Model Behavior
A supermodel working a reality show on a Marine base winds up dead.
- Celebrity Is Overrated: Taylor Shane had become sick of the fame and glamor that come with being a supermodel, and wanted to settle for an anonymous life with her fiance. Her Stage Dad couldn't understand her choice and inadvertently poisoned her in an attempt to gain control of her life again.
- It becomes a Running Gag that Gibbs wins NCIS's Meritorious Service Award year after year, but never even shows up to the awards ceremony, forcing Tony to accept on his behalf.
- Continuity Nod: Two to "Frame-Up":
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Taylor Shane planted herself on a barbed wire fence. Abby says she can think of worse ends:
- Dating What Daddy Hates: Inverted. Crawley couldn't stand that his adopted daughter would throw away her glamorous life as a model and TV celebrity to marry an honest, hardworking, salt-of-the-earth Marine NCO.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: Staff Sergeant McMannis, an actual Marine Drill instructor, acts as a featured "character" on Boot Camp Babes.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Crawley, while being arrested, asks what he was supposed to do if he wanted to "save" his daughter from throwing her life away by dropping out of showbiz to "be some jarhead's housewife!"
- Manipulative Editing: Gibbs elbows his way past a crowd of reporters, one of whom makes the awful mistake of spilling his coffee. She tries to apologize, and Gibbs says, "I don't care." The next morning, he sees himself on TV, appearing to shout, "I don't care" in reply to another reporter's questions about the true cause of Taylor Shane's death.
- Murder by Mistake: Crawley did not mean to kill his daughter, only to give himself a pretext to pull her off the show and check her back into drug rehab, because he thought he was losing control over her.
- No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: In-Universe. When Crawley is arrested for murdering one of the models, another model sardonically thanks him for guaranteeing that their show's ratings will go through the roof. Ziva has to restrain herself from shooting her.
- Offing the Offspring: What Crawley turns out to have done (although Taylor was his adopted daughter).
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Staff Sergeant McMannis, overdosing on PCP, goes berserk inside the interrogation room and flattens Tony, before charging at Ziva - the scene cuts to outside the room, as Gibbs rushes in drawing his gun... to see McMannis writhing facedown on the floor, with Ziva holding him in an armlock.
- Oh No You Didn't: When the models are awoken by 6:00 a.m. reveille, and Staff Sergeant McMannis comes charging into their barracks, one of them attempts a lame smile and a friendly "hi, there" wave. He immediately calls her on it.
- Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Tony scoffs at Staff Sergeant McMannis's claim that he and Taylor Shane were in love and she was planning to drop out of modeling so they could get married; he says supermodels marry celebrities, or rich men, or rich celebrities, but not "guys like this guy." Gibbs softly asks, "you mean Marines?" Tony instantly tries to backpedal.
- Quote Mine: When supermodel Taylor Shane was found dead on a Marine base, the press were all over the entrance trying to get in or talk with someone. When Gibbs was going through, they were shoving themselves in the way and knocked his coffee out of his hands. Very angry but holding it in, he kept on the "No comment" line. When one complained about their story not having much if they don't get answers, Gibbs replied "I don't care." Later, the reporter took that line and added the question "Don't you care about the victim?" or something to that effect and added Gibbs' line to the shot of him walking away. Gibbs is able to convince the station to make a retraction and apology.
- Reality Show / Show Within a Show: Boot Camp Babes.
- Stage Dad: Crawley claims to have loved his daughter, but he was so fixated on her continuing with her showbiz career that he inadvertently poisoned her, trying to maintain control over her when she had decided to retire from modeling and marry a Marine Sergeant.
- Tampering with Food and Drink: Played With. Both Taylor Shane and Staff Sergeant McMannis were addicted to nicotine, and got their "fix" through chewing tobacco. The killer dosed the "chew" with PCP.
