{"id":2435,"date":"2025-04-02T15:50:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2025-04-02T15:50:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:50:26","slug":"ncis-recap-welcome-to-kasies-kiln-based-crime-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncisnews.com\/?p=2435","title":{"rendered":"\u2018NCIS\u2019 recap: Welcome to Kasie\u2019s kiln-based crime-fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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No, but literally, the victim in \u201cLadies\u2019 Night\u201d dies in a conflagration, Kasie (Diona Reasonover) pursues a clue in a kiln, and our gals relax over an indoor fire pit with some meats and cheeses. Let\u2019s recap!<\/p>\n

The team\u2019s anticipating a free Friday night, with McGee (Sean Murray) taking himself to the movies while his family\u2019s out of town, Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) planning to hit the gym, and Knight (Katrina Law) and Kasie figuring out what to wear for Robin\u2019s (Lilan Bowden) mysterious \u201ccrafty chic\u201d ladies\u2019 night.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s dialogue gold in this scene, with McGee praising Night of the Living Dead\u2019s subtle critique of rampant American consumerism, Torres replying, \u201cI don\u2019t think America got the message,\u201d and Kasie wondering aloud if crafty chic is anything like boho glitter or kindergarten couture. I\u2019m telling you, this is the team content I want.<\/p>\n

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The weekend prep is scuttled when Petty Officer 1st Class Jennifer Garcia is found dead in a fire that destroyed part of a local antique shop where she was posting items to the store\u2019s website while the owner\u2019s on a Buddhist retreat.<\/p>\n

Jen\u2019s distraught boyfriend, Dan Holloway (Cameron Gellman), says he was there keeping Jen company but fell asleep on the couch and woke up to find the place in flames. He ran to get help and had to be stopped from charging back in to try to rescue her.<\/p>\n

He then asks if Torres believes in soulmates, and Nick responds that he\u2019s not sure but would like to. \u201cThat is worth running back into any fire for,\u201d Dan tells him.<\/p>\n

At the crime scene, a handsome firefighter (Greg Perrow) banters with Knight while she snaps photographs, joking that he took the job because he wanted a Dalmatian. He asks her out to dinner, but since she\u2019s already got plans, he settles for taking her number and promising to send her pics of his firefighter calendar shoot. GET IT, GIRL!!<\/p>\n

Oh, also, Jen was strangled, and the fire was intentionally set. We\u2019ve got a murder, y\u2019all.<\/p>\n

Kasie, giving \u201cNCI-yassss\u201d in her \u201ccrafty chic\u201d boots and leather pants, manages to pull texts from Jen\u2019s phone showing a nasty fight with Dan that night. He admits they fought over him forgetting their anniversary but says he rushed to the antique store with flowers and a gold necklace, and they made up.<\/p>\n

Then again, he reacts violently when they suggest that he killed her, which isn\u2019t great for a man who served time for aggravated assault after getting into a fight at a club. Also not great? A lighter engraved with his initials at the fire\u2019s point of origin.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s enough for the team, and they stash Dan in NCIS lockup until the courts are open again on Monday morning. (Sidenote: the Constitution\u2019s guarantee of a speedy trial requires a first appearance within 48 hours of your arrest, so I think this is a violation of Dan\u2019s rights. But I\u2019m a mere ex-wife of an ex-prosecutor, so please don\u2019t take any Con Law advice from me. And also, don\u2019t let it keep you from enjoying the rest of this delightful episode.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, McGee and Torres agree to put off their Friday plans and finish up at work so Knight and Kasie can scoot out the door to commence with ladies\u2019 night.<\/p>\n

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The evening starts in ugly overalls at a lovely pottery studio, where a convo about Knight\u2019s firefighter flirtation and Kasie\u2019s panic-unmatching with people on the dating apps is interrupted by Palmer\u2019s (Brian Dietzen) emailed autopsy reports, which reveal a melted gold necklace on Jen\u2019s body.<\/p>\n

Robin tries to shut down their shop talk, but Knight and Kasie excuse themselves to have a hiss-whisper conversation that ends with Kasie putting her own necklace into the kiln to test a theory: if Jen\u2019s necklace was \u201csquished by strangle hands,\u201d as she puts it, it would melt differently than an intact one.<\/p>\n

When the white-haired, swishy-skirted pottery shop owner (Zachary Barton, in pitch-perfect casting) finds them tinkering with her kiln, Jess informs her, \u201cThis is official NCIS business.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a pottery studio,\u201d the woman shoots back, adjusting her funky glasses as she realizes that Kasie changed the heat setting. She kicks the trio out as the smoke alarm starts to sing the song of its people, vowing that they\u2019ll pay her back for the pearl-glazed earthenware bowls lost to the unsanctioned kiln-based forensic science.<\/p>\n

At their next stop \u2014 a cute wine bar with a cute waitress \u2014 Robin brushes aside Knight\u2019s attempts to distract her with pictures of Mr. December, even though he got to pose with a Dalmatian! She accuses Jess and Kasie of ruining their night out, just like Torres always does.<\/p>\n

The NCIS duo gently remind her that their job is life-or-death important, but Robin insists that they all need to find a work\/life balance, at one point snapping, \u201cI don\u2019t care about the cheese, Jess!\u201d<\/p>\n

First of all, let\u2019s not say things we can\u2019t take back. Second of all, Paige the waitress (Charlie Morgan Patton) overhears and performs an incredible \u201cI want no part of this\u201d 180 with her hands full of charcuterie. Forget the work\/life balance; I want my preserved meats!<\/p>\n

After she unloads her frustrations with Nick\u2019s work obsession, Robin does a bit of a 180 herself, asking who would\u2019ve killed Jen if it wasn\u2019t the boyfriend. \u201cIs this some kinda test or somethin\u2019?\u201d Kasie asks out of the side of her mouth, but before long, the women have sweet-talked Paige into using up the restaurant printer\u2019s toner to spit out crime scene photos for them to pore over.<\/p>\n

They apologize for staying past close, but Paige says they\u2019re the most interesting table she\u2019s ever waited on. Then she compliments Kasie\u2019s jacket, Kasie compliments her hair, and the sparks are palpable. YES, BABY GORL!! GET IT!<\/p>\n

Amid the thick haze of flirting, Robin notices that the chakra stones are out of order in a statue on the shop owner\u2019s desk. They surmise that someone must\u2019ve damaged it, then put the stones back in wrong. But Dan said he and Jen didn\u2019t go into the office, so who else was there?<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s ladies\u2019 night. The rest of the team ends up having an impromptu guys\u2019 night with McGee and Torres teaming up to mow down cute but lethal teddy bears in Killing with Kindness 3 on the big screen in Kasie\u2019s lab. (McGee\u2019s trying to reach Level 15 Glitter Lord, which requires many sprinkle battles.) Vance (Rocky Carroll) wanders in to join them for pizza and teddy bear carnage.<\/p>\n

Long story short, McGee\u2019s in the lab to see Kasie remotely looking up the melting points of metals, which has Torres commenting that Robin hates it when he works during their nights together. Y\u2019know, those two are starting to seem kinda incompatible.<\/p>\n

The men are also in the lab when Dan\u2019s cell records finally ping and show that he wasn\u2019t at the antique store all night long, as he had claimed.<\/p>\n

Off to Parker\u2019s (Gary Cole) plant daddy paradise they go! He\u2019s been having a quiet night reviewing files on his mother\u2019s fatal car accident (he had Palmer pull them), and he capped it off by leisurely playing his grand piano. Truly, who is this Renaissance man?<\/p>\n

They review the new evidence and find that Dan went to prison for assaulting Jen\u2019s ex-boyfriend, a walking red flag who ignored multiple restraining orders she took out against him. Parker points out that he also went to Duke on a full scholarship, which means he\u2019s too smart to leave his lighter at the crime scene. Geez, Duke\u2019s really having a moment! (Parker, noooo!)<\/p>\n

Although I\u2019m not sure intelligence automatically equals \u201cgood at murder,\u201d it gets them all wondering why Dan didn\u2019t tell them about leaving the show to go to a bar 12 miles away.<\/p>\n

They pull him back into interrogation, and Dan reluctantly confesses that he got a call from an old friend who\u2019s newly out of prison and newly sober. He walked with him, drove him home, and was willing to become a suspect in Jen\u2019s murder to protect his buddy from violating his parole by being found at a place that served alcohol.<\/p>\n

Dan\u2019s mention of finding the door to the antique shop unlocked when he got back has the men headed to the crime scene, where Parker uses bolt cutters to get through a chain link fence blocking off the damaged building. As he does, they chat about how McGee shares everything with Delilah, while Torres shares not a darn thing with Robin.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the chemistry in the world ain\u2019t worth a dime if you don\u2019t value the same things,\u201d Parker says as he works. Once they\u2019re through the fence, they find evidence that the front door lock was picked, and when they hear a sound further inside, burst in with shouts and flashlights and chaos.<\/p>\n

It is, of course, Knight, Casey, and Robin. (The women avoided hopping the fence in favor of a side entrance.) Together, they discover a super high-end safe that\u2019s been emptied and reconvene to NCIS HQ to ponder the new evidence of robbery.<\/p>\n

Palmer, also burning the midnight oil after an impromptu deep-clean of the morgue, turns up with an AI reconstruction of the size of the killer\u2019s hands based on the marks on Jen\u2019s neck.<\/p>\n

They head back to Dan, who places his palms on the printout. You were thinking it, I was thinking it, and Parker and Kasie said it out loud: \u201cIf the hand doesn\u2019t fit, we must acquit.\u201d<\/p>\n

At this point, I\u2019m starting to get nervous about the Law of Economy of Characters because there aren\u2019t many people left to rule out\u2026 other than Jess\u2019 Dalmatian-lover.<\/p>\n

Yep, the handsome firefighter heard about the rare books and stamps in the shop\u2019s safe from a buddy who set up the world\u2019s fanciest safe and was interrupted mid-heist. SAY IT AIN\u2019T SO, MR. DECEMBER!!!<\/p>\n

When Knight confronts him at a call, he tries to run and is tackled by a firefighter buddy who heard the conversation over the open radio and wants NCIS to take him in before the rest of the team gets wind of their buddy\u2019s evil deeds.<\/p>\n

Dan\u2019s heartbroken to hear that some rare books and stamps are what ultimately took his soulmate from him. Poor guy.<\/p>\n

Robin, meanwhile, has a newfound appreciation for the demanding but vital work that Nick and Jess do, and she realizes that she shouldn\u2019t get in the way of this 24\/7 job. Then she starts to break up with Torres in front of her sister in the middle of the big orange room. They make their exit to have this conversation somewhere private, but phew, that\u2019s brutal.<\/p>\n

Finally, Kasie limps into her lab to trade her cute boots for cute sneaks and finds the Level 15 Glitter Lord image filling her screen, along with a discarded suit jacket that is claimed, to her confusion and glee, by one Leon Vance.<\/p>\n

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