In general, a good episode. The wandering firearms story is a strong support for the tale, and other elements are all there in support. However, I have to mark this episode down because of the scripting for Tony's father. In previous appearances I have found Robert Wagner's character just exactly as I think the writers positioned him: not quite sleazy, just a bit too smooth, and of a style that we could believe that he might actually be a con artist. But here I think the writers have lost their thread on that character. I feel DiNozzo Sr's dialogue in this episode is stilted and out of character, mostly in his scenes with Agent Keates (the Beef Wellington fragment in particular). To me, he comes over this time as sleaze personified and seriously creepy. Probably not what the writers intended, but hey, they wrote his lines.
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