Baking cookies badly and trying to get every ornament I own on the tree has taken up all my energy this week, so I only watched two shows this week.
NCIS:Origins Blue Bayou
In the mid season finale, we see Gibbs in the aftermath of having killed Pedro Hernandez, in revenge for killing his family. This takes place six months before Gibbs joined NIS. He’s full of rage instead of being fulfilled by the revenge. Tearing up his apartment and punching holes in walls gets him evicted by his tough landlord Ruth.
He’s working bagging liquor at a store and Franks and his girlfriend are in line. He tries to talk to Franks but is shut down as Franks does not want to be any further connected to the killing than he is for giving Gibbs the file on Hernandez.
On a rough rainy night that sees Gibbs sleeping in the back of his truck, Ruth sees him and gruffly says he can come home. Slowly they bond over working on jigsaws together. They don’t talk, they just puzzle and listen to Linda Ronstadt sing Blue Bayou.
They finally have a conversation one night in which Gibbs tells her what he did. She shares her own regrets and they become good friends. It’s Ruth who talks to Franks about his treatment of Gibbs and opens the way for a job with NIS.
A sweet, melancholy episode.
Survivor 47
It’s all over, and Rachel wins! Sitting at the end with Sue and Sam, it looked a bit dicey for a moment as Sam gave a pretty convincing argument for his game. Even so, he got a single vote from Kyle, Sue got none, Rachel got all of the rest.
Often, the person I want to win doesn’t make it. This time, they picked a great player.
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