NCIS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1

Heyow guys - I have decided to review my new ultimate favorite show NCIS. Starting with season one hopefully catching up before season eight starts. The first episode is "Yankee White" and it gives up one of the most under appreciated federal law enforcement agencies and all their comings and goings!



The episode starts off with Air Force One and President Bush - he boards the plane and we meet Caitlin "Kate" Todd who is working on his Secret Service detail. The football carrier Lt. Trapp dies on the plane - forcing the president to evacuate and the authorities to be called in and NCIS steals the body from the Secret Service and FBI by using the local coroner who is friends with Ducky - the NCIS coroner and so they steal the body and travel back to Washington.



Major Kerry is the second victim on the show - and he was the person who originally had to carry the football on Air Force One - but got sick and had to hand over the job. We learn he and Kate were having a romantic relationship - but she ended it as she could not concentrate on her detail of protecting the president and shortly after his meeting with Kate, Major Kerry dies the same mysterious way as Lt. Trapp.

Abby the NCIS forensic scientist finds traces of Australian Coastal Taipan Snake Venom (DMSO) on the collars of both victims - and the murders are referenced to be the work of a terrorist group. Just a small side note - Abby, wow! She is one hot goth!



The first and only movie reference Gibbs is known to make - turns out to be on the mark (Air Force One - with Harrison Ford)! The terrorist on Air Force One plans to take out the president as it was done on the movie - but Kate and Gibbs luckily foil his plans! Kate resigns from the Secret Service because of her affair and Gibbs recruits her to join NCIS.

The Tony Tale of the episode:
Once at Washington airport the FBI take the body in the body bag - but unknown to them Tony is in the bag pretending to be the body while Gibbs and Ducky get away with the real body! When Agent Fornell of the FBI finds out the body is actually Tony he gets thrown out of the van while in the bag - and bounces around on the beltway! Seriously funny!

There are four rules mentioned in this episode namely:
Rule#1 - Never let suspects stay together
Rule#2 - Always wear gloves at a crime scene
Rule#3 - Never believe what your told - always double check

Another rule is mentioned but not fully and not numbered: never apologize!

And finally a bit of trivia - the director of the Secret Service as seen on the MTAC screen talking to the Director of the FBI and Director Morrow of NCIS was the murderer Dr. Russell Pike in the season 4 episode "Driven"