OK! Right up front, I'll state that my two fellow reviewers are being a tad unfair to Ziva. Her accusation that Gibbs had deserted her is based on the fact that her own biological father _did_ abandon her to die, during her stint as the captive of a Somalian-based terrorist group. The same terrorist group from which she was eventually rescued by Gibbs, McGee, and DiNozzo. Hence, her decision to ultimately resign from Mossad and become a naturalized American citizen.
In short, Gibbs became a new father-figure. One she came to believe would never let her down. But, the fact that he didn't automatically assume she had miraculously escaped that Kort-engineered mortar barrage compounded the sense of loss she was still feeling over the death of her bio-dad, Eli David.
On the other hand, she still felt loyal enough to Gibbs to try and rescue him from that South American narco-terrorist group that he and McGee were taken captive by. I can only assume that the reason she couldn't implement her own escape plan for them, sooner, is that she was still being pursued by Sahar. The biggest misandryist I have seen on this series since the episode that introduced Mike Frank's granddaughter's other grandparent. That widowed Near Eastern tribal leader!
To be fair, though, Gibbs' alleged inability to see the "clues" left behind by Ziva (had he only investigated her Israeli hide-out, personally) is due to something quite legitimate. Post-traumatic stress disorder! The man was still reeling from the loss of Ex-wife Number Two (the recently reconciled Mrs. Fornell) to a sniper's bullet fired by Sergei, Ari Haswari's other half-sibling (and, possibly, Sahar's boyfriend). Add that to Tobias Fornell's daughter (Gibbs' goddaughter) almost fatally overdosing on drugs, and you have Gibbs' emotional baggage rack reaching full capacity!
In short; even the most able-bodied leatherneck is still only human. Something I'm sure that Dr. Jack (Maria Bello's character) would be the first to agree with.
The episode ended with Ziva and Gibbs just about reconciling, themselves. The only plot-thread left dangling is whether or not she goes to reintroduce herself to DiNozzo. If the writers opt to do an episode built around that, they'll have me contributing to its Nielsen ratings in a New York minute! Especially, if they did it as part of a crossover with "Bull" (involving a court-battle for custody of Little Tali).
In short, Gibbs became a new father-figure. One she came to believe would never let her down. But, the fact that he didn't automatically assume she had miraculously escaped that Kort-engineered mortar barrage compounded the sense of loss she was still feeling over the death of her bio-dad, Eli David.
On the other hand, she still felt loyal enough to Gibbs to try and rescue him from that South American narco-terrorist group that he and McGee were taken captive by. I can only assume that the reason she couldn't implement her own escape plan for them, sooner, is that she was still being pursued by Sahar. The biggest misandryist I have seen on this series since the episode that introduced Mike Frank's granddaughter's other grandparent. That widowed Near Eastern tribal leader!
To be fair, though, Gibbs' alleged inability to see the "clues" left behind by Ziva (had he only investigated her Israeli hide-out, personally) is due to something quite legitimate. Post-traumatic stress disorder! The man was still reeling from the loss of Ex-wife Number Two (the recently reconciled Mrs. Fornell) to a sniper's bullet fired by Sergei, Ari Haswari's other half-sibling (and, possibly, Sahar's boyfriend). Add that to Tobias Fornell's daughter (Gibbs' goddaughter) almost fatally overdosing on drugs, and you have Gibbs' emotional baggage rack reaching full capacity!
In short; even the most able-bodied leatherneck is still only human. Something I'm sure that Dr. Jack (Maria Bello's character) would be the first to agree with.
The episode ended with Ziva and Gibbs just about reconciling, themselves. The only plot-thread left dangling is whether or not she goes to reintroduce herself to DiNozzo. If the writers opt to do an episode built around that, they'll have me contributing to its Nielsen ratings in a New York minute! Especially, if they did it as part of a crossover with "Bull" (involving a court-battle for custody of Little Tali).
