2.08 Bounty **SPOILERS**

[jo]

"Bounty"

When a former Army Sergeant responsible for hunting down high-value targets is found dead, the NCIS team searches for terrorist leaders suspected of his murder. Meanwhile, Deeks bonds with a person of interest in the case, making him more determined than ever to track down the killers
Tuesday, Nov. 9 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT)


SERIES REGULARS:
NCIS Special Agent G. Callen................................. Chris O'Donnell
NCIS Special Agent Sam Hanna................................... LL COOL J
Henrietta "Hetty" Lange......................................... Linda Hunt
NCIS Special Agent Kensi Blye ................................. Daniela Ruah
LAPD Detective Marty Deeks................................Eric Christian Olsen
Tech Operator Eric Beal...........................................Barrett Foa

GUEST CAST:
NCIS Intelligence Analyst Nell Jones......................Renée Felice Smith
Jafar Khan.....................Dariush Kashani
Afghan Thug......................Wolf Amer
Cashier.............................Omar Leyva
LAPD Officer..................Pablo Espinosa
Marine Gunnery Sergeant Teenage Boy......................William May
Andrew Weaver.................Stephen Amell
Brandon Booth...................Brett DelBuono
Landlady.......................Mary Pat Gleason
Thomas Booth.........Anthony Michael Jones

WRITTEN BY: Dave Kalstein
DIRECTED BY: Felix Alcala
CBS

Promos

Tuesday, November 9 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT)

[Belinda]

Great episode!!!

Deeks and Kensi are a great team, and it's nice to see Deeks showing a bit more seriousness than just being goofy comedic relief!

I am definitely looking forward to new episodes!!

[jo]

Another great episode.
And I agree, Belinda - I'm glad we're seeing a more serious side to Deeks. I also think with the bits and pieces of his back story, we're maybe seeing why he plays the goofball so much of the time.
He and Kensi are becoming a great team -- without the UST you get from Ziva/Tony. More like ... Sam/G.

So Hetty made up the whole Armenian mob/gun thing? She is such a HOOT.

And since I've not said in for a while -- I MISS NATE! The little computer techie girl is becoming annoying to me. If she were recurring, I wouldn't care. But to drop Peter's character to give this girl a role is just... WRONG.
Her voice is annoying, too.
And did she not try profiling last night, too? NO! NO! NO!
I am well aware that these are two different roles. All I'm saying is I'd rather have the psychologist than the nerd girl. Not only did she replace Peter in the cast -- she takes away my Eric-time.
It almost feels as tho they are trying to make her an "Abby-type." She is not. Eric is the "Abby" of Team LA.

I'm thinking they didn't know what to do with Nate's character -- which I believe MrClark has also said.
First he was just the doc/profiler - then they tried teaming him up with Kensi - and when that didn't work, they send him off on some secret assignment.
I'm hoping they'll bring him back with more skills that will be useful to the team. But I don't know... I figure they'll bring him back for the end of the season shows like they did Dom. . . which didn't work out too good for that character.

[Belinda]

I find Nell to be adorable! Whenever I look at her, I just remember the cute moment she had with Callen and Sam where Callen was like "she looks like runaway not an agent" and told her not to take candies from strangers!

I think it's rather cute the team's got a little one to feel protective over.

As for Nate, I'm hoping this special assignment is meant to give more edges to his character because they need to find him a place.

[MrClark]

Nov 11, 2010 6:29:34 GMT -5 Belinda said:

I find Nell to be adorable! Whenever I look at her, I just remember the cute moment she had with Callen and Sam where Callen was like "she looks like runaway not an agent" and told her not to take candies from strangers!

I think it's rather cute the team's got a little one to feel protective over.

As for Nate, I'm hoping this special assignment is meant to give more edges to his character because they need to find him a place.

One mildly amusing moment does not come close to saving her character IMO, shes a waste of space because she provides most of the same services as Eric and shes taking Nate's place. She really doesn't bring anything unique to the mix which is why she feels completely superfluous.

As for last nights episodes I could spent a few paragraphs roasting its factual inaccuracies as I'm a bit of a JSOC nerd but it was on the whole pretty good. I'm still not wild about the Kensi/Deek's dynamic because it still feels like they're trying to force it. I have however decided I was wrong in thinking that they were shooting for Tony/Ziva type vibe, they're actually going for Tony/Kate vibe. Its clearly more of a brother/sister rivalry thing but at the same time I think they're going to squeeze in as much UST around the edges as they can just like they did with Tony and Kate.

[Lelu]

Nov 11, 2010 10:08:08 GMT -5 MrClark said:

Nov 11, 2010 6:29:34 GMT -5 Belinda said:

I find Nell to be adorable! Whenever I look at her, I just remember the cute moment she had with Callen and Sam where Callen was like "she looks like runaway not an agent" and told her not to take candies from strangers!

I think it's rather cute the team's got a little one to feel protective over.

As for Nate, I'm hoping this special assignment is meant to give more edges to his character because they need to find him a place.

One mildly amusing moment does not come close to saving her character IMO, shes a waste of space because she provides most of the same services as Eric and shes taking Nate's place. She really doesn't bring anything unique to the mix which is why she feels completely superfluous.

As for last nights episodes I could spent a few paragraphs roasting its factual inaccuracies as I'm a bit of a JSOC nerd but it was on the whole pretty good. I'm still not wild about the Kensi/Deek's dynamic because it still feels like they're trying to force it. I have however decided I was wrong in thinking that they were shooting for Tony/Ziva type vibe, they're actually going for Tony/Kate vibe. Its clearly more of a brother/sister rivalry thing but at the same time I think they're going to squeeze in as much UST around the edges as they can just like they did with Tony and Kate.

WOW I actually agree with you.