Hung Out to Dry (NCIS)

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“Hung Out to Dry”
NCIS episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 2
Guest stars	Lee Reherman as Sgt. Tuers Patrick Labyorteaux as Lt. Bud J. Roberts, Jr. Chaney Kley Minnis as Corporal Paul Brinkman
Written by	Don McGill
Directed by	Alan J. Levi
Production no.	1x02
Original airdate	September 30, 2003
Season 1 episodes
Yankee White Hung Out to Dry Seadog The Immortals The Curse High Seas Sub Rosa Minimum Security Marine Down Left for Dead Eye Spy My Other Left Foot One Shot, One Kill The Good Samaritan Enigma Bête Noire The Truth is Out There UnSEALed Dead Man Talking Missing Split Decision A Weak Link Reveille
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"Hung Out to Dry" is the 2nd episode of the drama television series NCIS.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Quotes 3 Notes

[edit] Plot

During a training exercise, a marine's parachute fails to open and he crashes into a parked car where two teenagers were making out. The NCIS team heads to the scene and have to determine whether the marine's death was accidental or a murder.

[edit] Quotes

Kate: How'd you get into this?
Abby: Filled out an application.

Tony: What's your chute number?
Marine: Four.
Tony: Four's unlucky in China.
Gibbs: We're not in China.

Marine: Why you jumping with us, Sir?
Tony: Always wanted to jump. Agent Gibbs came along to laugh.

Gibbs: So you gonna pay $180 to defy gravity?
Tony: (grinning) Yeah, I think I am.

Gibbs: We're going with you boys. NCIS training mission.
Capt. Faul: Now why don't I believe that? Hell, why not! Hate to pass up an opportunity to toss a couple of NCIS agents out of a plane.

[edit] Notes

• Patrick Labyorteaux crosses over from "JAG" as his character, Lt. Bud J. Roberts Jr.
  

• The background given for Abby regarding her interest in forensics is the same as Pauley's: living near a wrecking yard and being intrigued by the cause and effect of the wrecks.
  

• When Gibbs is checking different parachutes, Tony asks what he is looking for. Gibbs replies, "A screwed pooch." Screw the pooch is military slang for badly messing something up.
  

• This line from Gibbs is a dual reference to both Baltimore's huge drug problem as well as a back story to Tony being a former Baltimore City Police Officer before coming to NCIS.

Gibbs: Was his reserve chute ok?

Abby: Yeah it was perfect all he had to do was pop it.

Kate: Well he might have if his reflexes weren't slowed by opioids.

Tony:Opioids?

Kate: General term for Opiates and synthetic analgesics.

Abby: Go Kate.

Gibbs: You sure you were a Baltimore cop?

• During the scene where Abby is using blue light to test the chute lines, Tony references Electric Kool-Aid while Abby replies that she was thinking more of a Blue Man Group.
  • Electrick Kool-Aid was a book written by Tom Wolfe in which he follows the adventures of Ken Kesey and his friends as they drive a DayGlo painted school bus across the country and experiment with LSD and other mind-altering drugs.
  • Blue Man Group is a three man group covered in blue paint who use various items as musical instruments and communication devices. The men themselves never speak. They frequently appear in Las Vegas.

• Abby, when changing out her lab art, states that she has a Chagall feeling. She is referring to Marc Chagall, a Russian artist whose main works come from fantasy and dreams.