‘NCIS’ Season 14, Episode 15 Recap: Evil Abby’s Evil Plan
Before I caught the episode, I caught Pauley Perrette’s tweet about this week’s NCIS Season 14 episode being all about Abby. It’s about time!
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Yes, I was excited the moment I found out about the subject of this week’s episode. It’s been far too long since I’ve seen an Abby-centered episode! NCIS Season 14 has been so much about the new guys and how they fit in with the team, that it feels like we’ve not seen enough of the original characters – I know I mentioned something about that in Ducky’s episode before Christmas.
The downside for this week’s episode is that it’s a two-parter and I don’t watch NCIS: New Orleans. I’m just not a big fan. It’s a problem I have when Arrow and Chicago Fire do crossovers within their universes, since I don’t watch all the other shows within the same world. But enough about that, and on with the episode. Luckily, most of the storyline was wrapped up within NCIS.
Abby is adorable whether she’s good or evil. This week we get to see her play with the dark side, as she thinks like a terrorist. Not much is different, except that she looks for ways to kill people. In this case, she figures out how to kill a bunch of diplomats with liquid sarin through air vents.
It all goes wrong when she’s captured and all she’ll say is “Aristotle banana split” – the code word given to Abby in case she got caught. Well, it turns out that Homeland Security isn’t there and it doesn’t take too long in the episode to find out that all the files on the think tank have been wiped.
Abby also learns that the reason she was pulled into the Homeland Security think tank – Earl – is dead from sarin poisoning.
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The whole think tank makes a point that we really can’t trust anyone. Everyone will have a motive for killing others if you look deep enough. Those that appear the most guilty turn out to be innocent parties who are just pessimistic after working with so many deadly diseases – no I wouldn’t want to work with the CDC.
Once again, NCIS focuses on the idea that those who are closest to you are the ones who will do you wrong. That’s definitely the case this week, when it turns out that the man with the biggest motive was Earl’s right hand man. When Earl found out, he attempted to abort the missing and was killed for his actions. The only good thing was that he was able to trigger the alarms in the concert venue so that Abby would be caught and the liquid sarin wouldn’t be released into the vents.
There are plenty of red herrings throughout the episode and a mention of coincidences. What else is new for NCIS? In the end, the team find out that all the information regarding previous think tanks from the last two years and the defenses for these staged attacks has been stolen and the information is somewhere out there.
This is the storyline that continues in NCIS: New Orleans.
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One thing that I am curious about is Ducky’s interaction with Reeves. There are way too many characters right now and not enough time to focus on each of them. Why do I get the feeling that someone isn’t coming out of the show at the end of this season? More importantly, why do I get the feeling that that someone is going to be Ducky?
Jimmy is now a doctor and could take over Ducky’s position. Reeves is a new Brit in NCIS to take over that role – and his interaction with Ducky is all about their home country. We haven’t see Ducky that much, except for the touching episode before Christmas, so it would certainly seem like Ducky is the one who will leave. I hope it’s not! After Abby, he is my favorite – yes, before Gibbs!
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But that’s another episode wrapped and I love it. I loved every minute of seeing Abby playing her evil counterpart and having fun letting her dark side out. She did make it very clear that she could never do something so evil as to kill anyone, even if they were guilty of genocide decades earlier.
I do have to say that Gibbs is an excellent boss. He knew Abby wasn’t guilty from the start and never doubted her. Neither did the team. This really is a close-knit family.
NCIS Season 14 continues on Tuesdays at 8/7c on CBS.