Finally and probably a Brit thing – but I didn’t buy the whole German flyer helping out Jack. Not so much because he was German, but from a logistics point of view. One or other would surely have been shot at by other aircraft – strange there were no other planes in the sky – US, British or German. Sweet idea but bit of a stretch…. Oh and you can’t see the white cliffs of Dover from France – it’s 30 miles away, but I guess you could put that down to Jack’s dodgy memory……. :-)

We sat down and watched Beaches, so we’re fine now boss. Really?! Okay might have worked for some – didn’t work for me. I’d like to have seen Tony & McGee protecting each other in the field and therefore realising that their silly bickering was ridiculous. Having said that they’ve been working together for more than 9 years (McGee joined proper in S2) so I’d have thought literally dealing with life and death situations and protecting each others six on a regular basis they’d have worked out “what was important in life” already! But no, they finally got it by watching a movie. Yeah, right!

And probably just me, but I miss the old relationship between Gibbs and Tony. Despite Episode 5’s great scene between Gibbs and Tony in the head, these days Gibbs seems much closer to McGee than he does Tony, accentuated this week by the fact that Gibbs initially asked McGee’s help in finding his dad’s friend and the fact that he called him Tim on several occasions. Gibbs hasn’t properly called DiNozzo “Tony” since seasons 7’s “Flesh & Blood” incidentally the last time we saw them have a steak & beer night.

However, that being said I have a host of problems with this episode:

Enough with the flashbacks. I don’t mind the odd flashback but can we be done for a few episodes now.

Can Tony please have some character continuity. Two weeks ago Gibbs was telling him he’d trust him any time, but this week he gives point to McGee, who’s junior to Tony. Tony is the SFA – or did he get demoted and no one told me! I loved Tony in “Once A Crook”, last week he was okay too, but this week he was insufferable and childish and were it not for the whole SFA thing I would have given McGee point too. Not only has Tony been dumbed down but sadly since the start of Season 10 it’s become “which Tony will we get this week”. After the first few episodes of Season 11 I thought we were over that, maybe now Tony and McGee have ironed out some of their differences we might see some consistency in Tony’s personality.