Sharif makes a big show of throwing him out, but then quietly gives him the food and tells him to be sneakier next time. Gibbs arrives and notices, but Sharif says that his religion makes it a sin to turn away a hungry man. Lt. Col. Mann flashes her badge and Sharif becomes frightened. And with reason- this is kind of a bullshit thing to do to somebody else’s informant. Gibbs wants to know how Sharif heard about the warehouse. Sharif says he hears things at the store, at the mosque. He doesn’t want to give names because a lot of the things he hears are from people who are innocent, and he figures the feds won’t make distinctions among Muslims if he starts naming names. But after Gibbs finds a pistol on Sharif and subtly threatens to ring him up for not having a permit, Sharif hands Lt. Col. Mann a security tape and tells her that the man on it referred to the golf course attack and called it, “the beginning.”
Gibbs and Lt. Col. Mann return to the squad room and McGee whispers to Ziva that Gibbs let Lt. Col. Mann off the elevator first and that Gibbs never lets anyone go ahead of him. Gibbs hands McGee the Sharif tape and tells him to take it to Abby. Gibbs wants to know where Tony is, and McGee says doctor’s appointment. Gibbs tells McGee to get him back to HQ. McGee makes the call, but Tony puts him off. We see some doctors milling about and Tony looking at his pretty lady on his phone, but that’s all the detail we’re going to get.
Gibbs comes to the squad room with food for he and Lt. Col. Mann. She calls herself a “Cheap date” and he says, “This is a date?” Figure of speech, she replies. They eat and talk through the case. The victim was obviously random because there’s no way to know the Colonel would be in the bunker. Lt. Col. Mann claims the bomb was not designed to kill, otherwise it would have been packed with shrapnel, Josh Cooper would be dead, and the bomb would be easier to detect. So, Lt. Col. Mann thinks the first objective is to avoid detection. This explains the lack of chatter. And if you’re that busy covering your tracks, why write “Death to America” all over your hideout?
Tony visits Josh Cooper, who is in his room listening to Coltrane, a favorite of his father’s. His mom called Tony and told him that Josh has decided not to go to Princeton. Josh says trying to talk him out of it is a non-starter. Tony says he would never talk someone out of joining the Corps and that it’s an honor to serve one’s country. But what’s the rush? Josh says why wait around and collect a few more dead colonels and asks what Tony would do in his shoes. Tony says he’d want justice, but Josh is out for revenge. Josh doesn’t deny it. Tony says there’s a right time and a right place and that this is not Josh’s time. And he leaves.
Look at Tony, bringing the wisdom and maturity.
Ziva tells Gibbs that the terrorist chatter has increased. Tony arrives and deflects Gibbs’s abuse by describing his visit with Josh. The team’s attention is distracted by reports of a fire destroying a convenience store. With the owner inside. CIA is not gonna be happy that Gibbs and Lt. Col. Mann got their asset barbecued. Gibbs and Lt. Col. Mann should probably feel bad too.
Ducky is talking to Sharif’s corpse. Gibbs and Lt. Col. Mann arrive in autopsy. Ducky doesn’t know a lot, but he knows Sharif died from being burned to death before a bomb went off. And that type of overkill means the perps are sending a message OR there was something at the scene that they didn’t want the authorities to find. Lt. Col. Mann thinks they may have beat the perps to whatever it was, since they have the surveillance tape.
Lt. Col. Mann and Gibbs join Abby, who is watching convenience store video and talking to the television. Lt. Col. Mann wants to know if all of Gibbs’s people talk to themselves. Abby is ideal for this job as she can read lips. After watching an insane amount of video, Abby has zoned in on a fella named Abraham, who looks like the homeless guy that Sharif “caught” stealing. She reports that she saw him say, “the day of judgment is coming.”
The team backgrounds Abraham. His name is Abraham Moussalah and he has an arrest record for convenience store robbery. He has also spent time in a psych ward, converted to a radical sect of Islam, ran off on his probation officer, and he’s off the grid. They’ve got a BOLO on him, and McGee is coordinating with local LEOs while Lt. Col. Mann checks in with CID for intel on the sect Moussalah joined. McGee wants to know where Tony is, but Gibbs says Tony is fine. Gibbs gets a call and he and Lt. Col. Mann head to Abby’s lab. McGee looks at Ziva, but she doesn’t know where Tony is either.
Tony goes to see Josh again. Josh is cranky, but he tells Tony he’s going to Princeton. And then Georgetown Law and then Naval intelligence. Tony promises that they’re going to find the people who killed Col. Cooper, and Josh believes him.
In Abby’s lab, Abby has determined that the phone detonator from the warehouse bomb was indeed used, but only once and probably to test the detonator. Still, she has done technical things and determined where the call came from.
McGee says the incoming call came from the warehouse. Obviously Moussalah isn’t there now, so McGee attempts to trace the phone. Moussalah is in Georgetown.
Tony joins the team in Georgetown as Army troops and local LEOs begin clearing civilians away from the area. Gibbs asks Tony for a quick report, and Tony says, “Princeton.” Lt. Col. Mann spots Moussalah sitting on a bench. The agents debate the risk and whether the bomb’s trigger is a cell phone or trip wire. There’s no real way to determine so Gibbs approaches. He ditches his NCIS jacket, hides his earpiece, and grabs a regular jacket from a table. He steals a guy’s hat for good measure. Lt. Col. Mann wonders what the hell Gibbs is doing, but Tony ain’t scared: “What he always does.” Lt. Col. Mann says, “Four marriages, negotiating is probably not his thing,” but Tony is confident.
Gibbs grabs a newspaper, walks by Moussalah and sees him playing some Tetris-like game (or maybe even Tetris, I don’t know) on his phone. He tells Tony that the cell phone is not the detonator. Gibbs sits down and strikes up a conversation by saying that his son Tony plays the same phone game. He shakes hands and sees that Moussalah has some kind of cuff attached to his wrist, and that’s attached to a backpack.
The police are clearing the crowd and somewhere in there a man, his face obscured, is checking his watch, seemingly waiting for the hour to turn.
Meanwhile, Moussalah is fascinated by the name Jethro and starts going through its Biblical antecedents (father-in-law of Moses, walked with Moses across the parted Red Sea, etc.). Moussalah is clearly not right in the head. Gibbs tries to cut through the fog and asks if it’s OK for someone to hurt innocent people. Moussalah emphatically says “No, Jethro!” Moussalah is waiting for his friend to take him to dinner. Gibbs asks, and Moussalah says the same friend gave him the backpack. Moussalah says his friend is named Sharif. Over the intercom, Tony wonders who’s in autopsy.
Moussalah says that Sharif was supposed to meet him at 3:00. Gibbs yells for Ziva and then calmly asks Moussalah if they can look in his backpack. He agrees. They do and it’s a big old block of C4 with a timer. Army EOD is still en route. Ziva, bold as brass, asks Gibbs if he wants her to defuse it because last time he said he’d kick her ass….“Do it!” Gibbs growls. Gibbs tells the rest of them to get clear and…
…and he should know better by now. Give the boys (and Lt. Col. Mann) credit for not rolling their eyes at Gibbs as they all kneel by Ziva to watch. This is not a team that leaves a member to face danger alone. Ziva has thirty seconds. Moussalah asks McGee his name and McGee says, “Tim.” Tony says, “It means he who is about to wet his pants.” The scene shifts back and forth from the timer, to the man in the crowd, presumably Sharif, eyeing his watch, to the bomb, to the agents, and I don’t mind admitting it’s pretty tense. They did a great job with this scene, particularly with the music. Ziva reaches for a wire. Hesitates. Hesitates some more. The clock ticks down to 5. She snips. And the timer deactivates. Moussalah asks why McGee is going to wet his pants.
Gibbs looks around at the crowd for Sharif and says, “He’s here.” “No,” Lt. Col. Mann responds. Not anymore.
And while that seems like an odd place to end it, that’s where we end it.
Quotables:
Lt. Col. Mann: Okay Look, CID intel did a profile on you for me. I know you flaunt authority, especially in front of a female.
Gibbs: A female write that, too?
Lt. Col. Mann: Yep. She also wrote you were a sniper, a good one, but your eyesight’s shot, you’re injury-prone, if not in a state of near death-wish fulfillment, and though you’re pressured and impatient, you’re also passionate and loyal, in spite of the fact that you don’t trust anyone. You are gonna have to trust me.
Ziva-propisms: None this week. And you really can’t make fun of a gal who disarms two bombs in one episode.
Tony Awards: I think he did the Sean Connery accent again while out with his lady.
Abby Road: Abby tries to expound on how many ring-dings are sold each day in the average convenience store.
Ducky Tales: Ducky prattles on about his golf game.
The Rest of the Story:
-McGee’s last adventure with poison ivy happened in Caught on Tape, Episode 2.15. In fairness, Tony tried to warn him.
-Lt. Col. Mann will continue to appear throughout the season.
-Gibbs never locks his door. Would you try to rob him?
-That boat is really coming along. It has been 76 episodes, and it’s all lacquered up and in the process of being named.
-Tony’s pretty lady, though unnamed this episode, is Dr. Jeanne Benoit, making her first appearance. Like Lt. Col. Mann, she will also become a semi-regular. At least for a little while.
-Wait. Now Tony will never know? So, are they, or aren’t they?
-Gibbs explains to Lt. Col. Mann that apologizing is a sign of weakness. She thinks it takes strength to apologize. They don’t resolve it.
-Gibbs and Abby talk in sign language and this has been a thing since early in season one. Usually they make fun of Tony.
-How did Lt. Col. Mann find out about Gibbs’s fourth (well, first) marriage? I guess it was in the profile she had CID whip up.
-The team last refused to leave an armed bomb situation, despite Gibbs’s express orders, in Light Sleeper, Episode 3.14. This episode, he doesn’t have time to threaten to fire them all before the credits roll.
-Sharif will return later this season. So, in blog time, that’s about a week.
Casting Call: Lt. Col. Mann is Susanna Thompson. She was Rick’s ex-wife on Once and Again, and Green Arrow’s mom on Arrow.
Scottie Thompson is Dr. Benoit. She was Nero’s wife in the 2009 Star Trek reboot.
Man, This Show Is Old: Ah, the old DHS color coded threat levels. The system was replaced in April 2011, and I can’t remember the last time somebody referenced it. One day, we were living with color codes. And then we weren’t.
Josh Cooper says he thought we were fighting the terrorists over there, so we don’t have to fight them over here. That’s a reference to a comment President George W. Bush made a lot to justify the Iraq War.
Josh also criticizes Tony for the federal government’s failure to locate Osama bin Laden and pay him back with interest for the 9/11 attacks. As of this episode, the U.S. military was about four and a half years from shooting bin Laden to death in one of his compounds.
Lt. Col. Mann refers to materials used by homegrown terrorist Timothy McVeigh in the 1995 bombing of an Oklahoma City federal building that killed 171 people. Leaving the world no poorer, McVeigh died from lethal injection in 2001.
Anne Heche is an American actress who was big in the late 90s. She began dating Ellen DeGeneres in 1997 but claims to have otherwise only been with men.
Dr. Phil has been around forever but was a bigger deal in 2006 than he is now. It’s a funny reference for Josh Cooper to make at Tony’s expense because Michael Weatherly now plays Jason Bull, a character based on Dr. Phil, on the show Bull.
MVP: Shit, how could it be anybody but Ziva?
Rating: Lt. Col. Mann is a fun addition to the rotating guest cast and her first appearance in conjunction with the first appearance of Jeanne Benoit makes this episode important. Ziva got to look like a badass, the team saved a lot of lives, Gibbs moved in a positive direction on maybe having a relationship with someone who isn’t a redhead (and received a nifty psych profile to boot), and the team once again stuck together even in the face of potentially being atomized.
Solid work. Eight Palmers.
Next Time: Dead homeless vet, dead teenage girl, what’s the connection.
A Year of NCIS 