Creators
Donald P. Bellisario and Don McGill
Cast
Mark Harmon”¦”¦”¦Leroy Jethro Gibbs
Michael Weatherly”¦”¦”¦Tony DiNozzo
Pauley Perrette”¦”¦”¦Abby Sciutto
Sasha Alexander”¦”¦”¦Caitlin Todd
Sean Murray”¦”¦”¦Timothy McGee
David McCallum”¦”¦”¦Dr. Donald Mallard
DVD Release Date: November 14, 2006
Rating: Not Rated
Running Time: 1009 Minutes on 9 discs
The Show
The plethora of crime dramas have gone over the top in the past decade and it doesn’t look as if there is going to be much slowing down either as almost all of them have proven successful. But when there’s already too many crime teams ending up in court rooms, walking the streets of New York, or gallivanting around Miami; then where do you look to catch the bad guys? Well”¦how about the Navy?
Naval Criminal Investigative Service (N.C.I.S.) took that twist and added it to a crime drama crowd that was getting overtly similar. No longer are we only dealing with common murdering street thugs or high-class millionaires trying to run a laundering scam. This time it’s the high profile men and women in the Navy who are losing their lives or choosing to turn to the other side of the law. It really does add a bit of variety the tons of big city dwellings we’ve been used to seeing.
Season 2 of N.C.I.S. picked up it’s pace a bit and decided to make things a bit edgier. Murders all over the place, investigations involving members of the team to make things a bit more personal, and even some really strange crimes bring some real excitement and change to this season that the first one just didn’t have. Its the second season of a series that usually decides the fate and future of the show, and with the entire cast returning, N.C.I.S. was off to a good start.
Episodes
Disc One:
See No Evil: The team is out to find a hacker who has forced an office to be held hostage by his booby-trapped computer and kidnapped his wife and blind daughter.
The Good Wives Club: The team deals with an odd case when they not only find a homemade prison cell fixed up to look like a bedroom from the 50’s, but inside a dead woman in a wedding dress.
Vanished: N.C.I.S. makes their way out to a crop circle and stumble across a helicopter sitting in the middle of it. Their investigation takes an even stranger turn with both pilots missing.
Lt. Jane Doe: Ducky is haunted by his past when he links the rape and murder of a woman to an unsolved murder from 10 years ago.
Disc Two:
The Bone Yard: An FBI agent is killed in a Marine training ground area, and as the team investigates, they find a lot more bodies scattered around. And as the N.C.I.S. team tries to team with the FBI for a joint investigation, they realize that may not be the best idea as a mole has infiltrated the FBI’s security.
Terminal Leave: An officer who is set to retire is the target of terrorists who are angry about her involvement in the Iraqi war. N.C.I.S. seeks out to protect her after the original attack is a bomb planted in her car.
Call Of Silence: A man who won the medal of honor in World War II turns himself in for the murder of his best friend back in Iwo Jima close to 60 years ago. The team bands together to try save the man from prison believing there is more to his story.
Heart Break: A recent heart surgery patient bursts into flames in an apparent case of spontaneous human combustion. As the team checks out this rare phenomenon, they find the victim had a number of enemies.
Disc Three:
Forced Entry: It’s up to the team to determine who is telling the truth when a woman shoots a would-be rapist in her home, but he says that he was simply acting out a fantasy she set up with him over the internet.
Chained: N.C.I.S. team member Tony goes undercover as a prisoner and is chained to a murderer. The team tries to keep ties on Tony, but end up losing him when the convict escapes with him and drags him MIA.
Black Water: A two year old missing person’s case of a naval office turns into a murder case when the officer is found in his car at the bottom of a lake.
Doppelgänger: A weird episode of deja vü as the team works with civilian officers who seem to be mirror versions of themselves. Confusion arises though as an office’s murder, thought to be a hoax, turns out to be for real.
Disc Four:
The Meat Puzzle: Ducky is kidnapped by a vengeful convict from one of his old cases, and the team is racing against time to save their friend.
Witness: From across the street, a woman sees a possible murder take place in another apartment. When the investigation gets underway though, no sign of any wrong doing can be found, and the team wants to find out what she may have seen.
Caught On Tape: A Marine falls off a cliff and happened to videotape his own death. By using the tape, it’s up to the N.C.I.S. team to determine if his death was an accident or homicide.
Pop Life: A bartender wakes up next to a woman who is dead and also not the woman he came home with the night before.
Disc Five:
An Eye For An Eye: A petty officer takes his own life after being investigated by the N.C.I.S. team. This leads their investigation to one of the office’s lecturers who also happens to work for the CIA.
Bikini Wax: A pregnant female is found murdered in the bathroom at a bikini contest. Jealousy seems to be the motive of the homicide, but from whom?
Conspiracy Theory: After a petty officer commits suicide due to a recent “nervous breakdown,” the team investigates if maybe there was more to it. Ducky though believes that love triangles can really take its toll on people.
Red Cell: An ROTC program member is murdered, but the team believes that he and others may have been involved in games taking deadly chances.
Disc Six:
Hometown Hero: A Navy medic loses his life in Iraq, but at the same time is the prime suspect in his hometown for a girl’s murder. The N.C.I.S. team is working quickly to clear his name before his funeral so he may be buried in honor.
SWAK: The entire N.C.I.S. office is under duress when Tony opens a letter “sealed with a kiss” that unleashes a deadly powder upon all of them. The team works fast for they must find the antidote.
Twilight: The team does all they can to deny an assassination attempt on Gibbs, yet they end up losing another team member in the process.
The Video
The show is seen in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen. It looks good and is a nice transfer from TV to the DVD’s with clear colors and crisp scenes.
The Audio
Heard in Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, it sounds perfectly fine. Good action sequences sound great in surround sound.
Special Features
Investigating Season 2 – Takes a look into the happenings of season 2 and the cast and crew’s thoughts on it. If you haven’t watched the episodes first though before checking this out, you will be spoiled.
What’s New In Season 2 – The creators and crew of the show give their opinions on how N.C.I.S. differs from other shows on television and what new aspects fans will notice when compared to season 1.
The Real N.C.I.S. – Thoughts and comparisons from the real N.C.I.S. as to how they are depicted in the show.
Lab Tour With Pauley Perrette – A tour through the lab of Perrette’s character Abby.
The Inside Pulse
The second season of N.C.I.S. really delivers some heart stopping moments and great episodes. The special features are severely lacking as there isn’t much to check out and the four of them total maybe an hour of extra footage consisting of mostly clips from the show. The comparisons to shows such as CSI, Law & Order, and even JAG will continue because all these shows deliver somewhat of the same feel. Fans of the show will pick up this set anyway, but for the casual fan, a rental may serve your purpose of catching up on the series just fine.
