Because America can’t get enough ‘NCIS’
August 25th, 2009 | Life at Sea The deckplates Washington | Posted by Phil Ewing
"Hey Agent LL Cool J, looks like we've got a new case -- some captain named Queeg says he's missing some strawberries aboard his ship." // MC1 Jason Brunson
Just in time for CBS’s fall-season buildup for its new spin-off, “NCIS: Los Angeles,” the Navy has posted several generic images that illustrate the mission of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. NCIS agents are called in when sailors stand in dark rooms looking through disorganized secret files, for example; they respond to situations in which enlisted sailors stand in doorways while women in bathrobes cry; and, as everybody knows, their agents are authorized to press the “I” key on computer keyboards, because there’s an “I” in “NCIS.”
Given the number of Navy warships stationed in Los Angeles — which is to say, zero — it was a little puzzling to hear about an “NCIS” spin-off that takes place there, unless Special Agents Chris O’Donnell and LL Cool J spend a lot of time inspecting containers being unloaded at the Port of Long Beach.
“Well it’s ‘Naval Criminal Investigation,’ so, there’s that component of investigating,” Cool J explains in a CBS preview video.
Ah, right.
But you have to hand it to them — they’ll probably be able to shoot many more sunsets and traffic montages in LA than they would have for “NCIS: Kitsap.”
Comments
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Hammerspace Says:
August 25th, 2009 at 5:14 pmNCIS: Kitsap would be AWESOME. I’ll be sure and dedicate the screenplay to ‘The Scoop Deck,’ once it is finished.
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Daetan B. Huck Says:
August 26th, 2009 at 1:01 pmAlso, the letter-I-pressing NCIS agents are apparently children between the ages of 7 and 14.
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Bob Lowery Says:
August 27th, 2009 at 6:10 amActually, there are no ships stationed in Washington, DC either. BUT, LA is a bit bizzare considering that MOST of the Navy in California is in San Diego. Regardless, it’s going to be a very good show.
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BossPac Says:
August 31st, 2009 at 1:13 pmDid anyone tell the producers, that there is a perfectly good Naval Base in SAN DIEGO?, And to be politicaly correct they could call the show NCIS West.
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Bruce Says:
August 31st, 2009 at 4:22 pmI remember when NCIS was called the Naval Investigative Service, or just NIS. They had a dumpy HQ office on the upper floor of the Naval Intelligence Command building in Suitland, MD. They were bunch of rumpled cops, as I recall, who were dogged by the fact that Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was one of their watch officers, numerous Navy spies had gone undiscovered by them in the late 1980s, and they had butchered the investigation into the USS Iowa explosion. Now they are seen as a high-tech, well-equipped outfit with broad (and probably illegal) jurisdiction, and a team whose wardrobe expenses alone might be reasonable suspicion to look into whether they’re taking bribes. Nothing glammarous there.
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Poultal Says:
February 25th, 2010 at 1:15 amя вот что скажу: отлично… а82ч