Higher Education
Season 20 • Episode 9
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for NCIS Season 20 Episode 9, “Higher Education.”]
Thom E. Gemcity, now there’s a reputation we haven’t heard shortly — and a reputation Jessica Knight (Katrina Law) by no means has — on NCIS. That adjustments with “Higher Education.”
When Nick Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) and Knight come into work, and Timothy McGee (Sean Murray) is seemingly distracted, he reveals that he’s busy with a “personal project”: Thom E. Gemcity is again! That’s how Knight finds out McGee’s a novelist, the “John Grisham of NCIS,” as she places it (he’d say Tom Clancy), and simply who precisely is in his books.
“What mystery is Special Agent Tibbs embarking on next?” Torres asks. “Your lead character’s name is Special Agent Tibbs?” Knight asks in disbelief. “Because Gibbs couldn’t clear legal?” But “Gibbs and Tibbs are wildly different people,” McGee insists. As for the story, “since Gibbs is off doing his thing, I figured that LJ Tibbs deserves a little R&R. You’re just going to have to wait and see what comes next.”
Torres does counsel he add a brand new character: badass Miami detective Rick Sorres. He’ll first be seen in a seedy downtown bar, undercover, and randomly a mysterious lady will begin making out with him. He pitches his thought all the way in which to the crime scene, which is how Dr. Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen) finds out McGee’s planning to put in writing once more. McGee explains that now that the youngsters are a bit older, he and Delilah (Margo Harshman) are doing no matter they had been earlier than. Alden Parker (Gary Cole) solely chimes in to make sure that there received’t be a thinly-veiled model of himself in it.
Later, after a short disagreement a few pupil, Delilah was having weekly conferences with (and who was the staff’s sufferer), she shares that she feels horrible watching him torture himself over his novel. “Novel’s going great,” McGee says earlier than admitting, “I’m just having some trouble getting started.”
That’s not totally correct. He’s been caught on the third web page for weeks and has “barely written a word since Gibbs left for Alaska,” Delilah notes. “Gibbs is not what makes you great.” But McGee worries that “Thom E. Gemcity may never have another idea without him.” Delilah doesn’t assume that’s true and means that he simply wants a brand new muse.
It seems, in fact, that she’s proper — and by the tip of the episode, he’s discovered one. He was up all evening writing greater than he has in months. “Your fans will be so excited to read a new Deep Six mystery,” Delilah remarks, however McGee reminds her, “LJ Tibbs is retired, remember? So I have a new main character I think fans will love just as much as I do. She’s a beautiful, brilliant cryptologist by the name of Delena Flemming.”
“And does Delena get to solve cases with her equally brilliant husband?” Delilah asks. “You just have to wait and see,” he says.
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