Witch Hunt (04x06)
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seaboe_muffinchuckerThe camera work at the beginning, giving us the victim's eye-view, is very good. We know right away (because a woman dressed as Cleopatra is carving a pumpkin while listening to a horror movie) that it's Halloween. That gives us an expectation for what is going on that turns out not to be what it seems like the first time we see the character who has been holding the camera, so to speak.
When Tony and Ziva tease McGee it doesn't feel like hash because they are wearing parts of the costume, too—in fact, they look sillier than he does.
First hint about McGee's book, when he mentions shopping at the Armani store. Tony says "since when can you afford Armani?" but in earlier seasons, Tony himself wore designer suits. They also drop a hint about Jeanne without saying a word about her in that Tony doesn't try to flirt with the pediatrician.
Gibbs is very much in a teaching mood. He not only demonstrated the broken neck thing for McGee, he asked his opinion of the scene. However, he reverts to his nastiness of late when Ziva loses the mother. I thank the writers for not making it Tony for once who attracted the wrath of Gibbs.
I liked Ziva's conversation with Ducky, especially when she gets off-track talking about bears eating their young. He's a good sounding board. That she does talk to him and admits she may have screwed up shows how much Ziva has changed since the beginning of season three. It also introduces another possible villain.
Continuity error: how does Ziva know the glitter is from Sarah's costume? She never saw her, and being told "she's dressed like a princess" doesn't mean there's glitter on her costume.
The woman playing the sister does a really good job of camouflaging who she really is. I was totally flummoxed the first time I saw this episode. It's not an easy thing to do, play a character who isn't what she seems without dropping clues left and right that there's something odd going on.
And, of course, we have Abby as Marilyn Monroe. Need I say more? Well, probably not, but I will anyway. Seeing this makes me believe that Pauley is a natural blond. Most of the time when I look at her, the black hair suits her so well I can't imagine her with any other color.
Tony's Halloween story concerning his spacesuit costume was fun, especially at the end. It does say something about his home life, though, in that neither his father or his stepmother of the moment appear to have been aware that he even went trick-or-treating until he got back.
His comment "I don't do Halloween" contradicts his statement in either the first or second season that he loves Halloween. On the other hand, I can see him having loved Halloween (especially the practical jokes) until he became a cop.
This was an episode I really liked. The team worked as a team throughout, there were almost no ill-natured comments by anyone, to anyone, no hash that I noticed and definitely no put-downs by Gibbs as have been par for the course lately. Also, there was no murder to be investigated for once. Yes, there was a death, but it was self-defense and easily dealt with.
When Tony and Ziva tease McGee it doesn't feel like hash because they are wearing parts of the costume, too—in fact, they look sillier than he does.
First hint about McGee's book, when he mentions shopping at the Armani store. Tony says "since when can you afford Armani?" but in earlier seasons, Tony himself wore designer suits. They also drop a hint about Jeanne without saying a word about her in that Tony doesn't try to flirt with the pediatrician.
Gibbs is very much in a teaching mood. He not only demonstrated the broken neck thing for McGee, he asked his opinion of the scene. However, he reverts to his nastiness of late when Ziva loses the mother. I thank the writers for not making it Tony for once who attracted the wrath of Gibbs.
I liked Ziva's conversation with Ducky, especially when she gets off-track talking about bears eating their young. He's a good sounding board. That she does talk to him and admits she may have screwed up shows how much Ziva has changed since the beginning of season three. It also introduces another possible villain.
Continuity error: how does Ziva know the glitter is from Sarah's costume? She never saw her, and being told "she's dressed like a princess" doesn't mean there's glitter on her costume.
The woman playing the sister does a really good job of camouflaging who she really is. I was totally flummoxed the first time I saw this episode. It's not an easy thing to do, play a character who isn't what she seems without dropping clues left and right that there's something odd going on.
And, of course, we have Abby as Marilyn Monroe. Need I say more? Well, probably not, but I will anyway. Seeing this makes me believe that Pauley is a natural blond. Most of the time when I look at her, the black hair suits her so well I can't imagine her with any other color.
Tony's Halloween story concerning his spacesuit costume was fun, especially at the end. It does say something about his home life, though, in that neither his father or his stepmother of the moment appear to have been aware that he even went trick-or-treating until he got back.
His comment "I don't do Halloween" contradicts his statement in either the first or second season that he loves Halloween. On the other hand, I can see him having loved Halloween (especially the practical jokes) until he became a cop.
This was an episode I really liked. The team worked as a team throughout, there were almost no ill-natured comments by anyone, to anyone, no hash that I noticed and definitely no put-downs by Gibbs as have been par for the course lately. Also, there was no murder to be investigated for once. Yes, there was a death, but it was self-defense and easily dealt with.
