Crime Drama TV

There were so many good shows on last night, but my DVD player was going to record the live five hours of Ghost Hunters, so I spent much of the night flipping between channels.

NCIS - I felt the whole Abby sequence was a let down. I got very sick of her twirling in her skirt. Seemed out of character to me. Anyway…

The case involved a Marine who had been shot in the neck and his daughter was kidnapped. He managed to stumble over to a neighbors. She, at first, thought he’d taken his Custer costume a little too seriously, but then realized he was injured. The team arrives and learn the daughter has been taken when the wife shows up asking if the girl is okay.

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Okay so, Tony, McGee and Ducky’s helper are all in a tizzy because Abby is Marilyn Monroe for the evening. The trio spend a lot of time with gaping mouths.

At the crime scene, McGee marks all the evidence only to find his markers get knocked over and the bullet casing disappears. They all laugh at him until something unseen brushes Tony’s foot. Turns out there is one of the robotic vacuums in the room under the chair and it picked up the evidence. There is a dead body in the living room, but he has no id.

Ziva questions witnesses and gets a description of the car seen leaving the scene. It smashed a pumpkin on the way out.

The wife shows up with her sister. Something seems odd and Gibbs picks up on it immediately. The wife is holding something back. He finally learns that the woman had an affair and paternity of the girl is questionable.

Meanwhile, Abby is able to pull part of a licence plate imprint from the pumpkin. They do a search and find the car had been reported stolen. Abby still has to identify the John Doe.

Gibbs, Tony and McGee head to the old boyfriend’s house and find the stolen car… part of the little girl’s halloween costume is in the trunk. They raid the house and are met by a beligerent vegetable (”NCIS- You guys can’t even spell it right”) who turns out to be a lawyer. They find the ex-beau and question him but he doesn’t know the girl is missing - he did not take her and the car is not his. He doesn’t know how it got there.

Ziva goes to inform the mother only to find she and her sister fled through the window.

Meanwhile, they learn that the John Doe is connected to the same law firm where the wife works. They realize that the girl must be at that law firm.

Upon arrival, they find the mother, her sister, and an unknown holding them at gunpoint. The guy demands the girl’s mother transfer money to three accounts. He tells her NCIS will never figure it out in time. They yell freeze, and the suspect shoots, but they are quicker. The sister points out that the girl is still missing.

After a full building sweep, Tony and Ziva find the girl. They call to the mother who immediately starts kicking the sister’s behind. Turns out she wasn’t a sister at all, she was in on the heist.