A phone call in the middle of the night can mean bad news for someone you love.
The news has Vances (Rocky Carroll) plane to Venezuela making a mid-air U-turn.
Both Parker and I visibly recoil at that analogy.
Wilmer Valderrama as NCIS Special Agent Nick Torres, Sean Murray as Special Agent Timothy McGee, and Diona Reasonover as Forensic Scientist Kasie Hines on ‘NCIS’.Erik Voake/CBS
(As a reminder, Sweeneycanonically hates Gibbsand has been athorn in Parkers sidebefore.)
It’s almost like a Yeti sighting, actually.
Better a yeti than the man he’s about to speak with.
Wilmer Valderrama as NCIS Special Agent Nick Torres on ‘NCIS’.Erik Voake/CBS
(The whole room agrees this probably isn’t a coincidence because Rule 39, duh.)
Unfortunately, Larmont is, well, a complete dunce.
Is it an order to attack or to stand down?
Katrina Law as NCIS Special Agent Jessica Knight and Brian Dietzen as Jimmy Palmer in ‘NCIS’.CBS
Parkers plea for an extra 30 minutes to decode the second message is denied.
How do you stop WWIII under these circumstances?
A little civil disobedience, thats how.
Wilmer Valderrama as NCIS Special Agent Nick Torres, Gary Cole as NCIS Special Agent Alden Parker, and Sean Murray as Special Agent Timothy McGee on ‘NCIS’.Michael Yarish/CBS
But one quick explanation later and McGees on team Give the Nerds More Decoding Time.
The exes settle in for an awkward ride back to civilization.
Then Palmers phone rings with a call from the dating app MateQuest, and Knight accidentally answers.
Instead of a hot single in the D.C. area, its Torres.
No, he isnt Jimmys perfect match; its the only way he was able to call out.
The lessons ofDennis Nedrywont be forgotten!
Dont leave home without it!
By the way, were all going to jail, right?
They agree that stopping the FBI from sending the missile coordinates to the Pentagon is job No.
1, and they also agree that taking out the power to MTAC is the way to do it.
Look, I understand this decision, but I also haaaaaate it.
Enough of Heartbreak RV; lets go back to Outside-the-Chain-of-Command HQ.
Our teams in handcuffs as everyone waits tensely for Kasie to work her magic.
She does, of course, sprinting down the stairs with the info because the elevators still out.
Then the troublemakers are shown into his office, and Parker and Sweeney settle in for a good talking-to.
Yes, the threat from Belarus and Russia was real, but the rest was say it with me!
Sometimes Rule 39 takes a back seat to, uhhh,Rule 72, I guess?
Just dont do it again at least, not in my building.
