Suspicion (04x12)
Jul. 10th, 2017 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seaboe_muffinchuckerMaybe I'm different, but I cannot imagine stepping out of my hotel room for even a few seconds without my key, unless the person I'm sharing the room with is inside. But here, if he'd done that, the murder wouldn't've been discovered.
Ziva's obsession with Tony's health is the subplot of this episode. It's a deliberate call back to her Mossad training (she even says so). Tony's behavior has deviated from his usual pattern and she wants to know why. Like she told Gibbs, she's been trained to push until she gets an answer
I thought the small town atmosphere was all right but not great. The plot wouldn't work without a fair amount of prejudice, starting with the deputy and proceeding on with the neighbor. We only got to know four characters in the town and two of them were bigots.
I wish we'd seen more of the crime scene/ forensic tech. I think she'd make a good match for McGee. It was nice to see McGee mentoring someone, and fun to see the reverse was true as well (the inside of the pocket).
The sheriff was also good; good at his job and good as a level-headed person. His brother, though, was the cliché of a red neck. I thought it was clear that one of the reasons the brother was a deputy was so that his brother could keep an eye on him.
The end of the episode switches back to our long running story arc, with someone with a telephoto lens taking pictures of Tony and Jeanne in bed. Things are heating up.
The mystery is well done and as TV mysteries go, fairly straight forward. I think it works because the audience has a built-in expectation of who the villain is going to be, because of how things turned out in Sandblast.
Ziva's obsession with Tony's health is the subplot of this episode. It's a deliberate call back to her Mossad training (she even says so). Tony's behavior has deviated from his usual pattern and she wants to know why. Like she told Gibbs, she's been trained to push until she gets an answer
I thought the small town atmosphere was all right but not great. The plot wouldn't work without a fair amount of prejudice, starting with the deputy and proceeding on with the neighbor. We only got to know four characters in the town and two of them were bigots.
I wish we'd seen more of the crime scene/ forensic tech. I think she'd make a good match for McGee. It was nice to see McGee mentoring someone, and fun to see the reverse was true as well (the inside of the pocket).
The sheriff was also good; good at his job and good as a level-headed person. His brother, though, was the cliché of a red neck. I thought it was clear that one of the reasons the brother was a deputy was so that his brother could keep an eye on him.
The end of the episode switches back to our long running story arc, with someone with a telephoto lens taking pictures of Tony and Jeanne in bed. Things are heating up.
The mystery is well done and as TV mysteries go, fairly straight forward. I think it works because the audience has a built-in expectation of who the villain is going to be, because of how things turned out in Sandblast.
