Friends and Lovers (NCIS)

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“Friends and Lovers”
NCIS episode
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 15
Guest stars	Brian Dietzen as Jimmy Palmer Liza Lapira as Michelle Lee J.R. Cacia as Detective John Carson Michael Whaley as Detective Jeremiah 'JD' Morris
Written by	John C. Kelley
Directed by	Dennis Smith
Production no.	4x15
Original airdate	February 13, 2007
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"Friends and Lovers" is the 85^th episode of the drama television series NCIS.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Quotes 3 Notes

[edit] Plot

A Marine Petty Officer is found death in an abandoned restaurant and everything points to an accidental overdose as the cause of death. This assumption changes, when Abby discovers poison in the victim's blood and a card on the body which is thought to be empty reads "Expect More" when treated with luminol.
The clues lead Gibbs and the metro police to the exclusive night club "One", which is rumored to be a drug dealing place but metro police never was able to collect enough evidence for a warrant. Gibbs also fails to get one, because the only witness is a junkie who robbed the victim when it passed out outside the club but they find out that a young woman was with the victim before he died and that the message written on the card which was found on the dead sailor was written with the blood of a woman which was murdered two months before.

McGee, in his alter ego as novelist "Thom E. Gemcity" (who is quite popular apparently), together with Ziva, Abby and Lee as his groupies, enters the night club but the woman they search is outside on the back, talking to the owner and trying to blackmail him. When NCIS and Metro police arrive, he has killed her already and shoots on them and is killed by them. Unfortunately, he manages to mortally wound Detective John Carson.

On a side story line, the episode centers on Tony's relationship to Jeanne Benoit, which goes on, unknown by his colleagues, for several months now. She has problems dealing with her ex-boyfriend, who can't accept it's over and by failing to tell him it's over, makes Tony believe, she is cheating on him. He shares his problems with aforementioned John Carson, who bears striking similarities to him and John tells him about how he lost the perfect girl because he cheated on her when he was drunk.

[edit] Quotes

• Tony (seeing McGee enter the night club as "Thom E. Gemcity"): I should write a book, too.
  Gibbs: You should read one first.

Tony (To Ziva) "Have you ever killed anyone with a spoon?"

[edit] Notes

• McGee's only novel apparently is a bestseller, making his alter ego famous enough to gain access into an exclusive night club and to draw no suspicion when he arrives in a limousine.