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Deception
Synopsis:
When a Commander in charge of a shipment of fuel rods for nuclear power stations disappears, the NCIS team is called in. The team must solve the case in time, before the person who kidnapped the Commander finds out the secret location of the fuel rods or harms the Lt. Commander.

Episode Recap:
NCIS receives a call on a Sunday morning from a woman claiming to be Lt. Comdr. Amanda Wilkerson stating she's been abducted & needs help. The rest of the team is called in but McGee is unreachable. (breaks Gibbs' Rule #3), Tony & Ziva are sent to her house to investigate, Abby is given the call tape to analyse. The house is incredibly tidy.

Tony and Ziva are surprised by the security guard, but in a comic scene where he tries to handcuff them to each other (because he does not believe they are law enforcement agents), they overpower him and they return to the office with Wilkerson's computer. Meanwhile, Gibbs has found out from Wilkerson's superior that the Lt. Cmdr was involved in the transport of nuclear materials and she was only one of three people who knew what route a shipment of fuel rods, on a freight train, would take. The train is stopped while they find out what has happened to Wilkerson.

Wilkerson was involved in the planning of the route, but not in the operation, so she was not at work when she was kidnapped. In fact, she had specifically requested that day off. Why?Abby calculates the team only has a short time (maybe twelve hours plus a bit) to find the Lt.Cmdr as she is in a car trunk with limited oxygen. Later, Ducky shortens the time by several hours after finding the Lt. Cmdr has been treated for bronchitis a few days previously.McGee turns up, to some teasing, especially he has a writer's pipe with him.

Abby says the computer, in contrast with the house, is incredibly messily organised. They find her scheduler program and Tony and Ziva rush to the place of her last known appointment, a mall, where they find her car, empty. Ziva succeeds in breaking into it where Tony fails. They find a camcorder with some dodgy material on it - about money and transport to a safe house. from the computer, the team discovers when they visit that Wilkerson did volunteer work at an organization which combats online paedophilia (by monitoring paedophiles) called PBJ meaning that her abductor may not have been a terrorist but a paedophile she was tracking. They speak with the manager, Ross Logan and find out that the previous night, Wilkerson had been at PBJ online chatting with a paedophile. The team take the relevant PBJ computer away. When the team listens to the recording again, and can hear the noise of the railroad, they are able to know where the call is made from (only one set of railway tracks is the right distance away). But it is going to take longer to search the area than Wilkerson has left in the boot. Fortunately there is CCTV of the railroad crossing, and a picture of a car passing at the right time, from which Tony can identify the make and model (a Mercedes 560) and Gibbs can work out the registration number. The team goes to interview to the owner, a Mr. Lafferty, who has reported the car stolen that morning and has not seen the car since the previous night. We see that he breeds fish.

Wilkerson's cell phone is used again and the team rush to its location to save her, but find two teenagers have the phone. Tony and Ziva interrogate the teens by threatening them and leaving so they can 'discuss their options'. However Tony leaves the speaker phone on his desk turned on, and he and Ziva overhear their deliberations enough to find out how they got the phone. The humour in this scene is brilliantly done. Meanwhile, McGee and Abby are trying to trace the paedophile with whom Wilkerson had been chatting, but it takes Gibbs to tell them that the recent events (car theft, use of the phone) narrow down the IP addresses of the computers. it turns out that the man is Lafferty. They rush over back to the house, but Lafferty has gone, and is unlikely to return because he has poisoned his pride and joy, his fish. We learn however, he cannot flee abroad, his passport has expired.

McGee interrogates the boy who sold the phone to the two teens, using his experiences as a teenage geek and the boy tells where he found the phone (the mall). So the team rush there.Back at the mall a balaclava-ed man is approaching an isolated parked car. It is Lafferty's Mercedes. he goes to open the boot and out comes Ziva with a gun. The rest of the team appears and they all surround the man.It turns out to be Ross Logan, the PBJ worker.

Logan's story is that PBJ's work is 100% surveillance, not confrontation of paedophiles. Therefore, when Logan found out Wilkerson was intending to meet Lafferty, he went along to check she was going to be OK, and then, when Lafferty ran off (without his car), Logan kidnapped her (this bit seems a bit contrived to me) initially he says to teach her a lesson and scare her into keeping to surveillance. So it was nothing to do with the nuclear fuel at all!The team admonish Logan, telling him that as a result of his actions Wilkerson has had to go to naval hospital. When he is interrogated about Lafferty, he then changes his story and admits he was trying to frame the paedophile.

The team wonder where Gibbs is, did he go home, or is he still pursuing Lafferty? and sure enough, he is looking at CCTV footage (at the airport?) and identifying Lafferty, who is arrested. The last frame shows Lafferty looking up into the CCTV camera.


New Character Development / Insights:
  • Ziva doesn't seem to know exactly what Pilates are (extensive stretching, not a martial art).
  • Ziva hates clowns.
  • Abby does wiring for Habitat for Humanity.
  • McGee did a little of Revenge of the Nerd on Geckler to make tell where he found the LTC's phone. He did this because he was a geek and was picked on a lot.
Funny Moments:

  • Abby's response when Gibbs tells her not to call him "sir".
  • "Nice suit, Boss. You didn't get married again did ya?" (Tony's reaction to seeing Gibbs in his Sunday best.)
  • Tony scaring the two teenagers into talking.
  • Ziva being able to break into the house and the car before Tony.
  • Ziva having to cuff herself to Tony in Amanda's house. (Especially as there is banter beforehand between them about bondage)
  • McGee's pipe.
  • Abby: "Here's a hint. I'm not one of the Village People."
  • Ziva enquiring as to whether Gibbs got married again: "Do you need an invitation Ms. David?" "Oh! You are getting married!"
  • Abby channels Dr. Seuss describing the noise heard on LTC Wilkerson's call to NCIS.
  • Gibbs facial reaction after tasting the Caf-Pow and then spitting it back into the cup.
Trivia:
  • At the LTC's house, Tony snaps his latex glove for effect - two of his fingers are in one finger of the glove.
  • Zac Efron (High School Musical) plays a young boy drinking in the woods while talking to girlfriend on stolen cell phone.
  • In the first scene in Abby's lab after Abby tells Gibbs everything she learned from the tape, Gibbs signs "I love you" to Abby right before he walks out.
  • Gibbs rules: rule #3 - Never be unreachable (contradicts #3 presented in Yankee White).
  • First time, we see Ducky in a golf suit when he came into the office and it was very nice.
Recurring Cast: Guest Starring:


Written By: Directed By:
  • Jack Bernstein
  • Leslie Libman




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