This episode examined the highway not taken by Gibbs.
Phineas, on the run, went to the one different place he felt secure, on NCIS Season 18 Episode 14.
That is proper, it was a reunion between Gibbs and his inquisitive younger former neighbor, Phineas. But it surely wasn’t beneath the perfect of circumstances.
Phineas was nearly the surrogate son that Gibbs so wished. However Gibbs killed Phineas’s mom, the terrorist Sahar who was looking Ziva.
So Gibbs did the noble factor and stepped apart in order that Phineas may go to stay together with his aunt and uncle, George and Micki Kaydar, on NCIS Season 17 Episode 11.
The Kaydars had been put in witness safety in order that Phineas’s uncle, Hassan Sayegh, would not be capable of discover him.
That idea was good whereas it lasted, which turned out to be till this episode.
For individuals who questioned no matter occurred to Phineas, effectively, right here was your reply.
How Hassan’s pursuit of Phineas led to the dying of a Naval officer was a bit contrived. Hassan wanted Tubman’s special-access laptop computer to get into the NCIS database and discover the Kaydars.
This begs a number of questions. First, why weren’t the Kaydars relocated to Iowa or Idaho, fairly than someplace within the suburbs inside strolling distance of Gibbs’ home?
Second, as many instances as that NCIS database has been hacked on previous episodes, did Hassan really want a particular laptop computer to achieve entry?
Third, Hassan was in a position to get three henchmen with prison data into the nation, in addition to a physician for his sick son, however he opted to rent a clumsy armed robber from Thugs-R-Us to steal the laptop computer?
However with out the useless Naval officer, NCIS, then Gibbs, would by no means have gotten concerned. So it was essential to overlook such painful incongruities.
Finally, there was a cause for Gibbs to select up his gun once more (and to wish his lacking protect).
Simply because Gibbs did the appropriate factor, it did not imply that he not liked Phineas. Which he proved to Phineas on this episode.
And with the Kaydars injured and out of motion, Phineas went again to the one different place he felt secure.
Spotlighted was the perfect a part of the Phineas episodes: His overflowing sense of curiosity.
He peppered the taciturn Gibbs with query after query. He requested the questions that nobody at NCIS dared to, resembling Gibbs’ emotions about Jack.
He requested the large query we have all been pondering: How is Gibbs going to get that boat out of his basement? (One in all Hassan’s henchmen questioned the identical factor earlier than Gibbs knocked him out.)
Phineas additionally displayed his powers of commentary, noting all of the adjustments that had been made to Casa Gibbs throughout his compelled trip.
Most significantly, he made Gibbs try this at which he’s most uncomfortable: open up. Gibbs additionally helped Phineas tackle his emotions of loneliness and abandonment in order that by the top, Phineas was in a extra comfy house psychologically.
Thankfully, McGee and the remainder of Gibbs’ staff had been busy monitoring down Hassan even after they solved Tubman’s homicide. They did not give Gibbs a lot of a head’s up however it was all that he wanted.
It was shocking that Hassan had a respectable cause for looking Phineas, that he wasn’t simply in search of vengeance for Sahar’s dying.
Hassan went about securing Phineas’s bone marrow in a brutish method doubtless as a result of he is aware of no different manner. As soon as he discovered what was occurring, Phineas opted to assist out the cousin he had by no means met.
It is a disgrace that Gibbs parted methods with Lucy however once more he did it for the appropriate cause. Phineas and Lucy bonded and he knew Lucy can be going to an excellent house.
What this does imply is that Gibbs must discover a manner again to NCIS, if for no different cause than some companionship.
Ducky and Kasie tried to attach with him, though in Kasie’s case, such an effort appeared to have been made beneath duress. Their hearts had been in the appropriate place however they might have been higher off sending a stone pill and chisel. No less than he did not throw it within the fireplace after contemplating it.
Was anybody else irritated by how what gave the impression to be an elevation of the Torres-Bishop relationship was dealt with?
For each of them, denial is not a river in Egypt. Whereas the state of Gibbs and Jack was a thriller within the workplace, nobody had such doubts about these two.
In his position as workers facilitator, Palmer tried to get them to confess to what was apparent. However as a substitute, they appeared oblivious.
Kasie had no such need however obtained caught within the position of being Bishop’s gal pal. Say what you need about Abby (it was a messy divorce) however she stored all the pieces out within the open.
Kasie did deliver as much as Palmer recognizing the adjustments in Bishop over the previous yr. That hearkens again to Odette’s supply to coach Bishop throughout NCIS Season 17, a storyline that appeared to have disappeared.
What an entire copout to have Torres and Bishop have “the speak” offscreen in a closed elevator. It is not cute anymore.
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