NCIS - season 1

I already knew both Mark Harmon and David McCallum. Harmon, I know, has made lots of things, so excuse me if I tell you that I remember him for The Presidio, the film with Sean Connery. I know, moving on. David McCallum I know for two things: first I knew him young in the 70s show Sapphire and Steel, where he played Steel, then in an episode of Babylon 5, don't remember which one right now, if I'll see it again I'll tell you :-)
All ncis episodes have the same structure: there's some kind of prologue, when usually a body is found, then the opening theme, then the team is being called and rushes at the crime scene, where they investigate, with Gibbs giving orders around, they follow every lead until after 40 minutes they get the right person.

ep 1 - Yankee white - It starts no less than with President Bush! I guess they wanted to show they're important and no kidding :-) A guy died on Air Force One, and the case in wanted by the special agency, the FBI and NCIS, till ncis steals the body :lol: In charge is Special Agent Gibbs (Mark Harmon), with Tony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly); at the end of this episode a job will be offered to former Secret Service Agent Kate Todd (Sasha Alexander).After Gibbs saves the President :-) without getting any credit for it (because our characters here are heroes, they don't do it for glory, they just do their job...yeah) we see him working in his basement on a wood boat , and also a woman picking him up on a fancy car.
Lines I liked: "Ncis, never heard of it" only because it was funny on a first episode; "Wow, Gibbs said please" , because it gives you right away the feeling of how strange that is :-)
Aside from the three special agents, there is also the lab technician Abby ((Pauley Perrete) and their ME, medical examiner, Ducky (David McCallum)
ep 2 - Hung up to dry - Kate is now with them, or Caitlin, her right name, but only Ducky calls her that.
A Marine's chute was sabotaged by another marine dealing drugs, and Tony falls off the plane :-) At the end, Gibbs goes to finish the tree house for the dead marine's son . In this ep we also see Kate and Abby working together, which was very nice, because they started to bond :-)
ep 3 - Seadog - There are two actors I know on this ep: William R. Moses as Agent Ken Fuller, DEA, who used to be in the Perry Mason movies, and also Emilie De Ravin, in the small role of one of two aussie girls on a boat, with her blonde hair, and I know her with black hair for being Belle in Once Upon A Time.
We learn that both Abby and Gibbs know sign language, and he says she knows it because both her parents were deaf. We see again the same woman with Gibbs.
There are terrorists again, like in episode 1; they are after the power grid.
That reporter Diane... I don't like her much, don't know why, the character proved to be on the good side at the end.
ep 4 - The Immortals - "A dead kid wearing dress whites for no reason, with a sword he shouldn't have on, which is not supposed to be sharp, at the bottom of the ocean, with weights on" this is Tony's recap of the case. It turns out he loved to play MMORPG=massive multiplayer online role-playing, for those of you who don't know. I knew this. He played a game called The Immortals, and another sailor on his ship played the same game, so they started playing it for real with swords, then the kid died because he was challenged by his rival to prove it, since he really believed he was immortal, that he really was his character.Before doing so, and ended up dead, though, he had put a bomb in the skipper's cabin, thinking the whole crew was in on it, with his enemy. I agree with Ducky here "you know, sometimes the dead make more sense to me than the living". Yeah. Ducky also teaches me that driving on the left side of the road goes back to medieval times, so that they could fight each other since most of the population was and still is right-handed. Thanks.
ep 5 - The curse - A mummy is found inside a pod. Nine years ago he was killed on a ship by a man and a woman his crewmen, for money.
We learn that Tony has been at Ncis for two years. Kate was very nice here, wanting so much to exonerate the victim from the theft charge, so that his nine years old daughter could get some money (since crewmen with dishonourable discharge do not leave anything to their family)
ep 6 - High Seas - The chief was drugging his sailors with meth without them knowing it.
Abby is first described as a Goth.
Stan Burley, who asks for their help, worked at ncis with Gibbs for five years. Before that he was a Senator's aide. During the whole episode Tony was so jealous of Stan and his friendly relationship with Gibbs, but at the end Stan tells him "he must really like you" because after only two years, Gibbs already calls him by his right name :-) We also learn that before working here, Tony was a Baltimore cop for almost two years, and before that it was Philly PD for 18 months, and before that it was Peoria, don't know how long... than he stopped the list.
ep 7 - Sub Rosa - An ecoterrorist replaced someone on a submarine, planning to kill everyone on board.
We meet McGee, the case Ncis agent at Norfolk. At the end, despite Tony keeps telling them they're not each other's type, McGee goes on a lunch date with Abby, but it ends before we can even see their first meeting :-/
nice lines : "I've never experienced Gibbs without his morning coffee" = Tony after Kate spills it on the floor.
ep 8 - Minimum security - Nasser, at Gitmo, wanted to be transferred to minimum security so to meet his target and kill him, but they stop him. Of course.
It's Tony to spill Gibbs' coffee this time :-) We meet interrogator Paula Cassidy, and see Tony flirting, and his first hint of vulnerability. I like Kate, and this brother-sister relationship she says she has with Tony :-)
ep 9 - Marine down - Two Marine believed dead, actually weren't, but one of them is killed later to cover up, being embalmed while still alive. Gross. The other one is saved by the team, and can get back to his wife, his son and his daughter.
I like when Gibbs' goes all 'Columbo', and turns around saying "just one more thing"... :lol:
ep 10 - Left for dead - This was one of the coolest intro, with a woman coming out of a grave :-) She goes in the middle of the road and stops a car, saying she has amnesia, and also saying that there is a bomb on a ship, so our ncis team is involved. Kate bonds with her, only to find at the end that the man she had an affair with sent another guy to end it with her, and she killed him, then she used a little bomb to kill her man and herself, while the team watches. Kate is shocked, she had been so sweet all along, so worried about her, so keen to help her, so sure she was a good person... poor Kate, I was really sorry.
At least there was no bomb on real ships, only in a lab recreating one.
ep 11 - Eye spy - At Cia, a satellite guy instead of doing constructive work was spying a girl on a beach, and saw a murder, and called them. It was another betrayed woman that killed her husband.
McGee again, he helps Tony with a computer problem. Tony is worried because he's starting to get fat :-)
We meet Abby's ex-boy-toy Ashton :lol: and they are adorable!! :rofl:
Did anyone understand Gibbs' final line? Why was he attacked by his second wife with a golf club? His answer: "seven iron" ... what does that mean?
ep 12 - My other left foot - When the leg of a Marine is found, they trace it to marine Dorn, but it would appear that he died two years ago, not yesterday! It turns out that his half-sister Melissa Dorn's mother planned it; she killed a marine then Melissa identified him as Tommy and had him cremated, so she got the insurance money: 750.000 $. Then she killed Tommy too and cut him into pieces.
It was lovely to see Melissa and Gibbs flirting :-) This is the first episode we see him making that flirting smile :-)  And I was glad it wasn't totally Melissa's fault. She shouldn't have agreed, but her mother was the psycho, not her. Good, strangely, I liked her.
ep 13 - One shot, one kill - T.J.Thyne has a little role (Hodgins from Bones), as Carl in the toy shop.
A sniper kills two marine recruiter because he wasn't recruited himself. Gibbs and Kate get into marine uniforms and try to stop him, and they do. I didn't like Gibbs in that uniform, it didn't suit him at all. Kate, on the other hand, looked really good, maybe because the uniform was perfectly taylored to suit her :-)
ep 14 - The good samaritan - Three men are killed in the same way, apparently picked because they stopped to help someone in trouble. It turned out that a wife and her twin sister killed other two men to cover up the murder of her husband.
Kate talks about her security number, Gibbs has two cups of coffee this morning, and Sheriff Charlie keeps hitting on Gibbs.
I love this bit: after one of Ducky's stories, Gerald says: "I actually find that interesting", you know, for once, he's the first to be surprised, but Ducky replies "as opposed to what??" :lol: after all, he thinks all his stories are interesting. :-)
ep 15 - Enigma - This episode had a great intro, with a Marine about to get shot, who frees himself and escapes. He's colonel Ryan, and he'll call for Gibbs' help in what he thinks to be a big conspiracy involving people in high places everywhere. It turns out he's a bit paranoid, he sees a man that's not there, because Lt. Cameron really died years ago, in Gibbs' arms. Good trick , this time, when Gibbs tells him it can't be, that he was dead, and the colonel tells him to judge with his own eyes, and calls for Cameron to come forward, and we see Gibbs' surprised face, but then they change scene, leaving us thinking he saw him too and talked with him. Well done!
As proof of their friendship, we see the inscription on the hip flask the colonel sends him: To lieutenent colonel W.D.Ryan, "semper fi", Gunnery sergeant L.J. Gibbs 1991"
ep 16 - Bète noire - There should be a "^" above the first "e", but I don't know how to do it with my keyboard... sorry. It means 'nightmare' in French.
This one too has a thrilling start: a body is sent to Ncis for autopsy, but when Gerald and Ducky open the plastic bag they find a man, very alive. Cool, huh? He then keeps Ducky and Gerald hostage. Unable to go out, Ducky is forced to tell Abby to bring evidence to him, but since she had a bad nightmare, she can't go down there, and sends Kate. When Ducky sees her, he calls her Abby, trying this way to send a message to everyone upstairs, but the criminal sees her gun and understands she's not just a lab technician, and takes her hostage too. As a punishment , becacuse Ducky tried to deceive him, he shoots Gerald; Fortunately he'll be saved, but the wound was really severe. Although everyone is saved, the criminal shoots Gibbs in the shoulder before his escape.
ep 17 - The truth is out there - This is such an 'x-files' title, isn't it? Rightly too, since aliens are involved .-p
Three pettty officers thought it was just a prank gone badly wrong, but the fourth knew what he was doing when he killed his friend (dressed as an alien), and he did it for the chance to find his 40.000 $
They inform us that Gerald will have to stay in rehab for months, and Gibbs is really obsessed by that criminal that escaped in the last episode.
I know the actors that play Petty Officer Carter and Chief Nutter, but I really can't place them now...still, I'm sure I've seen them somewhere else.
ep 18 - Unsealed - A former Seal escapes from prison. He wants to kill the person who really murdered his wife, and that means the woman she was having an affair with.
McGee appears again. Kate sometimes is depicted really stupid, I mean, it's not the first time she screwed up: without talking of that time with Suzanne, that was good faith, there was the time she had to recognize a sniper with her profiler-training but didn't see because she was looking at somebody else, stupidly. Now, she sees the child and think nobody else's there without even looking, which is stupid for someone with her training, I mean, I would have looked anyway in her situation! Of course the child wasn't scared or hurt, of course he told her nothing, it's his father we're talking about, after all! I was so sure he was there, it looked really stupid for her to be surprised and hit. Luckily McGee frees her. McGee is not dumb at all, and Tony's attitute towards him is annoying. I understand he wants someone to treat as inferior, but it's not a nice thing to do. The mystery of the redhead woman goes on, when she comes to the office to bring Gibbs his glasses.
Wait, when Tony said Tommy Lee, did he mean he was trying to do a Tommy Lee Jones impersonation?? I would have never guessed :lol:
ep 19 - Dead man talking - Chris Pacci, the agent that sits behind Kate's desk, has been murdered, and they continue his investigation. A Lt.Commander, after having stolen a lot of money, faked his own death and hide in plain sight as a woman :-) and Tony kissed him :-) They'll never forget this :-p
The doctor's full name is Donald Mallard, therefore Duck-->Ducky!
Kate made me laugh when she asked Gibbs "permission to shoot him" :lol: I so agree with her, Tony has that effect on me too. :-) McGee is helping again.
ep 20 - Missing - Now, this was a really tough story, it made me chill: four girls lost in a container for I don't know how long, three of them died, the youngest was given their food by her friends and barely survived, after seeing them all die. In the last eight years, she found and gave the same death to the men that put them there ( even if they didn't actually want them to die, they wanted to 'smuggle' them to America). Tony is taken too while he's investigating, but of course he's saved; well, he was doing a pretty good job himself, so save may not be the exact word, so let's say that the others helped him :-) McGee was in this episode too.
ep 21 - Split decision - First Tony then Gibbs go undercover, to frame the Atf girl and the corporal girl for selling weapons and murdering a sergeant. I sure wasn't worried about Gibbs, there had to be something, he sure wasn't going to die just like that in season 1!! He's what keeps them all together, without him there would be no team, just some agents, a technician and a doctor doing their job, but no team.
ep 22 - A weak link - Lt Johnson has a falling accident, and it was caused by himself tampering with his own equipment.
Abby is troubled because McGee told her he really likes her and asked her about where their relationship is going... she talks about it with Kate, then when she has to work with him they make peace, but it's not clear what they'll do next. Breaking up or stay together without planning ahead?
The widow is played by Julie Benz (Darla from BuffyTVS and Angel) and priest Larry Clannon is Doug Savant ( I know him from Melrose Place and from Desperate Housewives). The commander is Adam Baldwin, which is also my favourite Baldwin :-)
ep 23 - Reveille - The man that wounded Gerald and Gibbs is Ari Haswari, and he's not Al-qaeda. He's Israeli, Mossad, apparently. The secret service lets him go because he infiltrated alqaeda and they don't want his cover blown; still, Gibbs leaves him with a shoulder wound, when they meet and talk.