McGee may have gotten to take the lead tonight on the "NCIS" jetpack murder, but it was Tony who brought up James Bond and "Thunderball," and thus Tony who earned a place in my heart this evening. McGee's "jetpack conspiracy" video was cool, but there wasn't enough 007 in it to win me over.

Our body tonight, Brad 'Hondo' Sayers, was a naval flyboy who, just like James Bond in "Thunderball," had a thing for jetpacks (and yes, I had "Thunderball" in mind well before Tony said it). In fact, Hondo had such a thing for jetpacks that he was testing them out for private companies despite the Navy not really wanting him to, what with their having not funded the project.

I love that Gibbs put McGee in the lead for the case. McGee has, as I think we could have predicted, a jetpack fetish which made him the natural choice. At least with the technical details he was the natural choice; his actual conducting of the investigation was less than stellar. We saw that when possible suspect Victor Tillman's lawyer, Margaret Allison Hart (seriously, who out there doesn't love Rena Sofer?) ripped him a new one. She then even proceeded to go after Gibbs in a way that should made me dislike her. It didn't, Hart's pointing out Gibbs' flaws only made her more awesome.

No, I wasn't rooting for the bad guy to get away with murder because the lawyer was played by Rena Sofer, but I didn't think Victor Tillman, jetpack company owner, did it anyway. Vanessa Tillman, Victor's ex-wife and ex-partner, seemed like a much better (but still not terribly likely) suspect. Consequently, Hart's attacking Gibbs at Vanessa's place of business came off as slightly less awesome, and gilding the lily just a tad (but not more than a tad). She definitely seemed during those first two times we saw her to be feeling her away around Gibbs, looking for a weakness.