We saw the judge and the jurylast week.
Now it’s time to find out who ordered the execution of the ice cream killer.
I told you last week that his grasp on judicial ethics wasslippery at best!
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And the person they unanimously vote to target this time?
None other than Leroy Jethro Gibbs, for the murder ofPedro Juan Hernandez.
Mallory actually did kill Clark, but she claims self-defense.
After he kicked her off the Vance case, he downgraded her security clearance, costing her her job.
So she started following him to ask to be let back in.
At Gibbs’s, he pulled his gun on her, and they exchanged fire.
In this life, the spy who loved Vance is about to get interrogated by the CIA.
Althoughweknow what’s up with the shadowy cabal of judges, NCIS is still in the dark.
Then their parallel investigations start to merge.
Deakin’s interested that they don’t think that the bailiff was working alone.
It’s likeDexterdigitized his act and took it nationwide.
His only warning is a photo of Hernandez left on his dashboard.
So why is Gibbs keeping secrets?
It’s… really lonely down here."
Then Gibbs enters, and Palmer immediately disavows all knowledge of their meeting.
That’s some “Hey, copper, stop me before I kill again” obvious dot-connecting there.
Deakin’s Digital Dexters need to cover their tracks a little better.
Deakin suggests that they both put their thumbs on the scale for justice, but Gibbs rejects that comparison.
Outside, Torres watches from his parked car as Gibbs leaves the bowling alley.
Gibbs studies them, says, “NOPE,” and heads for the Elevator of Schemes and Secrets.
“I killed the man who killed my family,” Gibbs says.
“And Deakin knows.”
Then he steps off the elevator, leaving them speechless.
I am so glad he told them!
Stronger together, right?
But he does turn back to growl, “Don’t ever follow me again.”
Kasie then breaks the news that phone records show SecDef Skinner has been in regular contact with Mallory.
(This is thanks to her fancy enhancement program.
So why’d the director’s ex-girlfriend take a stab at kill him?
(Again, this would be more fun if we’d seen this for ourselves in their previous relationship.
They could’ve at least given us a shooting range date or something!)
Vance takes the lead on her interrogation, which seems unwise.
She says she only started working for Deakin after Vance made it clear that they had no future.
But when she saw the target was Gibbs, she couldn’t go through with it.
Instead, she made it look believable and bought them both some time.
Now she wants to help.
Deakin refuses, and Gibbs warns, “You may regret that.”
For some reason, Deakin forgot that Virginia’s a one-party consent state.
He’s a bad judge!
A grateful SecDef Skinner hands Vance achallenge coin, saying NCIS saved him again.
Here’s hoping Vance calls in that favor soon so we can see Mitch Pileggi again.
Then Sloane arrives to let us know that Vance neither endorsed nor blocked Mallory’s plea deal.
Um, those two are going to be secretly married by the finale, right?
Hence, they agree to forget they ever heard the name Pedro Hernandez.
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