5.17 About Face

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"ABOUT FACE"

airdate: May 13, 2008
written by: Alfonso H. Moreno, Reed Steiner
and Jesse Stern
directed by: Dennis Smith

Jimmy Palmer becomes the target of a mysterious killer who only he can recognize. (CBS Press Release)

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A hypnotized Palmer reveals his shoe fetish.
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Palmer is braver than he thought, and less brave than he would like to be.
He is close to his mother (he writes to her to tell her about his week, via email)
We also discover Palmer's mother's name is Eunice from the E-mail heading
He looks good in a suit!
Palmer truly thinks a medical scientist without a gun ought to have been able to capture and disarm a gunman: until he gets Ziva to show him how it is done.

This episode was previously titled "Demolition."
Ziva' shoe size is 7. (US shoe sizing)
Abby's shoe size is 10. (US shoe sizing)
Palmer has a shoe fetish.
Palmer gets two shots of espresso every morning from a vendor who looks like mafiosi.

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5.18 Judgement Day In a special two hour season finale Tony and Ziva are assigned to protect Director Shepard as she attends the funeral of retired NCIS Special Agent William Decker. Agent Decker's autopsy was ruled a suicide, but at the funeral Jenny discovers it was murder, and during her investigation the team will have to deal with the loss of one of their own.

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gottalovetherain

Ducky to die? (page: 1 2)

May 16 2012, 5:39 AM EDT by Sorgiña

Thread started: May 12 2008, 7:10 AM EDT Watch

The fact that this episode is going to be focused of Palmer who isn't one of the main characters makes me suspicious. Imean compared to the others, who cares abou Palmer? However, perhaps this is a way of us getting to know him better if Ducky dies in judgement day and he becomes the main autopsy guy or whatever?!
I myself am not covinced by this idea however, since it is called judgement day which suggests somone will be paying for their sins and who has Ducky ever hurt? Also, the agents and director are in more dangerous situations where there is the potential for murder.
Thoughts?

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pictures from "About Face" (page: 1 2 3)

May 15 2008, 6:35 PM EDT by Madchild

Thread started: May 5 2008, 1:01 PM EDT Watch

Okay, spoiler coming up, so don't read if you don't like them.

It is official, Ziva is definitely going to live past "Recoil." I was checking out the link this site has to CBS press release photos and saw Ziva and Tony with their guns drawn in the release for "About Face."

Also, if you want some info on who survives, check out the photos for pictures of the team in search of someone who killed "one of their own"

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RE: pictures from "About Face"
By: Madchild, May 15 2008, 6:35 PM EDT

"That was my first thought when Jenny visited the Old Russian in the hospital...and he laughed & said Jen's father wad still alive . Then the father's fingerprints on the booze bottle in her home that Abbey found really got me thinking the Frog was her Dad (they can do wonders with plastic surgery today} and how did Gibbs know the Glock wasn't loaded? Did he know or figure out Frog was her Dad {deep undercover)
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When they found the body of La Grenouille, they said that the CIA was the one who put the fingerprints on the bottle. I am assuming it was to distract Jenny from pursuing La Grenouille when she was in France by sending her to Russia. I don't think La Grenouille was her father--although I do agree there's a possibility that the Russian was telling the truth and her father is still alive (something I've believed for a while). If this is true then maybe he's been working for the CIA all this time---he faked his death--and the prints were his because he did touch the bottle.

To be honest, I am confused due to a contradiction. When Abby tested the fingerprint from the bottle, she told gibbs that the the print had 8 points and not 6 (or something to that effect), so the print was NEW. Yet, when they investigated the team, they said that the CIA had "copied" and old fingerpring of J's Dad and put it on the bottle. If this is true, then where did the other 2 points come from?? If anything I wold think that it would lose points due to degredation or in the "copying" process.

ALSO, Gibbs knew the Glock was empty because he took the clip out himself before Jenny got there, to prevent her from kiling La Grenouille.

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Palmer

May 10 2008, 8:24 AM EDT by sara_12345

Thread started: May 9 2008, 7:18 PM EDT Watch

this is the first eposode that is only about him

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