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Working at a blood financial institution is sweet work, and a girl was terrorized on NCIS Season 22 Episode 13 whereas doing her job.
Not solely was she assaulted by a fentanyl-taking lunatic, however the entire blood she labored so laborious to gather and that common folks have been so type to donate was destroyed.
Frankly, that was a bummer.
However earlier than we get to that unhappy growth, we have to talk about McGee’s children’ newest fundraiser and his need to beat Brendan Banks, the Cool Faculty Dad, by assuring his children offered essentially the most espresso.
To start with, Mr. Banks seemed type of skeevy to me. If I noticed him, the very last thing that will come to thoughts was being cool. Nonetheless, children are totally different, and oldsters want somebody to look as much as relating to elevating them.
For McGee’s crowd, Banks was the it man.
I hate to be that gal, however I’m going to make use of a “again in my day” reference. As a result of, again in my day, we needed to promote our personal stuff for recognition. My dad by no means took any of our fundraisers to work. We hoofed it across the neighborhood promoting door to door.
However these days have gone. Children don’t even stroll to high school anymore (at the very least not that I can inform, despite the fact that I assume that also occurs someplace in center America, proper??), not to mention knock on strangers’ doorways and promote them wares.
So, why is that this related to the blood financial institution thriller? As a result of McGee was peddling espresso, and Kasie drank a number of massive cups of Jitter Joe, which, frankly, scares the heck out of me.
However Kasie was virtually mainlining Jitter Joe, which, with thrice the quantity of caffeine than common espresso, is kind of harmful. As a scientist, she would know that. I do know it made for a cute section, however there’s nothing cute about ODing on caffeine.
Nonetheless, to attain the outcomes of DNA single-cell evaluation of over 100 samples and to have the outcomes prepared earlier than the van was totally processed would have required a miracle.
If you’d like it semi-plausible, a couple of days could be the minimal evaluation time. If it’s pressing and so they “pull some strings,” perhaps 24-48 hours (however that’s nonetheless pushing it). But when they declare leads to a couple of hours, it’s pure TV magic.
And, frankly, that magic typically pulls me out of the story. However put Kasie on pace, and it actually pulls me out. It was method too foolish for the seriousness of the case.
Throughout NCIS Season 22 Episode 13, all types of issues have been tossed round, together with killing a regulation officer, a killer on tranc, a reference to the “crimson market,” a killer medical skilled, and T.J. Thyne’s return as Fletcher Voss.
Thyne initiated the position on NCIS Season 21 Episode 7, a Vance-centric episode with numerous nostalgia. Voss is clearly written to be some kind of Elon Musk counterpart (earlier than he grew to become the President’s bestie), proper right down to suggesting that he finds expertise reasonably than having any.
Right here, his identify comes up throughout the investigation when the crew hyperlinks a blood donor Parker known as Completely Regular Lauren (which caught like glue in my head) to an organization known as Life Sequence.
Life Sequence supposedly used your DNA profile to make suggestions for higher well being. Your each transfer could be tracked and processed via a smartwatch. In fact, introducing such a gadget made the story a little bit sillier.
Completely Regular Lauren was victimized as a consequence of her connection to Voss, however her blood donation linked her to the crime. At first look, her profile revealed nothing excellent. However after they went to go to TNL, the scent of bleach in her storage was overwhelming.
Inside, they discovered a barrel stuffed with goo and a human cranium. Was it Completely Regular Lauren?
Watching Jimmy ladle the goop out of the barrel was nauseating. I can’t think about what it will need to have smelled like in there. It’s humorous how they fake that work would keep on as regular, with out anybody shielding themselves from the putrid stays.
In fact, Kasie found out that Lauren’s physique was positioned within the acid between 8 and 10 pm on Saturday evening. Can they actually get particular outcomes like that from goop? It appears unlikely, however hey, we appear to dwell for this sort of stuff, given the recognition of nonsensical crime investigations on TV!
Initially, they thought whoever was at fault may not have needed their DNA tracked, however that concept was a flash within the pan.
To get a greater understanding of the product and the way it might result in homicide, Parker and Jess visited Life Sequence, the place they found “excellent specimens,” beta testers who’re prepared to be tracked and monitored 24/7 to make the product higher.
Truthfully, that was misplaced on me. How would a bunch of individuals working on treadmills in Life Sequence headquarters be thought of beta testers for a real-world product?
It doesn’t matter, particularly because it led to Nick going undercover, channeling the Bionic Man on the treadmill, and saying, “No limits,” not solely to speak with Kasie and McGee but additionally to show to himself that he deserves the Good Specimen designation.
Even in any case these years on NCIS, it nonetheless makes me giggle to assume that Wilmer Valderrama is identical man who performed Fez on That ’70s Present.
However when Nick was leaning over the desk and pursing his lips, hoping to change into NCIS’s Good Specimen illustration, that comedic coaching labored effectively.
Whereas I’m complaining concerning the realities of NCIS, it’s a very good time to level out that the beacon Nick positioned on the treadmill throughout his audition was like a, effectively, you already know — beacon. Upon getting into the room, I’d have seen the crimson mild underneath the treadmill shelf instantly.
However his Bionic journey scored helpful intel, and Voss’s actions have been tracked to and from Completely Regular Lauren’s home. But when he have been concerned together with her demise, he wouldn’t have worn his gizmo. Of all folks, he knew how invasive it was.
Plus, she was pregnant together with his little one, and whereas Voss has been arrange as a nasty man, he’s by no means actually been a dangerous man, you already know?
Thyne is so good with these roles that he makes a man like Voss sympathetic, despite the fact that he was hardly somebody to root for when the “Unhealthy Blood” (or “A Thousand Yards”) started.
However then Fletcher was nearly killed proper in entrance of Parker and Vance, who have been questioning him.
As a lot as I needed his gadget to have allowed a killer to remotely detonate him in a roundabout way, it was only a common stroke that took him down, instigated by the stress of revising TNL and their unborn little one’s deaths… and…
…Rigorously deliberate by whoever was crafting his choose meal plan via his personal firm. Oh, what tangled webs we weave.
Because it turned out, the algorithm and the sequencer have been all a lie. Voss iced out the product’s creator (whose identify I completely missed) after he purchased her firm when he thought he was higher suited to determine it out.
She wasn’t the killer, both. The hippy-looking physician, Donovan, who tracked Nick’s Good Specimen tryout, did it, supposedly to avoid wasting others from utilizing a shoddy product.
Who of their proper thoughts kills somebody like that underneath the guise of probably saving another person? Why not simply whistleblow to the general public? Possibly you need to be a assassin to know their motivations as a result of I actually don’t.
With Elon Musk being a central determine in our lives, I’ve to marvel if Thyne can be returning once more as Voss. His newest enterprise has been squashed, however he’ll preserve making an attempt. And he’s a breath of recent air.
I can’t be the one one that would like to see Bones return. Thyne’s roles by no means take him all that removed from Jack Hodgins, and when Voss and McGee had a bonding second on the finish, I might simply see him paying NCIS one other go to.
OK. So right here’s a second for us to get actual.
Is weekly protection of a present like this (with protection like this) one thing you take pleasure in? Ought to we stick with it, or ought to we simply cowl extra explosive moments after they happen? We do that for you, however we’ve very restricted engagement on NCIS posts, so I must know if it’s hitting the proper notes.
So, let me know beneath what you considered the episode and whether or not you discover this protection precious.
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