Free Sex Caught On Tape
Taleen Sameh
Producer Mark Burnett has dodged questions about whether such a tape exists and MGM, which owns the materials, says it is barred from releasing them by legal agreements. Other producers on the show, including those cited by Pruitt, refused to respond to his requests for comment.
The victim is Sgt. William Moore. He and his wife were camping with his buddy Sgt. Roger Caine. The ranger says that Sgt. Moore went out early on a hiking trail to film the sunrise and slipped and fell and died. So NCIS gets a day off and we spend the next 39 minutes listening to Tony and Kate discuss their favorite kinks.
Abby has the tape mostly recovered, so they watch the two sergeants talk about shutting down the drunk guy in the trailer while the wife tries to talk them out of it. Sgt. Moore films the encounter, and it mostly plays out the way Sgt. Caine described it. Abby got a license plate from the video, and the trailer is registered to David Runion.
Abby pulls up the last of the tape, which is where we came in at the beginning of the episode. It shows Sgt. Moore slipping and falling. But the impact of the camera did something [technical jargon] to the tape which preserved an image that was recorded over. So the image of the camera falling is a re-record by the killer. Abby thinks she can re-produce all of it given time. Gibbs gives her twenty minutes and tells her to get McGee to help her.
And we head back to Sgt. Caine. Sgt. Caine thinks Mrs. Moore told Gibbs they were screwing and calls her insane. Sgt. Caine says that after Sgt. Moore left, he went to the campground showers for about an hour (doing what?) and Mrs. Moore was making breakfast at the campground when he returned. Gibbs interprets that as Sgt. Caine saying that one of them had an hour in which to kill Sgt. Moore. So who did it?
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While on a camping trip with his wife and his best friend, a Marine falls off a cliff to his death with his camera recording everything although it's later damaged. Gibbs discovers that the wife and best friends were having an affair and plans to turn them on one another in hopes of getting their guilt. However, when Abby goes through the damaged footage, the team find a suspect they previously dismissed is responsible for the killing.
A while later, they've arrived at the scene and Gibbs is getting details concerning the victim from a Park Ranger named Kett. Gibbs is hostile towards Kett, wondering if the Ranger's a trained investigator.
Ducky joins Palmer near the body and begins rambling on about coyotes and how they take the head away so that they won't have to fight other coyotes for it before remarking, "They're very strange in Los Angeles".
Back at the lab, Abigail Sciuto is talking to Gibbs about the videotape, telling him it's going to take her about four or five hours to get footage from the camera given that it was probably damaged when Sergeant Moore fell and then submerged in water for a while.
In the morgue, Ducky and Jimmy are examining Moore's body and Ducky after rambling on, invites Jimmy over to his house for dinner. He then discovers something in the victim's hair and gives it to Jimmy who takes it up to Abby.
In the bullpen, McGee, Tony and Kate are going over Sergeant Moore's profile as well as the possibility that Sergeant Moore's wife, Judy and his friend, Roger Caine might be responsible for Moore's death.
The first clip is of the three talking about a redneck whose music is blaring while the second which Abby reveals is like an outtake from the movie, "Deliverance" shows Moore and Caine confronting the redneck who's obviously drunk and tries to take a swing at Moore, only for the Sergeant to put the guy into a headlock.
Back in the bullpen, Kate arrives in, announcing that she's found David Runion who is currently at another campground twenty miles from Shenandoah National Park and that the guy's served time for assault and battery, having nearly beaten a man to death with a pool cue in 1993.
Back at the park, McGee's still searching, unaware of the poison ivy in the area. He soon finds the baseball bat before Tony reveals that McGee has unknowingly infected himself with poison ivy before wisely deciding to flee, leaving McGee stunned.
Seconds later, though, it begins acting hostile to Kate, barking again. Gibbs and Kate then approach the trailer and head inside where they find the place empty although Kate who's keeping an eye out for Runion seems disgusted at the state the trailer is in.
Tony informs Gibbs of the development while in Interrogation, Gibbs tells Runion that he's a suspect because of his violent past, his weak alibi and that they've got him on tape threatening the victim.
In the morgue, Ducky is treating McGee for his poison ivy but the treatment's interrupted by Palmer who simply turns around and goes back out with Ducky remarking that Palmer might be something of a babble mouth.
In the lab, Abby's working on the footage and shows the first version which Gibbs is the one where Moore slipped and fell to his death but she then shows a second alternate ending of the footage which has Gibbs realizing that the killer recorded over the original.
After the tag-teaming ends, Gibbs orders both Mrs. Moore and Caine be put in the same room and as they look on from Observation, things get even more so when Judy admits that she's pregnant and Roger's the father of her unborn child.
Up in the bullpen, McGee reveals that while Runion's trailer never left the rest stop, Runion himself did. He tells DiNozzo and Gibbs that Abby inverted the image and at 0900, Runion's shadow can be seen returning to the trailer with McGee remarking that it was only a four-mile round trip on foot.
With that, she, Gibbs and DiNozzo grab their belongings and head out with Gibbs telling McGee that Sergeant Caine and Mrs. Moore should suffer for a while for having an affair and Gibbs also believes that Sergeant Moore would appreciate it.
Meanwhile, back at NCIS HQ, tony believes that Kate and Abby are talking with him but in actuality, they're referring to the dog, "Toni" who growls and snarls at Tony much to the namesake's own horror.
If you pulled out excessive length of tape, cut the tape with scissors only when the ink ribbon has not come out. Check that the end of the tape feeds under the tape guide, and then reinstall the tape cassette.
When you need rock-solid evidence that something happened or that someone committed a certain act, having it all caught on video (or audio) tape is just about the most convincing piece of proof there is. Even a Villain with Good Publicity won't be able to just wave criticism away when footage of them kicking dogs to death reaches the public.
In fact, the absolute certainty that video evidence provides is such a common trope that subverting it has become a very popular plot twist, usually by revealing that the footage has been doctored, or that the camera angle involved resulted in Not What It Looks Like.
And, yes, the video doesn't have to be recorded on actual tape; DVDs or computer files, or even perhaps that video recorded from your cell phone will work just as well, but old idioms die hard. However, the photographic version (which is frequently less damning due to being still) is Convenient Photograph.
Anime & Manga
- Fabricant 100: Luka invites Ashibi to another room, while questioning No 100 on camera. With her contractor away, she shows knowledge of stopping all Fabricants at once by taking down No 1, but withheld that information from Ashibi because she doesn't care about human victims, and she needs No 1's help to take Ashibi's body. Despite this, he still trusts her, as at least she'll act predictably.
- Subverted in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, where the Tachikomas discuss the fact that video footage is practically useless as evidence due to how easily it can be tampered with. Indeed, the Laughing Man's MO relies entirely on this, as he hacks into any recording devices around him (including other people's cyberbrains) and edits himself out of the footage, effectively letting him become invisible.
- Maria no Danzai:
- Okaya and his gang would regularly record Kiritaka as they tormented him, before either sending the videos to him or posting them on the internet. For whatever reason, they did not seem to consider the possibility that Kiritaka would gather as many videos as he could get his hands on in order to eventually use them as evidence to turn them all in at the same time. Which he would've done if he hadn't gotten himself killed at the start of the story, as he still lacked concrete evidence on Okaya himself. On the other hand, he did keep a flash drive with a copy of all the videos he had collected hidden in a secret location, which he wrote down on his diary... which his grieving mother Mari would find after his death. The videos prove to be more than enough evidence for Mari to deduce the true circumstances of her son's "suicide", and she makes the decision to avenge her son by murdering his bullies herself.
- Yashima once stole a few items from a convenience store in desperation, and had the rotten luck of being recorded by Kowase. Since that day he has been blackmailing Yashima to give him money, along with occasionally beating her up or even sexually abusing her.
- After Yuda tells Maria how he came to learn about her, along with how he murdered Iijima for knowing that Maria was connected to Shikimi, he begs Maria to use him as her accomplice in order to kill off the rest of Okaya's friends. Maria responds by revealing that she recorded his confession to Iijima's murder on her phone and warning him not to associate himself with her again, under threat of incriminating him for the murders she's already committed.
- Zombie Land Saga: Okoba finds photos of all of Franchouhcou's members when they were alive, piecing together that they must have all been revived somehow. It's not until he catches video of Tae's head coming off that he suspects they're zombies.