What To Know
- In the latestNCIS: New York, Nick opens up to Sam about his former partner.
- Jennifer Beals explains Robyn’s concern for her agent.
If Nick’s (Scott Caan) not going to be worried about himself, his boss Robyn (Jennifer Beals) will do it for him onNCIS: New York. The agent’s facing a potential problem because of his former partner, but when she tries to talk to him about it, he brushes it off. “Isn’t that irritating?” Beals asks with a laugh. TV Insider spoke about that concern.Warning: Spoilers forNCIS: New York Season 1 Episode 5 ahead!
When Nick gets to work, Robyn tells him she made calls and his ex-partner perjured himself in front of a grand jury. They’re building it out as part of a bigger case. She’s not sure about the charge — obstruction, conspiracy, maybe something more — but she does think that Nick should retain counsel since no one’s saying. All he says is he’ll think about it, but she advises him to do so fast. If the south district gets involved, they don’t like to lose, she warns him, and she doesn’t seem to believe him that he understands.
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“I think she’s more worried about how he’s not taking care of it. I think that she knows that if he had the right representation, then he could be protected, but the way that he procrastinates and doesn’t take it seriously is the most worrisome part,” Beals tells TV Insider.
Just five episodes in,NCIS: New York has done a great job of building in small moments to showcase that dynamic and how well they know each other. But that doesn’t mean that he’s opening up to her about how he feels about what’s going on. When she asks if he’s OK in this episode, he just tells her he loves his job, her dog, and her, and he’s going back to work.
“They can rip each other and have fun,” Beals says before teasing, “We did do a scene [recently] where our relationship gets deeper. I have to decide what I’m going to share with him.”
At the end of the episode, Nick does tell his partner Sam (LL COOL J) what’s going on. His NYPD partner, Mike, was as good as it gets, the cop’s cop, everyone loved him, Nick says, but he got caught doing something stupid. While he was on a task force taking down trap houses, Michael skimmed off the top a lot, and now he has three months left on a two-year sentence — but he’s not coming home.There’s a major case being built against him.
Sam asks if he got hit. Nick’s getting calls, but he doesn’t care about that. Sam asks if he knew. Nick says he didn’t because he kept it from him since he knew he wouldn’t have gone for it. But Nick also questions himself and how he didn’t know since he and his partner “shared a brain,” so he feels like part of him had to know something was going on and that part kept his mouth shut. Now, he worries about Michael’s family — his wife, now alone, without a pension, and the kid who doesn’t have a father. Sam tells him that while he can take care of kids, the same isn’t true of grown men. So, what will this mean for Nick?
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NCIS: New York, Tuesdays, 9/8c, CBS