NCIS recap: Day in Court

The NCIS team prove one man’s innocence, while another confesses to very bad things. The NCIS team proves a mans innocence this week. Jake Malloy, the low-down dirty deceiver. Credit: Robert Voets/CBS First, lets talk murder. The case against Petty Officer Third Class Kyle Friedgen is tossed over warrant problems leading to inadmissible evidence. So Friedgen and his lawyer meet with Gibbbs and ask NCIS to arrest him for murder....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 441 words · Adam Mcdaniel

NCIS recap: Dead Letter

Trent Kort’s back, and – twist! – he’s even worse than we remembered Fornell lives! Its a May sweeps miracle! Credit: Jace Downs/CBS Yes, it looks like everyones favorite gnomish FBI agent will survive to annoy Gibbs another day. Gibbs makes one promise: Were gonna find Jacob Scott, and were gonna kill him. At the crime scene, Ducky states that a lesser man than Fornell would be dead already. She makes him repeat his promise that Scotts going to pay....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 605 words · Andrea Richardson

NCIS recap: Double Trouble

Frame me once, shame on you. Frame me twice, shame on me. What happens when a desk jockey ventures into the field? Credit: Monty Brinton/CBS Just a Tuesday, in other words. Whats more surprising is that hes missing his right eye. Vance get involved in the case via someone from his past, of course. Every person on this show has a shadowy figure from his or her past just a-waitin to pop up....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 429 words · Brenda Turner

NCIS recap: Déjà Vu

(Say it fast. Do ya get it?) We were good, too, McGee brags. Credit: Michael Yarish/CBS Recall, hehas no shameabout his tap-dancing past. The victim is Alessandra Ramos, third-generation Navy with a spotless record. (c’mon note that Abby does this fine work in a lab without heat. And what do you know? Front-door security footage shows both women arriving to the club separately, but it doesnt show them leaving. In the morgue, Palmer spots a gash where something was carved from Ramos skin....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 371 words · Sharon Hendrix

NCIS recap: Homefront

The hunt for an escaped spy may claim another victim. Plus, FLOTUS in the (White) house! Wait, did they just…? Credit: Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson via CBS Is Agent Fornell actually…? Why do you do this to us,NCIS? But before we dive into the to be continued, lets tackle tonights standalone case. When Marine Master Sgt. Protect them for me. Thankfully, Abby finds a DNA match to Micky Doyle, an ex-con with ties to the drug trade....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 607 words · Alexandra Blankenship

NCIS recap: Lockdown

And our gal Abbys on the inside, dealing with armed intruders. No better person for the job, right? Those poor follicles!) Credit: Sonja Flemming/CBS That last ones from Gibbs, of course. And suddenly the adjectives change: Fairest! Like a ninja, that one. They should put a bell on him for as many times as hes snuck up on their conversations. So, the murder victim of the week is Navy Capt....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 294 words · Dustin Jimenez

NCIS recap: Loose Cannons

Turns out, nothing was as closed as we thought. In other words: Case, schmase. This weeks all about the agents personal lives. Credit: Sonja Flemming/CBS (Jethro comes up in Tafts sessions because Taft has an unhealthy attachment to positive results. Lack of success, like with Gibbs, brings up a host of unresolved issues for him.) over and over can stem the tide of death. Come to think of it, maybe it can....

May 1, 2025 · 4 min · 724 words · Courtney Wilson

NCIS recap: React

Foiling a revenge kidnapping, of course. Page is also a lifelong friend of one Timothy Farragut McGee. Iknewhe had a middle name, DiNozzo exclaims). Credit: Neil Jacobs/CBS The boyfriend thinks the kidnappers are military because of their shorthand and their weapons. I knew the moment you took this job Megans life would be in danger, he spits. Then Porter heads to her house, which is swarming with agents and also is AMAZING....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 528 words · Mr. Kenneth Schwartz

NCIS recap: Reasonable Doubts

First, the murder or is it? (Its totally not.) Do I have to do everything for you,NCIS?) Credit: Monty Brinton/CBS The team divide and conquer. Joann tells DiNozzo that Jennings called to say his wife was making violent threats. Each woman says she witnessed the other shoot Jennings when she arrived at the house. Jennings cut both of them off when the money ran out. In light of this, the team argue about who had more motive....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 610 words · Peggy Russell

NCIS recap: Saviors

And that, my friends, is what they call closure. All together now: Jeanne Benoit? The other is Dr. David Woods. Credit: Sonja Flemming/CBS Dont recognize his name? His wife is Jeanne Woods, nee Benoit. Cue shock from every member of NCIS and deep, deep brooding from Very Special Agent DiNozzo. He says its obvious that Tonys hated himself ever since. Gotta say, this episode feels strangely placed. Maybe it shouldve aired a little earlier?...

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 401 words · Barbara Hale

NCIS recap: Scope

Bishop, who loves spring cleaning, is displeased. Ugh, ofcourseshe does. He plans to rent a motorcycle and pick a lucky lady to accompany him forLady and the Tramp-style spaghetti. Credit: Jace Downs/CBS (He rejects Stephanie, Sarah, and Angelique, eventually leaning toward Cheryl.) Then Gibbs shows up with four coffee cups in a holder. He wont say why, though. If I wanted you to know, I wouldve told you, Gibbs gibbses....

May 1, 2025 · 4 min · 672 words · Deborah Morrison

NCIS recap: Spinning Wheel

One of the stories, really. His name was Nicholas, and thanks to indifferent parenting, Ducky cared for Nicholas like a son. And then Nicholas died. Credit: Robert Voets/CBS The dead Marine foiled the attempt, saving Duckys life but losing his own in the process. Gibbs is shocked to hear Ducky has a brother, but Ducky explains that he died years ago. Simms isnt the guy who tried to kidnap Ducky, but Simms accomplice matches the description....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 518 words · Pamela Schwartz MD

NCIS recap: Viral

Tap dancing around that rash-riddled rabbit hole. It begins with the murder of Petty Officer Adam Meyers, killed by a sniper bullet to the chest. Just the work of the heretofore unheard of Tri-state Snipers killing spree, right? Credit: Darren Michaels/CBS Weve got a copycat, people. McGee had a couple of bad poison-oak experiences, which werent made any easier by DiNozzos teasing. I dont want to go down that rash-riddled rabbit hole again, McGee says....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 520 words · Stephanie Coleman