The team all compete for Abby's input to examine the evidence and therefore support their respective theories. Abby vents her frustration with the team, yelling, “Back off, all of you, okay? I am one person!” Then Abby proceeds to chastise the team for their wanton selfishness. Gibbs enters, and says "Whoa… easy Abs," and she flies off the handle. "No! It's late, I am tired, I am overworked, and I am taken for granted." Gibbs squints at her and launches the torpedo "Maybe you should accept that job offer?" Abby stops typing, approaches Gibbs and bitch slaps Tony con brio, replying "I can't believe you would say that to me Gibbs. How could you think that I would be leaving? Because I got a little mad? So what? We're family: that's allowed. I get three or four job offers every year: I have never considered any of them."
The occasionally gullible DiNozzo, perplexed asked, "Then why did you have dinner with that headhunter?" Abby casually replied, "Have you ever had the Beluga caviar at the Ritz Carlton?" Allowing the rhetorical interrogative to simmer, Abby continues, "Besides, it was nice to feel wanted." Back to normal, Abby requests that they all leave. "I've got work to do". Allowing Abby to do her work has its payoffs.
Abby breaks the case by finding the alleged Dana Arnett in the Interpol database marked as a terrorist. The photograph depicts an attractive woman with long brunette hair dressed in fatigues in a terrorist training camp. It appears that Lt. Arnett’s wife set him up as an intel patsy and murdered him before he could talk. Mixed into this mess of a plot is the fact that Ducky and Abby discover that Lt. Arnett’s contact lenses have been saturated with timolol (Timoptic® Merck & Co., Inc.). The writers are assuming a drug-drug interaction between Arnett's phenelzine, which is at best tenuous. The side effects would have manifested themselves more cardiovascularly than mentally. So this is a bit of a weak point.
The team sets out after the wife who is about to escape from a parking deck, what good luck. Ziva and Gibbs apprehend her but not before she makes Tony dive out of the way of her car, leaving him hanging from the balustrade of the parking deck (talk about poetic justice). DiNozzo yells for McGee, who arrives and hauls him back to safety and Tony says "I love you McGee. I promise never to give you a hard time again… [today]."
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