The rest of the episode goes fast. Gibbs dispatches everyone to find out who wanted Charles Bright dead. Ducky tells Fornell and Gibbs that the bodies recovered from the Bright house had no definable TOD. Ducky evaluated the profile of the killer and discovered that he more than likely knew his killer, hence the ultimate identification of his wife. This leads to connections Bright would have had at the middle school where he was working and this ultimately points to Amy Bright, who worked there as a part-time teacher before she married Bright.
Abby taps Marty, who was a forensic botanist, to evaluate the growth of a bush's roots through the skeletal remains found in the Bright’s backyard. Amy Bright is brought in for questioning and gives up that she discovered her husband was a killer and killed him to protect her family. Amy Bright revealed toes missing from her left foot, further sealing the deal against Charles Bright. Right when Fornell was about to let her off the hook, Abby, who with Marty determined that those bodies in the Bright’s backyard had been there were buried more recently than five years, interrupted Gibbs’ interrogation to give him the news. Gibbs identified Amy Bright as the serial killer but leaves us with the question, “What is a toe doing in her husband’s stomach?”
“Smoked” improves on previous episodes with its well-paced character development and story. While the season remains in adolescence, it is late adolescence, on its way to adulthood. We have closure on the Ducky-Gibbs riff and a deepening of the Tony storyline, all cozily nestled in a macabre story of cannibalism, collusion, and carnal delights.
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