Typically good NCIS episode due to the humor and rapport of the characters including Fornell. Noteworthy are Tony's threatening to reveal the Spring-break wet T-shirt picture of Kate, and Abby calling Gibbs "my silver-haired fox."
Some critical observations:
(1) NCIS, the government agency, seems to waste a lot of time and money in that it can devote all its resources to a single unlikely case. Here a delusional petty officer, whose fiancée had died in Iraq, develops a sick mental state which caused her to be hospitalized, then is an out-patient, and then claims monsters are breaking into her home (same delusion as in hospital), but there is no sign of a break-in, so she is being returned to the military hospital -- but know-it-all Gibbs still treats it as a major criminal case!
(2) Gibbs (and Ducky) berates and insults the woman's psych doctor at every turn no matter what he does. It initially looks like the woman committed suicide at the hospital. It isn't enough that a corpsman is always on duty, checking on her regularly in a ward of only 7 patients, and she has no history of being a suicide risk. But Gibbs and Ducky assert she should have been on a 24-hour suicide watch. Turns out it was murder, not suicide! So much for Gibbs and Ducky's rant!
(3) Only the woman and her CO knew where the kickback money was stored: in the CO's gym locker. So when she is admitted to a psych ward for a month and he refuses to return the woman's phone calls, don't you think he would change the hiding place of the loot? No!





