NCIS Season 21 Episode 6 Review: Strange Invaders

Let’s give factors for this try and be topical.

Each synthetic intelligence and UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomenon) had been on the coronary heart of NCIS Season 21 Episode 6.

However some sequence present that “the reality is on the market” higher than others. Once more, let’s give credit score for the hassle.

After all, a lot of the crew was skeptical of the place the proof pointed them.

Vance, Parker, Nick, and Jessica simply weren’t going to think about the probabilities.

Nevertheless, McGee, Jimmy, and Kasie had been true believers and may have been extra enthusiastic about what they could be experiencing.

No, as a substitute, the crew needed to hold digging for a extra earthbound reply. This is not The X-Information, in any case.

They shortly exceeded the restrict for UAP versus UFO (flying saucers) jokes. These by no means get previous.

However certainly, the investigation might have been executed with rather less eye-rolling, could not it?

The one factor everybody agreed on was that aliens did not kill Greene, regardless of all of the proof on the contrary.

Greene was capturing off his mouth about his UAP encounter, and a embellished Navy pilot has credibility, no matter he is saying.

So the squad logically concluded that someone earthbound needed to close him up.

Why would aliens care about what he was telling everyone who would hear? Their decades-long document proves they’re good at not being seen.

Sadly, the crime scene and Jimmy’s post-mortem revealed treasured little. Nobody might determine how Greene was shot and with what. Palmer could not even decide what made the odd wounds on Greene’s physique.

Then there was the entire Atomic Aspect 116 angle. Evaluation of the substance in Greene’s wounds induced Kasie’s machines to interrupt down solely after discovering a component that does not happen naturally on Earth. Yup, one other look to the sky.

Thankfully, the alien jokes solely held up for the primary half of the episode, which changed into one thing extra “ripped from the headlines” — synthetic intelligence.

The suspects had been brightly flagged all through. The congresswoman was as much as one thing as a result of, properly, she’s a sneaky politician.

Why does Congress even maintain hearings on UAPs? Simply to appease the UAP believers? It is not just like the politicians are really on the lookout for solutions on the topic.

It was additionally evident that Silcott, who labored for that firm to create AI profiles of the deceased, had one thing extra to contribute as a result of that was one loser of an concept.

No, Silcott was the person with a lot of the solutions and the transitional character that put the crew on the fitting path when he defined that Greene had seen an autonomous drone operated by an AI he had created.

It was too unhealthy that he had acquired funding from a darkish net weapon developer with much less idealistic plans for his AI.

And the way naive was Silcott to consider that this secretive company had good intentions for the AI they’d ripped away from him?

No less than he tried his finest to warn Greene about these working to discredit him. Too unhealthy he gave little thought to the potential of an AI-operated killer drone.

The funniest a part of the storyline was when Nick, probably the most cynical about aliens, was the one who bought kidnapped and misplaced six hours of his life.

Aliens did not want medication to knock him out, which proved somebody human had moved him and his automobile.

The unhappy half got here when it was revealed that Silcott modeled the AI on his younger, late son, even calling it Little Okay.

It took the bond of father and son to convey the case to an eventual shut after Silcott made the tough determination to make use of the kill code on the AI to forestall a brand new weapon of mass destruction.

There was nonetheless the mysterious weapon developer to find, though viewers seemingly won’t ever hear them talked about once more.

However they could not depart the alien angle alone. Kasie declared she was improper, and Aspect 116 wasn’t being synthesized on Earth. So, the place did it come from?

Let’s speak about a few minor storylines that began after which dropped with a thud.

First can be Nick’s concept for an ’80s-themed celebration, which Physician Grace urged as a result of she feels Torres wants extra enjoyable in his life.

The entire idea of whether or not Nick wanted a extra joyful private life was deserted, as has been his romantic life since Ellie left.

It is little marvel that he appears so tightly wound at instances. Physician Grace was proper to prescribe extra enjoyable for him.

Then there was McGee, for whom the query is, what’s left?

He discovered he was Danish and had a half-sister on NCIS Season 21 Episode 5. That, no less than, was a semi-legitimate growth.

The thrilling query on this episode was whether or not Tim ought to shave off his goatee, as requested by his spouse. That devolved into an workplace ballot controlling the destiny of his beard, utilizing the time period loosely.

Bear in mind tap-dancing Tim or thriller author McGee? These had been gratifying discoveries concerning the character. However have we run out of intriguing McGee tales now that Probie has turn into an getting older dad? Let’s hope not.