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1.23: "Reveille"by Sammie After the season premiere, "Reveille" was most likely one of the hottest episodes this season, and a fitting end to the season and to Gibbs' search for the hostage-taker who first arrived in "Bête Noire". In the teaser, Gibbs comes down to autopsy in the elevator. He enters autopsy, which is completely dark, and sees a body bag on the table. He looks up to see Ducky, who looks sadly at him, and then slowly unzips the bag. When he flips the top flap over, it reveals Kate, with a bullethole to her forehead. He looks up to see Ari smirking at him in the corner. Abby and McGee are leaning over Gibbs, who's asleep - well, having his nightmare which was our teaser. He wakes up, and McGee tells him he's got a way to find the hostage-taker - figure out his exact age and use that to search the university graduate photos. GIBBS. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's a h-ll of a good idea, just one problem. [GETS INTO THEIR FACES] How're we going to find his age when we don't know WHO THE H-LL HE IS!Oh, the FBI uses a program to take the photos of missing children and "age" them. McGee reverses the program so that they can tell the hostage-taker's age from the photo taken of him...and then they have a precise age, which will cut down on the search parameters. Gibbs is suddenly much more amiable...huh, I wonder why. Tony is out running...and pursuing a pretty blonde. That boy has no shame sometimes. Oh, she's Swedish. Kate's at her coffeeshop, getting coffee, when the guy in front of her tries to strike up a conversation. At least dear little Johnnie isn't scared off by women with opinions, because he asks about Sharon's Israel policies and Kate asks which part. He looks flustered - then "I'm just trying to start a conversation" before introducting himself. He's surprised to find she's NCIS. JOHN. I never see you, and I'm at NCIS twice a month. ... I specialize in actuarial analysis...hail and storm damage?Gibbs has brought Kate coffee...ha. Kate's a sharp cookie. She figures he wants something.... Huh. He knows what kind of coffee she drinks. Kate, if I were you, I'd check your room for some kind of wiretap or bug or something. Or it could be from the time he guzzled her coffee in "The Curse." So, what is it he wants? KATE. Gibbs, you're making me nervous. Scary scenarios are popping into my head, like you're...here to fire me...or to tell me I'm going undercover as DiNozzo's wife.Ouch, Kate. Tony is not that bad...you're equating him with being fired? Ouch! I'll give Tony a hug. Gibbs wants a profile of the hostage-taker. Kate thinks he's well-off - takes care of his hair, his teeth, and so on. The reason she didn't stab him was because his eyes looked kind. Gibbs is not happy - "Eyes can lie." He then figures out why the hostage-taker let him take a shot at him back at the end of "Bête Noire" - he needs to do death-defying things to feel alive. Our hostage-taker is riding a red motorcycle to come buy and test some Smoky Sams - fake missiles which look quite real coming up at someone. Tony comes in all cheery, and Kate grins - she's got fodder for her teasing. "That grin can only mean one thing," she teases. "You're in love. Again." It's the Swedish girl whose name Tony doesn't know. Kate is amused but still can't believe it - how can someone be in love with a girl whose name he doesn't know? Tony's busy checking his email when Kate decides to go to him for help. Gibbs is conveniently not there. KATE. I'm worried about him.Oh, he's chokin'. He's probing the poor Bahrain NCIS agent about the lead.... Poor Danny Snyder is most likely cursing the day he agreed to be the NCIS contact in the Middle East. Israel's Mossad keeps telling him that they have nothing on him; Gibbs swears they're lying. Plus, "he's not in the Middle East. He's here." Or so Gibbs' gut says. The hostage-taker and his team is going to shoot down Marine One carrying Bush and Sharon to Camp David. Abby and McGee are playing with the aging program...um, those pictures of the young hostage-taker? Have y'all seen the younger pictures of Rudolf Martin? Way better lookin' than that. Gibbs comes in pissed beyond belief...man, he orders Abby to her desk like he's sending his kid to his room or something. IT'S ABBY'S LAB, GIBBS! Kate, Tony, and Ducky are at lunch - and Kate is asking about Gibbs' behavior again. Tony tries to dip something in Kate's drink, and she slaps him in the back of the head. (Haha.) Tony is mad. "You're not Gibbs! You do that again and you're going to be wearing that tuna salad!" Turns out the last time Gibbs acted like this, he was pursing a child molester-murderer, and it most likely killed his last marriage because he was so difficult to live with. "We can't divorce him, Ducky," Kate points out. Tony sees the pretty blonde run by...and takes off across the busy street after him. As in, DODGING CARS to get to her. Kate is unimpressed - when is he going to grow up? Ducky chuckles. "It's in the genes, my dear. In Italy, most boys Tony's age are still living with Ma-Ma." Hehe. If I were Tony, though, I'm not sure I'd want to live with a Louis XV-obsessed mother. Hm. Seems Gibbs isn't the only one still working on the hostage-taker case. Kate has a conference with Gitmo she has to rush to. Before she can, though, the hostage-taker drives up on his motorcycle and flirts with her - her, unknowing, until he pops the visor and she sees his face. She runs into the street with her weapon pulled but he takes off, and she jumps into the first car she sees to follow. Without backup. Kate, um, not a good idea, no backup? Gibbs is pissed because both Kate and Tony are late from lunch. We get our first glimpse of the meat puzzle which is solved in "Meat Puzzle" when Gibbs comes down to ask about Kate and Tony. Oh no, Ducky, don't tell...don't tell! Tony is screwed. Ducky told Gibbs Tony was off on another of "his usual pursuits". Gibbs goes to MTAC, but Kate isn't here. Hey, it's Paula! Seems Kate asked for a face-to-face conference with Cassidy about the Hamas Little Creek lead. Gibbs is pissed beyond belief at Tony, even though Tony has a good point - he's not working a hot case. Gibbs, though, is furious. GIBBS. War is not fair, and we are at war. Until I relieve you, which may be any moment now, you will fight that war, 24 / 7, and that includes sleeping, eating, taking a cr-p, you got it?You tell 'em! Y'all realize Captain Ahab died chasing Moby Dick, don'tcha, Gibbs? Kate's turn for the "we are at war" chew-out. Gibbs calls her up...uh-oh. It's two of the guys from the hostage-taker's Hamas cell. She won't tell them who's calling her, and so the driver smacks her, cracking open her lip, and demands to know who Gibbs is. She tells the driver he's her boyfriend - here comes sassy Kate - who works in Iraq. That just earns her another smack to the face. The hostage-taker grins at her - "Did you miss me?" Kate is pissed. The minute her cuffs are undone, she punches the driver. He tries to go after her, but the hostage-taker comes in between them. He attends to her lip first, but Kate wants to call Gibbs. He tells her that she's to tell Gibbs she got food poisoning after lunch. If she doesn't say that, though...it's the blonde Tony's been chasing! She's Hamas.... To keep Tony alive, she calls up Gibbs and gives him the food poisoning line...but she slips in a clue. She says she had oysters for lunch. Wait a minute, no, she didn't. Tony's puzzled - food poisoning? Gibbs is in such a sour mood, and Tony's generally good sense fails him terribly for a second when he asks what's wrong besides not catching the Hamas guy. I feel so bad for Tony...man, it SUCKS to be around Gibbs right now. Lucky for all of them, McGee has finally located the hostage-taker. Oops. This hostage-taker either doesn't care or he's not very careful - Kate picks up that he drinks, even champagne, but points out that Muslims don't. He just tells her to think of him as a charming host at a weekend party. HOSTAGE-TAKER. Oh, many women find me charming.He puts a pea under three walnut shells and mixes them up, then asks her to identify where the pea is.... Whoa. She gets it every time! Aha...she was taught to be observant by the Secret Service. Not just observant but analytical. She figures it out - she's here to identify which of the three helos (akin to the walnut shells) is the one carrying Bush and Sharon (the pea). She says there's no way to tell the helos apart, and even if there were, she wouldn't tell him how. The blonde, Marta, points her weapon at her forehead, but Kate doesn't back down. The hostage-taker gets Marta to give him the gun, then tells Kate he believes her. Just as Marta reaches for the cell phone to tell her companions that they'll never be able to figure out which helo is the right one, he blasts her in the head. The hostage-taker's Mossad! Fornell is with Gibbs with in his basement. Between what Fornell says and what McGee and Tony have found out, we discover that his father was a Mossad agent and a doctor, Dr. Benjamin Weinstein who knocked up his mother, Hasmia Haswari, to get his son with Arab blood. Hence the "Ari" Hebrew first name and the "Haswari" Arab last name. They never married. (Hm...that explains it. Kate calls Ari a lying bastard, and Marta chuckles until Ari looks at her with a frown. She apologizes, and then Ari says that half of that is true....) Ari then was sent to the Edinburgh Medical College, Ducky's alma mater, for his medical training where he specialized in infectious diseases. He worked with his mother in a clinic in the Gaza Strip - his father was vetting him as a doctor there. He's a sleeper agent for Mossad. Gibbs doesn't care. He wants to kill Ari. (Why am I not surprised.) All the directors want Gibbs' promise that he won't hurt Ari - especially by blowing his cover. Morrow refused to ask Gibbs to make that promise...which is why Fornell is there. Gibbs snorts. He won't get his payback by blowing a cover, he promises...on one condition. He wants to meet with Ari. Gibbs comes down to autopsy in the elevator. He enters autopsy, which is completely dark, and sees a body bag on the table. He slowly unzips the bag. When he flips the top flap over, it reveals Marta, with a bullethole to her forehead. He looks up to see Ari smirking at him in the corner. They discuss the case, and how Ari is getting Marta to be played as Mossad. Ari starts to walk out, and Gibbs shoots him point-blank, barrel to shoulder, and leaves him on the autopsy floor. Close on Gibbs getting into the elevator, and the elevator doors shut. ______________________________________________________________ Crazy Credits
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