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NCIS: Origins – Vivo o Muerto

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  • Title: NCIS: Origins – Vivo o Muerto
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The case of a Navy seaman abducted by a human trafficking ring leads Gibbs (Austin Stowell) and Dominguez (Mariel Molino). However, things get more interesting when cartel responsible is revealed to be the same cartel that killed Gibbs’ family. “Vivo o Muerto” plays the “everyone on deck” trope with lots of work in the office while Gibbs and Dominguez, and eventually Franks (Kyle Schmid), work to track down not only the seaman but several other women all held by the cartel whose members include the man Gibbs has been hunting since his return from overseas.

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Interior Chinatown – Kung Fu Guy

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  • Title: Interior Chinatown – Kung Fu Guy
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At first Willis Wu (Jimmy O. Yang) is ecstatic at his new role of Tech Guy. Other than short interruptions by Turner (Sullivan Jones) and Green (Lisa Gilroy) to enhance evidence, Willis is left alone to explore hours of video of his brother (Chris Pang). Lana Lee (Chloe Bennet) also joins him his as well, spending more time together looking into his brother, what exactly he was doing for the department, and any reference to the Painted Dragons. However, an odd clip of the two detectives (Maury Sterling and Spencer Neville) who recruited him leads Willis down a rabbit hole forcing him to question everything he knows. And then, just to confuse him further, one last new piece of evidence leads him to the last place he ever expected: home.

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Black Doves – A Little Black Dove

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  • Title: Black Doves – A Little Black Dove
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There’s an awful lot to like in “A Little Black Dove” which gives us a terrific kitchen confrontation between Helen Webb (Keira Knightley) and the hired assassin (Paapa Essiedu) who killer her lover but also flashbacks to Helen’s recruitment into the Black Doves, her first meetings with both Sam (Ben Whishaw) and Mrs. Reed (Sarah Lancashire), and the first assignment which went a little too well and ended up changing her life forever. By the end of the episode we not only have far more context for Helen’s career as a spy but also a measure of victory in her besting the assassin. 

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The Irrational – Stan by Me

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  • Title: The Irrational – Stan by Me
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Although it provides almost nothing for the assistants to do, other than to laugh at Owen’s (Arash DeMaxi) fandom, I enjoyed the main story of “Stan by Me” featuring Alec (Jesse L. Martin) and Rose (Karen David) working together to solve the murder of a fan one of her former clients, a renown K-pop star (Kirstin Leigh) who becomes the prime suspect. Sadly, I was far less interested in the B-story involving Marisa (Maahra Hill) and her struggle getting along with her new boss at the FBI which, in procedural fashion, fixes itself by the end of the episode and thus turns out to be mostly pointless.

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NCIS: Origins – Sick as Our Secrets

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  • Title: NCIS: Origins – Sick as Our Secrets
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The primary focus of “Sick as Our Secrets” deals with  Gibbs (Austin Stowell) and Randy (Caleb Foote) being assigned the protection detail for a priest (Jonah Wharton) who knows the identity of a killer but cannot share it because it came through the confessional. The episode really exists to explore the guilt Randy has been carrying around for months, volunteering for every protection detail, after another agent took his place protecting Gibbs’ wife and daughter. As for the case of the week, it’s fine, and includes an interesting segment of Gibbs and Randy mistaking a pair of robbers as killers, but ultimately anticlimactic as the pair end up not protecting him from the killer and the priest simply gives them the name (meaning no one is asked to solve a crime). 

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