Crime Drama TV

I am a big fan of NCIS. I’ve always had a bit of a crush on Mark Harmon (going back to his days on St. Elsewhere), so it was obvious that I’d watch the show when it first aired. It is Abby, however, who steals the show. Abby cracks me up.

Now I have caught my children’s chest cold, so I am sorry to say I started drifting towards the end, but my husband filled me in on what I missed.

Last night’s episode revolved around a realtor showing a house that had just been built. She goes to demonstrate the remote controlled fireplace (pretty cool I think) and discovers the body of a dead man in a chair. NCIS is called in. The body belongs to a missing Navy man. Ducky and his assistant determine he’s been dead for about three months. It coincides with the man’s disappearance.

Soon they discover that the guy was not the most scrupulous in the world - he has two fiancees. He owes money to both. A cat fight ensues (much to Tony’s delight) and each team of agents is assigned to find out more about the fiancees and this casanova.

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So the agents start delving into the guy’s background and looking into the girlfriends’ backgrounds. They find the DNA of two women on the guy, one fiance offers her DNA sample, the other will not. The first fiancee matches the bodily secretions found on the man. The other is a woman’s and they assume it will be the other fiancee’s.

One winds up getting shot (or shoots herself, they aren’t sure) and the case heats up. Probie happens to have gotten her blood on his shirt, so they now have the DNA sample they need. Unfortunately, it is not a match. There is another woman somewhere.

Ziva finds that the guy owned a storage locker in another town. She and Probie (I can never remember his name when I consciously try to think of it) head out to search the locker and find nothing. The locker is empty. Until Ziva looks up and there is a bag tied to the ceiling. Inside the bag - a load of gold coins.
Meanwhile they search the house where his body was found after finding insulation fibers in his nose. They pull up floor boards and find a blood stain on one of the beams.

Now I’m afraid I’m at the point where I would start closing my eyes during ads (never a good idea!) Focus turned to the realtor after it was determined that it was her DNA. She was in the bone marrow donor registry. They go to bring her in for questioning.

She admits she was having an affair with the Navy guy. He fell and hit his head and was knocked unconscious.

Meanwhile, her husband clued in to her affair and saw her leave. He goes in, finds the body, and buries it. (Now this is what my husband says happened, he can be pretty vague at times, so I’m hoping I didn’t miss anything else.)

The problem was the guy wasn’t dead so he wound up suffocating to death while underground. The husband is guilty of his murder in actuality. The show ends with a third fiancee showing up…

Again, I had an issue staying awake for the last 15 to 20 minutes. So I’m going by what my husband informs me occured. Some aspects still don’t make sense to me though. Did the fiancee shoot herself or did someone else? Why didn’t the hubby check for a pulse or did he mean to kill him?