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Agent Mcgee Analysis

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‘NCIS’ viewers on Tuesday night didn’t need to be left out in the cold to discover how one could be frozen to death for an afterlife. The popular CBS show had fans watching closely as two crimes revealed one sick individual.

Originally looking like a computer crime, Agent McGee is summoned to help a vice admiral. His laptop is infected with ransomware and is the demand isn’t paid for the key to stop the clock, everything on the laptop will be wiped. The admiral refuses as the idea is against every rule he knows about dealing with enemies - both real and on the battlefield. While Agent McGee seems to reason with the admiral, the case takes a contagious turn as McGee’s technology along with everyone else’s in the squadroom is infected too. …show more content…

Using satellite radio, the team does retrace his last footsteps only to find him frozen in the trunk of a car, in a lake. How is this possible? Cryogenic freezing.

The suspected killer is somehow able to obtain large amounts of liquid nitrogen to use for his cryogenic freezing. Cleverly, the two situations were connected. The killer was looking for a way to pay for his research on freezing people to be thawed and live again after science was enhanced, so he turned to ransomware. Smart with computers and friends with the computer expert who turned up dead (and frozen) the killer ends up trying to fund his little project by extorting people to pay to have their data returned to normal using ransomware. This isn’t your typical crime, but it definitely had an interesting twist.

There was one agent who didn’t play a big part helping the team and that was NCIS Special Agent Alexandra “Alex” Quinn. Focusing on her mother, Marie Quinn, viewers watched as the agent needed to address her mother’s forgetfulness. The personal look into Quinn’s life showcased how this agent dealt with a difficult situation. No doubt this situation will continue in future

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