He spends the whole interrogation creepily staring at Fornell through the two-way glass.
He leers at Fornell on the way out and tells Gibbs this is “strike one.”
My word, this guy likes to make a big, dramatic scene.
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Hicks obliquely threatens Fornell’s daughter, so Fornell punches him, causing Gibbs to break it up.
“Strike two,” Hicks smugs.
But the joke’s on him; Fornell planted a tracker on his coat.
Yep, that’s McGee’s current home.
“Home sweet home,” he says, announcing that the place looks the same but smells different.
McGee attributes this to the lack of bodies in the floors.
It’s all very Hannibal Lecter and absolutely bananas.
That’s hella spooky.
Then for some bizarre reason, McGee starts confiding all of his parenting woes to Triff.
Why are you saying all of these personal, fatherly things out loud to a brutal killer?
Triff assures him that it’ll all work out if McGee just loves his children.
After all, Triff’s dad didn’t bond with him, and he turned out fine.
Funniest line of the season!
Then he makes it creepy again by calling McGee his best friend.
Gibbs calls Fornell, but it’s too late.
Fornell doesn’t even flinch, but Hicks has something grander planned than a quick death by bat.
“Two birds, one stone,” he says.
“Are you talking about Hicks or you?”
McGee asks, and Triff rattles his cage, congratulating McGee for catching on.
Okay, so how longwasthe door unlocked?
What was Triff’s master plan here?
Speaking of master’s plans, what exactly is Hicks trying to accomplish at this point?
Fornell crawls from the sedan and pulls Hicks out.
Then Reeves pushes a wheelchair-bound Triff through the big orange room.
He was happy to take a bullet for his BFF and the man who safeguards his Venetian plaster.
The FBI offered to reinstate him, but Fornell likes being his own boss.
He even invites Gibbs to join him as the “associate” in Tobias Fornell and Associate Private Investigations.
Then he hands Gibbs a bill for services rendered, including dry cleaning.
