This week we skip back to season four and an episode where we get to learn a bit more about Special Agent Timothy McGee when his sister comes a’callin’, and it comes out that in his spare time, McGee is also a mystery novelist.
Screenshot of Sean Murray as McGee and Mark Harmon as Gibbs on the NCIS season four episode Twisted Sister. NCIS airs on Tuesdays on CBS.
Fun trivia time! Did you know that McGee’s author alter ego, Thom E. Gemcity, is an anagram of Timothy McGee? Also, Troian Bellisario, the actress portraying McGee’s sister is, in real life, his stepsister! And, if that last name of hers sounds familiar, yes, she is the daughter of NCIS executive producer Donald Bellisario. Which, yes, makes Sean Murray (McGee) his stepson. Oh, and you might also recognize Troian these days from Pretty Little Liars. And the producer of this ep? Brother David Bellisario. (And in last week’s classic NCIS recap, Chip was played by another brother, Michael Bellisario. They’re everywhere!)
But, for now … let’s meet up with two of the sibs, NCIS-style, shall we?
We open with McGee deeply ensconced in his Gemcity persona. Jazz playing moodily on the (likely) turntable, coffee mug close at hand, typing away in the wee, wee hours on an ancient typewriter. Something like a classic Remington or Corona, I can’t be sure. (And I thought the IBM Selectric word processor I started my novelist career on was old! But back then, I wasn’t being precious. That was the new technology!) He’s also killing trees right and left, ripping out paper after a single word, a single letter even, and running it through the shredder. (Really? Shredder? Don’t want anyone stealing your next Pulitzer?) A knock on the door reveals an angry neighbor, annoyed at being kept up to all hours by the constant buzzing of the shredder. I’m with you pal. We all have our idiosyncrasies, but oh, Timmy. He promises it won’t happen again, heads back to his typewriter, stares at the one word he’s typed (The) then rips the paper out, shreds it. (If you’re that deep in the hole, honey, try longhand or a laptop. Saving the forests, and your neighbors’ sanity, one scratched out or deleted word at a time.)
Screenshot of Troian Bellisario as Sarah on the NCIS season four episode Twisted Sister. NCIS airs on Tuesdays on CBS.
Door buzzer sounds again, and McGee heads that way, knowing it’s because he broke his promise not five seconds after making it. An apology on his lips, he opens the door … only to find a young woman standing there, looking more than a bit frazzled, her hands and shirt covered in blood, saying, “I think I killed someone, Tim.”
Fade to black and white. (Oh! Also … that sound you hear? That “thump” when it goes to black and white? Yeah, that’s actually exec producer Donald P. Bellisario’s voice. He wanted a bookend sound to each act, so he made that sound with a microphone, and boom (or thump) history is made. I know! I’m just full of the trivia nuggets this evening!)
Cue awesome opening theme song and credits! Hello, Director Jenny! Hello, Ziva! Hello, Abby’s amazing full-back tat! Early credit rolls are like looking through an NCIS yearbook.
The sun is up as we move on to Tim talking through his closed bathroom door, asking if everything is okay. Inside, behind a plastic, monkey pattern (??) shower curtain, the woman snarks back, “Yes, Mom.” He’s worried as she’s been in there an hour. She wonders out loud how long he’d be in the shower if he was covered in mystery blood. He wants to make sure none of it is hers and she confirms she’s not bleeding. Out of the shower now, she reiterates her story about being at a concert with her friends listening to a crap band, then the next thing she remembers is standing at his door. He wants to know about the “I think I killed someone” part, only she has no memory of saying that. He asks how much she had to drink, she says nothing, being underage and all. He flashes her fake ID showing her as being twenty-two. She snatches it away from him and stalks into his living room.
Screenshot of Troian Bellisario as Sarah on the NCIS season four episode Twisted Sister. NCIS airs on Tuesdays on CBS.
He reminds her she can’t hold her liquor but she swears she barely sipped her second beer … then breaks off as bits and pieces of the previous night flash back through her mind. She remembers she and her friends went to the food court after the concert only she had to leave early, to go to the library to study. McGee gets a call, and the ID shows it’s Ziva, but he disconnects without answering. He thinks someone slipped her something but she retorts, “Smart Girls 101. You don’t take a drink from a guy you don’t know.” He still thinks a urine sample would be a good idea, and hands her his … coffee mug? Ew. Worse yet, it’s a mug with a picture of their grandma on it. Double ew! She declines. He wants to call the police, she freaks out, wondering what he could possibly tell them. That she showed up covered in blood thinking she killed someone? He reminds her he’s a federal agent, and she shoots back that she didn’t come to see a federal agent. She came to see her big brother. And there it is.
Over in the Bull Pen of Orangey Goodness, Ziva is telling Tony that McGee isn’t picking up his cell, answering pager, or responding to her MySpace message. MySpace. My, how time flies. Gibbs enters, tells them to keep trying to contact him. Tony says he’s trying to get into McGee’s calendar on his computer, see if perhaps he had an appointment they didn’t know about while Ziva is all, “When I was framed by the Iranians for murder, I was late for many hours before anyone even noticed.” Gibbs and Tony remind her that McGee is known for his punctuality. Tony gets into the calendar, but nothing there except for an alarming number of appointments with a personal trainer. Gibbs gets a call about a dead Marine and it’s “grab your gear” time. Only before they can head out, Director Jenny Shephard strolls in, saying she got an email from McGee saying he’s sick and won’t be in. Smiling, she says she’s betting Gibbs got one, too. With a short eye roll, we see Gibbs check his computer. Yep, 63 unread emails. Oh, Gibbs. One of which is from McGee.
Back to McGee’s, he and baby sis are putting together a time line, along with some standard sibling taunts and retorts. There are four hours unaccounted for, so after ribbing her brother about his “pie charts” she grabs his NCIS hat and paces while working on her own set of facts. She deduces that it’s unlikely she was drugged given her rules about accepting drinks from anyone else and she knows she didn’t personally choose to over imbibe. So she guesses it was a traumatic event — i.e., her blood-covered clothes — that caused her lapse in memory. She looks at her clothes, laid out like the pieces of evidence they are, and deduces from her brand new shoes which show a little mud, but no scuffed soles, that she didn’t walk the five miles to his place. She knows she had $14 at the food court, but there were only $2 on her when she arrived, so she must have spent the rest on the $10 cab ride. So, find the taxi driver, and find out where he picked her up and boom, next puzzle piece found. Tim immediately taps into his computer to check out the local taxi services, but when he looks to his sister for more info, she’s fallen fast asleep.
Screenshot of David McCallum as Ducky, Michael Weatherly as Tony, Mark Harmon as Gibbs and Cote de Pablo as Ziva on the NCIS season four episode Twisted Sister. NCIS airs on Tuesdays on CBS.
Cut to the Waverly college campus during cheerleading drills. We see a security guard watching the girls as McGee zooms up in a pretty nifty little sports car. He parks in the taxi zone and looks at the taxi fare chart he’s printed out, presumably from the taxi cab that picked up his sister the night before. The security guard tells him he has to move, and Tim flashes his creds, tells him he can pretty much park where he wants. Security guy is all, Oh, no, I just mean your people are on the other side of the campus. He points to where an NCIS team is presently scouring an area a few hundred yards away. Ruh roh.
We shift to the rest of our very special agents as they work the scene of the dead young Marine. Gibbs takes a cellphone from the body as Tony takes photos and realizes this is his one hundredth body. Tony impulsively goes to hand Gibbs the camera, get him to take a photo of him and the — yeah. He realizes that sounded a lot less gross of an idea when it was just in his head. Ziva strolls up and says that compared to what else is in there, well, yeah. Heh. Gibbs wants to know if Ziva got anything from the jogger who found the body, but nada. Ducky arrives, saying perhaps he can get them more info, apologizes for being late. Homecoming made it hard to find space to park the van. He thought McGee would have met him, but Gibbs tells him McGee isn’t there. Ducky says he could have sworn he saw him in the parking lot. Ruh roh squared. Tony brushes the sighting off, saying on a college campus geeks are a dime a dozen, and they chuckle and get to work. Ducky gets time of death and Ziva finds a bunch of other bodies. Ten little ones. Gold fishies. And we see Tim race back to his car, and head out. Fade to black and white.
Back at his place, Tim is doing swab tests on the blood to see if it’s human blood and yep. Sis wakes up, wants to know what time it is and is perturbed that she missed class. (Really? You were just going to stroll back on campus to class and oh, well, we’ll figure out my blood soaked clothes later?) Tim says he wanted her to get rest before … he lets the rest trail off, but she knows something has happened while she dozed. He brings her up to speed, says he needs to take her into NCIS, tells her the dead body was a sailor. That prompts a flashback of a sailor calling her name, running toward her. Fearful now, she asks McGee if he knows the sailor’s name. He says no. She says she knows.
Screenshot of David McCallum as Ducky on the NCIS season four episode Twisted Sister. NCIS airs on Tuesdays on CBS.
We move to Ducky’s Digs as Ziva gives us and Gibbs the sailor’s name, that he’s serving on board the USS Enterprise docked in Norfolk and confirming the family is being notified. Ducky goes on about how hard it is to do notifications then smiles saying at least that won’t be needed with his other bodies. The gold fish. Heh. Cause of their death was a bit, well, fishy. Nicotine poisoning. No idea how it got into them. In the case of our dead Marine, he was stabbed in the aorta with what looks to be a combat knife. No such knife recovered at the scene. Gibbs tells Ziva to tell Tony to keep looking. She tells Gibbs that Tony went home. She explains he wasn’t feeling well, thought McGee had gotten him sick. You can imagine how well this goes over with Gibbs. She explains that Director Jenny said it was okay. Oh, even better! Ducky finishes up his report quickly, saying the Marine died at the scene. Nothing on the tox screen, and Ziva adds that his CO said he was a model soldier. Ducky concludes by saying there was no additional trauma, no DNA under his finger nails. Meaning he was surprised, or he knew his killer.
Back at McGee’s, Sis is in the bathroom sobbing, as Tim bangs on the door, demanding to know how she knows the dead Marine. She finally comes out, tells him they dated, until he started seeing her roommate, when, uh, she might have threatened to kill him. Once or twice. Or, you know, three times. He dumped her for “some skanky cheerleader” but it was just something she said in the heat of anger and hurt. She didn’t mean it. He wants to know if anyone heard her say it, but she didn’t actually speak it. No, she wrote it. In an email. Oh boy. He says now they have to go to Gibbs, but she swears she didn’t do anything wrong, and he says she doesn’t know what she did, prompting her to wonder if he actually thinks she could kill someone. He reminds her she was drinking, and maybe an accident happened. She says if her own brother doesn’t believe her, then who else would? He goes to get his phone, and when he comes back, the door to the hallway is open, and she’s gone.
Screenshot of Michael Weatherly as Tony and Scottie Thompson as Jeanne on the NCIS season four episode Twisted Sister. NCIS airs on Tuesdays on CBS.
We shift to Tony’s place, and ooooh. I forgot! This is when he was undercover with the whole La Grenouille thing. He’s there with Jeanne Benoit, curled up on the couch watching an old movie. And sure, I know Ziva was his one true love and how it all plays out, but still … I liked him with Jeanne. Back then, this was the first time we saw him being somewhat mature and responsible. In a relationship, anyway. So this is nice. I’ll just pretend I don’t know how it ends and enjoy the moment. As it happens, this is the moment when Jeanne questions him on why, after a month of dating, they haven’t had sex yet. Tony teases as he does, but when she pushes for a serious answer, he says, “when you do what you always do, you get what you always get.” I think the reason I enjoyed them together, is that by virtue of the fact that he was technically on the job and therefore unwilling to let sex become part of the lie he was at least partially perpetuating, he was forced to actually get to know her, and really find himself emotionally engaged for the first time. Sadly, it had to finally happen to him in a way that would never allow the truth to come out and the relationship to be preserved at the same time. I think that’s why I liked them together. We finally got to see Tony as he could be, instead of the Tony he’d always been.
We jump from there to Abby Lab, as Abby relates the details of her last date to Director Jenny. Gibbs comes in, says he’s been looking for Director Jen all over the place. She tells him she’s helping Abby seeing as how they’re shorthanded and he reminds her they are only shorthanded because she sent Tony home. No sense in getting us all sick, she reminds him, as Abby launches into the entire conversation that we all know is about to ensue, playing both the Gibbs and Director Jen role, ending with “the kids don’t like it when mommy and daddy fight.” Ha! Abby and Gibbs look at the Marine’s phone and she notes there were a number of text messages from one person, then the phone beeps with another one as they are holding it. Gibbs instructs her to answer it on speaker. She says hello and we hear McGee saying, “Finally!” Then Gibbs is all, “McGee?” And he’s all, “Why do you have my sister’s cellphone?” And Gibbs says, “Better question is, why is your sister’s cellphone on my dead body?” Or words to that effect. Fade to black and white.
Screenshot of Mark Harmon as Gibbs, Lauren Holly as Jenny Shepard, Pauley Perrette as Abby on the NCIS season four episode Twisted Sister. NCIS airs on Tuesdays on CBS.
We come back to McGee hanging out in the elevator while Ziva and Tony look on. He’s waiting the arrival of Gibbs, who enters the elevator and smacks the button to shut the door, then shuts the elevator down. McGee says he’d apologize but he knows how Gibbs feels about that. Heh. (Rule No. 6: Never say you’re sorry. Sign of weakness.) McGee is all about how he knows withholding evidence is against procedure — and a crime, as Gibbs reminds him. But Gibbs isn’t upset about that, he’s upset that McGee didn’t come to him. McGee explains that he didn’t know what she’d done, or hadn’t done, and he simply couldn’t risk it. Not until he knew more. “She’s my sister,” he says, looking Gibbs straight in the eye. Gibbs turns the elevator back on, then levels a gaze directly back at McGee and says, “Apology accepted.”
Screenshot of Michael Weatherly as Tony and Cote de Pablo as Ziva on the NCIS season four episode Twisted Sister. NCIS airs on Tuesdays on CBS.
In the bull pen they are going through Sis’s stuff via the Screen of All Knowing. They explain to McGee when he comes in with Gibbs that they needed her photo for the BOLO. They put it out for grand theft auto rather than murder. Ziva says she’s their prime suspect and McGee corrects that to “witness.” Gibbs tells him they spoke to the taxi driver who places Sis at the crime scene. And the blood? Yeah, it belongs to the dead Marine. They also found her email threats to him, starting with Dear Manwhore. Heh. Gibbs asks why she ran and McGee says it’s because she’s mad and scared and doesn’t think McGee believes her. Maybe she was drugged and it was an accident, he says, only Ziva says Abby ran the urinalysis and it came back clean. We also learn that our dead soldier was getting nastygrams from the cheerleader who, as Tony puts it, “thought Popeye was getting his spinach somewhere else.” Ha. Gibbs puts Ziva on getting and impounding the taxi and tells Tony he’s “on McGee’s sister” to which Tony replies, “Ah, with great pleasure boss.” Much to McGee’s dismay. Heh. He tells McGee to go home, that Abby is working the case in house. He says then Gibbs won’t know if he is still working the case, prompting a sigh from Gibbs, who then tells him to tag along with him so he can keep an eye on him. Meanwhile, Tony is pondering why McGee never told him he had a sister. Prompting an eye roll from Ziva. And, perhaps, me.
Screenshot of Mark Harmon as Gibbs and Michael Weatherly as Tony on the NCIS season four episode Twisted Sister. NCIS airs on Tuesdays on CBS.
Shifting to the college, we see McGee watching over a dorm lounge area packed with a variety of students, including at least one cheerleader, making homecoming posters and goofing off while Gibbs questions one of the students in her dorm room. Turns out she’s the cheerleader gf. She shows Gibbs a photo of our DM when he was stationed in Bahrain, saying how much she loved him in his uniform. She explains he was supposed to meet her at the food court so they could have time together before she had to conduct freshman cheerleader initiation. She says when he didn’t show, she figured his ship was late to port. Cue the lounge area, where head cheerleader is all bend-and-snapping at some of the guys in the room who are fiddling with a water gun when her BFF notices McGee’s regard and alerts her to his presence. She turns, poses, all, “Seen enough,” and he’s all, “No, I was looking at the water gun,” then shows the guys why it’s malfunctioning. He glances up, sees the empty fish tank, heads back to the dorm room.
Back in the dorm room, Gibbs being all understanding and avuncular, says “Sounds like you had the perfect relationship.” She nods, oh so serious, all, “We did. We were going to get married.” Odd how there’s nary a tear being shed, in either an understated or overly dramatic fashion. Seeing as how her almost-fiancé was just stabbed to death the night before and all. McGee pauses at the open door, but says nothing, as Cheerleader GF says, “You better make her pay for this.” Frowning now, Gibbs wants to know who she is talking about. She names McGee’s sister, calling her a jealous, uh, witch, as McGee listens on from the hallway. She talks about the threatening emails and how Sis trashed her in her blog. Gibbs is all, “Blog?” And asks her what a blog is. Heh. She finds herself as stumped on how to explain that as I would be if asked. “It’s, you know, a blog.” Cheerleader GF says how when Sis heard DM was coming to see her, Sis left the food court to go find him. McGee pops in then, asking how she knew that, maybe Sis just left. Gibbs back walks McGee from the room and tells him to keep it zipped. McGee tells him he came in about the fish tank, and they both look over at it.
Screenshot of Sean Murray as McGee and Mark Harmon as Gibbs on the NCIS season four episode Twisted Sister. NCIS airs on Tuesdays on CBS.
Back at HQ, Tony takes the opportunity with Gibbs away to have a private chat with Director Jen in her office. He says he needs advice. She’s flattered. He talks about how his relationship with an “important person” hasn’t progressed as it normally would. She understands his inference that he’s saying they haven’t had sex yet and asks him why it is they haven’t … progressed. He says he’s taking it slowly, a new concept for him. Jenny asks if this important person is attractive to him. He smiles, nods, says, “I could make a meal.” Jenny asks if it’s mutual, he says yes. She says, “So, what’s the problem?” They are cut off when Tony receives a call from Ziva saying they found McGee’s sister and Gibbs wants them to go pick her up.
Fun fact! Did you know Lauren Holly originally auditioned for the role of Special Agent Caitlin Todd? And that Sasha Alexander left the show after realizing the grueling 16-hour day schedule wasn’t something she was willing to commit herself to. Which begs the question, if Holly had gotten the role, would very Special Agent Kate still be alive? Oh, wait …
So, over at the college, she’s in the library, pretty much camping out there, and studying. They approach her, tell her she’s not under arrest, but that she needs to come with them. She asks if they’re being nice to her because she’s McGee’s sister. Tony says no, that he’s always nice to hot girls. Oh, Tony. It makes her laugh, and she says he must be Tommy. Tony corrects her. Then she spills the beans, saying that in McGee’s book, he’s Tommy. Ziva would be Lisa. Ha! Busted. Back in HQ, they come in with Sis and find McGee pacing in the bull pen. Sis is all, “Tony is much cuter than Tommy.” Ruh roh. Tony has a copy of Thom E. Gemcity’s Deep Six novel and Ziva smiles about the name being an anagram of Timothy McGee. McGee looks at his unrepentant sister, who says he should have told her it was a secret. They summarize their characters, Tommy and Lisa, then go on to describe their boss, L.J. Tibbs. Oh boy. Tony is all, “Where is L.J., Dead Agent Walking? Ha.
Screenshot of Pauley Perrette as Abby, Michael Weatherly as Tony, Sean Murray as McGee, Cote de Pablo as Ziva and Mark Harmon as Gibbs on the NCIS season four episode Twisted Sister. NCIS airs on Tuesdays on CBS.
They head down to Abby Garage Lab, all of them, Sis included, exiting the elevator as Abby shows Gibbs the bloody knife she found between the seat cushions of the taxi. Sis takes one look at the knife and has a flashback about her ride in the taxi, trembling, hands bloody, still hearing DM shout her name, saying “No, no!” Everyone looks from the knife, to Sis. Fade to black and white.
Fun fact time! Did you know that Gibbs was named after members of exec producer Bellisario’s family? Leroy is his brother, and his dad’s middle name is Jethro.
Screenshot of Michael Weatherly as Tony and Cote de Pablo as Ziva on the NCIS season four episode Twisted Sister. NCIS airs on Tuesdays on CBS.
Tony and Ziva observe Sis in interrogation, alone, studying, while Tony entertains Ziva with bits from McGee’s novel. Meanwhile, in HQ, Director Jenny is running down the extensive list of evidence pointing to Sis’s guilt, including that her prints were on that bloody knife, while Gibbs and McGee listen. Jen feels that the only reason not to charge her is the fact that she’s McGee’s sister, which isn’t cutting it with her. She and McGee argue, but Jen’s anger is fairly warranted here. McGee gets huffed up and puts badge and gun on the table, saying not to worry, he won’t risk impugning NCIS ever again and storms out. Gibbs snatches up the gun and badge, and heads out after him. Gibbs trots after him and before McGee can so much as “don’t even think about talking me out of this” at him, he gets a head slap from Gibbs, then a swift rebuke for letting himself get manipulated by the director. He parks McGee in the bull pen, saying he’ll know more about what’s really going on after questioning Sis. McGee wants to watch, Gibbs says no. “Read a book,” he tells him, and tosses a copy of Deep Six: The Continuing Adventures of L.J. Tibbs on the desk. Oh boy! Heh. Dead Agent Walking indeed.
Screenshot of Lauren Holly as Director Jenny Shepard on the NCIS season four episode Twisted Sister. NCIS airs on Tuesdays on CBS.
In the interrogation room, Gibbs glances at the cover of the book she’s studying, and asks what her major is. It’s English Lit, so he asks if she plans to be a writer like her brother. She says she plans on being a writer. Gibbs asks why she gave the smartass answer, why she put her brother down. She denies she did that, but he says, “yeah you did.” Then tells her that her brother just resigned because of her. She cries, then apologizes. Gibbs tells her he’s not bothered by fake tears. Or faked lapses of memory. Ooh. She denies faking it. He tells her that if she wanted to remember, she’d hang on to the brief snippets she’s getting and try to figure it out. He tells he knows what that’s like, because he’s been there. We get her flashing back again, to the food court, then the grounds outside, with DM yelling at her to stop it, then we see him fall to the ground, and her with blood on her hands, holding the knife. Her takeaway from that is that she must have stabbed him. She gulps, cries.
Screenshot of Mark Harmon as Gibbs on the NCIS season four episode Twisted Sister. NCIS airs on Tuesdays on CBS.
We cut away to Abby running into the bull pen. She wants to know his sister’s favorite pizza and McGee tells her it’s cheeseless, with pickles, Tabasco and peanut butter. Oh my God, just thinking about that combination makes me ill. Abby cheers at this response, however. She says she can prove Sis was drugged, and tells him to get Gibbs and come down to the lab, there’s more. McGee stays with Sis, who is still sobbing in interrogation, while Gibbs goes to see Abby. Abs has discovered that Sis barfed in the taxi, and how many folks would puke up that particular combination? And from that, she could run the toxin tests again, and bingo. Date rape drug. Tony ponders if DM might have tried to rape her as some kind of revenge for the death threats, but Abby knows she was definitely doped at the food court. So off goes Tony to get the security tape and Ziva to interview all food court employees, janitors and such. Abby also solved the nicotine fish mystery. They weren’t in the tank. They were in a Ziploc bag with a nicotine patch inside. Apparently some kind of science lab experiment. Ducky deduced they died about the same time as DM.
At the Screen of All Knowing, we watch the security footage, or try to. Tony can’t make the remote function properly so Gibbs sends him after McGee. While he’s off on that errand, Gibbs wants to know if Ziva knows what a “clog” is. She frowns, saying a shoe or a clogged drain. Heh. He clarifies that it’s on the internet and she’s all, “Oh, I thought that was a blog, but my English is often wrong.” Double heh. Gibbs tells Ziva that Sis writes a blog and recently trashed her ex-roomie and ex-bf after the two hooked up with each other. Ziva tracks it down via MySpace. My how times do change. Ziva is reading snippets from the acid entry when the rest of the team arrives back in the bull pen. Tony thinks maybe Sis should ghostwrite for big bro. Gibbs wants to know how Sis gets her horrifying pizza combo ready to go, and she says she makes her own, that the food court has everything but the peanut butter, which she brings in her backpack. McGee gets the security footage going and we see Head Cheerleader doping Sis’s peanut butter.
We shift to campus, where HC is drilling her squad, then as they take a break, we see her take her nicotine patch off and stick it to her skirt, ostensibly, we suppose, so she can take a ciggie break. She does in fact light up, telling her BFF fellow cheerleader, who also happens to be DM’s poor, not-all-that-sad girlfriend that she’ll make a bigger effort to quit smoking after football season is over. HC bends down to put her ciggie pack back in her back and straightens to spy Tony and McGee walking toward her. “See enough of my ass?” she wants to know with a smile. “What do you think, Tony?” McGee asks him. “I don’t know,” Tony replies, “there’s a lot to see.” HA. He badges her, then takes the cigarette from her hand. She calls him a jerk and tells him to stay away from her. Oh, I don’t think that’s going to happen, uh, witch. McGee turns her around and pulls her wrists behind her back as Sis walks up. He says, “I believe you know my sister.” Sis slaps HC once, for spiking her peanut butter. Then again for setting her up to be raped. Tony cuffs her, and says that’s for being an accessory to murder.
Screenshot of Michael Weatherly as Tony, Sean Murray as McGee and Katherine Bailess as Cheerleader Madison on the NCIS season four episode Twisted Sister. NCIS airs on Tuesdays on CBS.
HC claims she’s being framed, but Tony says they have her starring in her own food court show. McGee adds that the tape shows HC leaving the food court with the security officer, prompting BFF Cheerleader/DM’s GF to demand to know if HC killed her boyfriend. She says no, that she was just using the security officer to get even with Sis for her blog. DM saw the security guard grappling with Sis and tried to play hero. Security Guard stabbed him and she dropped everything and ran — leaving the goldfish behind. Ziva comes up just then with SG in cuffs, who claims it was HC who stabbed DM, not him, and put Sis’s phone in his pocket to frame her. The two trade insults and Gibbs has them both taken away.
Screenshot of Sean Murray as McGee (back right), Mark Harmon as Gibbs, Troian Bellisario as Sarah McGee and April Matson as Carolyn (back to camera) on the NCIS season four episode Twisted Sister. NCIS airs on Tuesdays on CBS.
Sis then turns to DM’s GF and tells her that she’s sorry, that he knows DM really loved her. GF asks how she would know that, and Sis tells her that he emailed her, told her he was sorry, but that he’d met his soulmate. GF finally sobs what look like real tears, and the two hug. Gibbs tells McGee that sometimes, a little lie? “It’s good for the soul.” Yep, sometimes it’s the right thing to do.
Fade to black and white.
Thump.
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