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Post by llyan on Oct 17, 2022 23:07:29 GMT
10/20/2022
WHEN AN NCIS AGENT TURNS UP DEAD AND KASIE GOES UNACCOUNTED FOR, THE TEAM MUST WORK QUICKLY TO TRACK THE KILLER, ON “NCIS,” MONDAY, OCT 24 “The Good Fighter” – When an NCIS agent turns up dead and Kasie goes unaccounted for, the team must work quickly to find the killer, on the CBS Original series NCIS, Monday, Oct 24 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network and available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+*. REGULAR CAST:Sean Murray (NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee) Wilmer Valderrama (NCIS Special Agent Nicholas “Nick” Torres) Brian Dietzen (Medical Examiner Jimmy Palmer) Diona Reasonover (Forensic Scientist Kasie Hines) Katrina Law (NCIS Special Agent Jessica Knight) Rocky Carroll (NCIS Director Leon Vance) Gary Cole (FBI Special Agent Alden Parker) GUEST CAST:Mark Atteberry (Medgar Nash) Amber Friendly (Eden Greyson) Menik Gooneratne (Diya Khatri) Damian Joseph Quinn (Travis Baltoni) KayKay Blaisdell (Gen Z Girl) Vonzell Carter (Instructor) WRITTEN BY: Kimberly-Rose Wolter DIRECTED BY: Jose Clemente Hernandez
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Post by llyan on Oct 18, 2022 2:08:53 GMT
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Post by Hari Seldon on Oct 22, 2022 0:53:15 GMT
If there's a mole at NCIS, I really want it to be Fred Savage.
And I want to see Vance struggle with it.
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Post by llyan on Oct 23, 2022 23:37:40 GMT
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Post by nas on Oct 25, 2022 6:43:12 GMT
the episode description was misleading; imo, Kasie never went “unaccounted for”…
don’t know why, but I thought the actor who played Travis Baltoni was just hilarious…
his brief appearance just cracked me up!  he delivered his lines beautifully…
the crime? meh…. 🫤
nas
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Post by brgjoe on Oct 25, 2022 8:04:55 GMT
Maybe I'm getting soft in my old age, but I kinda liked this one -- for the most part.
The interrogation twist with Kasie I thought was interesting. Didn't see that one coming for sure. But it does make sense -- no one would believe she's actually working UC. And we had a couple of throwback items in this episode too. "Abby's Lab for Dummies" (or something close to that) manual in the lab. And thought Palmer was hilarious in trying to read and operate the equipment using it. We also had a "McGeek" mention as well. I like when the writers do that sort of stuff. Makes me actually think they do care a bit about continuity. Heh.
A couple of things I didn't like. While it made some degree of sense to have Kasie doing some investigating since nobody would suspect her, I didn't think it made a huge degree of sense to be an operative crawling around in air vents. Oh and those vents sure looked a lot cleaner than most air vents I've seen in me life. She is a forensic scientist, not a undercover super spy. And that encounter she had in the server area was just dumb. You had trained NCIS agents listening and seeing everything that's going on. And one who has basically made a career out of being undercover. Yet not her or *any* of them would help her out trying to deal with millennial company employee. It's still laughable too that said millennial company employee wouldn't still call security or even another coworker at seeing some stranger in the server area she's never seen before.
Another gripe is that once again, I figured one of the two people Kasie was working with would be the baddie. Also, who was this Otis agent anyway? Has he ever been on screen before? Even talked about before? But we were supposed to believe our heroes were pretty close to him and that he would *never* be a bad dude or do anything bad. When we've never seen him before. Or at least, *I* have never seen or heard of the guy before.
Anyway, I still liked it. I gave it a B+. Maybe on a good day when everything is going right for me and I'm in a really nice mood, perhaps an A-. If nothing else, for a Kasie centric episode that was kinda good.
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Post by nas on Oct 25, 2022 20:34:50 GMT
this was a “Kasie-centric” episode, brgjoe, so this is the storyline they gave her…
imo, it didn’t make a whole lot of sense, either - but hey…
I used to like Diona Reasonover as Kasie more in the beginning, but lately her acting seems a tad overdone - even grates sometimes…
nas
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Post by Hari Seldon on Oct 26, 2022 2:52:41 GMT
And we had a couple of throwback items in this episode too. "Abby's Lab for Dummies" (or something close to that) manual in the lab. And thought Palmer was hilarious in trying to read and operate the equipment using it. We also had a "McGeek" mention as well. I like when the writers do that sort of stuff. Makes me actually think they do care a bit about continuity. Heh. |
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Post by pdsmith777 on Oct 26, 2022 16:05:20 GMT
"Also, who was this Otis agent anyway? Has he ever been on screen before? Even talked about before? But we were supposed to believe our heroes were pretty close to him and that he would *never* be a bad dude or do anything bad. When we've never seen him before. Or at least, *I* have never seen or heard of the guy before."
I recall last year, in the buildup to the season, someone in an interview mentioned they were planning to feature one of their background actors in an episode. I didn't watch the whole season last year, so I don't know if they followed through on that promise. If they didn't, this may have been when they did that. They have several extras/background actors who always work on the series, (notable exception would be during COVID when they would have had to drastically reduce the number of people on set). If that was the case, he got more screen time than I've ever had working on several series and movies here in Dallas. (Although I did get a couple of lines in a small independent movie a decade plus back.)
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Post by BobNOTinValencia on Oct 26, 2022 21:41:44 GMT
One thought about an earlier mention of a CLEAN air duct. This was going into/out of a server room, so I would expect it to have really good filtering on any air coming out, and, therefore, the air going out would be cleaner (as long as employees minded the rules, as Kasie pointed out to the airhead blonde.
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Post by verdun on Oct 27, 2022 2:16:37 GMT
As a rule, I don't like episodes that center around Kasie. Frankly, I've never particularly liked either the role or the actress. But this was a decent episode, despite its central figure. Nice to hear "McGeek" again and I did remember the talking bear from years ago. Found the premise of the case to be kind of stupid and I never did understand how the "baddie" got the allergic material tothe dead guy, but maybe I just missed that. So I guess my primary reaction is "seen better, seen worse."
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Post by Hari Seldon on Oct 27, 2022 2:21:26 GMT
One thought about an earlier mention of a CLEAN air duct. This was going into/out of a server room, so I would expect it to have really good filtering on any air coming out, and, therefore, the air going out would be cleaner (as long as employees minded the rules, as Kasie pointed out to the airhead blonde. |
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Post by nas on Oct 27, 2022 2:50:27 GMT
I agree about the case, verdun - and, nope, you didn’t miss anything…
they just caught the “baddie”, but didn’t bother to explain exactly how she got the “nice guy Otis” to ingest the sesame oil that he was allergic to…
as they often do, they just spent a minute towards the end of the episode having the team give a long, convoluted explanation to Leon as to why the killer committed the murder - and in this case the how apparently wasn’t important…
OR…
the writer just ran out of creatives juices! 😉
nas
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Post by mchnelson on Oct 28, 2022 9:48:17 GMT
I have (or had!) a piece of the stuffing from the original bear. It was brought to a Fan Fest and handed round, the bit of stuffing fell out and was on the chair, so I picked it up. Wasn’t the story that McGee’s dad had to trawl round the shops to find one and then Gibbs reminisced about how he got one for Kelly?
I still read about NCIS but haven’t seen an episode since the one after Gibbs left, not even the new Ducky ones have made me download them. I didn’t buy the DVD set either, not been to the US for three years due to Covid situation and my friend is now having health issues, so perhaps next year before I can head back across the pond.
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Post by verdun on Oct 28, 2022 19:22:56 GMT
I agree about the case, verdun - and, nope, you didn’t miss anything…
they just caught the “baddie”, but didn’t bother to explain exactly how she got the “nice guy Otis” to ingest the sesame oil that he was allergic to…
as they often do, they just spent a minute towards the end of the episode having the team give a long, convoluted explanation to Leon as to why the killer committed the murder - and in this case the how apparently wasn’t important…
OR…
the writer just ran out of creatives juices! 😉
nas Oh, good. I thought maybe the 3 of us (wife, grandson, and I) were all too stupid to catch how the sesame got to the guy. Bless you.  |
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he delivered his lines beautifully… 
