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1.18: "UnSEALed"by Sammie Kate and Tony seem to have returned from talking to the couple whose house got invaded and the guy's clothes stolen by a Leavenworth escapee, Jack Curtin (Tim Abell). Tony can't understand why people have to go looking...it's human nature, Kate replies. (And that is why Kate is the profiler.) Kate, of course, would pull her gun from under her pillow...and THEN go after the guy. TONY. Ah, let me guess. You're that person in a horror movie that decides since all your friends are dead, you REALLY need to go check out the demonic breathing noise down in the basement.The fugitive is a former SEAL, Jack Curtin, who escaped from the Leavenworth prison and was in for murdering his wife and the cable repair guy. Gibbs leaves Kate to watch over Curtin's son, who's living with his maternal grandparents. Back at Abby's lab.... GIBBS. You on a roll?Abby runs the evidence, and later reports to Gibbs. Turns out that Curtin was one smart cookie. He lifted a guard's smartcard ID card just two weeks after he arrived. ABBY. In the incident report, he claimed that his dog ate it.Then Curtin MacGyver-ed his way into getting the guard's fingerprint, using some Leavenworth-issued toothpaste.... With the fingerprint ridges and the smartcard, he entered the laundry room as the "guard" and then John Falstaff-ed his way out, going out with the laundry whites. Tony is...being Tony! and driving Cmdr. Coleman insane. Haha.... She's got her tub full of sharp pencils, and Tony's teasing her about it. Coleman was the prosecutor, and she tells him that Curtin said he came home, found his wife and the cable repairman dead. His prints were on the murder weapon, though. It seemed that he thought the cable repairman and his wife were having an affair and killed them. They weren't having an affair, though. Coleman says that Curtin was paranoid. Tony is still pushing her buttons, teasing her. Hehe. Curtin grew up in foster homes, enlisted at 17, and went to BUDS (to be a SEAL) straight from boot camp. Hey! Gibbs is using a PDA! Funny. Gibbs goes to talk to his CO, William Foley, who like Curtin's buddies, having nothing but good things to say about Curtin. Kate is playing solitaire at night when she hears a noise. She goes into the kitchen and discovers Curtin's son with a cup of milk he spilled on the floor. It seems like Curtin used his son to set up a ruse to distract Kate...he sneaks up behind her and captures her. When he's tying her up and gagging her, they argue, and Curtin says that he shouldn't have to run at all. Curtin's good - he got past Kate and McGee! Luckily, Kate had radioed McGee when she first went to investigate the noise. Problem is, she radioed him again when she found the kid and his spilled milk, so he doesn't call again until he needs to for a sit[uation] rep[ort]. Curtin has taken Kate's phone and hears McGee's call. He's spending time with his son, and his son begs him not to go, but he has to. He takes with him both Kate's phone and her gun. McGee arrives, and he goes ahead of Kate to the boy's room. Curtin's already gone, out of the boy's window. GO Kate and McGee! Kate has one thing up her sleeve - she knows Curtin has her phone, so she tells McGee to call back to base to tell them that they've found Curtin's car. McGee catches on and quickly radioes. It works - halfway to his stolen car, Curtin hears the message and freaks out. Lucky for him, someone else is driving by just at that moment and he carjacks them. Kate and McGee run out to the street, but McGee is too late going from the back. His shot hits the back windshield. Kate, though, is out at the car, where she pops the trunk and grabs the double-aught buck shotgun from the trunk. She fires two shots, one right through the driver's side window. Next morning, Gibbs and Tony arrive. Gibbs goes to talk to and bonds with the boy...even talks to him about the hostage-taker. Tony teases McGee...one of the funniest Tony McGee exchanges. He shoves the camera into McGee's face and snaps a picture before poor McGee can react. McGEE. You enjoy this, don't you.Tony tries a Tommy Lee Jones (from "The Fugitive"?) imitation, and McGee shakes his head...too Arkansas. Very cute. According to Abby, "Kate just unsealed our SEAL." Her first shot grazed him, sending the blood splattering onto the front windshield. Her next shot blasted the front windshield onto the ground. The boy told Gibbs that his father is going to find someone and then give himself up. They're pretty sure he's going to Washington. Here's the problem: "The repairman really was fixing the cable. The lawyers were professional, the judge was fair," says Gibbs thoughtfully. "Maybe the one person Curtin still has a beef with is the one who killed his wife. He's not running." Cut to Gibbs computer scanning the hostage-taker's picture through the terrorist database. "He's chasing." Curtin hasn't gone to a doctor, making him difficult to find. Kate, though, has another problem. KATE. We think Curtin's innocent, right?Gibbs makes Tony and Kate get the JAG lawyers. McGee has anticipated nicely and already downloaded the files. The case was by a now-retired Clay Williamson. The defense lawyer is now a civilian lawyer, and he won't come...so Tony puts him in cuffs and brings him in. Hehe. They're going through all the file boxes of information. Autopsy reports to Ducky, evidence reports to McGee to bring to Abby. Coleman and the defense lawyer are squabbling like anything. COLEMAN. I wouldn't escape from prison and go after the killer myself.Haha...Gibbs is not building a catch in his basement. Oops, defense lawyer is annoyed that Kate and Gibbs are talking about the boat in his basement and not working on the case. Tony hits the jackpot...prepaid cell phone record. Ducky then reports to Gibbs that the cause of death was actually a violent twist of the neck, breaking it - a way to kill SEALs learn. Tony is still sure it's Curtin. They're sent off to talk to Mrs. Foley (Roxana Zal), who spoke regularly with Curtin's wife. Gibbs has Abby look for some tie between Foley and Curtin's wife, since Mrs. Foley said her husband came back a month earlier than Curtin. Turns out that Curtin was right - his wife was having an affair. She got herpes while he was gone in Afghanistan...her physical six months BEFORE she died, no herpes. But the tests done after she was killed? Herpes. Gibbs questions Foley. Hm...Gibbs says he came home and found his wife cheating on him after six months in the Mediterranean. Tony isn't sure if Gibbs is lying or not. McGee reports that Foley had herpes...and that's how Curtin's wife got 'em. Foley killed Mrs. Curtin and the cable repairman. HIGHLIGHT BETWEEN THE ~ FOR THE ENDING. ~ Tony, though, still has a question about the cell phone record, and when he explains it? Turns out Foley wasn't the one having an affair - his wife was, with Mrs. Curtin. It's a little unclear from here, but here's what I think happened. All that talk from Foley about soldiers coming home and finding out that their wives were having affairs? It was him - he found his wife was having an affair (with Mrs. Curtin) and killed Mrs. Curtin and the cable repairman, the latter to get rid of witnesses. ~ Seriously, you just want to hug Curtin. I mean, no parents, no family, bounced around foster homes. He finally gets a sense of security. He joins the Marines, has fellow SEALs who are loyal friends, marries a pretty woman, has a cute little son. Then he comes home to find his wife dead and he gets blamed for something he didn't do. Kate is disgusted again by something Tony says. (What else is new?) The redhead delivers Gibbs' glasses, and Kate, Tony, and McGee wonder who she is. Tony tells McGee to ask Gibbs who it is, but McGee returns the prank by telling Gibbs that Kate and Tony have something they wanted to ask him. Haha! Go McGee.
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