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I thought the team descended into immaturity in the first half, as the naval vessel descended. We have a NCIS crew member who lost her sea-legs; a young and petty medical examiner , the others were unprofessional too. Bishop missed an obvious conclusion that Gibbs fed her. The antics in the beginning set up their collective rise to the occasion once it was revealed that Gibbs was stranded and the case went dire. Nick was On It,.

the key line delivered by Gibbs sums up this episode: "no dice"

The Court represents an ultimate social and public setting, in contrast with the prior life off the grid. Even if the single sermon is the only one he's heard, i don't think one sample sermon guarantees that he has internalized the moral of the lesson .

Detective Carissi seems to be the working forensic archaeologist. This season he uncovered 3 bodies long concealed on residential properties, first stumbling onto the yiddish family matriarch.. Plus he analyzed the contents of the Starbucks cup recovered from the parking garage early in this episode . He gave that herbology analysis of the suspect's lawn, later in this episode.

Lisa introduced the sand artwork ritual to a Western audience by demonstration on a compliant Marge first

in the NCIS universe, coma and spinal cord injury are not obstacles to pregnancy...[per the bridesmaids' chatter ]

Agent K invoked "Not without my Daughter " (1991) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102555/, Running to the "Panic Room" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258000/ crying "not without my family "

In season 5, episode 18, I presume the educator was playing that she didn't know the world capital closest to US

Agent Khoury's conversation with Pride in the Fed's office about the Tower of Babel says it all about the episode "Crab Mentality". The cast mumbled the lines for the first third of the show, and the plot wasn't all that lucid. Much of this episode was unintelligible to me.

The Bard might appreciate how, the address on the victim’s apartment door is 2B, as in “to be or not to be “. The reference to “Hamlet “ ties into the episode's Shakespearean motif, as Dick Wolf productions are diligent with stage design.

i noticed a slight homage to the set up of the husband in "Gone Girl " ,

akin to how Breen County found this COTW"s victim's remains in a vehicle a decade ago. Lily's mom resurfaced too. I am going to look for Gibbs' Rule 40

The episode earlier this season about the circus, and this, milk the timely but tired clown trope

Watching this and thinking how they nearly approximated the timeline to have them date in the late 80s, and have the tween-age kids by their canon debut in ’92. I take it that the moral of the episode is that the Border Wall is a B-rated production by a clown -sorry ,sorry

The SVU twist was that the trial proceedings happened at the beginning of the episode. The emphasis on legal departments paid homage to classic L&O.

Homer resorted to this relationship repair in Werking Mom. The couple is on that kind of cycle

Lisa's prize unicorn in the epilogue is a cute plug for toys from Melissa and Doug:

The franchise's set design and props remain relatively realistic, if the premises waiver from reality

Detective Rollin's duffle bag that concealed KG's form contained equipment to pump and store lactation ?

The BAU regards hard cover books as too culturally obsolete to investigate now? last week the detective had a blunder with the unsub's notebook This revealing evidence would have been pivotal to the classical premise of criminal minds.

The witty manipulation during the hostage scene was limited to Profilers' literal soaps.I am glad this episode was the season finale . I wouldn't have made it to May on a dare. The truth is that I barely made it through this case

In the library, in such an early stage of the investigation, should the profilers have been curious about what subject, or segment of the Dewy decimal system the unsub had been perusing? The particular stack would have been a Californian gold mine of physical, metaphorical and symbolic material for those detectives.

Should Luke have looked in the back of the ruled notebook when asked about the unsub’s most recent entry. The *Maine thing that the episode accomplished was a nod to Stephen King’s spooky settings