This episode may have used a lighter contact.
The OSP retried Eddie Gallagher on NCIS: Los Angeles Season 11 Episode 22.
There’s nothing unsuitable with utilizing “ripped-from-the-headlines” circumstances as storylines.
Hell, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has ridden that components to change into the longest-running drama in American TV historical past.
The key is tweaking the case simply sufficient that the viewer has an “a-ha” second when she or he figures out upon whom the storyline relies.
There’s some subtlety concerned.
When Mac, Kensi, and Deeks agreed about midway via that Argento is rather like Eddie Gallagher, it scraped away even that tiny little bit of pretense.
To this point, there hasn’t been a grandstanding Commander in Chief meddling in a matter that ought to be dealt with by navy justice, though Mac did trace at political stress from above already.
However there’s at all times subsequent season, since this will likely be considered one of many storylines left hanging due to the coronavirus-caused early manufacturing shutdown.
I most likely simply missed it however when final we noticed Mac on NCIS: Los Angeles Season 11 Episode 1, she was working for the State Division. This episode, she was again in uniform in some unspecified navy capability, with nary a phrase of clarification.
Is she again at JAG?
Not that that was a dealbreaker. Let’s assume she’s within the Reserves and obtained known as up for some motive.
Doubtless as a result of showrunner R. Scott Gemmill is continuous with visitor spots by Catherine Bell and David James Elliott in an effort to resurrect JAG within the revival/reboot-happy world wherein we dwell.
Hawaii Five-0 simply obtained completed so there’s a gap on the CBS fall schedule for a identified amount with nostalgic undertones.
Regardless of The Good Witch, I am going to positive Bell may make time. And the remainder of the JAG solid is eminently out there.
It was evident this was going to be one other Hetty-less episode when it opened with Callen complaining about paperwork and Sam chiding him about falling behind as a result of he spends an excessive amount of time with Anna (who hasn’t been seen for a month).
Roundtree’s job shadowing of Sam continued as he was simply chilling whereas Sam and Callen bantered. I suppose the FBI would not want him any greater than LAPD requires Deeks.
Then got here the double top-secret name from Mac that required everybody however Sam and Callen to depart the room.
Sure, the costs in opposition to Argento have been a nasty piece of enterprise and Sam was a pure selection as investigator, since SEALs all over the place nonetheless worship him, regardless that he is been with NCIS for greater than a decade.
In fact, Sam’s associate (and staff chief) Callen could be a part of the investigation as effectively, as a result of we all know how effectively Callen handles politically delicate conditions.
However here is the factor: as soon as Sam made the choice to go to Afghanistan, why take Roundtree?
Would not Fatima, a Muslim lady and a extra confirmed NCIS agent, been a better option to go together with Sam and Callen?
Particularly after it turned clear that Argento had Kandajar wired and that the OSP staff would regularly be a step behind.
Additionally, I am betting Fatima would not have run headlong right into a entice after spooking a witness.
It was good to see Frank Wallace once more, even when he was used sparingly. Possibly considered one of these episodes he’ll present what he can do in a firefight (however not because the goal).
As an alternative, due to Roundtree, the quartet ended up spending many of the episode chained up within the basement, attempting to show their worth to their Afghan captors.
(Was I the one one remembering the older Afghan man as driver Ranjit from How I Met Your Mother, making him laborious to purchase as a vengeful, grieving father?)
Testimony from the Afghan boy and the 2 SEALs accusing Argento was an efficient option to element his crimes.
It was evident all through that Mac would have been simply as joyful if this case may have definitively been disproven, as a result of it was a significant headache.
It was comprehensible that Argento had war-hero standing among the many males of his unit however should not somebody have requested questions somewhat than simply taking his phrase there was a dozen hostiles within the basement of a constructing?
Then, after the Afghan shouted out about having American prisoners, should not which have gotten extra investigation than Argento proclaiming that they have been mendacity? Particularly after Frank caught up his head up within the window?
No, as an alternative it took SEAL legend Sam Hanna, popping out to barter, to sway the members of Argento’s staff. His fame proceeded him.
Why the Afghans felt the necessity to maintain Sam in gunpoint, after they had his three comrades as hostages, was laborious to grasp. In the event that they hadn’t been there, Argento could not have made his Taliban story maintain up.
And did not you need Sam to only slap the cocky off of Argento’s face?
Effectively, not less than subsequent season, Argento’s trial will likely be a superb excuse to resurrect a JAG lawyer or two as soon as once more.
Now, what about Roundtree becoming a member of the staff?
It has been clear such a proposal has been coming. What is not apparent is what he brings to the staff, in addition to youthful impetuousness.
We had extra of an idea of what Fatima was about in a shorter time period.
However he provides Sam somebody to coach whereas Kensi can maintain coaching Fatima.
Here is hoping, along with the 2 younger brokers, we get extra of Hetty subsequent season as effectively.
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