Werth (Paul Telfer) wakes to find his friend's DB in the trash. McGee (Sean Murray) drives Gibbs (Mark Harmon) home and notices his house is tidier, it's "homey." McGee's pleased to drive Gibbs. He has a new lock on the front door which Gibbs says is "to keep out unwanted guests." Viz Allison Hart. Didn't know Gibbs had goldfish. Werth ate his steak Only Gibbs' friends are welcome, he's paranoid. They worked for the Szwed trucking company and his friend was doing questionable work, he carried him out of the desert and told him about his last job, they shared a few beers.
Gibbs asks if he only recalls the couple of beers he had. McGee comments the "day's not over." Werth was still lying there even in the day. McGee thinks the case is Metro's jurisdiction, but Gibbs insists they have a cooperative witness. Gibbs: "Get Ziva (Cote de Pablo) and DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly) out of bed." McGee thinks they're together and then remarks, "get them out of individual beds." In a continuation from the Jetlag episode, where Tony and Ziva shared a hotel room together and lied about who took the couch, leading us and McGee to think they're actually together with each other right now.
Gibbs notices McGee's bags under his eyes and he replies "it's a look I'm going for." Heatherton recruited Werth for the next run of driving the truck. Szwed (Jason Spisak) told him he can drive but it's a two man job. Gibbs objects to Werth getting involved, he's a witness and "not a very good one." Gibbs needs Fornell (Joe Spano) and wakes him up. Gibbs: "What happened to your face?" as he now sports one of Gibbs' old looks from season 4, ie. his beard. Fornell: "What happened to your arm?" Fornell then adds "try not to look so chipper" to Gibbs, yeah why is he so chipper, not cos of Allison is it. Gibbs is taking Fornell's CS. McGee is tense as he's had no sleep. Werth tells him you had to get sleep wherever you could in the Marine Corps, he can still manage to fall asleep again. McGee's brain keeps spinning, "never know what's gonna happen next right." Cue lullaby music for McGee as he falls asleep. He wakes to find Fornell and Gibbs in the car.
Tony, Ziva and Ducky (David McCallum) are already at the CS. Tony's got knots cos he sleeps in the chair. Ziva tells him a massage chair that gives him knots isn't healthy. Ducky suggests he should give up the chair and Tony wants everyone to stop saying '(k)not.' Ducky finds the DB's throat was slit with a serrated blade. Ducky: "Odds he did not - would've been quick." Szwed is into trafficking. One driver is always armed. Lucas (David St Louis) is head of security. Gibbs says they don't know what Szwed is up to yet. He tells Werth to eat, drink and then give a urine sample.
Gibbs tells Fornell Werth's a marine who saved lives and other people too. Gibbs says he's a "Marine who broke the rules." Again as in the Jetlag episode where Gibbs told Ducky the hitman wasn't a marine but a hitman posing as a marine. Gibbs gave him a medal. Fornell asks if he's going steady with Gibbs since he's not wearing his pin. Ducky mentions being responsible for a man after saving his life in Eastern cultures. The mutual saving of a life is a bond just like Fornell and Gibbs have, Fornell having saved Gibbs. They love sharing the misery. Gibbs comments Fornell calls when he needs grief. Ducky discovered fractures of the metacarpals very recently on the DB, the bones were crushed.
More sleepy lullaby music for McGee. Tony and Ziva find McGee asleep. McGee asks if they did something to him like put his hand in water. Tony says he wanted to strip him naked, put a tag on his toe and drag him down to autopsy. Ziva objected and thought it was "in poor taste." Tony: "A lot of people would like to see you naked." That's so juvenile and he calls McGee "Sleeping Beauty." That's disgusting Tony coming up with that, does that include Tony wanting to see him naked too. Cos they already were naked in the showers in season 2's SWAK episode, ha. Tony won't tell him what Ziva did to him. Gibbs needs to put someone on the truck with Werth. Tony: "Let Johnny Rambo go First Blood (1982) again."
Abby (Pauley Perrette) wakes up McGee by putting a headphone in his ear. She asks if he was bitten by a Tsetse fly when he was in Africa. (Cos they cause sleeping sickness.) He's just tired and realizes how hard Gibbs works. He wonders what Gibbs has running through his veins and Gibbs replies "coffee." Abby tells McGee Gibbs enjoys having a valet. She discovers Werth was roofied. Gibbs adds if anything else is needed McGee will do it. Tony tells them the last one who used the van needs to clean it out and says it wasn't him. It smells of felafels. Ziva says a few strings were being triggered to make her a citizen/agent. Tony: "pulled, you pull strings."
Ziva: "The heart has strings."
Werth: "According to poets."
Tony: "Don't confuse the girl, it took a lot of marionetting to get her this far."
Werth: "Who's the puppet master?" Why Tony of course.
Fornell is only observing and Ziva is selected to accompany Werth. Rule 27 is mentioned: "First way they never notice you. Second way they only notice you." McGee drinks lots of coffee and Tony notices it's with plenty of sugar. Tony calls Werth "pretty boy," adding he dislocated McGee's shoulder, broke Tony's nose and he only has one nose. McGee has two shoulders. McGee tells Tony he can hold a grudge.
Tony talks about how he keeps coming back, should live his own life. Robin Hood Prince of Thieves v The World's Greatest Athlete. (1973) McGee watched that film. Tony tells him the blond guy was a young Jan Michael Vincent and he should know, being up on his Airwolf trivia. See he adds how he loved him on Airwolf. Tony: "Stringfellow Hawke may be the best character name ever." There are two schools of thought on life saving or responsibility issue. In Prince of Thieves, (1991) Robin's life was saved. McGee says Werth served his country.
Lucas takes Ziva and Werth's phones, they can use the CB radio. Fornell asks if Gibbs hired a cleaning woman as his house looks different. Gibbs is letting Fornell drive his car which is a big deal for him. Gibbs: "Whatever you already slept with my wife." The truck has melons inside and Ziva and Werth are going to empty it. They need fuel. Uses the CB radio talk which Ziva wouldn't understand anyway. Tony thinks they're having trouble driving the truck. Tony tells McGee to stop tapping his fingers, but it's Morse code. "Fu - el." He's out of coffee. Of course they had to take Gibbs' car to make themselves conspicuous cos it's all about cars. Gibbs and Fornell pretend to fight and Fornell talks cars with Werth.
Gibbs tells him Werth used to be on steroids and gives Ziva earwigs so they can tall. Tony swerves the van when McGee gets out of his seat on purpose. Werth is uptight. Heatherton was hit when driving a leading convoy. Ziva talks about trauma intensifying memory. McGee gives them the garage address of Devoisier (Peter Woodward) - a stuck up Brit guy (who obviously had to be the killer. He was too smarmy and shifty.) He had a wager with Szwed, who lost. They were driving in a cross country race and even says it's dangerous. Fornell: "speed limits aren't just suggestions." That's what Vartann (Alex Carter) said to Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) in the season 11.9 Wild Life CSI episode. Devoisier feigns shock when he hears about Heatherton being dead. Devoisier had speeding tickets so Gibbs suggest they look for accidents.
The cars are in the back of the truck. Tony can thinks of a few cars worth killing for, like Gibbs' Barracuda. They use a trailer to block the road. Tony gets a blow out. The truck is stopped and Fornell and Gibbs are in the back. Lucas and Szwed deny killing Heatherton, so by a process of elimination, it could only be Brit guy. Abby talks about boys and cars, she's a Hot Rod girl herself. Devoisier paid $1.2 million for the car. Fornell advises you should take a magnet when you look at old cars. The magnet sticks to the metal. There was a hit and run in Oklahoma, Heatherton took the girl to hospital and so he killed his only witness. Abby will find traces of blood and hair when she takes the car apart.
McGee's asleep and more lullaby music plays. Ziva tells Werth she'll see him later and Tony asks what she means by that. Tony can get him a job in Cleveland, so he'll be miles away from Ziva. They say goodbye and Tony questions whether she means goodbye or "hey I'm gonna see you at a later date." Ziva doesn't answer.
Tony being overly concerned with who Ziva's date is going to be and who she sees. Getting McGee to drink coffee was already done with Tony when he was boss in the end of season 3.23/24 and early season 4, with everyone saying he's not Gibbs. Gibbs and the locks on his doors, to keep her out or make sure no one enters unannounced when she's around. He also needs some curtains.
Tony should display some Airwolf memorabilia on his desk or keep some in his drawer. He had a lonely childhood, no wonder he watched so much TV, being left alone and forgotten by Senior in a hotel room. Gibbs and Fornell like an old married couple and the stealing wife jokes. Gibbs and Fornell's argument over fuel was demonstrating Rule 27. Ducky wears an ordinary tie in this episode which no one notices yet. How does Ziva know Tony sleeps on a chair, besides the one at work, unless it was a topic of hot office gossip we weren't a party to. The photo shown by McGee with Zwed's distribution operation was a photo of the Valencia studios where NCIS is filmed.
Tony glaring at McGee when he says "Fu..." That'd be a first McGee telling Tony where to go! But our Timmy's not like that. Tony had a hamster when he was little named "Ferrari" named for Magnum's Ferrari no doubt. Did he have any friends whilst growing up. Mind you he hasn't got many now aside from college and his time at Baltimore PD.
Some asides, we haven't seen how Gibbs got his boat out (sounds rude) did he take it apart and then put it back together, as Abby did when she was analyzing it in the Inlaws and Outlaws episode.
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