Enemy Combatant

While this episode does not qualify for one of the worst episodes of NCIS, it certainly makes the grade for being one of the most boring episodes of the series as well as being one of the most badly written. For starters, the set up the leads to Bishop going to Gitmo is a riff off the first season ep in which the entire team went there. In both episodes, the team was alerted to the threat after a vehicle went off a road in front of non-involved witnesses. Not exactly original. But where the episode falters even more is with Bishop's involvement to the proceedings. About half way through viewing the episode, I began to realize that not only did I not care about what was occurring, I didn't care about what any of it had to do with Bishop. Bishop was a very likable character in the beginning, but now she seems more annoying than anything else. Her statement about bemoaning that an innocent man was imprisoned in Gitmo sounded more like the writer of the episode desperately trying to convey something meaningful and emotional, and failing miserably at both things in the attempt. Basically, this is the type of episode where you wish you could somehow turn back time roughly 42 minutes so not only would you get that time back but you could have the chance to avoid watching such a boring, banal episode in the first place.