Bury Your Dead (NCIS)

Infobox Television episode
Title =Bury Your Dead
Colour =
Series = NCIS
Season = 5
Episode = 01


Caption = La Grenouille visits Jenny at home with Gibbs waiting in the background.
Airdate = September 25, 2007
Production = 095
Writer = Shane Brennan
Director = Thomas J. Wright
Guests = Armand Assante as La Grenouille Scottie Thompson as Jeanne Benoit David Dayan Fisher as Trent Kort
Webster Williams as Col. Jasper Shepard
Episode list = Episode chronology
Prev = Angel of Death
Next = Family"Bury Your Dead" is the 95^th episode of the drama television series "NCIS", and 5^th season premiere.

ummary

The episode picks up immediately with Tony meeting La Grenouille, who is the father of Jeanne Benoit, his girlfriend. Jenny Shepard reveals to Gibbs and the rest of the team, that Tony is deep undercover - his relationship with Jeanne was so that Tony (as "Tony DiNardo" as opposed to his full name "Anthony DiNozzo") could get close to La Grenouille. Tony sends a prearranged signal to Jenny on his phone, one that means he believes his cover is blown.

The team monitors his car being driven through the city, but it explodes suddenly and the team fears that Tony has been killed, but they soon learn that he was not driving the car. La Grenouille had discovered who he really is and forced Tony to accompany him in his car. To everyone's surprise, Tony was unharmed and Trent Kort, an undercover CIA agent, does not seem pleased to find this out, leading them to suspect that Kort or the CIA are behind the explosion. This notion is enforced by La Grenouille himself, when he confronts Jenny at her home and asks for protection because he wants to leave the arms smuggling business.

Jenny refuses to grant it to him and when the team next attempts to locate him, he is missing, but it is revealed to the audience that he was in fact killed.

The main character development in this episode relates to Tony's relationship with Jeanne: she learns his secret (that he is an undercover cop) and she leaves (empties her flat). Tony refuses to disclose what happened with Jeanne to anyone except Ziva. Tony's emotional involvement and distress over the loss of his relationship with Jeanne appears to surprise the Director, Jenny, who scoffs that he could not have expected it to end other than badly.

Other character development includes: Gibbs confronts Director Shepard as to her indulgence of personal vendetta over NCIS duty. When Jenny pulls a gun on The Frog, only to learn that the Frog had removed the bullets, Gibbs enquires whether she really would have shot him in cold blood. She replies that they will never know. Ziva displays an intuition for Tony's peril, by being alert to disruptions in his patterns of behaviour. She anticipates his need to find Jeanne. He treats her as his confidante.

Comic touches: Ducky's excitement upon realising that the bomb victim cannot be Tony.Tony's return to NCIS HQ and encounter with Kort, which includes a fart joke.Tony's realisation that, as soon as his colleagues thought he was dead, they took his Mighty Mouse stapler, his American Pie coffee mug and his paper opener. McGee's concession to Ziva that he will answer her question first because "whereas my parents raised a gentleman, yours raised a killer", a statement which Ziva accepts with equanimity.

Response

On its original airdate, the episode attracted 13.7 million viewers with 3.1% rating and 9% share in the 18 to 49 years old demographics, placing its broadcasting network, CBS, second in the Tuesday 8:00 pm timeslot behind ABC's "Dancing with the Stars".Gough, Paul J., " [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i763c32cb2310df694d04ed6c26889970 Fox on top with 'House'; 'Dancing' still strong] ", "The Hollywood Reporter", September 27, 2007. Retrieved on September 27, 2007.]

References

External links

* [http://www.tv.com/ncis/bury-your-dead/episode/1126178/summary.html Bury Your Dead] - TV.com