transitfan

I wonder what James Pickens Jr's contract status is (though that doesn't necessarily mean anything...)

Re Shonda/Disney, that's a rodent for you 😂 (My nickname for ABC/Disney is The Rodent (Disney-->Mickey Mouse-->Rodent) So basically I am calling Disney vermin lol (never have been a big fan of Disney. I lived in Southern California for over 20 years and only visited Disneyland once (actually, on my first visit before I lived there. I was more a Magic Mountain kind of guy))

It was Kai with Whistler. Boone was at HQ, essentially as acting SAC.

With his size, he was either an offensive lineman or defensive lineman. The former kinda go unnoticed by most fans (maybe during a game, an announcer will point out a key block that enabled a running back/wide receiver/tight end to get a large yardage gain). The defensive lineman get more notoriety, mostly due to quarterback sacks.

Interesting. I started watching near the end of Season 3, so I missed out (also missed out on Kate, although I've seen a handful of reruns on whatever cable network runs them, I forget which)

This has nothing to do with the episode per se, but the title reminds me of the song of the same name by the Bay City Rollers (remember them?) It was their second single, following their #1 Saturday Night. It didn't reach the top but did hit #10 in the spring of 1976. The only song by them that I liked. And weirdly, the main NCIS episode title was Stranger in a strange land, which was a great song by the heavy metal group Iron Maiden (I think from their Powerslave album). I know Grey's Anatomy uses song titles as episode names, wonder if the NCISes are following suit.

The best example of that was a few years ago (Ziva and Tony were still around) when a case took them to what was supposed to be a barrio area (probably filmed in East Los Angeles or nearby), and at one point, a Metrolink train passed by in the background on an overpass (Metrolink is the commuter railroad in the L. A. area). I was like, too bad they couldn't CGI Virginia Railway Express titles on the Metrolink cars 😂 (VRE is the commuter system coming from suburban Virginia to Washington Union Station), although VRE doesn't use the same type of cars as Metrolink, so...

That's the NCIS effect. 😂 When they have a case in Norfolk and arrive from the Navy Yard in DC in like an hour. More like 4-5 hours (I went to school for a year in Hampton, VA, which is across the Hampton Roads from Norfolk, and at the end of the year, my mother drove down from NYC to pick me up. To break up the trip, we stayed with a cousin in DC the first day, then drove to NY the next day. Much longer than an hour (and Hampton is like 20 miles closer than Norfolk (I-64 to Richmond, then I-95 into DC)) Not to mention that IRL, I believe there is a NCIS team in Norfolk

Only 60 years old 😢 RIP

When (if) that happens, I wonder if Debbie Allen will reprise her role as Hondo's mother on S. W. A. T. It could be that she is stepping back from acting in general (isn't she now a producer on Grey's since Shonda is pretty much out of the picture now?)

I would say that maybe she named Brandy after the hit song by Looking Glass of the same name 50 (!) years ago (although I don't know if the mother was born by 1972 (granted, some people (unlike me) like music from before their time)).

Did they ever mention what position he played? With his size, either offensive lineman or defensive lineman. If the former, while they are invaluable to a team (blocking for the QB, RB, etc.), they generally don't get a lot of notice. Defensive lineman can become big stars due to quarterback sacks and the occasional fumble recovery/interception, especially for a touchdown.

Wow, some 6 degrees here. Both Lindsay Wagner and Patricia Richardson were also guest stars on Grey's Anatomy (Lindsay played the mother of Alex Karev, while Patricia played a famous author who had to have a procedure (I forget what kind) Well, Grey's is on Season 19, and NCIS on season 20, so not too surprising that there would be some overlap with guest actors.

I'm trying to remember, in the movie, I thought it was just the daughter Dana (played by a young Eliza Dushku), unless I missed a son early in the film (saw it on cable, so I may have joined "in progress" and missed the early part.)

Could be interesting. Assuming he keeps his rank, that's 4 Lts at one station: Jack Maya Andy Sullivan

Not to mention that she was on that exact plane. I guess it's that the crashed plane was a crappy private one run by a crappy private charter outfit, while she and the kids appeared to be on a nice widebody plane run by one of the major airlines (unidentified of course, I speculated Delta, since they fly between Seattle and Boston non-stop, albeit not with widebodies in real life). Speaking of Owen, was he in this epsiode? If he was, I missed it (I did miss a few minutes of it).

It probably didn't help that the rock group Van Hagar, I mean Van Halen famously had an album entitled 5150 in the 80s 😂 (that was actually the first time I heard that, I didn't know it was a code for mental issues until later)

Unless they built an airport set, maybe one of the L. A.-area airports. Probably not LAX, I'm thinking Ontario (which "played" LAX in the short-lived series of the same name) On that subject, nice wide-body plane they were in. That brief shot of the plane flying (no airline markings of course) looked to me like a Boeing 777. Because I am an aviation buff, I checked real-life Seattle-Boston flights (on Delta, as SEA and BOS are both focus cities for that airline). Apparently, all the non-stop flights for DL are on (narrow body) Airbus A-321 NEOs. Oh well, Hollywood 😂

Yep, or when the team responds to an incident at Norfolk and roll up in a few minutes 😂 (I went to college for a year in Hampton, VA, which is across the Hampton Roads (waterway) from Norfolk, so maybe 20 miles closer to Washington DC. At the end of the school year, my mother drove down to pick me up and we drove to stay with a cousin in DC to break up the trip before leaving the next day for our home in Brooklyn NY. Took a few hours (I-64 to Richmond, then I-95 into DC)) But our heroes travel in NCIS time 😂 IIRC, at least one of the shipments that was jacked was headed for a Navy facility, so I guess that was enough for NCIS involvement

It actually looked like 4 tracks (in the subsequent scene when Officer Quinlan was undercover). Of the 3 Van Siclen Av stations on the system, only the one on Pitkin Av (A and C lines) has 4 tracks, and it is underground. It looked to me like it may have been an LIRR station.

I didn't remember that it was you who said that, but when I saw Saint in the "Previously on SWAT..." preview, I was like "he talked him up!" (as my grandmother used to say) 🙂

Yep. Looks like a lightning storm strikes Seattle, so Station 19 will be responding to calls based on that, and then victims will be transported to Grey/Sloan Mercy Death for treatment. 😂 First a tornado, now a lightning storm. Both weather phenomena which are unusual for Seattle (AFAIK). Hopefully, that is not a back door climate change message from Shonda 😐

I would not at all be surprised if Hondo asks Deacon (and Annie) to be baby girl Henderson's godparents (after clearing it with Nichelle first of course)

On Station 19, early on, Ben was lamenting that Pru might not be able to attend the festivities at the station since Miranda was wroking again. But then late in the episode, she turned up with the older by that Ben and Miranda aadopted (Ricky?) Apparently he is old enough to drive now. I think she was wearing costume #1 (soccer player?) Dinosaurs, eh? Blue or Rexy? 😂

If I'm heating something for say, 1 minute 20 seconds, I just punch in 80 seconds 🙂