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Broken? NCIS Hawaii sure is!

Let's just take stock of the previous 'season ending' episode.

Tennent discovered her mentor and best friend of almost two decades was a traitor whose Chinese son was the most wanted Chinese agent by western nations on the planet. Her traitorous friend claims she was coerced into betraying her country because the Chinese authorities threatened her son's life.

Having been discovered and caught, the traitor pleads with Tennant to let her son go because he was not the real mastermind, she was, and if her son is allowed to escape (to go back to China...) she will fully co-operate and tell all she knows about her former spy masters (anyone spot the inconsistency there yet?).

Tennent then without referring to the Secretary Of Defence, National Security Advisor, Attorney General, Secretary of The Navy, Director Of The CIA or even the Director of NCIS decides off her own back to trust the word of her treasonous friend. Tennant then orders that the most wanted Chinese spy by the western alliance on the planet be allowed to escape .

Despite her friend deceiving her for more than a decade, despite the Chinese having a track record of using the traitor's son as leverage over her, despite the fact that her traitorous friend had a track record of submitting too such leverage and despite the fact that letting the son go would likely cause the most almighty row between not only the USA and its allies but between NCIS and rest of the US's various security agencies, Tennant's judgement was that she could, without seeking approval, trust the woman who'd lied to her for years, assume that the Chinese would not use the son as leverage as they had previously, trust that the traitor would suddenly go against her instincts and her Chinese masters and put her son's life at risk? Now that's 'empowerment' for you

If nothing else such a decision by Tennant, in real life would have demonstrated her unfitness for the role she was fulfilling. Who did she think she was? The Vice President?

Surely the best way to ensure the traitor came clean about everything was to capture the son and use him as leverage just as the Chinese had?

Now moving on if you ask me this current episode should have begun with Tennant in some unspecified CIA location being interrogated as to whether she was also a Chinese asset before being handed over to the Justice Department to face her own treason charges having been summarily kicked out of the military. It didn't.

Instead all that is not even considered (despite being a far better storyline than the one actually profered by the show) and instead the minimal inquiry (in a nice shiny boardroom) focusses on a far less significant security aspect. Even better one of Tennant's dim underlings forthrightly states in a preceding scene ' No way has she done anything wrong' .or somesuch.

Seriously? I nearly choked on my drink when I heard him say it (followed by ROFL).

Such a farcical storyline is as credible as the dismally dull and predictable acting that this one dimensional identity obsessed infantile caricature of a drama show has become. It beggars belief that CBS extended it's first season.

If the actual US Security services were as incompetent as this show implies then US citizens should be extremely worried (in fact the whole western world should!).

I know, if you don't like the show you shouldn't watch it but as a long time NCIS fan, I am just transfixed and incredulous at how dire the franchise has become this season and in particular fascinated and increasingly amused by the awfulness of this woeful substitute for the far superior NCIS NOL.

How bad can they make it? Tune in next week to find out (unless CBS are messing with the schedule yet again, that is?)!