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* ShoutOut: To ''Film/TurnerAndHooch'' and ''Film/K9'', while Tony and [=McGee=] are fleeing guard dogs.
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* ShoutOut: To ''Film/TurnerAndHooch'' and ''Film/K9'', ''Film/{{K9}}'', while Tony and [=McGee=] are fleeing guard dogs.
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* TheBoyWhoCriedWolf: While they are breaking into the police impound, Tony pranks [=McGee=] by playing the sound effect of a dog barking. A moment later, ''real'' dogs start barking, and [=McGee=] brushes off Tony's warning.
* CallBack: Ziva is still going through the process necessary to re-join the NCIS team, after being rescued from the Somali desert in "Truth and Consequences" and her previous position as Mossad liaison officer no longer exists. At the end of the episode, she informs Gibbs that she has formally resigned from Mossad and is applying to be an agent and an American citizen.
* CallBack: Ziva is still going through the process necessary to re-join the NCIS team, after being rescued from the Somali desert in "Truth and Consequences" and her previous position as Mossad liaison officer no longer exists. At the end of the episode, she informs Gibbs that she has formally resigned from Mossad and is applying to be an agent and an American citizen.
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* InstantlyProvenWrong: Not quite instantly, but there is a delay of only a minute or so before Tony has to eat his words that there are no dogs in the police impound lot.
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* ShoutOut: To ''Film/TurnerAndHooch'' and ''Film/K9'', while Tony and [=McGee=] are fleeing guard dogs.
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* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: SEC Investigator Benjamin Franklin introduces himself to Gibbs and Tony, and says, 1) yes, that's really his name, and 2) ''"I've heard '''every''' imaginable joke, so spare me?"'' Of course, to Tony this is like waving a red flag at a bull...
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* JurisdictionFriction: Since the victim is a civilian and not a navy officer, NCIS ends up butting heads with the police, to the point that Tim and Tony end up having to break into an impound lot and get arrested for examining a car when the police refused to share evidence; Gibbs gets their record cleared by letting the police take credit for catching the murderer.
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* EurekaMoment: Tim figures out the key StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder element of the case when he goes to his polygraph retest and the tester, who scheduled it for earlier in the day than she usually works, mentions how her coworkers thought it was odd for her to deviate from her regular schedule.
* GraveRobbing: When NCIS digs up the lieutenant's casket to determine if his death was truly accidental, they discover that it's empty. It then turns out that the blogger broke into the funeral home and stole the body before the casket was buried, in order to make his accusations seem valid and gain fame.
* JurisdictionFriction: Since the victim is a civilian and not a navy officer, NCIS ends up butting heads with the metro police, to the point that Tim and Tony end up having to break into an impound lotand get arrested for examining a to examine the GPS of the blogger's car when because the police refused to share evidence; evidence and get arrested; Gibbs gets their record cleared by letting the police take credit for catching the murderer.
* GraveRobbing: When NCIS digs up the lieutenant's casket to determine if his death was truly accidental, they discover that it's empty. It then turns out that the blogger broke into the funeral home and stole the body before the casket was buried, in order to make his accusations seem valid and gain fame.
* JurisdictionFriction: Since the victim is a civilian and not a navy officer, NCIS ends up butting heads with the metro police, to the point that Tim and Tony end up having to break into an impound lot
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* RightForTheWrongReasons: The crime blogger was correct that the lieutenant was committing fraud, but he made the claim purely for clout, and the lieutenant's death was accidental instead of the cover-up he claims.
* StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder: The culprit is a deli owner that plotted with the lieutenant to commit insider trading, investing money in a security company that the government was going to use and then splitting the profits later. However, the lieutenant died in a car crash, and when the blogger made a false accusation of his crimes, the deli owner thought the blogger had discovered the truth and killed him to keep him silent. Tony references the movie directly, as the deli owner and lieutenant knew each other because they took the same train to town every day.
* StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder: The culprit is a deli owner that plotted with the lieutenant to commit insider trading, investing money in a security company that the government was going to use and then splitting the profits later. However, the lieutenant died in a car crash, and when the blogger made a false accusation of his crimes, the deli owner thought the blogger had discovered the truth and killed him to keep him silent. Tony references the movie directly, as the deli owner and lieutenant knew each other because they took the same train to town every day.
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* RightForTheWrongReasons: The crime blogger was correct that the lieutenant was committing fraud, but he made the claim purely for clout, and the lieutenant's death was accidental instead of the cover-up he claims.
made it look like by stealing the lieutenant's body.
* StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder: The culprit is a deli owner that plotted with the lieutenant to commit insider trading, investing money in a security company that thegovernment navy was going to use and then splitting the profits later. However, the lieutenant died in a car crash, and when the blogger made a false accusation of his crimes, the deli owner thought the blogger had discovered the truth and killed him to keep him silent. Tony references the movie directly, as the deli owner and lieutenant knew each other because they took the same train to town every day.
* StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder: The culprit is a deli owner that plotted with the lieutenant to commit insider trading, investing money in a security company that the
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A crime blogger that accused a lieutenant of a cover-up ends up dead, calling into question if the blogger's statements were purely defamatory or true after all.
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A crime blogger that accused a lieutenant lieutenant's death of being a NCIS cover-up ends up dead, calling into question if the blogger's statements were purely defamatory or true after all.
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* StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder: The culprit is a deli owner that plotted with the lieutenant to commit insider trading, investing money in a security company that the government was going to use and then splitting the profits later. However, the lieutenant died in a car crash, and when the blogger made a false accusation of his crimes, the deli owner thought the blogger had discovered the truth and killed him to keep him silent.
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* StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder: The culprit is a deli owner that plotted with the lieutenant to commit insider trading, investing money in a security company that the government was going to use and then splitting the profits later. However, the lieutenant died in a car crash, and when the blogger made a false accusation of his crimes, the deli owner thought the blogger had discovered the truth and killed him to keep him silent. Tony references the movie directly, as the deli owner and lieutenant knew each other because they took the same train to town every day.
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A crime blogger that accused a lieutenant of a cover-up ends up dead, calling into question if the blogger's statements were purely defamatory or true after all.
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* JurisdictionFriction: Since the victim is a civilian and not a navy officer, NCIS ends up butting heads with the police, to the point that Tim and Tony end up having to break into an impound lot and get arrested for examining a car when the police refused to share evidence; Gibbs gets their record cleared by letting the police take credit for catching the murderer.
* ObliviousToLove: There's a side plot of Tim worried over having to retake a polygraph test. When he finally gets to meet the polygraph tester again, she gently caresses his hand while wiring him up and asks if he's single, and Gibbs later has to spell it out to him that the retest was just an excuse to see him again.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: The crime blogger was correct that the lieutenant was committing fraud, but he made the claim purely for clout, and the lieutenant's death was accidental instead of the cover-up he claims.
* StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder: The culprit is a deli owner that plotted with the lieutenant to commit insider trading, investing money in a security company that the government was going to use and then splitting the profits later. However, the lieutenant died in a car crash, and when the blogger made a false accusation of his crimes, the deli owner thought the blogger had discovered the truth and killed him to keep him silent.
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* JurisdictionFriction: Since the victim is a civilian and not a navy officer, NCIS ends up butting heads with the police, to the point that Tim and Tony end up having to break into an impound lot and get arrested for examining a car when the police refused to share evidence; Gibbs gets their record cleared by letting the police take credit for catching the murderer.
* ObliviousToLove: There's a side plot of Tim worried over having to retake a polygraph test. When he finally gets to meet the polygraph tester again, she gently caresses his hand while wiring him up and asks if he's single, and Gibbs later has to spell it out to him that the retest was just an excuse to see him again.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: The crime blogger was correct that the lieutenant was committing fraud, but he made the claim purely for clout, and the lieutenant's death was accidental instead of the cover-up he claims.
* StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder: The culprit is a deli owner that plotted with the lieutenant to commit insider trading, investing money in a security company that the government was going to use and then splitting the profits later. However, the lieutenant died in a car crash, and when the blogger made a false accusation of his crimes, the deli owner thought the blogger had discovered the truth and killed him to keep him silent.
