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NCIS: Hawai’i – Silent Invasion

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A break-in and double murder reminds Jesse (Noah Mills) of an old case closed by a former NCIS agent Tennant (Vanessa Lachey) got fired from NCIS after she took over the assignment at Pearl Harbor. The longer NCIS investigates the case the more Tennant begins to wonder if the person NCIS put in prison years go is actually innocent of his crime and that Carter ignored evidence and witnesses that didn’t fit the confession he coerced from the suspect while in custody. There’s plenty of animosity here, and uncovering of wrongdoing by the former agent, but there’s no payoff or consequences given what is uncovered.

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NCIS: Hawai’i – Misplaced Targets

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An explosion during the raid of a meth lab leads NCIS to uncover Kai (Alex Tarrant) was the target of his old frenemy A.J. Hale (Jonah Ho’okano) who later baits the agent into an assault in his father’s restaurant. Unable to pin anything on A.J., NCIS squeezes his wife (Diana Lu), although in the frenzy afterwards Kai makes a discovery that will change his views of the criminal he’s spent the past several months attempting to take down. The conclusion of the A.J. story is notable, however, it’s the return of another cast member that provides several of the episode’s best moments.

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Will Trent – The Look Out

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  • Title: Will Trent – The Look Out
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Betting a local cop he can solve a robbery homicide in a single night gets Trent (Ramón Rodríguez) into a jam when the obvious explanation, a gang of thieves making just these kinds of robberies in the same neighborhood, turns out not to be responsible. Showcasing a bit of our detective’s ego, “The Look Out” is a fun episode even if the return of the Angie (Erika Christensen) and Ormewood (Jake McLaughlin) B-story crime turns out to be pretty forgettable. The episode also offers another example of how his on-again/off-again relationship with Angie prevents him from considering other options such as an artist (Julia Chan) turned suspect who he put in jail (but that didn’t stop her from flirting with him throughout the episode).

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The Mystery of the Dancing Devil

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  • Title: The Mystery of the Dancing Devil
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to a mystery involving the Three Investigators whose mantra of “We Investigate Everything” begins with a search for a young girl’s doll which uncovers a much larger mystery involving items stolen all over Pete‘s neighborhood. After Jupiter deduces that the thief is looking for a case similar in size which was squirreled away after a car accident in the neighborhood, the search takes them everywhere from spying on a local bully to talking with an expert on Oriental art and puts the Three Investigators in the path of a Dancing Devil searching for a rare statue of itself hidden in one of those cases.

There are several layers and misdirects to The Mystery of the Dancing Devil which Jupiter, Pete, and Bob will eventually uncover involving theft, forgery, ransom, and kidnapping (when they themselves are trapped by one of the villains). And before the end, Jupe will make deductions which will even surprise his friends.

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Spenser: For Hire – She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not

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  • Title: Spenser: For Hire – She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to the mean streets of Boston and the travails of a smart ass private detective. “She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not” gives us a rare Frank Belson (Ron McLarty) episode when Frank’s old partner (Jess Osuna) is killed by those searching for the smuggled minks the former cop turned into a lucrative business years before. Gail Strickland guest-stars as Frank’s new neighbor who he immediately falls for not realizing she’s a hitter from out of town after the minks as well. The pair make for an interesting, if short-lived, couple.

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