Daily Lansbury

Excellent things have been happening right under my nose and I didn’t even know it. I am so excited I can hardly contain myself. There was finally an episode of NCIS that featured McGee! Much maligned, McGee is actually an excellent, funny and charming part of NCIS, so it is about time that he got his own episode. And not only did he get his own episode, he got a rad one with a great storyline: McGee gets detained at a women’s prison during the murder of a guard and the subsequent riot. Then, as things progress, the ladies feel that McGee is the only one they can trust and they tell him that he has to solve the crime! The prisoners want the murderer found so that they will not all be blamed for the crime. It was a really a great episode, made even better by the fact that THIS IS THE EXACT SAME THING THAT HAPPENED ON ONE OF THE GREATEST “MURDER, SHE WROTE” EPISODE EVER!!!!!!!

I am so serious. Both about the fact that this episode story line is eternally entertaining and about the fact that the episode is pretty much word for word the same as the “Murder, She Wrote” where Jessica gets stuck in the prison and is the only one the inmates feel they can trust. It is the same even down to the supposed reason that the murder of the guard took place: drugs being dealt inside the jail by the staff.

And there are even the same inmate characters in there: the jumpy leader, probably of immigrant heritage, ready to take on all comers, determined not to go down with out a fight. The inmate that has found God and takes responsibility for what she did. The woman who killed her abusive boyfriend. It goes on and on. Excellently. Love it.