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I’m of two minds about this episode. On the one hand I found it more enjoyable than I have any episode in quite a while. On the other hand…
DAMN YOU, GARY GLASBERG! WHY DID YOU HAVE TO KILL VANCE’S WIFE??!?!?! THAT WOMAN ROCKED!!
Also, McGee is a wimp. Your best friend’s father has just died. You know this; she does not. When said best friend asks you straight out how her father is, you ANSWER THE FRICKING QUESTION, no matter how uncomfortable it makes you. This was agreed to in the Man Rules Council of 1978.
Yes, McGee is a wimp; but DiNozzo didn’t answer her either, he just pointed with his eyes.
I feel like I’ve known that wife was doomed for years. How can the director of NCIS live without any security, apparently in a regular suburban neighborhood? I’m surprised they’ve lasted this long.
And I’m sorry, but I wanted more reaction from the Director. Rocky Carroll seems to have two expressions: grim and slightly smiling. He needs to develop a little range.
I watched the previews for next week, so I could be sure who was not responsible for the shooting.
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I thought Carroll played the scene exactly right. Vance is the kind of guy who, although he feels deeply, doesn’t express his emotions much. That’s not a natural state; it has to be learned. And once learned it’s difficult to unlearn. He might be able to weep with his kids, but he’s not gonna do it in front of Gibbs because he literally cannot.
Hell, Gibbs understands that. He wasn’t a stoic when his wife & daughter died, true, but he was much younger then.
I agree that DiNozzo was wimpy, but McGee was the one who was specifically asked the question. He failed big time there.
I didn’t see Mrs. Vance’s death years ahead of time. NCIS is pretty cruel to its supporting characters, but I’d have thought she was far enough away from the center that it might not seem worth closing off the storytelling options to kill her.
(Which of course is why they killed her.)
I wonder if Vance will stay as director? He’s been in the chair much longer than the other two, and he’s had a rough couple of years. Frankly, if he were real and I were his friend, I’d tell him he had to get out at this point. His kids just lost their mother as a direct result of his job (and it’s pure luck they weren’t there.) For their sake and his he needs to be a father, not a a director.
It’ll be interesting to see Gibbs and Vance interact on what surely will be Vance’s thirst for vengeance. Except for Palmer, the main cast all know about Gibbs’s murder of his family’s killer, but they don’t talk about it. Gibbs has to try to restrain Vance’s worst impulses, and Vance is not going to react well.
And of course I’m vexed that, if they were gonna kill somebody, it wasn’t Tony.
He may not have a choice. He didn’t tell his superiors that Eli David was in the US and then the man is killed in his house? He’ll be lucky to avoid charges, much less keep his job.
i haven’t liked vance since the first time he turned up. perhaps now they will get him off the show.
mcgee and tony’s no answer was an answer. if her father was okay, or heading for hospital they would have said. their not saying anything was fine with me, it was written all over their face.
good thing ziva got mad and went outside.
it will be interesting to see how things play out next week.
it appears that the nonanswer is something the show has done before. i was wathching a season 2 show and neither tony or kate answer when asked. they just look at each other and the questioner, who after a bit says, “greg’s dead, init he?”
yep, i know where greg is! on ducky’s table! i would suggest closed casket.
When my husband died, it took **months **to absorb the reality of it, and he died in the ICU, not murdered at our dinner table.
I’m glad for this thread. This season is SO MUCH BETTER than those of the recent past! I was ready to give up on the series, but I’m enjoying it again.
I prefer Director Vance over Jenny. The way she kept referring to her and Jethro’ s past when he wasn’t the least bit interested was pathetic.
during the vance funeral montage, i thought, hhmmm, i bet leon always thought it would be the other way about.
jackie would have had many a thought of the knock on the door, the late night call. leon, every now and again, esp. after close call, like when jackie shot the baddy.
it will be interesting to see how he deals with it.