[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for NCIS Season 22 Episode 19 “Irreconcilable Differences.”]
McGee (Sean Murray) is decided to take down Laroche (Seamus Dever) it doesn’t matter what on NCIS, and within the penultimate episode, his former boss who knew a factor or two about private pursuits, Gibbs (Mark Harmon exited in Season 19), is introduced up fairly a bit.
The episode begins with McGee, dressed like Gibbs and even pouring himself a drink like the person, in his basement, noticing an Alaska postcard. Then the TV within the room reveals a feed of himself there … strolling across the again of a ship, so McGee follows go well with. It says Tim. When he hears somebody upstairs, his rapid response is “Boss?” but it surely’s Laroche. “Don’t look so stunned, you knew this was coming,” he says earlier than capturing him, and McGee wakes at his desk to all the pieces he has on the person on his laptop display screen.
Basement desires can mess together with your head, Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) remarks to Knight (Katrina Legislation); in his, Gibbs gave him a virgin pina colada and instructed him to cease slouching. Knight interprets McGee’s as a traditional worry of failure. He was dressed as Gibbs as a result of he holds himself to inconceivable requirements and desires to stay as much as Gibbs. Then, when Parker (Gary Cole) tries to ship McGee house after three all-nighters in a row, the agent snaps, “I can do my job, Gibbs!” It’s a transparent signal he does must go house.
However he solely will get so far as his automobile when he sees Laroche get into his, with out the safety element he’s had these days after the hit put out on him, and so he follows him. Laroche switches vehicles earlier than ending up at an deserted energy plant. There, he sees Laroche shoot somebody, then the deputy director runs when McGee makes a noise and calls out for him to cease. Whereas chasing him, McGee is sideswiped by a truck and Laroche escapes. The motive force solely noticed McGee, not Laroche, and moreover, there’s no signal of a physique or the scene being cleaned up. McGee insists he noticed what he did, and Parker and Torres consider him, however will anybody else? Vance (Rocky Carroll) wants proof, particularly because it seems to be like this could possibly be about McGee dropping the deputy director job to Laroche.
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In the meantime, the staff has been working a theft case; somebody used a military-grade sign jammer to rob a truck with solid registration. The staff focuses on that one after they’ve been ordered to drop the one in opposition to Laroche (who involves examine on McGee and suggests he take it straightforward for just a few days), and the log of the alerts that the jammer blocked leads them to Arliss Pinkerton, the alias for Crispin Shaker Jr.; considered one of his identified associates is the man Laroche supposedly killed, McGee confirms after briefly seeing Gibbs’ truck parked in his spot. It seems to be just like the connection to the heist was Laroche needing money and hiring thieves to do the soiled work of getting the cash from a Nexus truck that, because the mole for the cartel, Laroche had the inside track on.
However then Inspector Basic Ward reveals that an official criticism has been filed in opposition to McGee for skilled misconduct, harassment, and an abuse of energy, and everybody is aware of it was Laroche. (As McGee sits in an interrogation room, once more, his spouse Delilah texts about him ignoring her and asks, “What’s subsequent — a ship within the basement?” Ouch.) Ward insists that is an unbiased investigation, not a favor, however McGee thinks Laroche is utilizing her as his pawn. Ward, as a substitute, turns it round on him, arguing that his actions — pulling Laroche’s personnel information, establishing alerts for when he makes use of his keycard, and getting into his house workplace with out permission — communicate for themselves. To her, it seems to be like jealousy, and when McGee says he’s prepared to testify Laroche is a killer, she decides to suggest indefinite (as a substitute of non permanent) suspension, pending formal fees for defamation. When he tells her his cellphone has alerted him to Laroche being within the proof storage, the place he’s not imagined to be, she takes his cellphone. That’s when he asks for a lawyer, and she or he walks out.
The staff then finds the primary actual proof they’ve: The lifeless thief’s cellphone activates, and on the physique (the man whom McGee noticed Laroche kill) is a mint similar to the deputy director likes to snack on.
When Ward returns to the interrogation room, nevertheless, McGee is gone and left behind a easy notice: Rule #45. He’s cleansing up his mess. Parker likes that rule, however as Vance factors out, “Gibbs’ guidelines at all times come at a value.” A partial print on the physique matches Laroche’s, and the staff presents that in addition to all the pieces else they’ve uncovered to Ward, who offers them the okay to go after Laroche, who’s driving off with proof at the back of a van — and McGee’s hiding in there!
Laroche meets with Shaker, wanting what he’s owed, and McGee bursts in, along with his gun out, utilizing the identical phrases that the deputy director in his dream did. Laroche remarks on his regular fingers and guaranteed stance, noting, “Gibbs could be proud. I learn the information,” however “Gibbs pulled the set off when he needed to. You don’t must.” Shaker then turns his gun on McGee, and Laroche shoots Shaker. Shaker fires when he goes down and it seems to be like McGee is probably hit within the arm or shoulder. Laroche tells McGee that he saved his life, and McGee tells him to drop his gun; when the remainder of the staff is available in, Laroche surrenders. It wasn’t imagined to be like this, he says, and factors to Shaker’s pocket, during which is a pc chip. It’s not about cash, Laroche insists, and it by no means was. “It’s time you recognize the reality,” he says. However what’s the fact?!
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