Untouchable (03x20)
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seaboe_muffinchuckerI would say that the way Ziva touches Tony's hair right at the beginning was not necessarily scripted. It's a cute little business.
I choose to think it was not the cat shooting through the pet door that caused Tony to draw his gun, but the bloody footprints which he noticed before Ziva did. Tony is good at his job. He must be, or Gibbs would've fired him long ago. So this business of having his younger colleagues constantly showing him up is annoying.
It's true, though, Tony and animals do not go together well. Which is probably why (when we finally see his apartment) it turns out he has fish. His childhood pet were sea monkeys. I choose to believe that the mother who drank them was not his biological mother, but the first in the long string of his stepmothers.
It's interesting that Gibbs has Tony tell Palmer about investigating suicides as murders. Did it really save anything not to do it himself? Weird.
I love the way McGee just can't walk by the blackboard with the error on it. He handled himself well while he was being insulted by the commander of the unit. I love the way he bitched about it to Abby later, though.
Palmer gets to do the external examination all by himself while Ducky goes off somewhere. He almost gets to start the actual autopsy, but Ducky arrives (with his mother in tow) in the nick of time. Thanks to the presence of his mother, we find out that Ducky has (or had) an Aunt Gloria.
Nina Foch is spectacular in her second and last appearance as Ducky's mother. As yet another example of Hollywood casting younger women as older, she was only nine years older than David McCallum.
The search and destroy scene is well filmed and cut together. You don't have to watch every second of their search to know how very thorough it is, and how very tired everyone but Gibbs is. Which is why McGee falls asleep and tempts Tony. That's one of the Gibbs slaps I think is funny and appropriate.
Parts of the surveillance scenes are funny, like when Ziva is going to pour water in Tony's lap and the resolution of the chase. Others are not (guess). Ziva offering the piano lessons is just nice, although as we know from seeing his apartment, Tony probably doesn't need lessons. Most people don't put a baby grand in their living rooms if they're not going to use it.
This episode clearly made very little impression on me the first time I saw it, as I had no idea who the bad guy would turn out to be on this rewatch. This indicates that the mystery is probably fairly banal. Which it is, though watchable.
I choose to think it was not the cat shooting through the pet door that caused Tony to draw his gun, but the bloody footprints which he noticed before Ziva did. Tony is good at his job. He must be, or Gibbs would've fired him long ago. So this business of having his younger colleagues constantly showing him up is annoying.
It's true, though, Tony and animals do not go together well. Which is probably why (when we finally see his apartment) it turns out he has fish. His childhood pet were sea monkeys. I choose to believe that the mother who drank them was not his biological mother, but the first in the long string of his stepmothers.
It's interesting that Gibbs has Tony tell Palmer about investigating suicides as murders. Did it really save anything not to do it himself? Weird.
I love the way McGee just can't walk by the blackboard with the error on it. He handled himself well while he was being insulted by the commander of the unit. I love the way he bitched about it to Abby later, though.
Palmer gets to do the external examination all by himself while Ducky goes off somewhere. He almost gets to start the actual autopsy, but Ducky arrives (with his mother in tow) in the nick of time. Thanks to the presence of his mother, we find out that Ducky has (or had) an Aunt Gloria.
Nina Foch is spectacular in her second and last appearance as Ducky's mother. As yet another example of Hollywood casting younger women as older, she was only nine years older than David McCallum.
The search and destroy scene is well filmed and cut together. You don't have to watch every second of their search to know how very thorough it is, and how very tired everyone but Gibbs is. Which is why McGee falls asleep and tempts Tony. That's one of the Gibbs slaps I think is funny and appropriate.
Parts of the surveillance scenes are funny, like when Ziva is going to pour water in Tony's lap and the resolution of the chase. Others are not (guess). Ziva offering the piano lessons is just nice, although as we know from seeing his apartment, Tony probably doesn't need lessons. Most people don't put a baby grand in their living rooms if they're not going to use it.
This episode clearly made very little impression on me the first time I saw it, as I had no idea who the bad guy would turn out to be on this rewatch. This indicates that the mystery is probably fairly banal. Which it is, though watchable.
