Agreed. Damn.
(… and here I was reminding the girls that Tobias had been “killed” but got better earlier this season … )
At least they have a good revenge motive and recurring villian to drive next season.
Oh, I think we can say with some certainty that the villain will be dead before two episodes have passed next season. And the only question is whether it will be Tony or Jethro that kills him.
Holy crap!
Oh.
That hurt.
At least the killer said he was sorry!
It’s cool that they faked us out a little, but I have to admit I totally saw that coming… 
RikWriter:
Maybe Abby will go over to the dark side … they’d been playing up the “she and Kate are girlfriends” angle in the past couple of episodes!
Definitely Gibbs. Without a doubt.
I knew it would be Kate as soon as Ari asked Gibbs about her.
Right. Gibbs would never allow one of his people to do something he needs to do.
And I like Misnomer’s idea. Imagine what could be done with the Magic Computer™ as a force for Evil instead of Goodness.
Somebody help me!!! I missed it. Wha’ happened?
Please don’t tell me it was Kate!
Sorry.
[spoiler]Thought maybe it’d be Tony, being too weak to work in the field after the y.pestis. Then thought it be McGee, taking fire while outside the bad guy hide out. But no. After putting on a red shirt for most of the episode (seen sketching Tony, snakes, bombs, taking a round to the vest, etc.), our lovely Kate committed the ultimate kill-me-now act. "Gee, Gibbs, I thought I’d die before you paid me a compl… "
There’s no coming back from a rifle shot between the eyes. Sorry.[/spoiler]
DeHusband is officially in mourning.
Make that two of us! I was in love with Kate. The show will never be the same. :eek:
Relax. That actress’ll have another series by midseason.
WARNING!!! UNBOXED SPOILERS AHEAD!!!
Two Naval officers, in civvies and in a rented car (without a base sticker), are assassinated by a fake cop. 911 receives an anonymous call that two sailors have been murdered. NCIS goes to investigate.
Tony has more or less recovered from The Plague and is eager to get back to work. Gibbs tells him he should take another week of sick leave. Kate and Tony are by the convertible Mustang death vehicle, exchanging in their usual interplay. Kate is mad at Tony for something he said, and Tony is pulling his usual schtick.
Kate: Do you know what you are? You’re a…
Tony: Snake.
Kate: Yes. Well, I was going to say…
Tony: No. There’s a snake by your feet. Right there.
Kate freezes, and asks if it’s poisonous. Tony says it is, and then bravely grabs the snake. Kate is suitably impressed – until McGee says the snake isn’t poisonous. ‘Remember, Tony, last month when you found one of those in the park and wore it around your neck for an hour?’ ‘My near-fatal illness must have… affected my memory.’ Kate is pissed. Tony is still squatting on the ground and Kate kicks him over.
McGee goes to open the boot of the car to see if there’s any evidence in there. Tony, being on the ground, sees a bomb under the car. He tells McGee to freeze. Tony holds the key, which McGee has already turned, and orders Kate and McGee to run to safety. When they protest, he tells them that he can run faster than they can run.
Kate and McGee run up to Gibbs to tell him the car is boobytrapped. Then there’s an explosion. Tony struggles up to the group and says, ‘Hey Boss, remember when I said I was feeling fine? I’m not feeling fine anymore.’ Then he passes out.
Abby discovers that the C4 used in the bomb does not have anny taggants, and that the electronic components had been sterilised. Not a typical foreign terrorist technique. Gibbs surmises that the killer/bomber must have some connection with another agency. He investigates, and his FBI counterpart tells him the information is classified and that NCIS are off the case. They can investigate the murder, but they are to stay out of the bombing. (As if they’re not related! :dubious: )
Right. Now, you’ll recall the terrorist guy who turned out to be a Mossad agent. Gibbs shot him in the shoulder last season. DrFidelius called him Tobias. I don’t remember his name (sorry), and ‘Tobias’ doesn’t sound familiar. I guess I just wasn’t paying attention. Anyway, I’ll use ‘Tobias’.
Tobias has been in the States for a week. Gibbs finds out that Tobias is trying to kill him. So they meet for coffee. Tobias tells Gibbs that he is trying to infiltrate an Al Qaida cell, and that to become bona fide he has to kill Gibbs. He tells Gibbs that Gibbs has 24 hours to take down the cell, otherwise Tobias will have no choice but to carry out his ‘initiation’ task.
One of the pilots had his hands cut off and taken. NCIS go to the weapons contractor he was working with to find out if they have any weapons that require a fingerprint to operate. They do (the FBI hadn’t asked), but the weapon is secure. Gibbs notices some obsolete target drones in the hangar. Looks like one is missing. The contractor guesses that it was taken somewhere and used for parts. Gibbs surmises that with a stolen guidance system from the actual weapon, the terrorists can make a poor-man’s cruise missile. And they have the hands of the authorised pilot to turn on the guidance controls. Video surveillance from the day of the murders show that Tobias is not ‘trying to get into the cell’ – he’s leading it!
Gibbs gets the encrypted phone number for Tobias’s mobile phone and has satellites ready to track it. He calls Tobias, and gets his approximate location. It seems the target is Norfolk. The missile cannot hurt a ship mush, but there are thousands of family members who will be standing on the docks waiting for their marines and sailors to return from their deployment. Tobias gives a teddy bear to a little girl. The teddy bear has a homing device in it.
Meanwhile, Abby and McGee have obtained a duplicate controller. They can jam the one the terrorists have, and they narrow it down to three fewquencies. They go to some warehouses, but don’t know where the terrorists are. Gibbs fires a shotgun, and one of the terrorists prairie-dogs. Now they know where they are. McGee sets up the controller near the car as Gibbs, Tony and Kate try to get the terrorists. The missile is launched.
Gibbs and Kate fight their way up to the roof, while Tony goes up the fire escape. There’s another shootout, and Gibbs and Kate make it to the controller. Tony is just about to take control (using the third of the three frequencies) when he comes under fire. In the shootout the controller is destroyed. Neither Tony nor Gibbs knows how to fly the missile. Gibbs shoots the box, and the missile crashes into the sea.
Tony, Gibbs and Kate are standing on the roof when a terrorist pops up. Kate yells, ‘Shooter!’ and dives across Gibbs into the line of fire. She takes one in the chest. The terrorist is killed.
Gibbs opens Kate’s shirt, and we see the round lodged in her bullet-proof vest. She revives. The three are standing around joking. Someone mentions Kate’s jumping into the line of fire, and Kate says, ‘I thought I would have died before I’d…’ blam! She took a bullet right in her forehead.
Tobias is on another building with a sniper rifle. He says, ‘Sorry, Kate.’ Gibbs and Tony can’t see where he is.
End of episode.
Damn. I knew I should have previewed!
I got Kate’s line wrong. DeVena got it right.
Tobias is the FBI guy; Ari is the evil sniper/terrorist.
Thanks, DeVena. Now that you say his name, I remember it was Ari.
NCIS is one of those shows that I watch, and which I like, but don’t watch carefully enough to catch everyone’s name.
Yeah I know what you mean. If DeHusband didn’t have an Uncle Tobias I would never have known the FBI guy’s name.
He has a name? I always think of him as Joe Spano – or, if forced to use a character name, “Henry.”
Blasphemer! 
Thanks johnny , that was great! I owe you big time.
I didn’t think the bastards would do it. I mean, what were they thinking?
Does anyone have any theories as to why they felt they needed to do this? Is there something going on behind the scenes we don’t know about. ( wait a minute,Thats a stupid question :smack: )
Ok, why do you think they did it? THE BASTARDS!!!