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Caught on Tape

Episode Number: 38    Season Num: 2    First Aired: Tuesday February 22, 2005    Prod Code: 038
A Marine falls off a cliff, and his camera records him falling. The prime suspects are his wife and his best friend with whom he had a picnic in the camp. Gibbs finds out they had an affair behind a dead man's back and he tries to persuade one another to blame each other. In the meantime, Abby reconstructs the case using her computer skills to handle the Marine's camera.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Gil Grant, John C. Kelley, Christopher Crowe
Director: Jeff Woolnough
Star: Michael Weatherly (Special Agent Tony DiNozzo),  Sean Murray (Special Agent Tim McGee),  David McCallum (Dr. Ducky Mallard),  Mark Harmon (Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs),  Pauley Perrette (Forensics Specialist Abby Sciuto),  Sasha Alexander (Special Agent Kate Todd)
Recurring Role: Brian Dietzen (Jimmy Palmer)
Guest Star: John Lacy (Park Ranger Kett),  David Lipper (Marine Sgt. Caine),  Marieh Delfino (Judy Moore),  Kevin Sizemore (Marine Sgt. Moore),  Tim de Zarn (David Runion)

Notes

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Original International Airdates:
Croatia: December 08, 2005 on NOVA TV
Finland: May 19, 2007 on Nelonen
France: October 28, 2005 on M6
Germany: December 08, 2005 on SAT.1
Sweden: July 03, 2005 on TV3
Denmark March 1, 2005 on TV3 (edit)
CBS repeated this episode on July 12, 2005. (edit)

Quotes

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Ducky: It's the urushiol oil in the plant. Yes, once it gets on your hands, it spreads by contact.
McGee: Um, then I have a major problem, Ducky. (Ducky raises his eyebrows) When I was out there, I had to... you know...
Ducky: No, I don't.
McGee: Relieve myself.
Ducky: Oh. (pauses) Ooohhh... Well, let's take a look, then.
(McGee slides off the examining table and starts unfastening his pants)
McGee: This is, um, this is kind of embarrassing.
Ducky: I'm a doctor, McGee, I have seen everything there is to see more times than I care to remember... Good lord!
McGee: What?! What, is it bad?!
Ducky: No, no, it's fine, fine. (laughs nervously) Nothing to worry about. I didn't expect to see quite so much... swelling.
McGee: If Tony finds out about this, I'm going to have to quit.
Ducky: Well, your secret is safe with me.
(Jimmy walks in the autopsy room)
Jimmy: Doctor, I've got the new inspection forms you re... (looks at Ducky and McGee) ... I'll come back. (turns and walks back out)
Ducky: Him, I'm not so sure about. (edit)
Tony: Nice hat.
Kate: Attractive.
McGee: In a weird way.
Gibbs: Why? (edit)
Abby: Somebody did a Barry Bonds on Sgt. Moore's head Gibbs. (edit)
(looking around the camper)
Gibbs: What do you think?
Kate: The word disgusting comes to mind.
Gibbs: Do you smell that?
Kate: If you mean the urine, then yes. (edit)
Tony: You're a Spike Steel fan aren't you, Probie?
McGee: The porn star?
Tony: (Sarcastically) No, the physicist. (edit)

Trivia

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GOOF: When Runion's trailer first blows up, the trailer is still largely intact, just covered in flames. But in all the later shots, the trailer is almost completely destroyed. (edit)
GOOF: When Tony and McGee show Caine the piece of video where Moore caught him and Moore's wife, they show it on a mobile phone. But in the shot where the camera is behind Caine, you can see that they just show the menu of the mobile phone. Apparently the video is edited in the scene after shooting the scene itself. (edit)
GOOF: At the end when Abby and Kate are tending to the dog, in one shot it's standing on the table, and in the other it's sitting. (edit)
GOOF: You cannot safely hide behind a car door when it is being shot at like Tony and Gibbs did, especially with a rifle or a machine gun. Bullets will shoot right through it and keep going. Even Mythbusters have tested that Hollywood myth.
*Unless they were using an armored car, which a federal agency probably would.* (edit)
GOOF: In the morgue when McGee is taking off his dress shirt, you can see the cameraman and his camera reflected in the metal sliding door of the autopsy bay. (edit)

Allusions

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Abby: Ok, this next part is like an outtake from Deliverance.

Deliverence is a story of four men on a weekend canoe trip on the Cahulawassee River which turns into a frenzied retreat from horror. (edit)
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Community Reviews (2)

 
8.9
Great
Caught on Tape
"Above average"
A pretty good episode, but defiantly not my favorite storyline.
Continue » Posted Aug 9, 2008 1:44 pm PST
9.0
Superb
Caught on Tape
"Series classic"
When a Marine is found dead at the bottom of a cliff the team investigates his death. Was it an unfaithful spouse, a rowdy trailer haulin' red neck or did he just slip?
Continue » Posted May 5, 2008 12:31 am PST
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