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NCIS
Legend ( part 2 )
Original Air Date: may 5th, 2009
Angelique – Associate Staff Writer
angelique@thetwocentscorp.com
This episode is the continuation of last weeks episode. Here is a link to that review if you would like to read that review as well.
Gibbs and McGee are still in LA working with the OSP team to find the terrorist cell who where trying to get weapons from ‘Liam’ the arms dealer who tried to kill a couple of agents but was killed himself when McGee warned the team. Callen has taken ‘Liam’s’ place, when his first client knocks on the door. Liam opens the door only to find none other than Michael Rivkin on the other side. Of course at that moment he has no idea who Michael is. In fact the only people who can identify him are in DC.
Michael Rivkin knows that ‘Liam’ isn’t who he says he is and first chance he gets he pulls a gun on Callen and asks him who he is. Since the room obviously is under surveillance Callens team members are inside the room within seconds. McGee identifies Michael and when Callen tells him that they know who he is and tells him that they are from NCIS. Michael says Ziva’s name because she can confirm who he is.
Gibbs asks Ziva and Tony to come to MTAC and asks Ziva to identify Michael. She tells him who he is and that he indeed is Mossad. Ziva however tells Gibbs that she hasn’t worked with Michael in a long time.
She might not have worked with him but he surely was in DC to meet with her. Later McGee finds out that Abby already logged a search on Michael Rivkin, but he doesn’t tell Gibbs about it. Maybe he wants to hear from Abby why she searched for him even before he was involved in their case.
Since Tony asked Abby to identify Michael he knew who he was, and he is surprised when Ziva identifies him. It turns out that both Mossad and NCIS are trying to stop the terrorist cell. Macy tells Michael that his job is done and that he has to leave the country.
The team is able to identify the other members of the terrorist cell and eventually capture them. Two members are killed by Michael who did not follow Macy’s advice and the other two are captured at a garage which was owned by one of the terrorists.
Gibbs is chasing after Michael when he follows his famous gut feeling while the rest of the team are either working on apprehending the terrorists or giving the team intel from the office. When he catches him he tells him that it is done and that he needs to go home. And that Ziva is working for him now. I don’t know what he wants to say with that, after all Ziva is her own person and what she does in her spare time is her own choice. Even though you can clearly see that being with Michael and lying to Gibbs, or at least withholding information is tearing her apart. When Michael is told once again to leave the USA Tony asks Abby to check on whereabouts. She tells him that indeed he boarded a plane to Tel Aviv but with a stopover in DC.
At the end we found out what happened between Macy and Gibbs all those years ago and that the truth was not quite what I, and a lot of people with me, expected. Eighteen years ago Macy was a young lieutenant with the military police. Gibbs back then was a gunnery sergeant who had lost his family and killed a Mexican drugs baron who was responsible for the death of his family. Macy was supposed to investigate the case. In the end she sat on the evidence which could have gotten Gibbs convicted. Something which Gibbs never knew, that is what Nate Getz tells Gibbs before he leaves LA.
Sam gives Callen a ride home and when they part he watches him as he walks down the street. When he wants to pull up a dark van barely avoids crashing into him, the van passes him and he sees a shooter aiming for Callen. Sam runs down the street but it is too late to warn his friend, he is shot by multiple bullets before the van drives off.
Okay, I am sold! Like I said last week if this is the new team for the NCIS spinoff then I am sold. I am watching it, I loved this episode well these two episodes. That is one strong new team. Yup I can see it happening. I want to watch the show!
You know the whole idea of spinoffs never really sat well with me. Because I am always afraid that they try to copy the original which will never work, in my opinion. People will watch the original if that is what they want to see. But these past years with lots of (crime)show spinoffs have learned me that a spinoff doesn’t have to be like the original. I mean originally NCIS started in JAG so it was a spinoff as well even though both shows focus on completely different things. Well if NCIS sticks with the death marines like they usually do and this new show focuses on undercover work then I think that you can watch both shows without comparing them to one another.
In fact what makes or brakes a good show is chemistry, and no I don’t mean the kind Abby conjures in her lab. I mean the one between people ‘Bones’ wouldn’t be as good if there wasn’t that much chemistry between Brennan and Booth. NCIS wouldn’t be as good if it wasn’t for the outstanding combination of characters and the dynamics between them. Criminal Minds wouldn’t be such a good show if the actors weren’t that good. It’s as simple as that, a story can be really good but if the actors have no chemistry they won’t be able to carry the story. This NCIS spinoff has already shown some nice chemistry between Nate and Macy and of course between Sam and Callen.
Are you just as enthusiast as I am? Or are you not seeing it? Will you watch it if this show really starts next season?
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