NCIS: Origins

• Title: NCIS: Origins – Flight of Icarus
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NCIS takes on a case involving the apparent suicide of a general’s son just days before the soldier’s redeployment which have elements that hit home for Franks through a series of flashbacks. While I don’t have an issue with exploring Franks’ past, nor using a current case to provide the framework for those flashbacks, I’m not sure the script of “Flight of the Icarus” was necessarily the best episode to do so (when you think the actions of the dead solider would hit harder for our main character who attempted suicide himself not all that long ago). With so much time focused on Franks, Gibbs (Austin Stowell) and his new romantic relationship with Dominguez (Mariel Molino) gets mostly pushed to the side without an immediate follow up, although one of their colleagues appears to have sniffed out the change in their relationship.

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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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• Title: NCIS: Origins – One Flew Over
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“One Flew Over” is more memorable for the Gibbs‘ (Austin Stowell) storylines than the murder of the week involving an elderly woman with dementia found dead in the woods. For Gibbs we get a present involving him taking care of an injured bird while flashbacks tie back, in an not-so-subtle metaphor, to the soldier’s early interactions with Franks (Kyle Schmid) after returning home and his frustrations with the murderer still roaming free. Before the end, we’ll also see Franks being unable to let a personal case go providing some understanding and commonalities between Franks and his probie. 

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