SwitchbackNCIS: Hawai'i : Season 1 Episode 21
Tropes Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Before Jane leaves for the Philippines, she gives Alex some emergency contacts, including police, fire, EMS and the plumber.
Continuity Nod to 'Nurture': The emergency contacts Jane leaves for her kids includes a number for the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). "They owe us," Jane says, meaning the FWS owes NCIS.
Operation: [Blank]: Operation Switchback, the main operation of the episode, and Operation Big Blue, with Agent Neal briefly describes.
Prisoner's Dilemma: One of the techniques Agent Boone tried to get the Freeloffs to talk, to no avail.
Shout-Out: To The Great British Bake Off, a show Agent Tara was watching alone in her apartment the night Cartwright was murdered.
To Say Anything... with John Cusack and Ione Skye, brought up by FBI Agent Whistler as a suggestion for an interrogation technique.
Talks like a Simile: Tara tells Boone that someone was "mad as a mule chewing bumblebees."
Title Drop: Agent Boone mentions "Operation Switchback."
To Be Continued: As Commander Kelly has a seizure. After the first airing of this episode, the following episode was billed as "season finale, part 2."
SwitchbackNCIS: Hawai'i : Season 1 Episode 21
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