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Full Throttle is One You Won't Want to Miss!
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:22:26 +0000
In NCIS Los Angeles, a street race starts this episode. It is aptly named, Full Throttle. As two people are racing, one of the cars blows up. The spectators run, scared of being arrested for having an illegal race.
They realize that Rush's file, the guy that died, is encrypted.
In the meantime, Callum has to go to driving school, since he was caught speeding. He loathes being there, but finally graduates.
NCIS agents go to visit James' brother and sister to see if they can find any clues to his death. His brother says that “Tokkane” is the one that was racing James and he wouldn't be surprised if he is the one who killed James.
They find Timmons, Rush's commanding officer sneaking around Rush's garage with a device. He is close mouthed. He does finally admit to trying to receive a lithium battery that is worth a fortune – James was designing them. There is another battery that is missing.
They find Tokken's car on the expressway and try to stop him. In the meantime, they find out the insurance agent that met with Kinsey and Callum the first day they went to see the crushed car is not really an insurance agent. She is in the car when they stop it.
She admits that she loved James, she would never have wanted to kill him. She gives the name Stringer– so they investigate. They find an Omar Alvarez, the mechanic that works with James' cars. He admits that he sold it to Stringer.
They take him down and find the battery. He says that he didn't kill James Rush. They realize that Angela, his sister, killed him – she didn't know that what she did to his car would kill him she just wanted it to stop him.
Turns out that Callum failed traffic school.
Category: Television: NCIS: NCIS Los Angeles
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Double Identity is GREAT!
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:43:58 +0000
In Double Identity, a park ranger is at the park enjoying his donut, when he hears shots being fired in the park. He sees someone come out of the brush. The man is holding his chest / stomach area and there is blood coming out. He falls.
When NCIS arrives, they find a marine has been shot at the park. Lt. Mayne, the man that was shot, turns out that he was MIA years ago in Afghanistan. He is rushed to the hospital and they find his wife and have her ID him – visually. She says that it is him, she wants to know where he has been the last six years.
NCIS tries to locate his partners that were with him in Afghanistan. They recover the gun also and see that the wounds were not self inflicted. They find one partner, Matthew, and they question him. He said that another man, Captain Holcomb was with them. They question the Captain and something is not measuring up.
Meanwhile, Ducky is acting . . .different. The girls are a little worried.
At the hospital, another woman shows up and says that she is Mayne's wife – she met him 2 years ago.
They see that he has a lot of money in his bank account. They see that a private investigator has been investigating his account also and visit him.The investigator says that Holcomb hired him. They confront Holcomb and he says he saw Mayne's picture and thought it was him. Holcombe didn't call the police because he didn't want to dreg anything up with the Marine Corp again. Ducky realizes that Mayne's leg was not broken, when he autopsies Mayne's body.
NCIS calls in Matthew and ask him if he knows how Mayne got the billion dollars. He admits that the three of them found money and had Mayne stay with the cash while they got a truck. When they came back he was gone. Ziva sees that Mayne's first wife is involved with Holcomb.
Ziva realizes that Iger, the private investigator, has a clean car when he lies and says that he hasn't moved in three days. They think that he is somehow involved in it all. They take him down and he admits that he was trying to blackmail Mayne.
The NCIS investigators realize that Duckie's mother died and that is why he has been acting differently. He is also working with a younger woman to get a new brownstone in Georgetown.
Category: Television: NCIS
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Through a tunnel
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:10:11 +0000
I always thought about it, but never really thought it could be done, except perhaps in an F1 or Indy Car.
Go for a Ride! See the attached video.
Category: Video
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Episode Recap: Mother's Day 3/2/10
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:10:30 +0000
This episode begins, like most do, with a murder. Naval Captain Joseph Norton is fatally shot three times while walking with his new fiancee at night. Upon visiting the scene, the team discovers that the fiancee is Gibbs' former mother-in-law, Joann Fielding. This would be the mother of his first wife Shannon, and grandmother of his daughter, Kelly. Apparently, Gibbs and Joann haven't been in touch since the funeral of Shannon and Kelly. There is obvious tension and a sense of mistrust between the two.
Joann claims that Norton had just proposed to her, and she had put on the ring, when an assailant came up and shot Norton. She says she was standing behind him when the shooting occurred.
Meanwhile, Jimmy Palmer, Ducky's assistant, is excited about his upcoming date with an embalmer, and of course, DiNozzo takes the opportunity to make jokes.
Director Vance asks Gibbs to step aside from the investigation due to his personal connection with the main witness. As expected, Gibbs declined to back down, but assures the director that he will remove himself from the case if he senses his own feelings getting in the way. The director grudgingly allows this.
Joann sits down with a sketch artist to create a picture of the assailant. Once complete, Gibbs realizes that the face Joann described is that of Kyle Buckley, who Gibbs went to high school with, and who had died in a car accident 3 years earlier. This leads to doubt that Joann saw the shooter.
Meanwhile, the rest of the team finds that Norton had been involved in some drug trade. Further, it was determined that Norton had some connection to the Rinosa cartel, which was the group that killed Shannon.
Suspicious evidence begins to mount on Joann. Abby finds that blood spatter patterns on her coat don't match where she said she was standing when the shots were fired: Behind Norton. Joann's phone records and financial records show phone calls to a Martin Hendrix in Nogales, AZ, and, over time, $28,000 in payments to him. DiNozzo and David travel to Arizona to find Hendrix. They find him, in his house, "baked to death" (Palmer).
Norton's phone was found, and had calls on it from Lt. David Shankton, who just happens to own the same model of gun used to kill Norton. In interview, Shankton reveals that not only did he serve in the Navy under Norton, but he had actually met him years earlier on a fishing expedition. Credit card records show both Norton and Shankton in the same city in Mexico 18 times, for which Shankton has no explanation other than coincidence. When asked about the gun, Shankton claims it was stolen recently. Realizing he's in trouble, Shankton tells DiNozzo and Gibbs he's being framed.
Gibbs comes to suspect that Joann had more to do with Norton's death than first appeared, but Joann won't tell him anything. She blames Gibbs for the deaths of Shannon and Kelly, because he should've been home to protect them. Gibbs asks attorney M. Alison Hart to take Joann as a client for her own protection; Hart agrees.
Ducky tells Gibbs that based on the blood splatter pattern, Joann not only wasn't standing behind Norton, she had to have been standing in front of him when he was shot. Ducky is certain Joann was the shooter.
Gibbs orders Lt. Shankton to remain in custody while Abby checks fibers on his coat against fibers under Joann's nails after reportedly struggled with the shooter. Gibbs then questions Joann in his basement. He offers his theory: Joann killed Norton because he was as close to the real killer of Shannon and Kelly as she could get, and she also framed Shankton. Thru flashback, it is revealed that Gibbs used his sharpshooting skills to kill the person who killed his family. Gibbs and Joann seem to come to an understanding, and Joann confesses that she did kill Norton, but thinks they can keep it just between the two of them.
Gibbs then proceeds to arrest Joann, but is interrupted by the appearance of Hart coming down into the basement. Hart names several laws that he's in violation of by questioning and arresting Joann in such a manner. Gibbs "gives in" and let Joann go, though it seems implied that this was his intention all along.
Gibbs returns to NCIS, and will let Shankton take the fall, rationalized by the fact that Shankton is a drug dealer, and deserves to do time. Director Vance follows up by stating, "Joann Fielding is no longer a suspect or person of interest in this investigation." He and Gibbs share a knowing look that implies that the director has an idea of the truth, but understands the circumstances and will let Shankton take the fall.
As David, DiNozzo, and McGee are leaving for the evening, Jimmy pops in with his date, and introduces her to everyone. To DiNozzo's dismay, she's both smart and hot.
Final scene: Gibbs burns Joann Fielding's file, with the incriminating information trying her to Norton's killing, in his fireplace.
Category: Television: NCIS
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Chinese sleepers/gay naval
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:14:18 +0000
In the recent episode the many twists left me stunned. The gay naval officer,Calvin Lee, was raised to be a sleeper agent for China but was refusing to steal the technology and information the Chinese wanted. His handler, "fiancee" Shun Lee, was sent over to verify and insure that the family, yes his entire family was involved, were still committed to the cause. She and other agents killed his boyfriend to convince Calvin to complete the task. Instead, his murder spurred Calvin to commit suicide, as traitors in the past had been killed, by hanging himself from a bridge rather than be a traitor to his country. In the end his mother is convinced to give pertinent information to the US government about other agents that could still be in the country, so that she can perhaps continue a life outside of prison.
What I really enjoyed about this episode is the psychiatrist acting as Kinsey's partner and getting outside of the office. This added comedy to the action and broke up the show enough to make you want to continue watching. Also, allowing some of the other characters to come to the foreground was a nice touch.
Category: Television: NCIS: NCIS Los Angeles
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