Some things in life are a sure thing. Birds gonna sing, fish gonna swim and pigs don’t fly. Another certainty… NCIS’s Leroy Jethro Gibbs is the rock upon which a team is built…until now.
When Gibbs (Mark Harmon) told McGee (Sean Murray), Bishop (Emily Wickersham) and Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) that he murdered Pedro Hernandez, the man who killed Gibbs’s family, that rock…that immovable foundation…suddenly was less stable. The team knows it, and even worse, Gibbs knows they know it. When a war hero who has returned to the States is murdered, NCIS is called to investigate the death. But Gibbs seems distracted, spotting something of interest that nobody else is noticing.
Maybe it is a residual experience of “Judge” Mike Farrell’s Star Chamber turn during the past two weeks, in which Gibbs is forced to revisit his family’s death. Or maybe his revenge killing of Hernandez has become too much weight, or the guilt he feels after telling the team is overwhelming. Or maybe it is something else…
Regardless of the reason, Gibbs is on a downward spiral. So much so that he starts to unravel and walks away from a crime scene, leaving the team in shock. Even more of a surprise, Gibbs accepts help from a therapist, Dr. Grace Confalone (returning guest star, Laura San Giacomo). When GHOSTBUSTERS posed the eternal question, “What’s next?” Bill Murray ad-libbed, “Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!” All of those seem more probable than Gibbs agreeing to therapy.
Could the problem have anything to do with the redheads in the photo array above? Or maybe pigs have learned how to fly…
Tonight’s episode of NCIS, “Lost Time,” was written by Frank Cardea & Scott Williams with a teleplay by Scott Williams. “Lost Time” was directed by Diana Valentine. NCIS airs tonight (May 14) at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on CBS in the U.S. and on Global TV in Canada.
