Royals & Loyals

If it's not American you don't check/care. A simple Google check would confirm uniform of a Royal Marine and Royal Navy Sailor/officer. Also its the Royal Navy, you don't need the prefix 'British'. It's not the first time in the NCIS franchise that you've got simple things wrong, you need to do your due dillegence. That said the US bravdo is easy to understand, but confusing rank, uniform and an appalling making of 'tea' is reprehensible. You're better than that, come on, dig deep and do the research, it will pay dividends in the end. I love the show, but sometimes you've more bull than Texas; and tea isn't something you just throw in a harbour.

I do like this series, but like so many Fox programmes the British Stereotypes are woeful!!! Far too many mistakes to list... Brit Marine Uniform Secret Service Uniform Division Mobile Phone Number Etc etc etc

Only one decent Brit Accent

Really should get a knowledgeable consultant!!!

This was a good episode. Interesting to have some interaction with the British Royal Navy. Even MORE interesting to see Daniel Gillies in this one. He's nice to look at, no matter what character he plays. :-p

Anyway, I have to wonder about Gillies' character being named Peter Malloy. I'm hard-pressed to believe it was a complete coincidence, and yet I can't find any mention of it anywhere. Classic-TV fans (in fact, fans of really good TV) will recognize the name Pete Malloy as being a character in the venerable show Adam-12. Malloy was the experienced, wry, and foxy (in more ways than one) senior police officer in that TV show.

This is one of the better episodes. What makes it stand out is Daniel Gillies as the British officer Malloy who has to be one of the handsomest creatures ever to walk planet earth. NCIS usually tends to be populated with doltish muscleheads for whom I have zero empathy. In perhaps a year or two Gillies should be playing Bond. He just crackles. I found myself holding my breath while he was on screen.

The fun comes in this episode from jurisdictional disputes with the British Navy, the CIA and ...

The one thing I did not like were the expositions on CSI technology given between experts who obviously should know all this already. The writers should have this exposition directed at a more naive character.

McGee pushes a few keys on his keyboard, and Voila! He's hacked into a (supposedly) super secure data base at another government agency, the CIA no less. Are viewers actually naïve enough to believe it? Okay, so it's just a TV show with a 40 minute time limit (it says an hour but of course 20 minutes of that are for commercials) and things have to happen in overdrive due to time constraints. But making it that easy to hack the CIA was simply laughable. Even more laughable is the fact that McGee has hacked into so many data bases and no one is the wiser. Are our country's data bases that easy to hack in to? And so easy to avoid detection? And of course there is Abby, who also churns out results in overdrive speed. As she said one an episode some years back, "You can't rush science, Gibbs." Yet in episode after episode Abby rushes science to get extra fast solutions.

It was actually a pretty good plot (although a rework of other plots) and the bad guy/girl got caught. But the warp speed deductions/detections/solutions are really getting old.