NCIS 14x20 "A Bowl of Cherries" Review

SPOILERS

You know what? I liked "A Bowl of Cherries".

I learned something! I didn't know ransomware was a thing and now I'm scared. Not really, but it's just another reason to make sure I have protective software and, yes, backing up everything. (I've learned that lesson without the use of a “Russian” hacker). As far as I know this show is pretty accurate in terms of what they protray, so this must be a real threat. I found it interesting they set up the virus so it seemed Russian. That is topically relevant and I'm guessing deliberately chosen, and that's all I will say about this.

The Admiral bugged me. I guessed he sent the virus to McGee on purpose, and then I was thinking it had spread to the entire NCIS network before they revealed it was just Team Gibbs and he did send it out of spite. McGee took all of this like a champ and it was nice to see him as “cyber-guy” again.

Gibbs coming out on top when it comes to technology is always funny to watch. He's got his hack-proof flip phone and has no sympathy for the “kids”. Little things like Torres going to take a picture of the file and ending up just taking it, or them going without GPS and using a map, were funny too and made me think about the early days of the show and how much technology has changed.

Gibbs shows off his "hack-proof" phone.

Torres was a gem. “There's a mission, a stakeout mission I signed up for.” and “Moms love me.” See, if I like a character their dialogue becomes even more enjoyable.

Cryogenics! It's a bit of sci-fi a computer nerd playing without a full deck tried to make real by using liquid nitrogen. Well, it worked. It worked really well, on the freezing part. I also didn't know cold spas were a thing. I guess I learned a lot in this episode.

I liked the synchronized tea drinking done by our favorite doctors. I hope there's an episode that features them a little bit more in the near future.

Part of me wants to go back and look through each episode where they are at the shooting range, if there is any significance to characters while they are there. It's been a while since we saw them at the shooting range last. I guess they do need to be re-certified.  

I don't like Quinn, so she was the only damper on this episode for me. I guess it was my bias against her that had me look at the whole “mother losing memory” story line without much sympathy (it was more like “they've already done this on Criminal Minds...and even on NCIS too!”). Oh well. Having an ongoing underlying story might make her a little bit more interesting.

NCIS will be back in 2 weeks!

9/10