Post by Llyan (Admin) on Feb 11, 2017 3:11:41 GMT
Better Angels (XI: VII)
W. Gina Lucita Monreal
D. Tony Wharmby
OAD: 11.5.13
OK. Gonna get my gripe out of the way right up front so there's no mistake about it. Get ready - it's a big one.
CHRISTMAS COMMERCIALS! 3 of them.
1 for Glade scented candles.
2 for Lincoln Motor Car.
It was November 5th for heavens sake.
I love Christmas but it's too danged early!
As for the episode: I loved it. I don't like when McNozzo behave like jerks to each other but they're guys with alpha male testosterone issues so I got over it because THEY got over it and got back to knowing what's important in life.
They got the job done and their innate friendship back on track.
PHOOFS:
COLD/TEASER: Gibbs
ACT I: Tony & Tim
ACT II: Jackson
ACT III: Gibbs
ACT IV: Gibbs
MOVIES:
Beaches
McNickname:
McTective
COLD OPEN:
* I liked that the episode began with the team a the crime scene rather than with the murder.
* I'm losing my touch. I should have caught that something was fishy - 2 suits for $100. Even at Sears they're more than that.
* Victim shot twice. Marine Sgt Michael Dawson
* Gibbs get a call from "Dad" - doesn't pick up.
* Owner of shop is "Mr Spiffy" - seems about to get sick as he gives Tony a non-description description of the robber/killer - tall and wearing a mask which matches description of suspect of other recent robberies in the area. He was going to give the guy the money when Dawson intervened.
* McGee appears to be having a bad day - is rather testy.
* Call from "Dad" again only it's not dad. Cop in Howard County. Jack being detained and is agitated.
TEASER:
* Gibbs gone so Tony & Tim are on their own.
* Both are behaving badly, in my opinion.
I really do believe that a lot of stuff that Tony says is done specifically to rile up Tim and Tim, somehow even after all these years just doesn't realize it.
* What I don't get is where this behavior came from. They've been good with each other since Tony returned and out of the blue they've taken a lot of steps backwards. I don't like it. Teasing one another is one thing but when they get sharp and pointedly mean with one another it bothers me. I'm such a girl.
* Note to McGee. If there is food in a community frig and it's not yours: YOU DON'T EAT IT! You were in college, lived in a dorm so you have to know this.
* Tim, without using the word, accuses Tony of being a bully. Hurt Tony drops a box of hard copy files on Tim's desk and tells him to go through them to see if there's a connection between this case and the other robberies. (Wonder if he still has that box of band aids Gibbs gave him back in Power Down?)
* Well yeah, McGee. Tony, unless/until Gibbs says otherwise would take point on the case in Gibbs absence.
* Howard County police station.
Gibbs arrives to get Jack and thanks the officer who called him. Jack almost manic to get going.
What happened?
Jack says he pulled off for gas but station closed. Switched from his driving (distance) glasses to reading glasses (forgot to switch back) and hit a parked car.
Cop took his license.
Jack headed to Eden, North Carolina to visit an old war buddy who needs to see him before he dies.
* Gibbs aware of the man, Walter Beck - Jack told him the story when he was a little kid (age 7).
* Shakes head. Gibbs can really be clueless sometimes. How could this man who is so adept at reading people be so totally unable to read his own father?
I kind of growled when "Leroy" said he needed to get back to work and would have "someone" drive Jack to see Walter. Even after he agrees to take his dad to see Walter the look on his face is one of annoyance.
C'mon Gibbs. You were a Marine (always will be, right?) and you don't get the urgency of this need?
ACT I:
* Abby-ville.
YAY! An honest to goodness Abby/Tony scene and one where she actually was willing to talk to him about the case.
But 1st...
* OK, I admit it. I want one. A Gibbs Box with his "catch phrases". (Hear that CBS? Please sell them on your website).
#1: Waddaya got, Abs?
#2: In English
Tony gives the big red button a try and - nothing happens. Awww, it's already broken.
Or is it?
Nope.
# 3 is when Gibbs just gives his stare.
#4: Abbs, the case.
And she reports on the case to Tony.
* Gun used to kill Dawson a Glock 17. 9mm.
Suspect in other robberies used a semi-automatic and never fired it.
Inconsistency with the Metro cases.
* While Tony's still in Abby-ville Gibbs calls in.
McGee calls and Tony was going to wait to take it but Gibbs has him patch him through for a 3-way.
McGee jumps right in before Tony can tell him that Gibbs is on the line.
Tony: McGee.
Tim: Yeah. I finished the work you're too good for, Boss.
Gibbs: Great.
Tim: Boss?
Tony: You're on with both of us, Tim.
Tim: OK. I did not know that.
* Tim discusses creating an algorithm to try to connect the Metro cases to this one so Gibbs gives Tim "point" so he immediately assigns Tony to talk to Dawson's mother who wants insurance money information.
* Jack & Leroy.
Leroy behaving badly toward his dad. Can't simply support him even seeing the man is in distress. Didn't you learn from him opening up to you about having to kill a young robber in his store? All Gibbs seems to be able to see is that his dad interrupted his work.
* Jack talks about being lost when he was a pilot during the war. Plane was shot up. Compass out. No ammo. (he remembers back).
* Love the use of the Heartland & Faith music for father & son.
* NCIS.
Tony talks to Dawson's mom in conference room.
I suspected she was involved somehow due to her her focus on the death benefit money. Yes, she seemed distraught over his death but the money talk rubbed me the wrong way.
She didn't know he was on leave but she knew he was in the middle of something.
* Gibbs Diner.
Lots of good in this scene - only thing missing was Hank Williams on the jukebox.
Great to see Elaine (the waitress) again. She, like "Mary Richards", has spunk.
Thought is was great that Leroy used her to get Jack to eat. Crafty.
I did get Jack's need to keep moving forward. When you're pulled to go, you just want to keep moving.
Regarding eating.
G: When you order food here and you don't eat it, this waitress, she takes it personally. I've seen her cry.
Loved her overhearing this.
* Walter hadn't been in touch with Jack for years until Jack got a letter from him a few days ago. Said "Soon I'll be headed up to the Blue Sky.
Metaphor for heaven?
Time will tell.
* Bit of a fib from Gibbs. He DOES use 2 words and expect, not just his dad, to fill in the rest.
* Love when Elaine brought their club sandwiches Gibbs the Younger crinkled at her and loved how she gave Gibbs the Elder a pointed look that made him get to eating.
* Observation room with nothing to observe on the other side of the glass.
Tim working on his algorithm. Tony's mood has improved. Tim appears frustrated. His efforts aren't paying off.
Came to the Observation room because he needed some "alone time".
Tony: Hmmm, let me guess. The algorithm that got you point is giving you nothing and now you're scrambling to make it work before I call you out on it.
Tim: No. (me thinks he fibs - )
* Tony being the worker bee rather than the "on point" bee pays off with a lead.
My own "hmmm".
Maybe Gibbs realized that Tim would be focused on the techie side of things and wanted Tony in the field to do the leg work.
8:57am the day of the murder/attempted murder.
DiNozzo found something that makes it unlikely that this case is related to the others.
SUV on camera that might have been following Dawson.
Discounted until Tony provides 2 more traffic cameras that show the same SUV.
ACT II:
* Bullpen.
Tony, sitting feet up at Tim's desk. He's talking to someone on the phone about the innards of a jet pack.
Tim's obviously annoyed that the person at DoD Tony is talking to is Delilah and offers up a new insult - Delilah's friends have been shown a picture of Tony and they all think his head is too big.
Tim is still the lead but Tony thinks after his algorithm failure that he's on point now.
T&T in tandem:
Update!
Go!
What!?
And Finally the two stop behaving like the testosterone fueled men that they are and decide to work together.
* Case update for the viewer.
Tony:
Dawson in middle of 7 day leave.
Targeted for unknown reasons.
BOLO out on the SUV.
Tim:
Dawson in trouble when he was younger - possession of pain killers.
Says they should create a spread sheet of known friends and associates.
* Dawson was working for Defense Clandestine Services (DCS) despite his being an Auto Mechanic for the Corps.
Both men start to call the DCS. Tony defers to Tim.
* Gibbs & Gibbs.
North Carolina.
Walter's house. He's not there.
(How in the world did they get to NC that quick?)
Text from McGee to Gibbs that it appears that Dawson was targeted.
Memory brought on by back yard windmill.
Loved the transition from windmill to plane engines.
Plane comes up alongside Jack's plane and the pilot gestures to Jack to follow him.
He was flying in the wrong direction.
* NCIS Conference room.
T&T talk with Karen Fox of the DCS.
Suspects Dawson might be using again due to behavioral changes.
* Abby-ville (w/ Tony & Tim)
Wrong. Per toxicology report he was clean.
He was a Code Talker. Mom from an area of Africa that has a dying language - Djala (sp). Used by a terror group to communicate. Mom speaks it and so did Dawson.
Tony questions her source. Someone at the DoD. Who? She hesitates and McGee realizes who - Delilah.
He doesn't seem to like this.
Personally, I'm delighted. No jealous Abby.
EDIT: Thank you Robert for finding the correct spelling of Djala.
* Fox and the DCS are now suspects. Time to update Gibbs which has him shutting down his father's quest and pretty much dragging the older man to his truck.
I think Gibbs was looking for an excuse to put the kibosh on this trip and now he had it.
Jack agitated and I completely understand. WWII vets are dying off and this really could be his only chance to talk to his friend.
I expected more from "Gunny Gibbs" than patronizing indulgence.
Jack was right, Leroy was wrong.
What happened to "you do what you have to do for family?"
Don't blame Jack a bit for telling Leroy to take him home.
ACT III:
* Tony & Tim having "breakfast" at Gibbs diner. Tim says he got nowhere with the contacts spreadsheet. Tony got nowhere with the BOLO.
Enter Gibbs - he got the file he needed from DCS. Only one copy that he's keeping - makes T&T go to DCS to read one there.
Tony leaves and Gibbs has a chat with McGee concerning his father - no Walter Beck in Jack's squadron.
* Finally an appearance by Ducky.
Gibbs goes to him to discuss his father.
Ducky can recall when he and his mother reversed roles.
Gibbs feels he's his father's parent.
G: It's backwards.
D: Certainly feels like that. But in the end, it's simply life.
* Gibbs jumps to conclusion that his father is lying to him about Walter.
* Missing piece falls into place.
Either Jack didn't include this when he told his 7 year old son the story or 7 year old Leroy forgot part of the story.
Walter was a German pilot.
Gibbs incredulous. He says that's the most important part of the story. Jack sets him straight.
Jack: No. The most important thing was that we were both flyers. We were brothers up there. We were the same. We were all the same. But we keep fighting each other.
Walter told he saved me that day because he wanted to remind himself who he was. He's dying and all he can see are the people he killed over ideas that weren't even his. He can't forgive himself.
Leroy: That's not an easy thing to do, dad.
Jack: I really wanted you to meet him.
Relief. Gibbs finally actually wanting to help.
* Gibbs called someone on phone but who?
Next morning, in the office he's talking to Abby on phone. T&T just arriving from DCS.
Has Abby check for the ambulance.
* T&T have worked things out between them. Pulling the all-nighter helped. (As I suspect was Gibbs plan).
Dawson was uneasy due to still having family in Africa - breaking the code in their language could have but them in danger.
He broke the code and probably prevented 2-3 terror attacks.
Our guys, after they got what they needed at DCS watched Beaches together.
* Gibbs found something on the spreadsheet that McGee missed. Only 2 contacts called him at work. Mom and someone named Aaron Connolly - has record. DUI - in a friend's SUV. Same one that was on the traffic cameras.
* Aaron's place.
He comes barreling out of a closet and mows down McGee as he opens the door. Gibbs pulls him off. Says he didn't want Michael [Dawson] dead.
EDIT: Thanks to those who pointed out that it was Tony who pulled him off of Tim.
ACT IV:
* Observation room.
Tony asks if Tim is OK.
No murder weapon found.
* Gibbs questions Aaron. Was using pot laced with PCP.
Case moves faster now. Dawson was his NA sponsor - had been using heroin. He called Dawson who took his stash and then went to confront his dealer. Mr. "Spiffy".
* Tony & Tim go to search his shop. While Tim restrains "Spiffy" Tony searches a locked drawer under a sunglasses display. Lots of heroine. Under one of the bags - a Glock 17, 9mm. Busted.
* Abby found the ambulance company. Walter taken to a Hospice.
Might be a clue in the letter he wrote to Jack but hard to tell because it was all written in UPPER CASE PRINTING.
* Blue Sky isn't a metaphor for heaven - it's the hospice.
* Didn't expect that. Gibbs invites his father to come and live with him. Jack not ready - maybe "when I start getting old".
Leroy asks his dad why he wants him to meet Walter. He's about to find out.
* Beautiful scene.
Walter: Jack Gibbs. You came.
The two men hug as Jack remembers arriving back in safe territory. With a two finger salute, Walter veers off and flies away.
(Jack's call sign: Golden Eagle 4)
Walter: You got my letter.
* Jack introduces him to his son.
J: Nothing can make up for the lives we took. We both know that.
The look on Walter's face was heartbreaking.
But what you did was more than you know. You made my boy possible, Walter. And he helps people. He's a good man - looks straight into his son's eyes - he's the best person I know.
What a gift for a son to receive from his father.
Walter takes Jack's hand.
Walter: Jack. Thank you. Thank you.
The two repeat their two finger salute given all those years ago.
* Leroy finally understands and father and son share a poignant look.
W. Gina Lucita Monreal
D. Tony Wharmby
OAD: 11.5.13
OK. Gonna get my gripe out of the way right up front so there's no mistake about it. Get ready - it's a big one.
CHRISTMAS COMMERCIALS! 3 of them.
1 for Glade scented candles.
2 for Lincoln Motor Car.
It was November 5th for heavens sake.
I love Christmas but it's too danged early!
As for the episode: I loved it. I don't like when McNozzo behave like jerks to each other but they're guys with alpha male testosterone issues so I got over it because THEY got over it and got back to knowing what's important in life.
They got the job done and their innate friendship back on track.
PHOOFS:
COLD/TEASER: Gibbs
ACT I: Tony & Tim
ACT II: Jackson
ACT III: Gibbs
ACT IV: Gibbs
MOVIES:
Beaches
McNickname:
McTective
COLD OPEN:
* I liked that the episode began with the team a the crime scene rather than with the murder.
* I'm losing my touch. I should have caught that something was fishy - 2 suits for $100. Even at Sears they're more than that.
* Victim shot twice. Marine Sgt Michael Dawson
* Gibbs get a call from "Dad" - doesn't pick up.
* Owner of shop is "Mr Spiffy" - seems about to get sick as he gives Tony a non-description description of the robber/killer - tall and wearing a mask which matches description of suspect of other recent robberies in the area. He was going to give the guy the money when Dawson intervened.
* McGee appears to be having a bad day - is rather testy.
* Call from "Dad" again only it's not dad. Cop in Howard County. Jack being detained and is agitated.
TEASER:
* Gibbs gone so Tony & Tim are on their own.
* Both are behaving badly, in my opinion.
I really do believe that a lot of stuff that Tony says is done specifically to rile up Tim and Tim, somehow even after all these years just doesn't realize it.
* What I don't get is where this behavior came from. They've been good with each other since Tony returned and out of the blue they've taken a lot of steps backwards. I don't like it. Teasing one another is one thing but when they get sharp and pointedly mean with one another it bothers me. I'm such a girl.
* Note to McGee. If there is food in a community frig and it's not yours: YOU DON'T EAT IT! You were in college, lived in a dorm so you have to know this.
* Tim, without using the word, accuses Tony of being a bully. Hurt Tony drops a box of hard copy files on Tim's desk and tells him to go through them to see if there's a connection between this case and the other robberies. (Wonder if he still has that box of band aids Gibbs gave him back in Power Down?)
* Well yeah, McGee. Tony, unless/until Gibbs says otherwise would take point on the case in Gibbs absence.
* Howard County police station.
Gibbs arrives to get Jack and thanks the officer who called him. Jack almost manic to get going.
What happened?
Jack says he pulled off for gas but station closed. Switched from his driving (distance) glasses to reading glasses (forgot to switch back) and hit a parked car.
Cop took his license.
Jack headed to Eden, North Carolina to visit an old war buddy who needs to see him before he dies.
* Gibbs aware of the man, Walter Beck - Jack told him the story when he was a little kid (age 7).
* Shakes head. Gibbs can really be clueless sometimes. How could this man who is so adept at reading people be so totally unable to read his own father?
I kind of growled when "Leroy" said he needed to get back to work and would have "someone" drive Jack to see Walter. Even after he agrees to take his dad to see Walter the look on his face is one of annoyance.
C'mon Gibbs. You were a Marine (always will be, right?) and you don't get the urgency of this need?
ACT I:
* Abby-ville.
YAY! An honest to goodness Abby/Tony scene and one where she actually was willing to talk to him about the case.
But 1st...
* OK, I admit it. I want one. A Gibbs Box with his "catch phrases". (Hear that CBS? Please sell them on your website).
#1: Waddaya got, Abs?
#2: In English
Tony gives the big red button a try and - nothing happens. Awww, it's already broken.
Or is it?
Nope.
# 3 is when Gibbs just gives his stare.
#4: Abbs, the case.
And she reports on the case to Tony.
* Gun used to kill Dawson a Glock 17. 9mm.
Suspect in other robberies used a semi-automatic and never fired it.
Inconsistency with the Metro cases.
* While Tony's still in Abby-ville Gibbs calls in.
McGee calls and Tony was going to wait to take it but Gibbs has him patch him through for a 3-way.
McGee jumps right in before Tony can tell him that Gibbs is on the line.
Tony: McGee.
Tim: Yeah. I finished the work you're too good for, Boss.
Gibbs: Great.
Tim: Boss?
Tony: You're on with both of us, Tim.
Tim: OK. I did not know that.
* Tim discusses creating an algorithm to try to connect the Metro cases to this one so Gibbs gives Tim "point" so he immediately assigns Tony to talk to Dawson's mother who wants insurance money information.
* Jack & Leroy.
Leroy behaving badly toward his dad. Can't simply support him even seeing the man is in distress. Didn't you learn from him opening up to you about having to kill a young robber in his store? All Gibbs seems to be able to see is that his dad interrupted his work.
* Jack talks about being lost when he was a pilot during the war. Plane was shot up. Compass out. No ammo. (he remembers back).
* Love the use of the Heartland & Faith music for father & son.
* NCIS.
Tony talks to Dawson's mom in conference room.
I suspected she was involved somehow due to her her focus on the death benefit money. Yes, she seemed distraught over his death but the money talk rubbed me the wrong way.
She didn't know he was on leave but she knew he was in the middle of something.
* Gibbs Diner.
Lots of good in this scene - only thing missing was Hank Williams on the jukebox.
Great to see Elaine (the waitress) again. She, like "Mary Richards", has spunk.
Thought is was great that Leroy used her to get Jack to eat. Crafty.
I did get Jack's need to keep moving forward. When you're pulled to go, you just want to keep moving.
Regarding eating.
G: When you order food here and you don't eat it, this waitress, she takes it personally. I've seen her cry.
Loved her overhearing this.
* Walter hadn't been in touch with Jack for years until Jack got a letter from him a few days ago. Said "Soon I'll be headed up to the Blue Sky.
Metaphor for heaven?
Time will tell.
* Bit of a fib from Gibbs. He DOES use 2 words and expect, not just his dad, to fill in the rest.
* Love when Elaine brought their club sandwiches Gibbs the Younger crinkled at her and loved how she gave Gibbs the Elder a pointed look that made him get to eating.
* Observation room with nothing to observe on the other side of the glass.
Tim working on his algorithm. Tony's mood has improved. Tim appears frustrated. His efforts aren't paying off.
Came to the Observation room because he needed some "alone time".
Tony: Hmmm, let me guess. The algorithm that got you point is giving you nothing and now you're scrambling to make it work before I call you out on it.
Tim: No. (me thinks he fibs - )
* Tony being the worker bee rather than the "on point" bee pays off with a lead.
My own "hmmm".
Maybe Gibbs realized that Tim would be focused on the techie side of things and wanted Tony in the field to do the leg work.
8:57am the day of the murder/attempted murder.
DiNozzo found something that makes it unlikely that this case is related to the others.
SUV on camera that might have been following Dawson.
Discounted until Tony provides 2 more traffic cameras that show the same SUV.
ACT II:
* Bullpen.
Tony, sitting feet up at Tim's desk. He's talking to someone on the phone about the innards of a jet pack.
Tim's obviously annoyed that the person at DoD Tony is talking to is Delilah and offers up a new insult - Delilah's friends have been shown a picture of Tony and they all think his head is too big.
Tim is still the lead but Tony thinks after his algorithm failure that he's on point now.
T&T in tandem:
Update!
Go!
What!?
And Finally the two stop behaving like the testosterone fueled men that they are and decide to work together.
* Case update for the viewer.
Tony:
Dawson in middle of 7 day leave.
Targeted for unknown reasons.
BOLO out on the SUV.
Tim:
Dawson in trouble when he was younger - possession of pain killers.
Says they should create a spread sheet of known friends and associates.
* Dawson was working for Defense Clandestine Services (DCS) despite his being an Auto Mechanic for the Corps.
Both men start to call the DCS. Tony defers to Tim.
* Gibbs & Gibbs.
North Carolina.
Walter's house. He's not there.
(How in the world did they get to NC that quick?)
Text from McGee to Gibbs that it appears that Dawson was targeted.
Memory brought on by back yard windmill.
Loved the transition from windmill to plane engines.
Plane comes up alongside Jack's plane and the pilot gestures to Jack to follow him.
He was flying in the wrong direction.
* NCIS Conference room.
T&T talk with Karen Fox of the DCS.
Suspects Dawson might be using again due to behavioral changes.
* Abby-ville (w/ Tony & Tim)
Wrong. Per toxicology report he was clean.
He was a Code Talker. Mom from an area of Africa that has a dying language - Djala (sp). Used by a terror group to communicate. Mom speaks it and so did Dawson.
Tony questions her source. Someone at the DoD. Who? She hesitates and McGee realizes who - Delilah.
He doesn't seem to like this.
Personally, I'm delighted. No jealous Abby.
EDIT: Thank you Robert for finding the correct spelling of Djala.
* Fox and the DCS are now suspects. Time to update Gibbs which has him shutting down his father's quest and pretty much dragging the older man to his truck.
I think Gibbs was looking for an excuse to put the kibosh on this trip and now he had it.
Jack agitated and I completely understand. WWII vets are dying off and this really could be his only chance to talk to his friend.
I expected more from "Gunny Gibbs" than patronizing indulgence.
Jack was right, Leroy was wrong.
What happened to "you do what you have to do for family?"
Don't blame Jack a bit for telling Leroy to take him home.
ACT III:
* Tony & Tim having "breakfast" at Gibbs diner. Tim says he got nowhere with the contacts spreadsheet. Tony got nowhere with the BOLO.
Enter Gibbs - he got the file he needed from DCS. Only one copy that he's keeping - makes T&T go to DCS to read one there.
Tony leaves and Gibbs has a chat with McGee concerning his father - no Walter Beck in Jack's squadron.
* Finally an appearance by Ducky.
Gibbs goes to him to discuss his father.
Ducky can recall when he and his mother reversed roles.
Gibbs feels he's his father's parent.
G: It's backwards.
D: Certainly feels like that. But in the end, it's simply life.
* Gibbs jumps to conclusion that his father is lying to him about Walter.
* Missing piece falls into place.
Either Jack didn't include this when he told his 7 year old son the story or 7 year old Leroy forgot part of the story.
Walter was a German pilot.
Gibbs incredulous. He says that's the most important part of the story. Jack sets him straight.
Jack: No. The most important thing was that we were both flyers. We were brothers up there. We were the same. We were all the same. But we keep fighting each other.
Walter told he saved me that day because he wanted to remind himself who he was. He's dying and all he can see are the people he killed over ideas that weren't even his. He can't forgive himself.
Leroy: That's not an easy thing to do, dad.
Jack: I really wanted you to meet him.
Relief. Gibbs finally actually wanting to help.
* Gibbs called someone on phone but who?
Next morning, in the office he's talking to Abby on phone. T&T just arriving from DCS.
Has Abby check for the ambulance.
* T&T have worked things out between them. Pulling the all-nighter helped. (As I suspect was Gibbs plan).
Dawson was uneasy due to still having family in Africa - breaking the code in their language could have but them in danger.
He broke the code and probably prevented 2-3 terror attacks.
Our guys, after they got what they needed at DCS watched Beaches together.
* Gibbs found something on the spreadsheet that McGee missed. Only 2 contacts called him at work. Mom and someone named Aaron Connolly - has record. DUI - in a friend's SUV. Same one that was on the traffic cameras.
* Aaron's place.
He comes barreling out of a closet and mows down McGee as he opens the door. Gibbs pulls him off. Says he didn't want Michael [Dawson] dead.
EDIT: Thanks to those who pointed out that it was Tony who pulled him off of Tim.
ACT IV:
* Observation room.
Tony asks if Tim is OK.
No murder weapon found.
* Gibbs questions Aaron. Was using pot laced with PCP.
Case moves faster now. Dawson was his NA sponsor - had been using heroin. He called Dawson who took his stash and then went to confront his dealer. Mr. "Spiffy".
* Tony & Tim go to search his shop. While Tim restrains "Spiffy" Tony searches a locked drawer under a sunglasses display. Lots of heroine. Under one of the bags - a Glock 17, 9mm. Busted.
* Abby found the ambulance company. Walter taken to a Hospice.
Might be a clue in the letter he wrote to Jack but hard to tell because it was all written in UPPER CASE PRINTING.
* Blue Sky isn't a metaphor for heaven - it's the hospice.
* Didn't expect that. Gibbs invites his father to come and live with him. Jack not ready - maybe "when I start getting old".
Leroy asks his dad why he wants him to meet Walter. He's about to find out.
* Beautiful scene.
Walter: Jack Gibbs. You came.
The two men hug as Jack remembers arriving back in safe territory. With a two finger salute, Walter veers off and flies away.
(Jack's call sign: Golden Eagle 4)
Walter: You got my letter.
* Jack introduces him to his son.
J: Nothing can make up for the lives we took. We both know that.
The look on Walter's face was heartbreaking.
But what you did was more than you know. You made my boy possible, Walter. And he helps people. He's a good man - looks straight into his son's eyes - he's the best person I know.
What a gift for a son to receive from his father.
Walter takes Jack's hand.
Walter: Jack. Thank you. Thank you.
The two repeat their two finger salute given all those years ago.
* Leroy finally understands and father and son share a poignant look.
