Out of the frying pan into the fire does mean that things go from pretty bad to really bad.

I'm wondering if Vance and Gibbs are at odds because Vance has pulled another "change up" like he did in Judgement Day. And Gibbs is frustrated and/or angry because he suspects that Vance is pulling another "fast one" on him but can't quite nail it down. Plus I have a feeling that Gibbs really did not like Vance 'attacking' the kid with the ax shoved into the kid's face. Gibbs did NOT like that Vance had withheld information (a no-no) about the fact that he knew the victim. And eventually falsely accusing someone when the evidence wasn't enough nor all that clear. Gibbs has a profound sense of "Doing the Right Thing" and that would not fit his sensibilities. You do have to remember that Vance "buried" the investigation report that Abby wrote about Gibbs' sniping the drug cartel dude in Mexico. So I think that Vance in the long run has Gibbs' back. Just currently under tension to find out what is wrong with the other team or something...and maybe dictated to him (Vance) from "above" and he doesn't like not being in control.

This episode was more of a character development/story development ep and thus not much time for the procedural part. And it was also squeezing in the P2P killer storyline as well. Plus the new team. Altogether they just didn't have the time to have a terrific investigatory segment as well. Not enough time for real detail. It was also a "cool down" episode that Shane Brennan likes to throw in periodically to cut back on the tension building over a story arc (currently the P2P killer, in a prior season, La Grenouille.)

Leon Vance was named for Leon Carroll and 'Vance' is pulled from somewhere in real life as well...I just currently can't remember from whom.

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