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* HerCodeNameWasMarySue: Despite Tim's fervent denials, the characters in his thriller novel ''Deep Six'' are an extremely obvious {{Expy}} of himself and the team.
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* HerCodeNameWasMarySue: Despite Tim's fervent denials, the characters in his thriller novel ''Deep Six'' are an extremely obvious {{Expy}} of himself and the team.team: Special Agents "Tommy", "[=McGregor=]", "L.J. Tibbs", Mossad liaison officer "Lisa", and forensics expert "Amy Sutton."
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* BigBrotherInstinct: Tim takes the day off and tries his best to exonerate his sister on his own, and when the chips are down, is prepared to resign from NCIS rather than be part of sending her to jail.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Shepherd and Gibbs both point out to Tim that by failing to bring Sara in immediately, he has allowed a lot of the evidence that might exonerate her to be destroyed or contaminated.
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* OhCrap: Tim, hearing Gibbs on the other end of the line:
-->'''Tim''': Boss? Why do ''you'' have my sister's cell phone?\\
'''Gibbs''': I got a better question: what is your sister's cell phone doing on ''my'' dead body?
-->'''Tim''': Boss? Why do ''you'' have my sister's cell phone?\\
'''Gibbs''': I got a better question: what is your sister's cell phone doing on ''my'' dead body?
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* WhamLine: Sara's late-night greeting to her brother: ''"I think I killed someone, Tim!"''
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* CallBack: Sara appears for the first time since Season Two's "Red Cell"; Tony recalls seeing her photo on Tim's phone in Season Three's "Family Secret" and crows that he was right, she is much too hot to be Tim's girlfriend.
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* CallBack: Sara appears for the first time since Season Two's "Red Cell"; "[[Recap/NCISS02E20 Red Cell]]"; Tony recalls seeing her photo on Tim's phone in Season Three's "Family Secret" "[[Recap/NCISS03E16 Family Secret]]" and crows that he was right, she is much too hot to be Tim's girlfriend.
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* TheUnreveal: Madison and Tate each finger the other as the one who actually stabbed Jeff and planted Sara's cell phone on his body; it is never revealed which of them actually did it, but Gibbs doesn't care, since they were both in the plot up to their necks.
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* TheUnreveal: TheUnreveal:
** It's never explained how Ducky was able to establish the time of death of the goldfish, since, being cold-blooded, the liver-probe method used with humans and other mammals would be useless.
** Madison and Tate each finger the other as the one who actually stabbed Jeff and planted Sara's cell phone on his body; it is never revealed which of them actually did it, but Gibbs doesn't care, since they were both in the plot up to their necks.
** It's never explained how Ducky was able to establish the time of death of the goldfish, since, being cold-blooded, the liver-probe method used with humans and other mammals would be useless.
** Madison and Tate each finger the other as the one who actually stabbed Jeff and planted Sara's cell phone on his body; it is never revealed which of them actually did it, but Gibbs doesn't care, since they were both in the plot up to their necks.
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* SlipperySlopeOfEvil: Madison set Sara up to be raped as revenge for her blog's choice words about the cheerleading squad. It spiraled into a murder and a cover-up.
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* SlipperySlopeOfEvil: SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: Madison set Sara up to be raped as revenge for her blog's choice words about the cheerleading squad. It spiraled into a murder and a cover-up.
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* HisCodeNameWasMarySue: Despite Tim's fervent denials, the characters in his thriller novel ''Deep Six'' are an extremely obvious {{Expy}} of himself and the team.
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* HisCodeNameWasMarySue: HerCodeNameWasMarySue: Despite Tim's fervent denials, the characters in his thriller novel ''Deep Six'' are an extremely obvious {{Expy}} of himself and the team.
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Mcgee's sister Sara ends up the prime suspect in a murder case.
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* BaitAndSwitch: The episode opens with Tim working on his novel when he's visited by his neighbor who's annoyed by the noise Tim's making from the constant use of his paper shredder. When Tim ends up shredding another paper and gets a knock on the door, he answers thinking it's the neighbor again. Instead it's Sara, covered in blood and disoriented.
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* BaitAndSwitch: The episode opens with Tim working on his novel when he's visited by his neighbor who's annoyed by the noise Tim's making from the constant use of his paper shredder. When Tim ends up shredding another paper and gets a knock on the door, he answers thinking it's the neighbor again. Instead it's Sara, covered in blood and disoriented.
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[=McGee=]'s sister Sara
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* TheBadGuysAreCops: PlayedWith. The would-be rapist that Madison recruits to assault Sara is Tate, a student security guard.
* BaitAndSwitch: The episode opens with Tim working on his novel when he's visited by his neighbor who's annoyed by the noise Tim's making from the constant use of his paper shredder. When Tim ends up shredding another paper and gets a knock on the door, he answers thinking it's the neighbor again. Instead it's Sara, covered in blood and disoriented.
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* ABloodyMess: When Tim answers the door a second time, he is shocked to see a disheveled Sara standing there, with her hands covered in blood.
* CallBack: Sara appears for the first time since Season Two's "Red Cell"; Tony recalls seeing her photo on Tim's phone in Season Three's "Family Secret" and crows that he was right, she is much too hot to be Tim's girlfriend.
* DateRape: What Madison set Sara up for.
* HisCodeNameWasMarySue: Despite Tim's fervent denials, the characters in his thriller novel ''Deep Six'' are an extremely obvious {{Expy}} of himself and the team.
* LyingToProtectYourFeelings: After the murderer has been caught, Sara tells his fiancee Carolyn that Jeff's last words to Sara was that he was dumping her to be with Carolyn. Tim knows that this is far from true, but Gibbs tells him to let it go, because ''"sometimes a little lie's good for the soul."'' Carolyn would much prefer to believe that her fiancee died faithful to her, than to know that he was, if not actually cheating on her, ambivalent about spending the rest of his life with her.
* TheReveal: Earlier episodes in Season Four have hinted at [=McGee=]'s new wealth, as he is buying designer clothes, hiring a personal trainer and driving a Porsche. In this episode the team discovers he has written a bestselling thriller based on his teammates.
* SlipperySlopeOfEvil: Madison set Sara up to be raped as revenge for her blog's choice words about the cheerleading squad. It spiraled into a murder and a cover-up.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Madison slips a DateRape drug into Sara's jar of peanut butter to set her up to be assaulted by her cohort.
* TurnInYourBadge: [=McGee=], after Director Shepherd chews him out. Gibbs returns it to him a moment later.
* TheUnreveal: Madison and Tate each finger the other as the one who actually stabbed Jeff and planted Sara's cell phone on his body; it is never revealed which of them actually did it, but Gibbs doesn't care, since they were both in the plot up to their necks.
* CallBack: Sara appears for the first time since Season Two's "Red Cell"; Tony recalls seeing her photo on Tim's phone in Season Three's "Family Secret" and crows that he was right, she is much too hot to be Tim's girlfriend.
* DateRape: What Madison set Sara up for.
* HisCodeNameWasMarySue: Despite Tim's fervent denials, the characters in his thriller novel ''Deep Six'' are an extremely obvious {{Expy}} of himself and the team.
* LyingToProtectYourFeelings: After the murderer has been caught, Sara tells his fiancee Carolyn that Jeff's last words to Sara was that he was dumping her to be with Carolyn. Tim knows that this is far from true, but Gibbs tells him to let it go, because ''"sometimes a little lie's good for the soul."'' Carolyn would much prefer to believe that her fiancee died faithful to her, than to know that he was, if not actually cheating on her, ambivalent about spending the rest of his life with her.
* TheReveal: Earlier episodes in Season Four have hinted at [=McGee=]'s new wealth, as he is buying designer clothes, hiring a personal trainer and driving a Porsche. In this episode the team discovers he has written a bestselling thriller based on his teammates.
* SlipperySlopeOfEvil: Madison set Sara up to be raped as revenge for her blog's choice words about the cheerleading squad. It spiraled into a murder and a cover-up.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Madison slips a DateRape drug into Sara's jar of peanut butter to set her up to be assaulted by her cohort.
* TurnInYourBadge: [=McGee=], after Director Shepherd chews him out. Gibbs returns it to him a moment later.
* TheUnreveal: Madison and Tate each finger the other as the one who actually stabbed Jeff and planted Sara's cell phone on his body; it is never revealed which of them actually did it, but Gibbs doesn't care, since they were both in the plot up to their necks.
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* BizarreTasteInFood: Sara's favorite pizza is a no-cheese jalapeno with ''peanut butter''. This ends up saving her at the last minute after Abby finds the exact same ingredients mixed with the drug she was doped with after she puked it out on the taxi she was in.
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Mcgee's sister Sara ends up the prime suspect in a murder case.
!Tropes
* BaitAndSwitch: The episode opens with Tim working on his novel when he's visited by his neighbor who's annoyed by the noise Tim's making from the constant use of his paper shredder. When Tim ends up shredding another paper and gets a knock on the door, he answers thinking it's the neighbor again. Instead it's Sara, covered in blood and disoriented.
* WhatTheHellHero: Tim gets a huge chewing out from Gibbs about Sara.
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* BaitAndSwitch: The episode opens with Tim working on his novel when he's visited by his neighbor who's annoyed by the noise Tim's making from the constant use of his paper shredder. When Tim ends up shredding another paper and gets a knock on the door, he answers thinking it's the neighbor again. Instead it's Sara, covered in blood and disoriented.
* WhatTheHellHero: Tim gets a huge chewing out from Gibbs about Sara.
