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Post by llyan on Dec 6, 2020 15:29:09 GMT
12.17.2020
GIBBS AND FORNELL’S CRUSADE TO FIND THE HEAD OF THE DRUG RING RESPONSIBLE FOR EMILY’S OVERDOSE COMES TO A CLIMAX AND GIBBS AND VANCE LET THE TEAM IN ON A CASE THAT HAS DANGEROUS IMPLICATIONS, ON “NCIS,” AT A SPECIAL TIME, TUESDAY, JAN. 19 “Head of the Snake” – Gibbs and Fornell’s crusade to find the head of the drug ring responsible for Fornell’s daughter Emily’s overdose comes to a climax. Also, Gibbs and Vance finally let the team in on a case that has dangerous implications, on NCIS, at a special time, Tuesday, Jan. 19 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. REGULAR CAST:Mark Harmon (NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs) Sean Murray (NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee) Emily Wickersham (NCIS Special Agent Eleanor “Ellie” Bishop) Wilmer Valderrama (NCIS Special Agent Nicholas “Nick” Torres) Maria Bello (NCIS Special Agent Jaqueline “Jack” Sloane) Brian Dietzen (Medical Examiner Jimmy Palmer) Diona Reasonover (Forensic Scientist Kasie Hines) Rocky Carroll (NCIS Director Leon Vance) David McCallum (Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard) GUEST CAST:Joe Spano (Tobias “T.C.” Fornell) Margo Harshman (Delilah Fielding) Juliette Angelo (Emily Fornell) Nick Boraine (Merriweather a.k.a. Alexi Myshkin) Anna Grace Barlow (Karen a.k.a. Sasha Myshkin) Tajh Bellow (Navy Petty Officer Second Class Samuel Miles) Isiah Adams (Chad Hamilton a.k.a. Vladmir Ivinov) Neal Kodinsky (Viktor) Tudor Munteanu (Ivan) Geri-Nicole Love (Paramedic) WRITTEN BY: Brendan Fehily and David J. North DIRECTED BY: Tawnia McKiernan GENRE: Drama, Crime, Mystery Official CBS website: www.cbs.com/primetime/ncis/CHEAT TWEET: Gibbs & Fornell’s crusade to find the head of the drug ring responsible for Fornell’s daughter’s overdose comes to a climax + Gibbs & Vance finally let the team in on a case that has dangerous implications on #NCIS 1/19 @ a special time 9PM #CBS bit.ly/3r4Xn1z
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Post by llyan on Dec 18, 2020 1:41:46 GMT
Updated with the press release.
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Post by jessielee on Dec 19, 2020 16:06:00 GMT
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Post by llyan on Jan 13, 2021 15:28:08 GMT
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Post by llyan on Jan 20, 2021 3:32:35 GMT
Wow. Lots to unpack with these episodes. I think I need to watch this one again before I can comment. I definitely enjoyed it though and I'm glad to have NCIS back on with new episodes.
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Post by luckysmom on Jan 20, 2021 13:39:37 GMT
I started to watch Sunburn last night but did not get through it - at this point it may be close to the weekend before I seen them both
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Post by llyan on Jan 20, 2021 18:20:26 GMT
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Post by kaschu32 on Jan 21, 2021 23:07:36 GMT
I need to watch again... but I felt the ending was too rushed. This should have been a longer episode.
Gibbs shoots Tim, airplane does it's thing, Torre's arrives NO ONE thought to check the hangers surrounding these events? ??
The eventual capture of the bad guy.... LAME....
Why do they think this is the end of the pipeline?
Gibbs at the end not even offering to get Delilah anything just walking through her.... okay it was weird...
I'll watch again and give a better description of what I thought...
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Post by nas on Jan 22, 2021 0:41:04 GMT
I decided to cross-post the following comments/opinion I made about this episode over on the TV Insider articles thread; I believe it’s appropriate for both:
o.k., I just watched the entire episode of Head of the Snake, if for no other reason than to justify my negative comments and opinion...
I thought the entire episode was unrealistic (so, what’s new? NCIS left realistic years ago!), but I’m going to stick with just the original complaint I had about the shooting of McGee by Gibbs, and not write about anything else that imho was so unbelievably bad... 😖
after watching the ep, I will stick to my opinion that the shooting should never, ever, never have happened! Period!!
we must remember that Gibbs has been written since day 1 as a crack-shot, super sniper...
being that, he could have AND should have simply kept firing on the ground ahead of McGee to keep him from advancing forward - just kept firing - not shooting him with a high-powered rifle, ffs!!
a half dozen more impeding shots would have given him the time he needed before the plane exploded...
but instead, he shot him in the arm and then in the leg, hitting McGee’s femoral artery! at the rate that they showed him bleeding (which was very quickly!) McGee would have bled out and died before help could get to him!
for being this “super sniper” who supposedly can put a shot between someone’s eyes from a mile away, Gibbs really screwed up when he hit the femoral artery, didn’t he?
all that said, I contend that the purpose of this shooting situation was simply written to create the “Tim-Gibbs drama” for future episodes - and not because it made sense that “Gibbs had no choice”...
in the end the doe-eyed Delilah looks up at Gibbs and said, “You saved his life” and Gibbs says nothing, gave her that all-knowing grin of his, then bent down and kissed the top of her head...
well, B.S.! he didn’t save his life - he almost killed the guy!!
once again the NCIS writers created a 💩situation that totally pissed me off, and makes me glad I decided to stop watching this show on a regular basis...
I think I’ll just stick to writing on and posting pictures of my Grandoggie on the Fur Babies thread, and stop aggravating myself with the duh, duh, dumb episodes that the show airs...
There, I’ve said it!
nas
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Post by nas on Jan 22, 2021 2:20:35 GMT
yesterday, January 20th, the following posts appeared:yesterday at 12:50pm bobinvalencia said (in the “1mm” thread): So does the title of this episode refer to how close Gibbs got to killing McGee? I was thinking that nicking the femoral artery was a mistake on sharpshooter Gibbs part, but maybe he knew he couldn't stop McGee without it?and llyan replied :
I think you're right although it isn't uncommon for episode titles to have dual meanings. As for the nicking the femoral artery, there's only so much even a skilled sharpshooter can do. McGee stumbles in just the right (wrong?) direction or the wind picks up at the wrong time would be enough to change a perfect shot to something that nicks the femoral artery.
oh my dear llyan, you are sooo good at rationalizing & defending the actions of the characters and questionable situations of NCIS... 
you really are a true-blue fan!
you missed your calling - I think you would make an excellent Defense Attorney! 😉
nas
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Post by llyan on Jan 22, 2021 13:56:53 GMT
yesterday, January 20th, the following posts appeared:yesterday at 12:50pm bobinvalencia said (in the “1mm” thread): So does the title of this episode refer to how close Gibbs got to killing McGee? I was thinking that nicking the femoral artery was a mistake on sharpshooter Gibbs part, but maybe he knew he couldn't stop McGee without it?and llyan replied :
I think you're right although it isn't uncommon for episode titles to have dual meanings. As for the nicking the femoral artery, there's only so much even a skilled sharpshooter can do. McGee stumbles in just the right (wrong?) direction or the wind picks up at the wrong time would be enough to change a perfect shot to something that nicks the femoral artery.
oh my dear llyan, you are sooo good at rationalizing & defending the actions of the characters and questionable situations of NCIS...
you really are a true-blue fan!
you missed your calling - I think you would make an excellent Defense Attorney! 😉
nas
Hindsight is always 20/20 right? Could Gibbs have kept shooting until McGee stopped or the plane blew up? Possibly. But Gibbs had no idea when the plane was going to blow. For all he knew, someone was waiting to push a button when Tim (posing as Fornell) got close to the plane.
What if Tim didn't retreat even with Gibbs firing at him (and missing) repeatedly? It is television, but Gibbs would have run out of bullets eventually. They all thought that Bishop was in the plane. Gibbs knew McGee would do whatever he could to try to save her, even run through a hail of bullets. And without a way for anyone to tell Tim that Bishop wasn't in the plane, he would have kept going. (And before you say they could have called his phone, McGee was standing by an airplane with its engines running so chances are that McGee wouldn't have heard the call.)
Gibbs had no idea when the plane was going to blow. For all he knew, someone was waiting to push a button when Tim (posing as Fornell) got close to the plane. They all thought that Bishop was in the plane and that her life was in immediate danger. Gibbs knew McGee would do whatever he could to try to save her, even run through a hail of bullets.
And Gibbs has proved time and again that he isn't perfect even though his agents (and some fans) tend to think that he is. And this isn't the first time he shot one of his friends. He shot Fornell in the ass not too long ago.
I agree with you that it was a terrible decision, but it's the one that the writer's made. It's interesting from a story perspective and I'm interested to see where this goes. I'll determine if I like the outcome once we get there. 
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Post by nas on Jan 22, 2021 21:48:28 GMT
good job, “Counselor”! 
your critical thinking assures that there will be consequences [for Gibbs’ actions] in the future and guarantees future episodes...
whereas my version would make the episodes about 10 minutes long - including commercials - and the show wouldn’t make it into the next season... 
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Post by Hari Seldon on Jan 24, 2021 16:01:36 GMT
All of this about Gibbs, and McGee gets a free pass? He'd been communicating all along with Gibbs and Vance, then suddenly nobody is answering him. He had the plane stopped, it was in no immediate danger of taking off, and charging the plane just increased the chances of Bishop being killed (if she'd actually been in the plane). When the shots started, he should have been able to figure out a rough direction of their origin and realized they were coming from the tower where he had dropped off Gibbs.
But my biggest problem is the double explosion. There is no way that huge initial explosion left the fuel tanks intact, they would have been part of the first explosion. On top of that, the second explosion came right on cue when Gibbs said there would be one as if it was just waiting for him to point that out.
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Post by verdun on Jan 24, 2021 19:40:51 GMT
First a Jarhead, then a sniper, next a super agent. Now a prophet. Gotta love my man Gibbs. :-)
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Post by nas on Jan 24, 2021 19:56:54 GMT
I also thought about McGee wondering about the shots being fired at him, Hari, but I decided not to add an edit/eta to my original post...
my thought was: wouldn’t McGee wonder where those shots were coming from or think “Wow, whoever is shooting at me is a lousy shot!”
then again, one could rationalize that when you’re being shot at you don’t stop to think which direction the bullets are coming from...(defense theory, a la llyan 😉)
re the double explosion:
you know how much the NCIS writers ❤️❤️❤️ explosions...
so why stop at one, when you can make an even bigger second one?
nas
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