1.11: "Eye Spy"

by Sammie

I love these opening scenes between Tony and Kate. They're so funny. Kate turns down a doughnut Tony offers her - health food freak Kate! - and Tony gets a little insecure, thinking that she thinks he's fat or something. She isn't - until she catches on that he's bothered by it. Then she teases him about it. That's the gag for this week!

There's a body on the shore, and the problem is the tide is rising. A wave comes up on the shore.

DUCKY. Hey, watch out!
GIBBS. Tide!
TONY. [TOSSES HIS ELECTRONIC METER TO GIBBS AND QUICKLY LIES DOWN A FEW FEET FROM THE BODY...LIKE A LEVEE...AND THE WAVE BREAKS OVER HIM AND DOESN'T REACH THE BODY. GO TONY!]
DUCKY. Heh. Well done, Tony. ... I got a spare suit in the van.
KATE. You okay? What is it?
GIBBS. Shrinkage.
KATE. [LAUGHS]

Kate and Gibbs go to talk to Overmeyer, the dead Lt. Cmdr Eagan's boss. He was testing a sonor device for them, and the device is now gone too.

Tony is sent to find the caller who called in the anonymous tip.... The dear shows up in a medical examiner's uniform that is WAY too short for our tall Tony, and add a pair of sneakers. The Marine in charge of the phones looks very amused...and so am I. "Just can't stop messing with the uniforms, can they, sir?" Tony asks about the phone call that brought the anonymous tip about the murder and gets the information. As he's leaving...poor Tony!...the Marine calls after him, "I'd write a letter, sir."

Tony goes to McGee to get him to hack into the servers and find out where the call's from. Those two are so funny together, like two brothers. No wonder Kate calls them that. Tony presses McGee about Abby's tattooes, but McGee won't tell.TONY. So. Whatever happened between you and Abby?

Kate and Gibbs go to interview Lt. Eagan...Lt. Cmdr. Eagan's wife. (I yawn.) He's testing a prototype, he doesn't talk much about his work because of need-to-know, etc.

Ducky has Gerald open up the body bag, and Gerald's about to unzip the bag when it moves. (Between this and "Bête Noire", if I were Gerald, I'd never unzip another body bag.) Ducky sees it move this time, and even he's unsettled. It's a little crab that got into the bag with the body. Cute.

The phone call came from Langley, Virginia...CIA. Oops. CIA spying on their own naval base...what it is really - in the teaser, we see that one of the CIA techies is just getting bored and he goes in to look at a sunbather.

Back at the office...haha:

TONY. You got me thinking, Kate. Maybe I should...improve my diet.
KATE. When are you going to start?
TONY. What do you call this?
KATE. Ah, bad things masquerading as something good for you.
TONY. Ha. It's a nutrition bar. It says so on the label.
KATE. Yeah. Did you read the label? Y'know, the one with the ingredients, not just the big one with the pretty colors?
TONY. Oh, sarcasm is so not healthy, Kate.
KATE. Neither is that. [TAKES THE BAR] Let's see, what've we got here. High fructose corn syrup - basically, sugar. Ah, high maltose corn syrup - another sugar. Sugar, sugar. Ah, fractionated palm kernel oil. That sounds yummy. And contains less than 2% natural flavor. That would make it 98% artificial flavor.

Abby calls up her old NASA boytoy...I mean, old. I found their conversation kind of boring, but then I'm not into all that science stuff. He pinpoints the exact surveillance activity, getting them an office number to look up.

Gibbs takes Kate with him to catch the CIA guy who was watching the naval base and who put in the call. They're sittin' in the car, waiting.

KATE. Jeremy Worth, twenty-three. Current address 35B Maple, Georgetown. Graduated MIT at 20. ... Too bad we don't have a photo.
GIBBS. Don't need one, he'll fit the profile.
KATE. I bet geeky, right?
GIBBS. [TEASING, LOW VOICE] Well yeah, Kate, something like that.
KATE. Have you ever seen Robert Redford in 'Three Days Over Condor'?
GIBBS. Yes.
KATE. That's a geek I could get covert with.
GIBBS. Kate. I would not get my hopes up. Worth appears, and he's all nervous and twitchy. He doesn't want to talk about it, especially since he got put on a leave by his director because of the surveillance activity.
GIBBS. You play ball with me, I can square it with Rover. WORTH: You can do that?
KATE. With the exception of finding a decent barber, Gibbs can do pretty much anything he says he can.

The killer's left-handed, and the prototype still hasn't been found. Yawn.

They get the video of the surveillance activity, and Gibbs, as a reward for what Tony did (diving in front of the body), lets him go look for the sunbather. It's Gina. All she can tell them is that she saw Eagan arguing with a military woman.

Then Gibbs catches the Navy liasion who brought Eagan onto the project and gets her to admit that she was having an affair with Eagan. She's a righty. (Overmeyer, the developer of the project, is a lefty.)

Gibbs gets a warrant for Overmeyer's papers. He looks so funny standing there, spinning this...looks like a frisbee thing...on his finger as he talks to Kate and the two of them wait for all Overmeyer's papers to be packed up. Wait up, here comes Overymeyer.

OVERMEYER: What are you people doing?
GIBBS. Seizing your files. .. I think he had concerns about performance [of the sonor prototype].
OVERMEYER: Well, you're wrong.
GIBBS. I try so hard not to be wrong, don't I, Kate?
KATE. You're very conscientious in that regard, Gibbs.
. . .
OVERMEYER: Oh, you're insinuating I had something to do with Tom Eagan's death?
GIBBS. I try so hard not to insinuate, don't I, Kate?
KATE. You rarely insinuate, Gibbs.

Turns out Lt. Eagan, the wife, is a left-handed woman who obviously is military - Gibbs knows she's a leftie by the fact that she golfs left-handed. (His second wife golfed left-handed - and he remembers the club because she ran after him with it to hit him. Haha.)

There's not proof, though, Kate points out, and so she and Gibbs go to bait Lt. Eagan. They tell her that they need to find the sonar prototype Lt. Cmdr. Eagan was testing in order to build a case against Overmeyer and the Navy liasion.

KATE. You think she'll take the bait?
GIBBS. Well, pretty hard to pass up getting away with murder and framing your husband's lover.
KATE. Well, if she's guilty, she's a pretty good actress.
GIBBS. Eh, you weren't bad yourself, kid.
KATE. Ugh, made me feel creepy. ... I hope you're right. Otherwise we were pretty cold to a woman who just lost her husband.

Kate, Tony, and Gibbs wait, and sure enough, Lt. Eagan takes off in her car that night. They follow her...and she leads them right to the prototype she hid after she killed her husband. Since Eagan had gone diving with the prototype, only the killer would know where it was - because the killer took it.

Tony is late for work the next day - he had to get Ducky's medical examiner suit cleaned. Gibbs is annoyed, sitting at his desk with his arms crossed. Kate explains that Tony's phoen has been ringing off the hook, and it's been driving Gibbs crazy.

Turns out the sunbather REEEAAAALLLY likes Tony. Hehe. Only this time, Tony doesn't like her...so he solves the problem by ignoring her phone calls. He does the same thing to Michelle Season 2 in "Black Water". Kate is unimpressed.

KATE. Well, why don't you just tell her that [you don't like her], then?
TONY. I am.
KATE. By not answering her calls?
TONY. She'll get the message. [RING]
KATE. Apparently not.
GIBBS. Well, she better get the message soon, or you're gonna be gettin' one on the pink slip.
TONY. You can't fire me for something I have no control over!
KATE. Talk to her.
TONY. She'll get the message!
KATE. You know, I bet this is why your second wife came after you with a nine iron, isn't it. You just refused to sit down and...talk things through.
GIBBS. Actually, that wasn't it at all.
KATE. Oh? So what was it, then?
GIBBS. [GRINS] A seven iron.

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