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NCIS, or Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is a crime investigation show focusing on the investigations done within this branch of the government. This episode was investigating a naval officer that had a stroke and died on Air Force one after having dinner with the president. Therefore this investigation involved the NCIS, FBI, and Secret Service fighting over control of the case. This show, like many other shows involving the investigation of crime had some themes that are talked about in Surette, 2015 (Bellisario, 2003). One is these themes is that the main character of this show, Agent Gibs, is a “good cop.” He is a dedicated professional of the criminal just system that is using the latest technology to repeatedly proved that crime does not pay (Surette, 2015). His whole NCIS team would be considering apart from the “good cop” theme. While in this episode the NCIS team was fighting with other departments to get control of the case, none of the other departments would be consider “bad cops.” In this episode their was also no civilian crime …show more content…

They were all very effective crime fighters and were portrayed to be the best at their jobs (Surette, 2015). Everyone involved was a federal agent, with the exception of one character that was a local coroner, but he was only in one scene. The only real expectation the theme of them being G men would involve them following police procedurals. Agent Gibs would be the best example of someone bending the rules to be able to do the investigating the way he would want to and he therefore didn’t following the rules giving to the police by the letter. Examples of this include when he took the plane the man had just died on so he could ditch the FBI and when he had his employee pretend to be a dead body and gave him to the FBI so he could take the actual body back to NCIS so he could have control of the case (Bellisario,

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