For the group: Jenny follow up question
Webman6
finding myself with an abundance of free time. I started watching the
re-runs on USA. I have since purchased all the DVD's and am now about one
third of the way through season number 8.
My question regarding Jenny concerns what has (or might have) happened with
her storyline. What about her killers? Were they sent by the Frog or were
they hired by some other person or group? I was under the impression that
they were sent by the Frog. But in thinking about it, now I'm unclear.
What, if anything, has been implied about any payback from Gibbs and his
team?
If these questions have been addressed in the show, forgive my overlooking
them and point me to the episode(s) involved.
mag3
>My question regarding Jenny concerns what has (or might have) happened with
>her storyline. What about her killers? Were they sent by the Frog or were
>they hired by some other person or group? I was under the impression that
>they were sent by the Frog. But in thinking about it, now I'm unclear.
>What, if anything, has been implied about any payback from Gibbs and his
>team?
>
>If these questions have been addressed in the show, forgive my overlooking
>them and point me to the episode(s) involved.
They have been. It's all explained in the 2 part episode ("Judgment Day"),
where Jenny is killed.
In brief, back when Gibbs and Jenny were partner agents in Europe, they were
assigned to a highly classified op to take out two Russian assassins. Each were
assigned to take out one of the assassins. They worked with their handler, an
agent William Decker.
Long story short, Gibbs took out his target (Anatoli Zukhov, the male assassin),
but for whatever reasons, Jenny was unable (at the time) to take out her target
(Svetlana). Gibbs had thought they escaped clean from the op, but Jenny knew
it wasn't over yet, since she hadn't taken out her target.
The "Judgment Day" episode is, thus, all about Svetlana seeking revenge on
the team, and Jenny defending Gibbs as a "last stand." You can watch the
episode for all the details. In fact, these episodes will play tomorrow on
the USA network at 12noon EDT. But again, briefly, Jenny knows the Russian
hit team is coming after her and Gibbs, having first taken out the handler,
William Decker at the begriming of the episode. But Decker gets a warning to
Jenny prior to the hit. So she gets Mike Franks to help her take on the hit team
out in Decker's desert diner, where Decker has hidden info about the op... an
"insurance policy". After Jenny's death, Franks (who survives the hit obviously),
relays the warning to Gibbs. Gibbs figures out it was Svetlana all the time, and
then arranges for her to find him at Jennny's Georgetown townhouse, where he
and Franks take her out. To conceal what they've done, they set Jenny's townhouse
on fire, destroying Svetlana's body and making it look like it was Jenny who perished
in the fire. Ducky fixes the certificate, NCIS saves face, and Leon Vance is appointed
to succeed Jenny as "director." Mike runs off to Mexico with the "insurance policy,"
a set of files hidden in an old NIS case box. This will come into play later as you
finish watching the season 8 DVDs.
Apparently, all the while, Jenny was also suffering from a terminal illness which would
have killed her slowly anyway, so I gather she chose to go out in the proverbial "blaze
of glory." Incidentally, Shane Brennan reveals in the DVD featurette of Season 6 that
Jenny was supposed to die the way that agent Michelle Lee did, eventually.
HTH... :-)
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Regards,
Arnold
Webman6
"mag3" wrote in message news:bb986791lnjs876i9...@4ax.com...
HTH... :-)
____________________________________________
Regards,
Arnold
This jogs the old memory circuits greatly! Thanks for the refresher. At
the instant I read your reply and saw the words ". . . Russian assassins . .
." I recalled the episode details.
I don't know why I was thinking that her death had something to do with the
Frog. I do recall the extra feature piece about the writers first ideas
about how to end Jenny's career. That would have certainly been a
remarkable episode.
mag3
>>Apparently, all the while, Jenny was also suffering from a terminal illness
>>which would have killed her slowly anyway, so I gather she chose to go out in the
>>proverbial "blaze of glory." Incidentally, Shane Brennan reveals in the DVD featurette of
>>Season 6 that Jenny was supposed to die the way that agent Michelle Lee did, eventually.
>>
>>HTH... :-)
>
>I don't know why I was thinking that her death had something to do with the
>Frog.
Probably because they devoted the whole of season 4 to the "Frog" story arc.
Furthermore, It may have seemed that way, as both Jenny and "team Gibbs"
came under investigation in season 5 by Fornell & the FBI over the Frog's
death. It's the ep. where Leon Vance is introduced. After Jenny and NCIS
were cleared, Fornell eventually turned the FBI file into the Frog's death
over to Gibbs. You may have seen Gibbs reviewing the file during the
"Judgment Day" 2 parter, as he considers that Jenny may have, actually,
gotten her revenge on the Frog, after all.
> I do recall the extra feature piece about the writers first ideas
>about how to end Jenny's career. That would have certainly been a
>remarkable episode.
In a way, I'm glad they didn't go there. It was discussed here previously, but
the shot Gibbs took, that killed Lee and the perpetrator, was very controversial.
In real life, I'm not sure that shot could be legally justified, given the scenario,
or that it would have even happened that way (I think SWAT would be called in).
Had Gibbs shot Jenny as he did Lee, I'd think he'd be in real deep stuff. And, given
his prior relationship with her, I doubt he could bring himself to do it as easily.
To this day, I still have questions about Jenny's demise, and Lauren Holly's departure
from the show. To my knowledge, it was never explained why she departed, to any
plausible degree (eg. whether or not it was "voluntary."). I gather that after the
"Frog" story arc, there weren't too many places her character could go. Perhaps,
they thought that new character dynamics were needed to juice up Gibbs, similarly
to how I anticipate the new SECNAV will juice up both Gibbs and Leon in this coming
season. It is also evident, it seems, that the change in her status and the initial
dropping of hints in re: her illness etc. began with the first episode right after
the writer's strike that occurred that year. So, maybe, it was a new group of
writers that redirected the story arc away from Jenny.
Sad... I really wanted Gibbs and Jenny to have a "one more time..." But I suppose
it was the correct decision not to... I honestly think that Gibbs is not destined to
have a S.O., not after Shannon/Kelly. He's not Gibbs without the "Gibbs Angst."
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Regards,
Arnold
Webman6
"mag3" wrote in message news:t31a67lddinjkfac1...@4ax.com...
____________________________________________
Regards,
Arnold
As I understand it, Lauren had accepted several movie offers that would
directly conflict with the rigorous shooting schedule of a television
series. I haven't read or heard of any issues with her and the writing
staff or producers as regards a personality issue. Apparently she decided
that her career would be best served by going with movies as opposed to
television.