NCIS Fans, What Do You Make of That Most Curious Cliffhanger Heading Into Next Week's Finale?
This week on NCIS, Special Agent Timothy Farragut McGee got his man.
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Or did he…?
The episode 'Irreconcilable Differences' (a nod to the fake-but-real marriage Knight and Torres had to begrudgingly dissolve?) focused squarely on McGee (played by longest-running cast member Sean Murray) and the many late nights he is putting in, trying to get the goods on the highly sus Deputy Director LaRoche (Seamus Dever).
Heck, overtired McGee was even having dreams of Gibbs' basement! And at once point called Parker by his former boss' name.
McGee was about to rein himself in some and settle in for a night of cozy take-put with Delilah when he spotted LaRoche have a heated phone call in the parking lot, after which he switched cars en route to a third location. McGee tailed his superior and followed him into remote building, where he witnessed LaRoche squabble with an unseen man before shooting him at point blank range.
After (d'oh!) knocking over a pipe and startling LaRoche, McGee chased his adversary outside, but lost him after being clipped/concussed by a passing truck. Parker and Torres did their best to believe McGee's accounting of events afterward, but given that no body was found, people started to wonder if this vendetta was starting to unravel the good agent. In fact, an IG showed up to grill McGee and was poised to bench him for a long while, when evidence began to come together incriminating LaRoche in a recent heist pulled off using U.S. Navy tech.
McGee eventually caught LaRoche meeting with a second thief he didn't kill, inside a small church. When the gun-toting men ended up in a three-way standoff, LaRoche spun to shot the thief, but not before the man put a bullet in McGee's shoulder. Parker, Torres and Knight then funneled into the room, ordering aRoche to stand down.
'This wasn't supposed to be like this,' LaRoche said, raising his hands up. He then cued Knight to pluck some sort of data card from the dead thief's pocket, and declared, 'This is not about money. It never was.
'It's time you know the truth….'
What 'truth' do you think LaRoche is about to offer up, to recontextualize and/or justify his suspicious actions up until now? Share your pre-finale theories in the comments!
In next Monday's NCIS Season 22 finale, as the team investigates a dangerous connection between the Nexus cartel and Parker's longtime nemesis, mob boss Carla Marino (returning guest star Rebecca De Mornay), a high-stakes plot involving stolen nuclear material is uncovered. With time running out, Parker is forced into an uneasy alliance that could determine the fate of the operation — and his own futureBest of TVLine
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