A Year of NCIS, Day 119: Murder 2.0 (Episode 6.6)

Episode: 6.6, Murder 2.0

Air Date: October 28, 2008

The Victim: Bob Sims, a retired U.S. Navy Chief.  And some civilians.  NCIS jurisdiction occurs because one of the bodies is found on base at Quantico.

Emotionally Traumatized, But Ultimately Irrelevant, Witness Who Finds the Body: A female Marine returns home after a long day, sits on the couch, and lets her hair down.  Someone is watching her from another room in her apartment, however.  The camera switches to a view of the woman through a partially opened door and then whoever is behind the door shuts it.  The Marine calls out, “Hello,” and then reaches into her belt for a collapsible baton.  She uncollapses the baton, kicks in the door and makes ready to beat ass, but it’s just some other Marine, a dude, with flowers and alcohol.  He complains that this is the third time she has done this to him and she, quite reasonably, says he knows she doesn’t like surprises.  And yes, the first time she almost caved in your skull should have been your clue to stop letting yourself in and creeping around.  Regardless, instead of apologizing profusely, he says, “Surprise,” because it’s their one-month anniversary, as if one month is the creepy stalker anniversary where you commemorate it by making your girlfriend think a rapist is hiding in the bedroom. 

Oh, they’re married, and they start making out because all is forgiven (and he’s a little more in the right because if someone else lives in the home and has a history of messing with you, maybe the baton as your go-to move is a little extreme).  Either way, it’s sex time.  She starts to shower.  He puts on the sexy music and lays out the fuzzy handcuffs…?  Sure.  She screams.  And I would too because her shower is spraying blood.  A LOT of blood.

Happy Halloween.    

Plot Recap: McGee arrives at work.  It’s dark, so he must have stepped out for coffee.  Either way, Tony tells him to run.  McGee is confused.  Tony tells him to plead temporary insanity, and McGee sees Ziva sitting at his desk.  She ain’t happy.  She gets up from his desk and bodily drags McGee over to where the photos Tony took of Ziva in a bikini in Judgment Day (Part One), Episode 5.18 are displayed on the screen.  Actually, it’s the screensaver.  Ziva says that she told McGee to destroy the photos.  Twice.  McGee claims he did destroy them, but, when threatened with the loss of an eye, admits maybe he didn’t.  He technobabbles a possible, albeit unlikely, scenario where he tried to erase the photos and it didn’t take.  But Ziva is out for retribution.  And, as Tony points, out, it’s Halloween later in the week. 

Gibbs arrives and calls the team to arms.  But even he can’t explain what they’ve “got.”

At Quantico, Ziva is testing the shower blood while Tony is noting the sex toys on the bed and evincing sympathy for the ruined evening.  Ziva promises to ruin McGee’s whole year.  Tony asks if she’s being a little too severe and Ziva asks what Tony thinks McGee is doing with the photos.  Tony would rather shave his eyeballs than contemplate that and reports to Gibbs that the shower blood is both blood and human.   McGee is still looking for the source, but, given the amount of blood, Ziva has called Ducky.

McGee tells Gibbs he has tracked down the water source for the homes on this part of the military base.  Local aquifers provide the water and it’s dispensed to holding tanks.  The Marines open one of those tanks to show crimson water, and then a body floats up from beneath.  Even Palmer, as accustomed to death as he is, jumps.  Gibbs tells the Marines to drain the tank.

Ducky does not think the man’s body has been in the tank more than 24 hours.  As to COD, some of the lacerations appear post-mortem, and while there’s blunt force trauma to the head, Ducky doesn’t think that was COD.  He can also rule out drowning.  But he does find a cylindrical object in the victim’s mouth.  It’s some sort of tube, containing a rolled-up piece of paper with a website address typed on it.

In the lab, Abby reports that the web address re-directs to an upload sharing site where anyone can upload videos to be viewed by anyone.  By way of example, McGee clicks on a video of a guy singing a song and dancing around and he and the other agents laugh.  Gibbs would like them to work. 

The video in this case is a work of creepshow art.  It’s filmed from the perspective of someone hiding in a van and shows the victim coming toward the van and getting in.  The person with the camera assaults the victim with a crowbar and proceeds to beat him while random images- a person hitting a baseball, a clock, a growling bear statute, are interspersed into the feed.  Then it ends.  The agents look on silently in horror as the show’s camera pans across each of their faces. 

Finally, Gibbs asks for victim ID.  Abby is still working.  McGee says the cybervid account was opened anonymously from an internet café a month previous.  McGee will check to see if anyone there remembers anything.  Ziva and Tony head to talk to security at Quantico.  As they leave, Abby tells Gibbs that primitus victor, the website address the redirected to the video site, is Latin and means “first victim.”  Gibbs knows.

In autopsy, Gibbs checks in.  Palmer reports that the victim’s brain is missing, and likely removed trans-nasally.  Palmer editorializes too much about the Halloween horror and gets dismissed.  Ducky keeps piling on and says that while the victim was unconscious, the cerebrum was nonetheless removed while the victim was still alive.  Then Ducky points out that the victim was frozen.  So, Ducky can’t figure out TOD.

McGee reports that the victim’s name is Billy Cole, a civilian, works at a car wash, traceable via DNA from donated sperm.  He had no criminal record, and nobody reported him missing.  He has no connection to the couple on base- they just happened to be the first ones to turn on their water.  

Ziva and Tony arrive, and Ziva reports that Quantico insists nobody could have gotten past their security with a body.  The agents debate the possibility of floating the frozen body up the river and into the base.  Then they focus on the encrypted message in the video, and Tony initially expresses defeat but, at a look from Gibbs, promises to figure it out.  Gibbs asks for Cole’s address and tells Tony to accompany him.  Tony makes sure to remind Ziva about McGee’s screen saver on his way out so that she’s good and pissed just as he leaves.

Gibbs and Tony arrive at Cole’s address.  Tony thinks Gibbs is quieter than usual, but they don’t get to discuss it much because a scream lures them, guns drawn, into a garage.  But it’s just a girl singing a rock song with her band.  Until Gibbs unplugs the amp. 

Gibbs and Tony interview the “band,” and the drummer, Tommy Doyle, says Cole owed rent and he figured he was skipping out when he disappeared.  The singer, Rose Woodhouse, seems shocked that Cole is dead.  She denies any sexual involvement with Cole, though.  Doyle says Cole was their band’s lead guitarist until Doyle found a new one.  Gibbs wants to see Cole’s room, but the area where the band was rehearsing is Cole’s room.  Rose begins flirting with Gibbs while Doyle rolls his eyes and Tony…well, Tony doesn’t know what to do.  So, he heads to investigate.  Although, at one point he smiles at Rose to show that he can be sexy to young women too (I guess).  Rose just ignores him and zones in on Gibbs again.  She offers to make a list of types of evidence she has seen cops request on TV. 

Tony asks who saw Cole last and Rose said she saw him leave for a beer and he never came back.  Doyle says it was routine for Cole to flake and that’s why he replaced him in the band.  Then, Tony finds a pic of the band at some location, and in front of the bear statue from the video.  Rose IDs the spot.

Tony and Gibbs get the bear.  Or they arrive at the location of the bear statue.  Tony says, “I hate serial killers,” and we see why.  There’s another body, an older gentleman, covered in blood and tied to the bear statue.  The murder weapon, a ball bat, is bloody and nearby, and the victim’s wristwatch has been shattered to reflect the time on the clock in the earlier video.  The killer is telegraphing his moves.  Gibbs removes the message cylinder from this victim and it’s another Latin web address.  And a note that says, “Hello Agent Gibbs.”

Gibbs and Director Vance watch the new video in MTAC.  The victim is tied to the bear statue with a bag over his head.  The killer removes the bag, but the victim is still gagged.  We see an intercut of a cross necklace.  The killer removes the gag.  The victim begs.  We see an intercuts of numbers like the countdown in an old school film and then some Virgin Mary-looking piece of art.  We hear a bell.  The killer shows the victim the bat and he begs some more.  We see a number and Mary and hear the bell again.  Then the killer begins beating the victim, the countdown counts down to 2, and the tape ends as Vance grimaces.  Vance wants to know how the killer knew who would be assigned to the case.  Gibbs is working on it.  And then Vance gripes as the news begins playing a story about the Cybervid Killer.  Vance assures Gibbs that SecNav is breathing down his neck, but he will run interference and tells Gibbs to solve the case and watch his back. 

In the squad room, Ziva is trying to determine if we’re dealing with the same clue pattern from the last video.  We get a better look at the intercuts and it’s an atomic explosion, an anchor in the ocean, and our Virgin Mary/nun/whatever.  The agents try to determine the COD of the next victim.  They aren’t good at it.  So, they switch to location.  That’s not much of a hit either.

Gibbs arrives and Tony reports that victim #2 is Bob Simms, a retired US Navy Chief.  He was homeless.  The only connection between the two bodies is the missing brain.  The video upload isn’t traceable. 

Rose magically appears and says she might be able to help.  She saw the videos on the news, and she thinks she knows who made them.

The team moves Rose to a conference room.  Rose says that it’s Doyle’s band, but Cole was the one who made things happen.  Rose denies to Ziva that she was sleeping with Cole and confirms for Gibbs’s benefit that she likes a more mature sort.  Gibbs refocuses them.  Rose shows a music video the band had a guy make.  The intercuts to the band performing are similarly amateurish and terrible when compared to the snuff films.  Gibbs wants the name and Rose says the director’s info is on the packaging- Sam Loomis.  Ziva tells Gibbs to take Tony to find Loomis.  She leaves and, while Gibbs is looking away, Rose lowers her voice and starts playing with her hair and asking Gibbs if NCIS is hiring.  Or if he wants to hang out some time so she’ll feel safe.  He offers to assign an agent while she continues to twirl her hair and make eyes.  She says, “You?” and Gibbs is polite when he lets her down.  So, she says she doesn’t need an agent.  He does give her his card, but stresses that she can only call if she has a problem.  Tony he ain’t. 

Tony and Ziva visit Loomis.  Tony is playing off Rose’s interest in Gibbs as Tony not being interested in Rose.  Ziva is bored.  They knock and Loomis answers, filming them with a handheld camera.  They flash the badge and he lets them enter.  Loomis says he has been robbed, hence the paranoia.  Ziva politely but aggressively shuts off his handheld.  Loomis has a pretty great video set up for a guy who makes such shitty videos, but maybe that’s 2008 tech?  Not sure. 

Loomis makes a gross remark about “hitting some tail” at an assisted living facility and getting emails from the woman, and he attends briefly to his computer to address a notification.  So far, he’s all class.  He recognizes Coleman as his first video client (which explains some things).  Now he shoots freelance videos.  He knows Cole is dead- saw it on the news, and Tony and Ziva tell him about the video similarities.  But Loomis used a website to make the video, so it’s particular style is the result of a website formula.  It allows you to upload images and randomly cuts them into your main video feed. 

Tony phones in to discuss the video-making website with Gibbs and McGee.  He also tells them that they’re running Loomis’s alibi and Tony wants to know if they should bring in Loomis.  Gibbs gets a call from a caller ID that says 666, and hold his phone up to McGee to signal a trace.  The voice is distorted and tells Gibbs he won’t be able to trace the call.  The perp has done his homework and knows about Gibbs’s Marine service and his multiple Civilian Service Award wins.  Gibbs figures he’ll win again when he catches this guy.  The perp asks about the trace and McGee has to admit it’s a VOIP and it’s bouncing all over the world.  The perp claims he has been looking for someone like Gibbs- someone as resolute and determined as the perp seems to think he is.  Gibbs is nonchalant.  He has played with crazies before.  The perp warns Gibbs that he has something very special planned for him and then hangs up.

Abby calls and says another video has been posted.  But as she watches, she sees that it’s showing a poster right outside her lab.  Worse, McGee notes this isn’t a video.  It’s live streaming right outside Abby’s lab.  She turns to stare at the door, and we fade to black and white.

Abby is hiding under her desk.  Gibbs and McGee, guns drawn are moving on her position while McGee locks down the building.  Abby sees someone lurking outside her office.  Gibbs and McGee turn a corner and yell freeze, but it’s just Harry the janitor, with a camera that someone placed on his cart.  McGee runs in to check on Abby, and right into a puddle of crazy glue.  His forward momentum carries him out of his shoes and face first onto the floor.  She tells him to consider himself lucky she didn’t use hydrochloric acid.

They find the camera in Harry the janitor’s lunchbox.  Gibbs is questioning Harry somewhere and Tony figures they’ll know soon enough whether he was involved.  Gibbs arrives and pronounces Harry innocent.  As to how the camera got in Harry’s lunchbox, Harry was moonlighting the previous month.  But…how could the killer know Gibbs would be assigned to the case?  Vance appears and thinks the killer has targeted Gibbs from the very beginning and that Gibbs has pissed someone off.  Tony laughs, “It’s not a short list.”  Gibbs says it’s not about him.  Vance wants answers, but they’re back to square one with suspects since Loomis was with Tony and Ziva when the killer called.  Gibbs asks and Abby can’t trace the video feed, but she’ll keep on it.  She does want to know why the video is different from the others.

Ducky is in autopsy listening to the perp’s call to Gibbs.  Gibbs wants Ducky to profile the guy.  Ducky defines narcissistic personality disorder.  Gibbs laughs and says he’s familiar with that one.  Ducky laughs too, but says that Tony, unlike the killer, can feel empathy despite his excessive need for admiration.  Gibbs wants to know why this particular narcissist is playing games with Gibbs.  Ducky thinks the perp is the hero of his own story and needs a villain in Gibbs.  Ducky thinks he wants to be famous, and shudders to think at the grand finale.  But then Ducky has an inspiration about the clues left by the killer- particularly the countdown and the nuclear explosion.  He pulls out a book and shows Gibbs the doomsday clock- the clock that shows how close humankind is to nuclear annihilation.  It’s currently set to five minutes to midnight, less than three hours away, so Ducky thinks that’s the time of the next killing.

Which leaves the nun and the anchor to determine the location.  Ziva will notify churches (that’s a lot, even in Metro DC), and Tony is using the anchor to call local shipyards and Navy facilities.  Gibbs tells McGee to keep working on tracing the perp’s phone call.

Gibbs sits down.  Then he gets back up impatiently and now takes issue with the team chasing its tail at this guy’s command.  Tony asks what choice they have.

Gibbs goes to Vance and asks to evacuate the Navy Yard.  He feels sure the killer is coming to them.  Although, one must sympathize with Vance’s incredulity at evacuating based on the anchor picture.  But Gibbs thinks the camera on the janitor cart was to allow the perp to see holes in the security.  Vance accepts it and decides to run a scheduled security lockdown drill a week earlier.

McGee calls and says the call to Gibbs was pre-recorded and programmed to respond after his responses.  So, it could have been made by anybody at any time.  Moreover, Tony reports that Abby got a print off the camera on the janitor’s cart. 

So now we have Loomis in interrogation.  In observation, Ziva thinks it’s the perfect scheme to stage a call while he’s in their presence.  Tony says his alibi for the killings doesn’t check out either.  Tony hands Gibbs a file and then looks at the clock and says they have five minutes to spare. 

Gibbs enters interrogation and shows Loomis the camera from the janitor cart.  Loomis said it was stolen a month ago, but he didn’t report it.  Loomis is sweating and takes off his jacket.  Gibbs asks about the alibi, and Loomis references the woman in assisted living that he’s banging.  But Gibbs says she doesn’t remember being with him.  Loomis says she’s old and that Gibbs should ask her about “Magic Fingers,” and Tony and I both throw up in our mouths a little bit as Tony hands a file to McGee and gives him the honors of calling the nursing home.

Gibbs shows Loomis the photos of the second victim.  Loomis gets angry and starts freaking out.  He gets up, screams, refuses to sit down, leans against the wall, and collapses.  Gibbs tells the team to call for EMS, and then notes that Loomis’s eyes are bleeding, like the eyes of the nun in the video.  In observation, McGee draws Tony’s attention to the clock on the wall and Holy Joker rip-offs, Batman, it’s five till midnight, and we’ve got a dead guy in the Navy Yard. 

In autopsy, Ducky reports that Loomis died of poisoning- a drug that made his blood pressure skyrocket hidden on his arthritis patch- death would have been the result of a massive heart attack and the vascular pressure would have caused the eye bleed.  Ducky says the transdermal delivery system would have allowed for the timing to be remarkably precise.  Gibbs is angry, but Ducky has words of warning.  The killer murdered a man in Gibbs’s custody right under Gibbs’s nose.  If he’s pushing Gibbs, then what is he trying to push him toward? 

Tony summons Gibbs and when he arrives in the squad room, Tony informs him that the fourth video just dropped.  They watch the video, and it’s the feed from the camera in NCIS’s interrogation room, showing Gibbs’s interview of Loomis.  The team watches Loomis die with the usual intercuts.  It ends on a photo of Gibbs and a timer demonstrating that someone will die in an hour.  The timer begins counting down. 

The agents wonder if Gibbs is next, but Gibbs wants to know how the killer got the interrogation room footage.  Abby arrives to explain that when she connected the janitor cam to figure out how the livestream went out, she downloaded a virus into the NCIS system that hacked the security feed for interrogation.  Like the other agents, Abby fears that Gibbs is next, although Gibbs dismisses the idea of being anyone’s victim.  Gibbs asks if Abby can trace the virus, and McGee gets the brainstorm to trace the virus and the janitor-cam feed together and triangulate both sources back to the killer.  McGee and Abby get to work…and they trace both signals to a DSL account registered to…Rose Woodhouse.

Tony reports that local LEOs are at Rose’s place.  The neighbors say she just left, but they haven’t seen her roommate, Doyle, in two days, and there’s blood all over his room.  McGee found no credit card activity for Rose but determines that she registered the Cybervid Killer trademark.  Plus, her father was an Egyptologist, so she’d know about pulling out brains with a pick.  Gibbs asks to see the clues from the last video.  Ziva suggests that if Gibbs is the victim, he should stay put.  Gibbs suggests if he’s not, someone else dies.  They identify the clues as snow globes depicting three cities: Chicago, Moscow, and Rio.  Gibbs thinks the clue is the snow and McGee is inspired.  He grabs the tape and runs off to MTAC for more processing power.  Tony notes that it’s the Cybervid Killer- if McGee wasn’t meant to do the heavy lifting, who was?

McGee is in MTAC explaining that this latest video was the only one that contained flash frames. Which contain radiographic static.  Which we call, “snow.”  In this instance, however, it’s actually encrypted data.  There’s another link embedded in the snow.  It’s a live video link that shows Doyle tied to a chair and gagged.  The video shows a shotgun in the foreground, and the location is one Tony recognizes: Loomis’s place.  Gibbs moves.  Ziva tries to stop him.  If Gibbs is the intended victim, this might be a lure. Gibbs says it’s working and shoves her aside. 

The team surrounds Loomis’s place guns drawn.  Tony expresses that he wishes Gibbs had stayed in the car.  Gibbs responds with sincere gratitude for Tony’s concern.  I’m kidding.  Gibbs threatens to shoot Tony if he doesn’t shut up. 

The team bursts into Loomis’s studio and Doyle is tied to a chair while Rose is pointing a shotgun at him.  Ziva tells Rose to drop the gun.  Rose says she wishes she could.  Tony explains they will shoot her, and Doyle gets his gag loose and yells, “Shoot her, she’s fricking crazy!”  Rose asks them to please leave.  Ziva announces that Rose has three seconds, or the agents will shoot.  Gibbs sees a video camera just beyond Rose. 

Then Gibbs pivots his gun to Doyle and smirks.  The other agents keep their gun trained on Rose, confused.  Gibbs tells Rose to put the gun down.  Rose says Doyle said he’d kill her.  Doyle yells for Gibbs to shoot her.  Gibbs says, “The only one I’m gonna shoot is you.”  Doyle looks impressed.  But he chuckles and holds up a device and announces it’s a dead man’s switch, so if Gibbs kills him, the C4 wired to Rose will kill them all.  Gibbs gets right in Doyle’s face with the gun and Doyle asks if he really wants to die.  Gibbs says, “Do you?  No, you want to be famous.  You don’t want to die.”  Doyle thinks about it…and then surrenders the trigger.  Rose drops the gun and sobs as the agents begin removing the C4.  Doyle laments not going with the FBI.  Ziva announces the bomb is clear.  Rose says Doyle told her they were shooting another music video and tries to attack Doyle, but McGee pulls her away. 

Ziva asks how Gibbs knew.  Gibbs points to the camera and says that it was focused on the victim in every video.  Gibbs was supposed to be the murder weapon.  Tony is securing Doyle and tells him he ripped off his bit from Se7en.  Doyle growls that the cops kill the killer, not another victim in Se7en and it’s totally different.  Then Doyle grins at Gibbs and tells him it doesn’t matter.  He still wins because nobody remembers who caught Gacy or Manson, so Tommy Doyle is going to be a household name by the 10:00 news.  Gibbs and Doyle have a stare down.

And then we cut to a news report.  McGee is listening on his phone via earbuds and the anchor reports the Cybervid Killer is in custody.  But, citing possible links to terrorism, the authorities aren’t releasing a name or the details of the arrest.  McGee is at a ceremony that Vance is having to honor various NCIS personnel.  It’s a mirror image of the ceremony Director Shepard held in Model Behavior, Episode 3.11.  And just like in that episode, Gibbs gets a Meritorious Civilian Service Award.  And just like in that episode, Tony walks forward to claim the award on Gibbs’s behalf. And put it in his desk drawer with the rest of them.                  

Quotables:

(1) “Someone wasn’t hugged enough as a child.” -Tony psychoanalyzes our killer.

(2) “That’s because you’re a lily-livered little chicken-pants who sleeps on plastic sheets.”  –Tony mocks McGee for being afraid of our killer.

(3) Vance: He was targeting Gibbs from the beginning. You must’ve really pissed somebody off.

Tony: It’s not a short list – of people that -that you’ve angered just because you have rock solid principles. And so it’s easy for people to misunderstand that and misconstrue. It’s – you know…

Vance: Why don’t you quit while you’re behind, DiNozzo?

Tony: I’m trying.

Ziva-propisms: None that I heard.

Tony Awards: Tony does a Norman Bates impression from Psycho (1960).  He mentions tech form Thunderball (1965), a James Bond movie.  Then he runs through a Wes Craven retrospective and mentions Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Scream (1996), and Swamp Thing (1992).  He accuses Doyle of ripping off his scheme from Se7en (1995)

Abby Road: Abby decides the killer put a bomb in Gibbs’s phone and takes it apart.

McNicknames: Probie.

Ducky Tales: Ducky expounds on Scottish aquifer technology.

The Rest of the Story:

-Ziva discovered the pics of her existed in Agent Afloat, Episode 6.2. I’m not sure when she told McGee to destroy them, but she mentioned telling him that in the same episode.

-Tony keeps all of Gibbs’s awards in a drawer.  Gibbs doesn’t even show up to the ceremonies.  See Model Behavior, episode 3.11. 

-Abby has been targeted in her lab or in her home numerous times on this show, including Kill Ari, Part One, Episode 3.1, Frame-Up, Episode 3.9, Bloodbath, Episode 3.21, and Cover Story, Episode 4.20.  She even recaps three of the incidents in a humorous moment of meta-fiction.  McGee’s “We got it, Abs” response is the cherry on top, and one of the show’s self-referential winks at its own efforts to re-plow an old field.

-Attack the Navy Yard?  Who would try such a thing?  See much later episodes.

-Ziva knows bombs.  See Sandblast, Episode 4.7.

-Usually NCIS has a character throw in a line of meta-dialogue to give credit for lifting a plot point from some other fictional source.  And does so in this episode (the Se7en (1995)reference).  So, it’s a little surprising McGee didn’t make reference to Loomis’s time-sensitive, closed-room death being pulled from Batman comics, including the Joker’s first appearance in Batman #1 and the seminal 1970s Laughing Fish two-parter by Steve Englehart and Marshal Rogers in Detective Comics.

-Hopefully, NCIS (falsely) threatened Rose with prosecution if she talks because, otherwise, she could sell her story for six-figures, just to the news.  Well, now.  With only three victims and one of them a homeless guy, the story might be a little too local in 2008.

Casting Call: Max Gail plays Sam Loomis.  If you’re really old, you remember him from Barney Miller. 

Patrick J. Adams plays Tommy Doyle.  Adams is probably best known for playing Mike Ross on Suits, but also played Hourman on Legends of Tomorrow.  

Man, This Show Is Old: Loomis’s handheld video camera is pretty vintage.  And there are a lot of dated references to viral videos uploaded to Youtube: Lonelygir15, the Evolution of Dance, Numa Numa guy.  I sort of remember references to Lonleygirl15, but that’s all I’ve got.

Internet café’s much exist in the age of smartphones and free wifi.  Now, pretty much anywhere is an internet café.

MVP: Gibbs, for not getting played.

Rating: Loomis’s death is a little contrived and turns on a lot of things working out.  In fact, Tommy Doyle is ludicrously competent.  A plan with that much detail leaves way more evidence in real life.  This is a fun episode, but its villainy is comic book-esque.  I like it, but it’s too unrealistic to earn more than seven Palmers.

Next Time: A bank heist at Quantico?  Bold play.