Fall TV- NCIS Season Opener!

"Bury Your Dead"

Just what secrets will be revealed in this seasons NCIS?

Mark Harmon and crew are back with a new season of the hit show, and just what's going to happen next is anyone's guess. With the season opening up with a kick in the emotional gut for the Director, played by Lauren Holly, it's made very clear that this season will pack a lot more punches into the show, not that the previous seasons have lacked any of that. When I first started watching NCIS I expected to be disappointed. Not many shows have the ability to get the mix of military background right, the language, formality, and bonding that takes place, without losing the audience by drowning them in it. But this show has been able to manage that. Unlike the UNIT which leaves me gnashing my teeth as the wives there drive me nuts. Sorry but I doubt that many of the wives shown in the UNIT would last a week married to a real member of the armed forces. They just don't show the backbone required for a military wife.

NCIS has avoided that issue, by keeping the members of the team single. A smart move on the part of the writers. Not just because it leaves the team members open for romantic tension, but it means that the problems involved with spouses are carefully avoided.

The episode is listed as being the final show down between the NCIS team and an elusive arms dealer, a show down that will finish in an explosive show down, but that simple statement down plays the tension that ripples through the season opener.

As the Director attempts to delete the results of the search she's had Abby working on, the plot quickly begins to thicken. Except Abby, the sex kitten, goth girl who runs the lab, isn't dumb and stumbles over the attempt to hide the results. Results the watcher doesn't get the chance to read over before the shot changes again. A match that later turns out to be her father - a man who is supposed to be dead - yet fresh fingerprints with a ten point match have appeared and that's what Abby had been running through the computer at the Director's request.