"Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service" Requiem (2007)

Director:

Tony Wharmby

Writers:

Donald P. Bellisario (creator) &
Don McGill (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service" (2003)

Original Air Date:

6 November 2007 (Season 5, Episode 7)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Shortly after Gibbs confronts Kelly's childhood friend her ex-boyfriend, a Marine recently returned from Iraq, who was stalking her, she is kidnapped and they find her ex, tortured/murdered. Gibbs races to find her and the killer.

Plot Keywords:

Diving | Special Agent | Navy | Detective | Forensic Evidence

US TV Schedule:

Sun. Jan. 10

9:00 PM

USA

Requiem

#5.7

Cast

Mark Harmon	...	Special Agent Jethro Gibbs
Michael Weatherly	...	Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo
Cote de Pablo	...	Ziva David
Pauley Perrette	...	Abby Sciuto
Sean Murray	...	Special Agent Timothy McGee
Lauren Holly	...	NCIS Director Jenny Shepard
David McCallum	...	Dr. Donald Mallard
Anne-Marie Johnson	...	Marine Col. Stacey Radcliffe
Cameron Goodman	...	Maddie Tylor
Mark Totty	...	Army Major Max Bourdais, Ret.
Stelio Savante	...	Danny Coyle
Nick Spano	...	Marine Sgt. Rudi Haas
Darby Stanchfield	...	Shannon Gibbs
Brenna Radding	...	Kelly Gibbs
Michael A. Shepperd	...	Mailman

Runtime:

Germany:42 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

Belisarius Productions

Trivia:

In the North American Season 5 DVD set, there's a special feature on Requiem. Included is a filmmaker explaining that there was an extended ending that was filmed but not used. It's included in the feature, it shows Gibbs re-burying the time capsule that Maddie and Kelly had made.

Quotes:

NCIS Director Jenny Shepard: [after Gibbs leaves NCIS] Tony?
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Director.
NCIS Director Jenny Shepard: Any idea where he went?
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: No.
NCIS Director Jenny Shepard: Hazard a guess?
Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Well he took his badge, and his gun. Maybe he's going to shoot someone.
Special Agent Timothy McGee: [McGee goes to Gibbs's desk and opens a drawer] Oh boy!
[McGee holds up Gibbs's badge]

Soundtrack:

The Kiss

Series classic

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

it doesn't get better than this. Gibbs is contacted by a young woman named Maddie who was a friend of his daughter Kelly when they were little. She is being stalked and has turned to Gibbs for help.

This is one of the show's best episodes. It opens very dramatically with Tony firing on the run, killing two men and then jumping into the water to rescue Gibbs and Maddie who are trapped underwater in a car. The episode resumes after the credits 24 hrs before and the story unfolds. Maddie has come to Gibbs because she is being stalked by a guy, a Marine, who she dated briefly before he was sent to Irag. Now that he is back, he has been attempting to resume their relationship; or so it seems. There is more to the situation then Gibbs and Maddie realize. Gibbs wants very much to help Maddie so that, in some way, he can makeup for the fact that he was not able to help his wife and daughter. Tony's rescue attempt to save both Maddie and Gibbs is dramatic. The very poignant scene where Gibbs has apparently drowned and sees Shannon and Kelly and Kelly tells him to go back really touched me.

To reiterate other reviewers: this is why I watch this show.