Okay, I watched. With the usual amount of attention. Which means, of course, a couple of fairly major plot points went by way too quickly.
1.5) What was the “how’d you know I was here” thing after that about? (When she was standing behind McGee, who was working on the computer – I thought she was still in the SUV at that point, but anyway…)
1a. McGee spoke outloud, after finding the evil lines of code on the killer car, that he would have saved Abby. As she walks out of the darkness, she asks how he knew she was there. He didn’t. He was just talking outloud.
Curses! Not “their” but “there”.
Merci!
I really think this is my all-time favorite “consistently makes no sense” show.
More on 1a: At the time McGee found the code in question, he thought Abby was still in medical treatment for CO inhalation.
My technical problem with the Killer Kar was that the flash card containing the Killer Kode had the code in Human-readable source form. Either the embedded real-time system that is OTTO uses a very fast interpreter, or else it has an on-board compiler. For such a system, the code would normally be compiled and then the binary version uploaded to the embedded system. (Yeah, I know the real reason is “It’s in the script, so the viewers can see it.”)
Plus the Killer Kode seemed to be written in BASIC language. See! I always knew that rotten class would come in handy one day. Now I just have to build a Killer Kar to stage fake suicides in.
I can’t believe you guys are going for such an arcane level of “that makes no sense” when there’s all kinds of really dumb “that makes no sense” stuff available week in and week out.
Like – Abby being their only tech, and one expert in every possible subspecialty, and having every possible machine there to do the work immediately, including the work that’s clearly impossible.
You can’t fault the show for “every machine does its processing instantly (especially DNA analysis),” that’s a standard fault of all modern crime dramas. A drama can’t maintain its pace by putting up a card that says “6 weeks later…” over the DNA analysis.
The rest of your post stands, twickster. Any decent cop shop would have a fully staffed forensics lab, because there’s simply too much stuff to have one person do it all. It makes sense that we’d only see the forensic tech that’s part of the main cast. But even CSI uses bit parts and background character to show that there’s other people in the lab.
I don’t care if it makes sense. We had to rewind that part with Tony singing his surveillance just because we were laughing so hard we couldn’t hear most of it the first time. 
Oh my God, yes! That was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen on the show…and the sexual harassment class was great too.
We had a friend over last night, who’d never seen the show, and her reaction during the class was fantastic. “Why did she just lick him???”
Because that’s why people tune in. Not for the crime drama part - just to see things like Ziva licking Tony.
Actually, last night’s crime came remarkably close to making sense. I still have no idea what Tony is doing or why. But singing surveillance is making that whole plot line worth it.
The singing surveillance was excellent.
It’s funny- later on, they said the script was written in Assembly, and so it’d be really hard to analyze. You know, even though it clearly said, “If engine=on and seatbeltbutttonreleased= true then lockdoor…”
My wife couldn’t understand why I cracked up during that scene.
Oh, and for the record, Ziva can sexually harass me all she wants, especially if it involves licking.
Remember – the really top-flight psychopaths never put GOTO statements in their killer computer code.
Now that the bad guys in the club have seen Tony and recognized him, how many more weeks do you think his secret girlfriend has to live?
She is going to die, we all know it. Just a question of which episode.
Was the ability to route the exhaust gas into the car’s interior ever explained? Was that done by the old guy too? I’m guessing it wouldn’t make sense in the design stage.
Either she’s going to die or she’s some big time super spy. But yeah you’re right. Either way she’s going to die. My vote is she’s got about 6 more episodes.
You know, last night, just as the episode ended, I found myself thinking “I wonder if twicks will post a thread about this one.” I hope my Tivo hasn’t deleted it yet … I’d like to watch Tony sing again. 
I think it’s more likely that DiNozzo’s relationship with the doctor and Palmer’s with Agent Lee will both blow up in the same episode.
It is not necessary that either one of them die. It is likely, though, that at least one of them will suffer a terrible misfortune.
GaryM: No, they never discussed the manufacturing oversight that enabled the exhaust to be routed into the Hummer’s interior. EVERYBODY on the OTTO project should have noticed that!