NCIS finally returns to our screens with the rest of the season that was started earlier this year that, mainly because I no doubt lack the considerably insight of the Channel Ten program schedulers, I have no idea why was halted. First off is Recoil, an episode that spotlights Ziva and gives her the chance to become involved in a killing in which she freezes - pretty similar to the majority of the rest of the team at some point in the past.
Once again this season is doing a "best of" NCIS but this time, as entertaining as the episode was (and it was), it's a little difficult to believe that Ziva, a trained assassin for the MOSSAD, should actually freeze when she is physically under threat, regardless of who is posing it (and let's face it, some two-bit naval Lt is hardly a great threat).
Certainly the most entertaining aspect of the episode was attempting to work out who the second killer was (and rather gratefully it didn't turn out to be the police officer who was investigating the original case, as so often seems to be the case on NCIS). That said, the actual character development of Ziva was quite nice, although the fact that she and Tony spent most of the episode at each other's throats was a little tedious and slightly hard to swallow.
Throughout the history of the programme, if ever somebody has been in that position, the rest of the team is usually extremely supportive of the person going through the process. This time, however, everyone is indifferent except for Tony who is openly antagonistic. It's not that it's a bad idea, it's just that it doesn't really fit with what we've seen so far.
That said, it's new NCIS and I don't really care because it's still a step up from the rest of the drivel on TV.
"B"
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